Oh, wow! This is super, super helpful! I need to save this to my Dropbox! :)
Thanks, Ari > On Jul 9, 2021, at 8:10 AM, Mike B <mb69ma...@fastmail.com> wrote: > > > Check this out: > > From: Rita Howells > Visual description of the icons on an Apple iOS device: Rita’s iDevice Advice > for June 1, 2020 > > > Master list of the icons on an Apple iOS Device > > Apple’s iOS software is an extremely visual environment, with icons that > VoiceOver has been programmed to describe. An icon is a picture or symbol on > the > screen, used to represent an application, action, or a status message. This > article will attempt to describe what a sighted person sees when looking at > his/her iOS and iPad OS device. Having a basic understanding of these visual > concepts can help non sighted users explain and teach iOS to those who can > see, as well as providing an easier means by which Voiceover users and > sighted users can relate to each other with regard to the iOS interface. > > Please keep in mind that the descriptions presented in this document are > based on initial layout, which you might see if you purchase a new iPhone or > iPad > and set it up as new, rather than restoring from a back-up. As you, or other > people, use your device, changes may be made, additional apps may be > installed, > thus adding new icons, and much more. Additionally, the layout and > descriptions presented here represent the current configuration as of iOS 13 > and iPad > OS. Much can change as new software updates are released. That said, the > information in this document is subject to change or to be inaccurate. > > General Overview: > > When your Apple device is asleep, you can wake it up in one of several ways > as described in the user guides, such as pressing the Home or Sleep/Wake > button, > or tapping/lifting your device. You are then immediately presented with the > Lock Screen. This screen displays a padlock icon in the center of the screen, > with the padlock either open or closed, depending on the current lock state > of your device. Directly below that are the current time and date, one above > the other. This Lock Screen also displays any notifications you may have > received while your device was asleep. Select models also display a flash > light > icon in the bottom left, and a Camera icon in the bottom right. By default, > devices with Face ID hide notification preview text until the device is > unlocked. > > From here, you can place your finger on the Home Button (devices with Touch > ID), or glance at your device (Face ID devices) to unlock your iPhone or iPad. > if necessary, you can slide up with one finger, using the bar at the very > bottom center of the screen, to go Home. This places you on the Home Screen. > > The Home Screen is divided into four distinct elements. These include: > > - App Icons > > - Page Selector > > - Dock > > - Status Bar > > Giving special locations on the screen for the fixed elements can help > sighted people find them. For example, the Status Bar is at the top of the > screen > and the Dock is the bar with app icons across the bottom of the screen. It > displays the same app icons, no matter which Home Screen page you are on. The > Page Selector is just above the Dock, and the App Icon area, located between > the Status Bar and the Page Selector, is a grid of icons, representing all > the apps installed on your device. > > The Status Bar (Top left and right of screen; not a physical bar): > > Many different icons can show up on the Status Bar, depending on what > services you have, etc. For example, an airplane icon will replace the WiFi > icon > if your device is in airplane mode. LTE, 3G, 4G, 5GE, or others may show up > depending on your current cellular service. There are indicators for personal > hotspot, a call indicator when a call is in progress, location services icon, > etc. > > Normally on the top left side of the Status Bar, the time is in numbers, like > a Digital readout. > > Further to the right, the Cellular signal strength is represented by vertical > bars. The stronger the signal, the more bars are represented (a maximum of > 4 bars can show up). > > To the right of that is the Wi-Fi indicator which is two downward curved > lines pointing with a dot under the two curved lines (some people call this > graphic > for WI-FI a Rainbow). The stronger the Wi-Fi signal, the more parts of this > graphic appear filled in. > > At the far right is the Battery indicator which is like a double A battery > lying on its side and the center is filled with the level of charge which > changes > as the charge is used up or replenished. > > Note that the Status Bar also appears at the top of the Lock Screen. > > App Icon Area: > > The majority of the Home Screen is comprised of the app icon area. This is a > grid of apps, which is laid out with usually six rows (vertically) of apps > with four apps (horizontally) in each row. Apps can be rearranged on the Home > Screen, so that they appear in the order you prefer. You can even make folders > which can store numerous apps. As new apps are installed, they most commonly > appear last on the Home Screen. When you set up a new device, all Apple apps > appear on the Home Screen first, followed by any third-party apps you may > choose to install. Additional Home Screen pages are automatically created as > needed, so that as new apps are installed, and the current Home Screen page > is filled up, more pages will automatically appear. You can quickly swipe left > and right between Home Screen pages (Voiceover users must swipe with three > fingers), or you can use the Page Selector, to be discussed shortly. > > App icons on the Home Screen appear as squares with rounded corners. Every > app icon is the same size - about the size of a thumbnail Each app has a > background > color, an actual picture symbolizing the app, and the text name of the app > which appears just below the icon itself. > > Page Selector: > > The Page Selector is a series of gray dots, just above the Dock. If you have > six pages of apps, then there will be six dots in a row (side by side) to > show how many pages there are VoiceOver will say "Page 2 of 6". So if you > are on Page 2, that page is represented by a white dot. Note that on iPhone > devices, the first page of apps is actually considered page 2, because the > Today View and Widgets Panel occupy Page 1. Users never automatically land on > Page 1. They must use the Page Selector, or the swipe gesture, to get there. > > The Dock: > > The Dock is represented as a gray, round-cornered rectangle across the bottom > of the Home Screen. On an iPhone, the Dock can support four app icons. These > four icons remain the same, no matter what Home Screen page the Slider takes > you to. You can change which apps appear on the Dock. The current default > apps on the Dock for iPhone devices are Phone, Safari, Messages, and Music. > You can move the apps on the Dock around just like other apps. > > The Phone app is green with a white handset of an old telephone; the Messages > icon is green with a solid white speaking bubble; the Safari app is white > with a compass graphic; and the Music App is a white app with a two musical > eighth note graphic. > > General App Icon Descriptions: > > Please note that the following app descriptions are based solely on the > native Apple apps that ship with every iPhone, as of iOS 13.5. Note also, that > apps requiring special attention will contain an app badge, a red circle with > a white number, at the upper right hand corner of the app icon. For example, > if you have three unread messages, the Messages app will have an app badge > with the number three. Some of the below apps may be in a folder called > Utilities. > > APP Name > > App Color > > APP Description > > Apple Store > > White > > Blue shopping bag with white apple that has a bite taken out > > Apps Store > > Blue > > White capital letter A > > Books > > Orange > > White open book > > Calculator > > White > > Black calculator image > > Calendar > > White > > Current day of week (in red), date in numbers (in black) > > Camera > > Gray > > Black old fashioned Polaroid camera > > Clips > > White > > Blue circle with white movie camera > > Clock > > Black > > White face of click with current time in black analog > > Compass > > Black > > White compass image with cardinal directions: W, E, N, S > > Contacts > > White > > Circle with person image and colored tabs like an address book > > FaceTime > > Green > > White movie camera > > Files > > White > > Blue file folder > > Files > > White > > Blue file folder > > Find My > > Gray > > Green and blue circular radar > > Garage Band > > Orange > > White guitar image > > Health > > White > > Red heart symbol > > Home > > White > > Orange house > > iMovie > > Purple > > White 5 pointed with purple movie camera > > ITunes Store > > Dark pink > > White 5 Point Star > > iTunes U > > Orange > > White mortar board > > Keynote > > Blue > > White podium > > Mail > > Blue > > White envelope > > Maps > > Multicolored > > Interstate graphic, white directional arrowhead, in blue circle > > Measure > > Black > > White ruler markings with yellow horizontal dotted line > > Messages > > Green > > Solid white speaking bubble (like in cartoons) > > Music > > White > > 2 multi-colored eighth notes tied with bar > > News > > White > > Red striped capital letter N > > Notes > > Yellow heading > > White below > > Gray lines across > > Numbers > > Green > > 4 white vertical bars > > Pages > > Orange > > Whites slanted pencil with straight horizontal line > > Phone > > Green > > White old fashioned handset phone > > Photos > > White > > Pinwheel of primary colors > > Podcasts > > Purple > > Two white circles with a microphone symbol in middle > > Reminders > > White > > Three colored bullet points each with a gray horizontal line after them > > Safari > > White > > Blue compass with die final needle in white and red > > Settings > > Gray > > Dark gray gear wheel > > Shortcuts > > Black > > Red and blue squares on top of each with space in between > > Stocks > > Black > > White horizontal graphic line with blue vertical line with blue dot > > TV > > Black > > White apple with word TV in white > > Voice Memos > > Black > > Red and white vertical sound wave lines > > Wallet > > Black > > Multi-colored rectangle with rows representing credit card slots > > Watch > > Black > > White watch - side view > > Weather > > Blue > > White cloud with partial sunshine behind it > > Notification Center: white header style letters “Notification Center”. In the > Settings app, the Notification icon is red and within it is a white rounded > corner square outline with a white ball at the right top corner. However, in > the Notification Center, each notification will be a gray rectangle with > rounded > corners, and the icon within at the top left of the rectangle will look like > whatever app is sending the notification. > > Control Center: You can add other app icons to this area, so you may run > across someone’s phone that is setup a little differently. By default, there > are > two black round- cornered squares side by side, near the top, with icons in > them. The one on the left has four icons, two on top and two below. In the > top left is the Airplane mode icon. It is a gray circle with a white small > airplane. In the top right is the Cellular data icon. It is a green circle > with a graphic that resembles a small radio tower. In the bottom left of the > square is the WiFi icon. In the bottom right is the Bluetooth icon. It is > based on the shape of the Viking Rune letters, H&B, which stands for Harald > Bluetooth, a Viking King. It resembles somewhat a small butterfly paperclip > lying on its side or a small bow on its side. > > The square on the right is the Music App and has a white Play button arrow in > the middle and gray left rewind and gray right fast forward buttons on the > right. In that top right corner of that app is the airplay icon which looks > like a target of white circles with a gray tiny triangle at the bottom and > within the circles. > > Below the large square on the left are two small icons. On the left is the > Screen Orientation Lock. It is black with a white small padlock symbol and a > white partial arrow circling around it. To the right of that is the Do Not > Disturb icon. It is white with a gray quarter moon symbol. > > Below that is a small black round-cornered rectangle, Screen Mirroring app. > It has two small white outlined rectangles overlapping each other and the > words, > Screen Mirroring. > > To the right of those apps are two long black narrow vertical slider apps. > The one on the left controls the screen brightness. The slider is white and > has a small gray sun symbol on it. To the right of that is the black volume > control. The slider is white and has a small speaker symbol on it. > > Below that, from left to right on most iPhones, are four apps. All are black > with white graphics representing each app: but the flashlight app, a timer > app (has a partial circle outline with a needle point to the 10 o'clock > position), a calculator app (image resembles a calculator), and a camera app > (image > looks like a camera). > > Below that at the bottom, left to right are three additional apps. All are > black with white graphics representing each app: The Home app (looks like a > house nested within a house), low power mode icon (looks like a AA battery on > its side), and the QR Code app (looks like four corner brackets with 4 small > squares inside). > > Other Common Icons Within iOS Apps: > > Many Apple apps, and even a variety of third-party apps, conform to standard > implementations of common icons, such as Back, Share, and Cancel, just to > name a few. Learning what these icons look like can help you to recognize > them, thus enhancing the ability to learn and use new apps. > > Back button: a left pointing arrow. > > Share option: a rectangle with an up-pointing arrow, or three dots. > > Attachments: a paper clip > > More option: a circle with 3 dots in the middle > > Edit: the word Edit in a square > > Add: the plus sign > > Cancel: the word Cancel > > Search: gray long round cornered rectangle with gray outline of magnifying > glass, the gray word Search, and a gray microphone > > --- > > Here is another version of this document: > > Master list of the icons on an Apple iOS Device > > The iPhone is a very visual environment, with icons that VoiceOver has been > programmed to describe the picture type symbols on the screen. > > The main Home Screen is in 4 distinct elements: Giving special locations on > the screen for the fixed elements can help sighted people find them. For > example, the Status Bar is at the top of the screen and the Doc is the bar > with icons across the bottom of the screen. The Page Selector is just above > the Doc bar and the Grid of Apps is the all the icons between the Status Bar > and the Page Selector. > > The Status Bar, the Grid of Apps, the Page Selector, and the Doc. > > The Status Bar... Bear in mind that there are many different icons that can > show up on the Status Bar depending on what services you have, etc, For > example > a airplane icon will replace the WiFi icon if you have it in airplane mode. > LTE or 3G, 4G, 5Ge or others may show up depending on the type of cell service > you have or the area you are. There are indicators for personal hotspot, a > call indicator when you get a call, location services icon, etc. > > Normally on the left side of the Status Bar, the time is in numbers, like a > LED readout. > > Further to the right, the Cellular signal strength bars look like straight up > and down bars and there is a possible 4 bars that can show up. > > To the right of that is the Wi-Fi indicator which is two curved lines > pointing down and a dot under the two curved lines, possible, (some people > call this > graphic for WI-FI as a Rainbow). > > At the far right is the Battery indicator which is like a double A battery > lying on its side and the center is filled with the level of charge which > changes > as the charge is used up or replenished > > The grid of apps is laid out with usually 4 apps across and 6 lines down. > > The Page Selector is a series of gray dots, just above the Doc. If you have > 6 pages of apps: then there will be six dots in a row (side by side) to show > how many pages there are. VoiceOver will say "Page 2 of 6". So if you are > on Page 2, that page is represented by a white dot. > > The Doc apps... Remember the apps that are normally on the Doc mention are > the default. They can be changed either accidently or on purpose if someone > says theirs are different. You can move the apps on the Doc around just like > other apps. > > The Phone app is the handset of an old telephone, the Mail icon is an > envelope graphic, the Safari app is a compass graphic, and the Music App is a > musical > note graphic. > > Back button = a left pointing arrow. > > The Share option = a rectangle with an up pointing arrow, or 3 dots. > > Attachments = a paper clip > > More option = a circle with 3 dots in the middle > > Search = a magnifying glass as its icon > > Edit =the word Edit in a square > > Add = the plus sign > > Cancel = the word Cancel > > The Lock Screen = a padlock > > Visually, the Lock Screen shows the Status Bar at the top, however, in the > far left where the time normally is, is the name of your cellular carrier. The > rest of the status bar icons are normal. Just below those in the center of > the screen is a padlock icon showing the padlock either open or closed > depending > on the lock state of your phone. Just below that is the time in very large > numbers and below that is the current Day, Month and Date. There may be > various > notifications below that depending on how your notifications are setup. Near > the bottom on the left side is a flashlight shape icon and on the right side > is a camera symbol icon. At the very bottom in the middle is the Swipe bar > that you swipe up to unlock the phone. > > --- > > The health app = a white box with a heart symbol > > The camera app = an old fashion rectangle black box with a white circle for > the lens > > The Photos App = a Pinwheel showing the primary colors > > The Apple apps app = a big letter a There are two Apple apps which can be > confusing to newbie's. There is the Apps Store app which is the big letter A > and there is an Apple Store app which is like a shopping bag with the Apple > symbol in the middle. The Apple symbol looks like an apple with a bite taken > out of the right side.) > > Contacts App = a circle with a body representation inside the circle > > Messages App = a green background with a cartoon speaking solid white bubble > > Calendar App = a solid white background with the current day of the week > depicted in red letters, and the date in numbers in black numeric display > > Settings App = a gray background with a gear wheel > > Reminders App = a white background colored representing bulleted points with > a line across > > Notes App = yellow heading, with 4 sections with lines like on a sheet of > paper > > Apple Native Weather App = a blue background and has a Sun partially covered > by a cloud > > FaceTime = a green background symbol of a movie camera > > Maps App = an interstate Sign with an image of arrow head pointing > directionally > > Voice Memos App = a sound time line depiction > > Find My App = a gray background with circular radar depiction showing it > searching > > Books App = orange background with an open book > > Files App = a white background with a blue file folder > > TV App = a black background with the white Apple logo, with the TV letters in > white > > ---Notification Center = white banner style letters for Notifications. In > the Settings app, the Notification icon looks like a small rounded corner box > outline with a ball for a right top corner. However, in the Notification > Center, each notification icon will look like whatever app is sending the > notification. > > Control Center = ...(You can add others app icons to this area, so you may > run across someone’s phone is setup a little differently. By default, there > are two square boxes near the top with icons in them. The one on the left > has 4 icons, two on top and two below. In the top left is the Airplane mode > icon that looks like a small airplane. In the top right is the Cellular data > icon and resembles a small radio tower. In the bottom left of the box is the > WiFi icon. In the bottom right is the Bluetooth icon. It is based on the > shape of the Viking Rune letters, H&B, which stands for Harald Bluethooth, a > Viking King. It resembles somewhat a small butterfly paperclip lying on its > side or a small bow on its side. > > The box on the right is the Music App and has a Play button arrow in the > middle and left rewind and right fast forward buttons on the right. > > Below the box on the left are two small icons. On the left is the screen > orientation lock. It is a small padlock symbol with a partial arrow circle > around > it. To the right of that is the Do Not Disturb icon. It looks like a quarter > moon symbol. > > Below that is a small but long, Screen Mirroring app. It has a small > rectangle superimposed over another one and the words, screen mirroring. > > To the right of those apps are two long skinny vertical slider apps. The one > on the left is controls the screen brightness(has a small sun symbol on it.) > To the right of that is the volume slider and has a small speaker symbol on > it. > > Below that from left to right on most iPhones, is 4 apps. A flashlight app a > timer app (has a partial hollow circle with a needle point to the 10 o'clock > position), a calculator app (image resembles a calculator), and a camera app > (image looks like a camera). > > Below that at the bottom, left to right are 3 apps. The Home app (Looks like > a house nested within a house), The battery app (like a AA battery on its > side) and the QR Code app (looks like 4 corner brackets with 4 small squares > inside. > > Airplane mode = a circle with an airplane inside the circle > > Cellular = curved bars showing signal strength > > Wi-FI = 2 downward curved lines with a dot at the bottom, under the two > curved lines > > BlueTooth symbol = the Registered BlueTooth Logo, which is the capital > letter B with half of the letter X overlaid, on the left side > > Flashlight = an old fashioned flashlight lying on its side (sometimes the > flashlight icon is vertical.) > > Timer = incomplete clock face with one pointer hand > > Calculator = a black background with an image of a calculator > > > Stay safe & take care. Mike. > Just once, I want a username and password prompt to say: "Close Enough!" > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Mich Verrier > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Sent: Friday, July 09, 2021 4:38 AM > Subject: question has any one come up with a cheet sheet or resorse that > describes what the icons on the i phone screen meen? > > Hi all. Yesterday I was trying to help my Dad with his I phone he needed to > change his password on facebook after getting hacked. I tried to get vo > running but couldn’t. I asked him to describe what was on the screen and he > was describing things to me that I had no idea like for instince a sercle > with a little tale on it and icons like that. then after having a chatt with > some friends they told me that the edit icon is apencel and things like that. > that got me to thinking I wonder if any one has come out with a rezorce or > cheet sheet describing what the icons on the screen are vishuley? For > instince edit equals a pencel and stuff like that since I realised that for > those of us who are blind and who use vo vo will describe the different > things as far as what they do like settings edit etc but I for one and I am > shure others have no idea that for the sighted that the icons don’t say those > things and that they are pictures. So I am wondering if there is sutch a > thing out there. From Mich. > -- > 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: > mk...@ucla.edu. 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