[macvoiceover] iPhone accessibility proposal

Here is a way it could be made accessible. Given that it has a multi- touch screen you could have a braille mode. Entering braille commands, followed by some other action, say dragging the finder across the screen could excite the action.
For example you could braille the word "find john smith" followed by the action gesture would look up John Smith in the phonebook "dial" followed by the command action would place a call to him "dial 307 258 0690" would call me.
The same kind of interface could be implemented for the media player "find media john lennon" would find all the music and videos by John Lennon it would then say how many files were found and what the name of the first one was. Entering the word "next" on the screen would announce the next one on the list and so on. When you reached the one you wanted you would braille "play"
The iPhone could in this way be made a very effective braille note taking device. As it is running OSX the speech manager is already installed. I would seem that if we were to use grade one braille it could even be localized. 

Greg
On Jun 29, 2007, at 7:04 PM, Josh de Lioncourt wrote:
Sadly, it is not accessible. At least, not this version. It's too bad too, as there are so many ways the touch screen could've been made accessible, contrary to popular belief. 




Josh de Lioncourt
"Beauty was a savage garden, so why should it wound him that the most despairing music is full of beauty?" 
        The Vampire Lestat--Anne Rice


On Jun 29, 2007, at 6:01 PM, Jon Lemon wrote:


Anybody heard anything about access on an iPhone?
Any sort of VO,
Jon

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