I am sorry to be contradictory, but he is not correct. He instructed people to hold their iphones with the home button to the left and that will be correct only if your phone is not locked in portrait orientation. It is exactly opposite to the clear directions in the welcome screen and I consider it to be very confusing. Many of us do indeed lock our screens in portrait orientation and Michael did not say "If your phone is not locked in portrait orientation, it doesn't matter whether the home button is on the left or the right." Instead he specifically said that voiceover would announce it as home button to the right (which it does not say; it says the opposite I heard it clearly on the podcast) and he specifically said that we should really have the home button to the left. What he did may have worked because his phone was not locked in portrait mode but his instructions, it appears to me, were confusing. It is too bad this wasn't corrected before this podcast was put up; if people continue to listen to this after the app comes out I am quite sure it will multiply the confusion.
-- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) On Jan 5, 2013, at 6:16 PM, BrailleTouch <[email protected]> wrote: > Cheryl, > > Good catch! If you lock your phone in portrait, then BrailleTouch will work > with the home button on your right, from the perspective of the screen facing > away from you. It will be locked in this orientation. > > If you do not lock your iPhone, then BrailleTouch will work in both landscape > orientations, depending on which way you hold the phone. So Michael Hansen is > correct in his podcast. He was just holding it in the other landscape > orientation. Regardless of how you hold the phone if it is not locked in > portrait mode, dot 1 is your left index finger, dot 3 is your left ring > finger, dot 4 is your right index finger, and so forth. > > I hope this helps. > > Best, > Caleb > http://brailletouchapp.com/ > > On 1/5/2013 7:11 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: >> It appears to me that he got this exactly backwards. Voiceover says "home >> button on the left" I heard it clearly. And the welcome screen explained >> clearly that the home button must actually be on your right but that >> voiceover says it backwards. But the podcaster immediately turns the >> instructions around and says we are to hold the phone with the home button >> on the left and that voiceover says it's on the right. I listened to that >> part four times to make sure I wasn't confused. I'm not even going to listen >> to the rest of this because it will only confuse me! Maybe he's right and >> i'm the one who is confused but I don't think so. If I am right, no wonder >> he thought it would be confusing to people to use this app at first. >> > > -- > 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.
