[real-eyes] Re: iPad accessibility
- From: "Roseanne Young" <young.roseanne@xxxxxxx>
- To: <real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 07:25:35 -0700
Thank you so much Jim for your response. It's extremely helpful as always!
Roseanne
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On Behalf Of Jim Fettgather
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 4:44 AM
To: real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [real-eyes] Re: iPad accessibility
Hello, although screens for some apps on the iPad are considerably different
than their iPhone counterparts, most are completely accessible and work very
well.
Here's an excerpt from an AFB Access World article discussing using Pages on
the iPad.
iWork Pages
iWork is a suite of three productivity apps that allow you to use the iPad
for tasks that would normally be done on a computer in a work setting. Pages
is the name of the word processor app, Numbers is the spread sheet app, and
Keynote is the presentation tool used for creating and showing slide shows.
Each app is available for $9.95 from the App Store. For this article, we had
time to investigate only the Pages app, and we tested it to see how
practical and accessible it is to use VoiceOver for word processing on the
iPad.
Pages is a fairly robust word processor, especially for a portable device.
Among other things, it allows you to align text as you like, underline,
bold, or italicize text, and cut, copy, and paste text.
Reading, creating, editing, importing, and exporting documents are all
accessible with VoiceOver. However, just as with the iBooks app, the problem
is that you cannot select text in Pages using VoiceOver. Because of that,
even though the buttons such as those for making text bold or centered are
accessible, you cannot choose the text that you want bolded or centered. We
tried this again using the wireless keyboard and it worked much better. Many
of the commands used with VoiceOver on a Mac also work on the iPad using the
wireless keyboard or the docking station keyboard, and many of the
text-selection commands also work. There also are extra navigation options
when using the keyboard, such as reading a word, character, line, or
paragraph.
Even though I have pointed out some weaknesses with iWork Pages, it still
can be a useful tool. I recently attended a meeting to see how it might
replace my traditional notetaker, and it did work relatively well. I had the
meeting agenda in one file and my meeting notes in another. Although using
the touch-typing method on the iPad was not quite as fast as I needed it to
be, using the wireless keyboard was plenty fast. The experience was not
quite as smooth as using my traditional notetaker, but it was certainly
close.
Hope this helps.
-----Original Message-----
From: Roseanne Young
Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2012 6:07 PM
To: real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [real-eyes] iPad accessibility
Hi all:
I was wondering if anyone knows how accessible the iPad is for word
processing tasks? Would a totally blind person be able to edit and format
documents easily? If anyone has any experience or information about iPad
accessibility, I'd appreciate any feed back.
Thanks all!
Roseanne
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