Hi Larry,
You're not doing anything wrong. There's an accessibility issue in reaching the
video controls in the iCookbook app. I've managed to play them on my iPhone 5,
but I don't know of a workaround for the iPad version. When you double tap the
"Tools" button at the top right corner of the recipes screen for the iPad (or
"Tools BTN at the bottom right corner of the corresponding screen for the
iPhone), and then select the "How-To Videos" from the pop up, you're taken to a
screen where you can select from "How to Cut Vegetables", "How to Make a Pie
Crust", or "How to Make Gravy". Selecting any of these takes you to a video
with focus on an unlabeled button that can close the video, and, if you flick
right from there, a "control bar".
The problem is that you're not given access through VoiceOver to the separate
controls in the control bar. This should work like playing YouTube videos,
with a player control to a play/pause button in the bottom left corner of the
control bar. A double tap and hold pass through gesture doesn't work here.
I can get the video to play on my iPhone 5 screen, because the window for the
video fills the screen in landscape mode on my iPhone 5, and I can use the
position of my volume up button to find the player control. So on my iPhone 5,
when I select a video like "How to Cut Vegetables", the screen goes into
landscape mode with the home button to the right (even though I have my screen
locked to portrait), In landscape mode I can locate the unlabeled button (that
closes the video) by touch, just below the number of WiFi signal strength bars
on my status bar. And I can run my finger down vertically from this button to
the left edge of the "control bar", and then over the side edge of my case to
feel the volume up button where it protrudes. So on my iPhone 5, I can toggle
VoiceOver off, touch the volume up button along the bottom of my iPhone held in
landscape mode, and slide it up to touch the iPhone screen at the position of
the play control.
But on the iPad screen, the video with the control bar at the bottom doesn't
take up the whole screen. I've tried this on the iPad in both portrait and
landscape mode, since on the iPad this video will take the orientation you use
for your device before your launch it. I just can't find a reference point by
touch to mark the bottom left corner control position for the player window.
The description of the "How to cut vegetables" videos is perfectly usable in
these 3 minute videos, but I just don't know how to get them played on the iPad.
By the way, Patrick's helpful directions from yesterday are all perfectly
correct. I'll add that another way to launch the app and enter the "Recipes"
screen when your first open the app, as an alternative to double tapping the
"Recipes" tab or button, is to simply touch anywhere on the center of the
screen and double tap. That first unlabeled "button" apparently corresponds to
an image of the app, and double tapping anywhere above the button/tab controls
at the base of the screen has the same action as double tapping the "Recipe
BTN" button or the first tab (1 of 5) for "Recipe" on my iPhone 5. This also
works for the iPad, but the iPad screen apparently has either small images or
links for the first three recipes ("Smokin' Baby Back Ribs","Fiesta Corn
Bread", and "Garlic & Lemon Herb Marinated Chicken") across some areas of the
launch screen.
On the iPad screen for iCookbook there are only four labeled navigation buttons
that are used along the bottom of the screen: "Recipe", "My Recipe Box", "Meal
Builder" and "Store". The "Tools" button is in the top right corner. The
first unlabeled button before "Recipe" takes you back to the launch screen for
the app -- you can tell because if you do a two finger flick up to read all,
the entries for the first three recipes are announced. And if you double tap
on most parts of that screen you'll go to the "Recipes" screen, just as though
you had double tapped the "Recipes" button.
On the iPhone recipe screen, the labeled buttons are all along the bottom of
the screen: "Recipes BTN", "My Recipes BTN", "Meal Build BTN", "Store BTN", and
"Tools BTN". I find the iPhone implementation easier to use. For example, if I
want to search for recipes of a certain kind, I 'll type in a search term like
"soup" and then double tap the "Search" button of the onboard keyboard. Apart
from flicking or using a three finger flick up while in the list of recipes to
view the recipes, the iPhone features a "Shake to stir results" option that
lets me get a random reordering of the search results when I shake my iPhone.
HTH. Sorry that this app's features, like the videos, are not more accessible,
but I think the developer will have to fix the access to the controls. I'd be
interested in learning whether this is usable by iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S users,
since I've only checked this app on an iPhone 5. Usually, I'll do more
extensive testing before I post an app suggestion to this list, except in
instances where I think this is a sale item that will only remain free for a
short time.
Cheers,
Esther
On 12 Jul 2013, at 04:52, Larry Lumpkin wrote:
> The videos in ICookbook don't seem to play for me. Am I doing somethingwrong?
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
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