[access-uk] Re: iPhone lack of control of web pages
- From: "Damon Rose" <damon.rose@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:17:00 -0000
So I need to put in yet more work to understand it? Gosh. How many more
hours? This isn't good news.
...Damon
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From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Peter Holdstock
Sent: 22 February 2010 12:10
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: iPhone lack of control of web pages
An hour is no where near long enough to get used to the iphone. Making
calls really is very quick and easy once you are used to it and no the
shortcuts.
Peter
From: Damon Rose <mailto:damon.rose@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 9:13 AM
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] iPhone lack of control of web pages
Hi there.
I had the opportunity of using an iPhone at the weekend for about an
hour - with voiceover enabled.
There are some really good things about it like the iTunes and Apple
iStore access. I thought the compass was quite cute. Making a phone call
wasn't as simple as I would have liked it to be on a phone. And being as
there weren't any physical buttons, bar the home button, it meant that I
found myself flicking a lot between menu options rather than using the
thing. Oh and it has to be said that the onscreen qwerty keyboard input
is really very second rate compared to using a regular phone input.
But it was more accessible than I had thought and I liked it for
multimedia content.
The thing I use my phone for mostly is web access. I wonder if anyone
can help me with this. Somehow, navigating around a page and reading it
just isn't as simple as a regular phone with Talks on it. For instance,
I was able to use a two finger upward flick to get to the top of the
page, an a two finger downward flick to read from the selected point
downwards, but what if I want to go up a couple of lines, say, back to
the beginning of a paragraph? Tracing upwards with one finger seems a
little haphazard and ineffective.
Is there a solution?
It feels to me like we're expected to sit back and listen a lot rather
than try an navigate quickly and skim through a web page - which is the
experience I have on a PC and on my Nokia Talks enabled phone. I can't
bear sitting back and having no control.
If there is a solution to this accessible desert land between where you
are on a page and the top of the page, then please let me in on it!
Best
...Damon
Damon Rose
Senior Content Producer bbc.co.uk/ouch
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