Actually, I've just tried and even when voiceover's off, Siri still speaks and as others have said, whilst the watch does have a speaker, Siri didnt talk during the keynote. I won't be buying one as it's too expensive for me but it would be nice to know regardless.
Cheers, Ben. On 9/10/14, John Diakogeorgiou <[email protected]> wrote: > I've never tried Siri without voiceover so didn't realize that. Even > when my kids have played with it the Voice over was always on. > > On 9/10/14, Tom Rash <[email protected]> wrote: >> That's the normal way Siri works when Voice Over is turned off. Probably >> just not turned on. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >> Behalf >> Of John Diakogeorgiou >> Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2014 1:47 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: Accessibility of Apple Watch? >> >> I'm not sure if it means anything but when they were using Siri it didn't >> talk back to them but rather showed the answer on the screen. >> >> On 9/9/14, Joseph <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hello, >>> I was just on apple.com and I read the more info regarding the watch >>> and nothing was mentioned regarding VO. 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