[mac4theblind] FW: [a-iOS] New VoiceOver Features in iOS 5 | AxS Lab
- From: "Bubba" <bubbathegeek@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:23:45 -0400
FYI, see below.
Bubba
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Trea Abma
Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 3:57 PM
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Subject: Re: [a-iOS] New VoiceOver Features in iOS 5 | AxS Lab
Glad this is back:
Notification now gets read directly again (as iOS3), but can be turned of in
settings.
Trea
From: Hai Nguyen Ly <mailto:gymnastdave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 7:24 PM
To: a-ios@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [a-iOS] New VoiceOver Features in iOS 5 | AxS Lab
http://axslab.com/articles/new-voiceover-features-in-ios5.php
No Help Needed! VoiceOver Direct From Setup.
Everything you need to know about the new VO updates to iOS 5. Custom
labels, Item Chooser and did you know that camera got face detection?
The best thing about the iPhone and the iOS devices is that blind and
visually impaired can do almost everything as a fully sighted person can -
without help. Now you don't even need sighted assistance for setting up the
device! Or even take a photo
Setup
When starting up the device before there was a screen telling you to connect
to iTunes. Now it says welcome and start the set-up. From here just press
the Home Button 3 times to start VoiceOver or even tap 3 times with 3
fingers to Zoom.
You can also use Apple's keyboard dock but no bluetooth keyboards or braille
displays.
Tip: By turning VO on then off and then Zoom, you can now toggle them with
triple press Home.
Camera
The Camera App has been updated with a feature for iOS devices that got the
\"A5\" processor (iPad 2 and iPhone 4S), that now announces if one or more
faces is in the shot. For example VoiceOver says: \"small face center\", so
you can take those holiday family picture, again without assistance from
sighted family members.
You can also use the volume up button to take a photo so you don't have to
hear or record VO. This also works with headset buttons.
Also, you now need to double tap to change focus and exposure.
New Ways to Navigate.
Now it's even easier to find what you are looking for, wether on the home
screen, an app or in Safari.
Item Chooser and Search
This is feature that has been on the mac and now comes to iOS. What it does
is to bring up a pop-up with a complete list of all items on the screen and
puts them in alphabetic order. When selecting an item it even says where on
the screen it's located. The list also contains a search field for an even
easier way to find that app, folder or button you were looking for.
To activate the Item Chooser tap 3 times with 2 fingers or with a keyboard
VO + I. You can also search directly from a keyboard with VO + F then enter
the search query and pressing Enter You can move between matching queries
with VO + G for next and hold Shift for previous.
Tip: Search works very well in Safari as well as everywhere else.
Vertical Navigation and Rotor
One of my favorite new feature is the Vertical Navigation, which is a rotor
option that lets you navigate to the next vertical item. This is really nice
in 2 column lists like when sorting rotor options in the settings or grid
based layouts, for example a chess game or a spread sheet.
Another change is that you now can choose what elements to include in the
rotor from the VoiceOVer settings. You can include Heading so you can jump
to between headings everywhere, like in address book to go to next letter
group.
Also on the iPad the 4 finger swipe left/right is now switching to
next/previous open app. And the old function; go to next/previous Container
is now a rotor option. Although it still work with Control + left or right
And <="" abbr=""> + Tab goes to next open app with the keyboard.
Safari Keyboard Shortcuts
It is now possible to navigate between headings, links, text fields and much
more with just one key.
That's right just press H for next heading or L for next Link, there is a
lot of new shortcut and you can read a full list of VoiceOver Commands here
<http://axslab.com/articles/ios-voiceover-gestures-and-keyboard-commands.php
>
What did you say VoiceOver?
Custom Labels
There has always been certain words that was hard to hear or buttons that
were missing a label and just said \"button\". Now that's all going to
change.
When you do encounter a button that's not labeled correctly or at all you
can now tap 2 times with 2 fingers and hold to set a new custom label. A
sound will indicate if you have done the right gesture and then a text field
and keyboard will appear. After typing your new label VO will remember it
and always speak it the way you want.
New Voices
If you still have a hard time hearing Apple has added some new voices, like
British Daniel.
But with great power comes great responsibility, right? The down side to the
new voices is that they have removed some of the old ones. This mens for
example my favorite synthetic voice of all time, Swedish Oskar is replaced
with much harder to hear Alva. And no way to change that.
For some languages it's also possible to enable a non compressed version.
There is now also support for Arabic in VoiceOver.
Other Nifty Improvements
There is like always with a new OS many minor enhancements and fixes here's
some.
* Notification now gets read directly again (as iOS3), but can be
turned of in settings.
* It's now possible to change the VoiceOver volume with rotor. (Enable
in settings)
* When in a text field you can always use swipe up/down to move by
character.
* Taping with 3 fingers now also announce where on the screen the item
is.
* Calendar icon now says current date.
* Folders now lets you know how many items it contain.
* You can now touch the bar above the dock to go between pages by
swiping up/down.
* It's easier to move icons on the home screen.
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