[macvoiceover] Re: iphone 4s
- From: David Chittenden <dchittenden@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 11:32:32 +1300
Hello,
Well, considering how many blind people are doing it, either we're all insane,
which is highly possible in my case as I don't hold any claims to sanity, or
it's possible. I type at the same very slow speed on the touch-screen keyboard
that I use to type on the too tiny built-in keys keyboard. Actually, I am
faster on the touch-screen because VO announces the letter I am touching, so I
don't need to painstakingly count over from the edge of the keyboard or from
the orientation dot for each letter.
Then again, I am a rather slow typist on any standard-sized QWERTY keyboard as
well. I am only decently fast using a braille keyboard.
Oh, and as to comments about speed of sighted people on a touch-screen
keyboard, I have a friend who is a teacher, not a computer engineer, who types
very accurately at about 65 words per minute on her iPhone, and that's when she
is being extremely accurate. When not, she is over 80 words per minute.
David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA
Email: dchittenden@xxxxxxxxx
Mobile: +64 21 2288 288
Sent from my iPhone
On 27/03/2012, at 6:47, Mary Scott <bluespruce7@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I don't understand how a blind person can learn to be accurate on the touch
> screen keypad without going crazy. Is it possible or are people going crazy?
> On Mar 26, 2012, at 12:49 PM, Bryan Duarte wrote:
>
>> I do not want to be mean or discourage anyone from a tool they use or found
>> useful so I will simply speak from my own perspective. The dragon app is
>> free and it does work, but Siri is 100 times better than dragon ever could
>> be for the iPhone. Also Siri is integrated into every edit field of the
>> iPhone. From messages to email Siri will give you the option to dictate your
>> message. It works and is accurate but the down side is that there will be
>> times where you will have to correct your spelling if Siri enters "brain"
>> instead of "Bryan." Avoiding the keyboard is impossible on a touch screen
>> device. I will also say that Siri gives you the option to create, edit, and
>> send a message or email but unless there is no background noise and you can
>> speak clear enough to get every word clearly heard, edits from the keyboard
>> will be necessary.
>> On Mar 26, 2012, at 9:39 AM, Ian Edwards wrote:
>>
>>> You may want to check out the Dragon dictation app. When I checked it out
>>> it was free, and sometimes useful. It was accurate enough for simple
>>> messages and Facebook posts, the obvious downside was that it wasn't
>>> integrated into the message program. So you would dicatate your message,
>>> select text message in the actions menu, then select who it was going to.
>>> From the support material it looks like the Blackberry version is
>>> integrated into the message app so you can dictate directly into an edit
>>> field, so perhaps that is coming for the iPhone version. Maybe it's already
>>> here, anyone know?
>>>
>>> Ian
>>>
>>> On 2012-03-26, at 10:30 AM, Bryan Duarte wrote:
>>>
>>>> I agree with Ricardo Siri is great for some things but for avoiding typing
>>>> Siri is not! Checking things, searching the web, and having fun Siri is
>>>> great, sending messages or emails Siri works perfectly about 50 percent of
>>>> the time. There is really no avoiding the on screen keyboard on a touch
>>>> screen device. I admit the touch keyboard is kind of a pain some times it
>>>> really is not as bad as most blind people would think. It is pretty good
>>>> and not very hard to type on. If a keyboard is necessary for you, the
>>>> iPhone is not for you...
>>>> On Mar 26, 2012, at 5:41 AM, Mary Scott wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I am very interested to hear updates as to your satisfaction of the hone.
>>>>> I want one but I want to know if Siri
>>>>> really works well. I do not like usuing the keys to text and I want to
>>>>> know that I really can avoid it before getting one. MelOn Mar 25, 2012,
>>>>> at 10:11 PM, Bryan Duarte wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Awesome welcome to the crew! If you go to settings>general>accessibility
>>>>>> you will find an option to enable practice mode. If you do this you can
>>>>>> preform all the gesters and hear them spoken to you. Also if you
>>>>>> navigate to settings>general>accessibility the last option in this list
>>>>>> is the home button function for triple tap.. This is where you will set
>>>>>> voiceover to be assigned to triple tap of the home button. Hope this
>>>>>> helps...
>>>>>> On Mar 25, 2012, at 7:03 PM, Don wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Just got an iphohne, can someone tell me where to find all the
>>>>>>> gestures, or send me a list of them. Also where do I go to set the home
>>>>>>> button to turn on and off voice over, I can't find it. Thanks Don
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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