Hi all, I just wanted to share what a great response I got from the support folks with the Where To app. I've already written them back to explain how visually impaired people use the navigation apps, but I thought folks might want to see what a truly helpful response I received.
_____ From: Ortwin Gentz [mailto:wher...@futuretap.com] Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 1:17 PM Subject: Re: Where to and navigation and a VoiceOver question Hi Richard, please see my answers inline. Could you add Mapquest4Mobile to the supported gps apps? Unfortunately, the Mapquest app does not support being started from third party apps. So we can't add this app. I could not find a "gigle" setting, at least I think that is what it said in the FAQ section about setting a default gps app. Sorry, we haven't written this with VoiceOver users in mind. We'll fix this. There are two ways to set your preferred navigation app: 1. If you haven't set a preferred app yet, just use the gesture to open the preferred app: long-tap on the directions button. Using VoiceOver this is a tap, tap-hold combination. As long as there isn't a preferred app defined yet, you'll be presented with a popover where you can just select an app. As soon as you close the popover by tapping somewhere else, the preferred app is set. 2. If you want to change your preferred app, you have to tap once on the directions button to open the popover. Then long-tap (that is tap, tap-hold in VoiceOver) on any app icon to start the jiggle mode. VoiceOver announces this with "Started editing mode". Then a button named "Set Preferred" appears on the top-left of the popover which leads you into "set preferred" mode (unfortunately this isn't announced correctly in VoiceOver in this version. Currently it just says "Ended editing mode" when it starts the "Set Preferred" mode.). Now you can select your preferred by selecting it once and dismissing the popover. I know this sounds terribly complicated and we'd be glad to make it easier. We were just not sure whether VoiceOver users could actually make use of those apps because they are for car navigation mostly. If you could give us some insight about typical use cases and which apps would be actually useful for blind users, that would be very helpful to improve the app in the future. Also, I'm finding it hard to figure out how to add a place to the favorites using VoiceOver. It seems like I'm missing something here. Thanks for the VoiceOver improvements in the latest version. This is actually quite easy. On the details page, the button in the bottom right corner toggles the Favorite state. It says "Favorite Button" when not favorited and "Selected Favorite Button" when favorited. Then to access Favorites, you'd go to the Favorites tab on the bottom of the home screen and select the "Places" tab on the top of the Favorites screen. Hope that helps. If you've any further questions, I'm glad to help! Ortwin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
