Thanks for the explanation with widgets and voice over.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Christopher Chaltain Sent: Friday, October 30, 2020 5:11 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: What exactly is a widget? A widget is something you can place on your home page that will display some information to you without opening the app. You could see the forecast for the day with a weather app, or the newest podcast that's shown up with the widget for your podcast app. Tapping on an widget can also behave differently then tapping on an app. All of the widgets I've tried have worked well with VoiceOver. Widgets aren't as convenient for a blind person as they are for a sighted person, since you still need to touch the screen and give a widget focus to see what it's telling you, as opposed to a sighted person, who just has to glance at their screen to get that information. I still find some widgets useful, but not as many as I do on Android, where widgets seem a bit more mature to me, and you seem to have so many more choices. Whether you'll find any widgets useful or not, especially on one of your home pages, is something that only you'll be able to decide for yourself. In IOS 14, you have the option to add a widget to any home screen. They seem to always take up a two by two grid, so you have to give up the real estate of four app icons for one widget. The today screen, which is the screen to the left of your first home page, has always been made up of widgets. The difference in IOS 14 is that you can now place widgets on any home page. I suspect that what you're calling your main home page is the today screen. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of > Terri Stimmel > Sent: Friday, October 30, 2020 4:04 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: What exactly is a wigit? > > Hello everyone, > > > So what exactly is a wigit? > > Also, how well do they work with Voiceover? > > And what might be some benefits of using them? > > > I am very curious to learn more. I don't understand them. I also don't > understand as to why now my whole main screen seems covered in them. > > > Any help is appreciated. > > > Thank you, > > > Terri > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > 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. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: > [email protected]. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > [email protected] > > 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 view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/CH2PR04MB6839294674BEE023F > 9F08DC2A8150%40CH2PR04MB6839.namprd04.prod.outlook.com. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. 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. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: [email protected]. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/0b2f01d6af1a%244965b0e0%24dc3112a0%24%40gmail.com. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. 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. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: [email protected]. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/059801d6af89%24ff6fb6a0%24fe4f23e0%24%40gmail.com.
