I hope that people will write to Sirius to complain about inaccessibility of the app, even though this clever work around exists. You shouldn't have to disable VoiceOver to use a product.
We deserve fully accessible apps. Clever people to discover ways for us to get around badly designed features are crucial today, but let's make them unnecessary tomorrow. I posted the address to write to earlier, but write me off list if you need it again. Thanks From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 2:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Sirius XM On The Iphone? Ok, you can still get around the SiriusXm app. Thanks to SpeedDots, which really helps in step 3. Here goes what you need to do with the iPhone. This works hit-and-miss, in that, it might take you a few tries to get it. First, the method, then a couple caveats. 1. Open Sirius Xm Radio. 2. Turn Voiceover off by tripple-clicking home, assuming you have that set up that way in the settings, accessibility menu for the phone. 3. Double tap the spot where Mail would be in the dock area of the phone. 4. Now, you can navigate the different channel categories by heading. There will be pop, rock, Hiphop/R&B, Dance/Electronic, Country, Christian, Jazz/Blues/Standards, Classical, Family/Health, Sports, Sports play-by-play, MLB Play-by-Play, Comedy, Howard Stern, Entertainment, News/Public Radio, Politics, Religion, More, Latin, Latin Sports play-by-play. In each heading, you can flick right to find the channels in that category. NOTES and CAVEATS: 1. The channel numbers are not listed. You will see the song/artist currently playing by each channel. Normally, the on-air channels are listed first, with the internet-only ones at the end. Example: in the pop category, there is channel 2, channel 3, the decades channels, then there is The Love channel just before you get to the Neil Diamond internet-only channel, followed by the limited engagement channels. In the rock heading, they start with Elvis's channel 19 and proceed numerically up except that the New Pink Floyd channel (43) appears after the Bob Dylan Theme-time Radio internet-only channel. Note 2: I haven't been able to figure out, but I think the home broadcast appears first for the different MLB games. Caveat 1: A couple times, when I wasn't playing an Xm show live, I couldn't get the stupid thing to activate the channel categories. After I clicked the Live button, it worked. But, that could be purely circumstantial. Caveat 2: It is hard to locate the exact spot to double-tap with Voiceover off. If for that reason alone, the SpeedDots screen protector is well worth the $7 bucks. I can activate the category view using the methodology above usually on the first try now. Caveat 3: Double-tapping the song artist/title in any of the categories when you have the channel category view switches to that station. The display continues to show all the other channels, so it is a nice way to be able to scan for songs or just to keep up with the artist/title info on your favorite channel. Hope this gives you a headstart. And, by far, the iPhone is a lot easier and more pleasant to use than the Internet Player. Take my advice, I don't use it anyway. Steve Lansing, MI -- 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/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- 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/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
