Sieghard, In addition to iOS, Mac OSx is also the same, but, in reverse. OS as capitals and the x as lower case.
iOS visually appears as a lower case i and capitals OS. Regards, Neil Barnfather Talks List Administrator Twitter @neilbarnfather TalkNav is a Nuance, Code Factory and Sendero dealer, as well as an Apple iOS, Macintosh and Android accessibility specialist. For all your accessible phone, PDA and GPS related enquiries visit www.talknav.com URL: - www.talknav.com e-mail: - [email protected] Phone: - +44 844 999 4199 On 7 Jan 2013, at 15:05, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Bill, > > I completely agree, but of course you have to keep in mind that especially > younger people often spell horribly due to their constant use of texting, > Instant Messaging and writing on phones where capitalizing and so on takes > more time. It seems nobody cares anymore to capitalise anything, to use > proper punctuation or to insert new lines or paragraphs. I quite often see > short messages posted to the list where somebody starts out with "hi" or > "Hello" followed by a message and then followed by "Thanks" and their name > and all without a line break, paragraph break and a single comma or period. > > Anyhow, just to add one more word/example to your list, I also spell the > word iOS by using a lower case "I" as in "iPhone" or "iPad" but then I use > both upper case for the "O" and "S" since after all the "OS" stands for > "operating system". This way Jaws and I assume other screenreaders read this > correctly as iOS and not ios. > > You can, of course, do what I did and add iphone spelled all in lower case > to the Jaws user dictionary so Jaws will speak it correctly either way. > > > Regards, > Sieghard > > > -- > 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.
