[vi-android] Re: A Review of BIG Launcher, the Android App with Seniors in Mind - AccessWorld? - November 2013

  • From: Aaron <blindgeek1989@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: vi-android@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 00:05:53 -0500

I see, for me I tend to like big launcher, I’ve found out that talkback doesn’t 
work with it all that well. I’d like to find a podcast player that has big 
buttons and has text that is large print and readable. What do you use for gps? 
I’ve got nearby explorer and use it a lot. I can’t get moon reader to work well 
with talkback or figure out how to get large print. Having said that, do you 
find that the touchwiz interface and enlarging the font works as well? I can’t 
read 6 point font the largest I can read is 20 or higher. That’s why I tend to 
use talkback a lot more than big launcher although I tried it for the 15 
minutes and got my money back. 
Thanks,
Aaron Linson
Producer of The Cast Podcast

On Nov 19, 2013, at 11:12 PM, Quentin Christensen 
<quentin.christensen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Aaron,
> 
> It's certainly a tricky scenario, as while there are a lot of great apps 
> around with nice large print, there are more which seem to expect that 
> everyone can read 6pt font!
> 
> For myself day to day I actually don't usually need Talkback, I can actually 
> read about 16 point, or even smaller for brief periods, particularly if I'm 
> wearing my high magnification reading glasses.
> 
> When I do use Talkback - often when I'm reviewing apps - what I tend to do is 
> turn Talkback on, then press the home key and try to keep Talkback in the 
> recent apps so I can then bring up the list of recent apps, and select 
> Talkback settings to get to it to turn it off.
> 
> I was using Big Launcher on my older phone (Galaxy Nexus).  I have switched 
> to Lightning Launcher on the note II though I do miss the larger text from 
> some areas of Big Launcher.
> 
> I actually started my blog to document my experiences with finding the best 
> large print setup although because of the interest in Talkback I do make sure 
> to try and test things with that as well.  My blog is at 
> http://qchristensen.wordpress.com/
> 
> To answer the question, in general what I've done is get a phone with a large 
> screen (Galaxy Note II though the note 3 and Galaxy Mega are out now and 
> bigger), use a launcher with larger icons and look for apps with large print. 
>  For a lot of things I can get apps with large print (Lemo memo for notes, 
> tweetdeck for twitter, aqua mail for mail, chrome for internet, Moon Reader 
> for reading books, and various easy to see games).  It's not ideal - there 
> are still a number of things which are small regardless.  Interestingly at 
> the moment, while my Note II is still on Android 4.1.2, I can use font size 
> setter to make the fonts on a lot of things larger, though I don't have the 
> magnifier yet (it came in 4.2) - but when I get the 4.3 update (which the 
> note II is due for by the end of the year now), I'll have the magnifier but 
> won't be able to adjust the font size beyond the font size option in the 
> accessibility settings (which in my opinion are minimal at best).
> 
> Regards
> 
> Quentin.
> 
> 
> 
> On 20 November 2013 13:37, Aaron <blindgeek1989@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Quentin,
> With being a low vision user both of us are in the same boat as far as being 
> between two worlds. How do you cope with using your vision to see things on 
> your phone and also when you need to use talkback? Do you find it annoying to 
> have to suspend talkback and then pull down the notification screen to pull 
> it back up? How do you deal with reading small print on the screen  and just 
> using your phone in general? I’m still trying to figure this out. 
> Thanks,
> Aaron Linson
> Producer of The Cast Podcast
> 
> On Nov 19, 2013, at 8:18 PM, Quentin Christensen 
> <quentin.christensen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> Hi John,
>> 
>> Interesting, i just had a look and if you press the menu key and go to Nova 
>> Settings, "Desktop" is the first or second option, then "Home Screens" is 
>> the seventh option.  Then it gets tricky - this displays a grid of all your 
>> home screens, which you can explore or swipe through.  To delete one, you 
>> have to locate it, then double tap and hold, and it will vibrate to indicate 
>> it's moving, but then you have to drag it to the top middle of the screen 
>> where visually there is an X and if you drop it on the X, it will delete it 
>> - unfortunately that part doesn't read out or indicate in any way, so your 
>> options for deleting a page are either trial and error to find the right 
>> place to drop the page, or sighted help.
>> 
>> With icons which appear on multiple screens, there are two options - if they 
>> are in the very bottom row, they are likely in the 'dock' - a group of five 
>> icons which appear on every screen - any changes you make to the dock will 
>> appear the same on every home screen, so it's worthwhile setting this up 
>> with things you do actually use regularly.
>> 
>> If they are simply icons which are replicated on multiple pages then yes you 
>> can just delete the excess ones.
>> 
>> Regards
>> 
>> Quentin.
>> 
>> 
>> On 20 November 2013 02:38, John J. Jacques <kg7fa2@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi Quenton, thanks for that.  I will save your message and give it a try.
>>  One other question, do you know how to remove pages completely?  As I
>> mentioned, I have 8 pages and I don't think I need that many.  Hopefully,
>> I can remove the re-occuring apps, or are those apps on every page
>> regardless?
>> 
>> Have a good one:
>> John
>> 
>> 
>> John Jacques
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