Hello Quentin and every other lister,
Yes Quentin, I have made some progress with the phone I talked about
two days ago. My siblings and I were able to eventually connect the
phone to our wifi.
Talkback wasn't actually available in the accessibility settings so I
had to download it from the play store.
The challenge now is that the gestures don't evoke the desired
response. When I put a finger on any area of the screen, talkback
indicates the particular app or option under the finger, but doing a
second tap immediately (or even a third or fourth) doesn't always
activate the app/option under my finger.
I'm not sure but I'm suspecting that the challenge might be due to a
feature in the accessibility settings which I think has to do with
pattern for delayed response. I think the options included short, long
and mid. I and even my sighted siblings are finding it difficult to
tap our way to reach that setting and adjust it.
Please let me know what you think could be wrong.
Thank you.
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 10:25 AM, Quentin Christensen
<quentin.christensen@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:quentin.christensen@xxxxxxxxx>>
wrote:
Hi Ayoola,
Talkback should be in the accessibility settings - As with the
general settings - there might be a few settings and Talkback may
not be near the top!
When you go into Talkback, the screen has an on/off button (like
for WiFi or Bluetooth), an overview of what Talkback does, and
then a "Settings" button. The on/off button is where you turn it
on and off (I'm sure you figured that bit out yourself), and in
the settings is where you can enable Explore by touch etc.
On some phones (running 4.1 in my experience) they may not come
with a recent version of Talkback with Explore by touch, so yes
downloading / updating it from the play store is definitely a good
idea! Explore by touch is part of recent versions of Talkback (on
4.1 or later devices) rather than a standalone app in itself.
Re your WiFi - do you have any security settings which might
prevent the phone accessing it - only allowing certain devices for
instance, or have you put the right password into the phone? You
should certainly be able to access WiFi without a SIM card.
Re the text to speech - yes text to speech can be used by other
programs as well as Talkback (which is why the setting isn't under
accessibility) - for instance I have a running app which announces
every kilometer I run using the same voice, and there are other
apps which can use it also. Talkback actually only tells the
phone to read out everything on screen - it's the text to speech
engine which does the work of converting that text to speech.
Regards
Quentin.
On 26/11/2013 4:30 PM, Ayoola Stephen Efunkoya wrote:
Hey Quentin,
I forgot to ask. Will I need to search for the
Explore-by-touch app in
the playstore? Or does it come on when talkback is enabled?
There's no
such item in the phone's accessibility at the moment.
Thank you.
On 11/26/13, Ayoola Stephen Efunkoya <ayokoya2009@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:ayokoya2009@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Hello Quentin,
Thanks. I finally found the settings of the phone and as
you rightly
pointed out accessibility is way down the list; in fact
it's the
second to the last item in this list.
The user of the phone will rely solely on talkback and so
won't need
the large-print option enabled. Although I'm yet to locate
talkback on
the phone, I found Pico to be the only available speech
engine in the
'use as default speech engine' section of the 'language
and input
settings'. Pico gives a spoken feedback when you click to
hear an
example of the speech. How can that be possible without
talkback?
As an alternative, I tried to download/update talkback (in
case it's
already installed), but the phone won't connect to the
internet via my
wifi here in the house. It keeps bringing up a
notification that
authentication failed. THere's no SIM card on the phone yet.
Thank you.
On 11/25/13, Quentin <quentin.christensen@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:quentin.christensen@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
You can get to settings either via a home screen icon
or very top right
when you pull down the notification shade.
Accessibility varies it's position in the list but
often it's down a fair
way, I've only ever seen it called "accessibility" though.
If setting large text option you need to check the
check box here but
also
set font size to huge in display options.
If you turn talk back on it's default settings are
good and it should
offer
it's tutorial when you first turn it on, otherwise
that is in the
settings
button in the talk back screen.
Some phones have extra accessibility options dotted
around.
Regards
Quentin
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On 26 November 2013 7:51:49 AM Ayoola Stephen Efunkoya
<ayokoya2009@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:ayokoya2009@xxxxxxxxx>>
wrote:
Hello everyone,
A friend who is visually impaired just brought his
phone running Android
4.2 to me to help set up with all relevant
accessibility features
enabled.
I am however lost because the settings items in
Android 4.2 is
completely
different from those in 2.3.
Please what do I need to llook out for to help him
out?
Thank you.
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