Numerous postings online have indicated that the watch will have VO and some level of accessibility. To what degree it will be accessible...well, that's going to be one of those things we'll just have to wait and see. There's what can be considered accessible by meating the bare minimums and what will in practice be truly accessible in the real world or what we as Voiceover users would consider to be reasonably accessible.
I’m more interested in the actual time telling aspect of the watch. If there's going to be at all any means of telling the time in a tactile way or if one will only be able to check the time by having it spoken outloud. There has been no hint that something like tactile feedback for time telling will be included. Only buzzing for heart rate and notifications and so on. This for me at least would be a deal breaker. Talking watches especially in a professional or work setting get old and annoying real quick. They can become intrusive and tacky and the last thing I want is for someone to know that I'm checking the time every few minutes to see when their god awful presentation or conversation will be over or mine for that matter. Who knows, maybe not with this innitial model, but maybe down the road someone will come up with a touch watch face and call it privacy or spy mode. Similar to how the Tissot vibrating time pieces work. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kathy Brandt Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2015 7:53 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Will Apple Watch be accessible with voiceover? Can't find any documentation about this; it would be good to know if it were. A friend of mine called Apple accessibility; the rep couldn't say for sure. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
