[access-uk] Re: Can anyone sell the iPod touch to me?
- From: "Eleanor Burke" <eleanorburke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 09:24:11 +0100
I do not pay for instruction booklets so would not be prepared to pay anything.
If you are looking at such a publication as a means of income why not speak to
Apple and RNIB to see if they would commission you and pay you or approach the
appropriate government department and see if you could start up a small
business. Even if 40 people said they would purchase it for ten pounds this
might change after you had done all the hard work and effort you put in to such
a publication.. What about the various alternative formats people might want,
will you have facility to put in to Braille etc? Just my thoughts and only as
you asked on this forum.
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Subject: [access-uk] Re: Can anyone sell the iPod touch to me?
From: "Ibrahim Gucukoglu" <ibrahim_gucukoglu@xxxxxxxx>
Date: 11/08/2011 8:09 am
Hi Catherine.
You raise a very interesting and valid point here, and some of the apps I
will be looking at in my pamphlet will be allied to commercial websites to
illustrate this point. Some blind people sadly don't realise the full
capability and potential of the IPhone as a replacement for the computer in
all but a few circumstances, so my idea is to write this booklet to
illustrate the point and perhaps the web browser in the IPhone is something
I should touch on. I'd add that with the emergence of HTML 5.0 technology
and Apple's Web Apps directory, we have a new avenue of potential to
explore, so I might not confine my reviews to apps you can get from the app
store, though I could easily pick 50 apps I have on my IPhone for this
purpose. Could you give me an idea as to how much you'd be prepared to pay
for a booklet like the one I'm proposing? Does £10 per copy sound
reasonable? Do you think the market needs another title like this? I ask
this of everyone on the list, so feel free to reply and say what's on your
mind.
All the best, Ibrahim.
-----Original Message-----
From: Catherine Turner
Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2011 9:52 AM
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Can anyone sell the iPod touch to me?
Hi,
Ibrahim I don't know the pamphlet you mention but I personally would
be interested in such a thing.
I think it's also worth thinking about the Iphone/Ipod as an
accessible solution for difficult websites. I don't have one myself
yet, but have used an Ipod quite a lot. These days I find standard
websites are getting more and more difficult/tedious to use, with
constantly refreshing aspects and unhelpfully named frames to name but
two problems. But on the I-devices you can either browse the mobile
versions or use apps released by organisations which can accomplish
what you could do on the web and sometimes more. From my limited
experience apps on the I-devices are accessible much more often than
not, and so depending what you're interested in the world is your
oyster and it really gives us many more options for accessibility.
Catherine
On 8/11/11, Ibrahim Gucukoglu <ibrahim_gucukoglu@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Terry.
>
> I think that question should read What cant you do with the IPhone? There
> are simply tonnes of uses for the device, depending on how savvy you are
> and
> how much you want to depend on it. Some people use the IPhone as purely
> an
> entertainer while others use theirs for business related tasks. Indeed,
> I’ve been thinking of writing a short pamphlet similar to the one sold by
> National Braille Press, though doubling the number of applications to 50
> and
> with a business slant more geared toward the UK user. I’d just need to
> know
> whether there’d be enough interest and whether people would be prepared to
> pay for such a booklet given the time it’ll take me to put it together.
>
> All the best, Ibrahim.
>
> From: Terry
> Sent: Monday, August 08, 2011 8:36 PM
> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: Can anyone sell the iPod touch to me?
>
> Hi Barry
>
> Thanks for that, I had a look.
>
> Is there anywhere on that page that tells you what the apps are and what
> they do? Would be good to know what is out there, accessible, and useful
> to
> use on a iPod touch.
>
> What do others on the list use there's for on a regular bases, apart from
> playing music?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Terry
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of
> Barry Toner
> Sent: 07 August 2011 20:28
> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: Can anyone sell the iPod touch to me?
>
>
> Hi terry,
>
>
>
> You could do worse than looking at
>
>
>
> http://www.applevis.com
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Barry.
>
>
>
> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of
> Terry
> Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2011 7:13 PM
> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [access-uk] Can anyone sell the iPod touch to me?
>
>
>
> Hi all
>
>
>
> Having read many different post on the list over the months, there has
> always been lots of discussion regarding the pros and cons of the Iphone
> and
> the touch. I love my gadgets, but have still not yet taken the plunge
> with
> either. Well, having said that, I did have an Iphone for a few months,
> but
> then decided to sell it, as I hated it as a phone and for texting on.
>
>
>
> From my own personal perspective, I will stick with a nokia for a phone,
> as
> its quick, versatile, and so easy to use.
>
>
>
> That said, the apple products seem to have some quite interesting apps to
> play with.
>
>
>
> My main question is, are any of the apps really that useful? or are most
> of
> them five minute gimmicks?
>
>
>
> Could anyone take the time to post some information about the apps that
> they
> feel are actually really useful. I'm thinking of apps that are used for
> fun, to assist with sight issues and are maybe better or easier to use
> than
> software one may already have on a laptop.
>
>
>
> Thanks for any input.
>
>
>
> Regards
>
> Terry
>
>
>
>
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