Susan, to my knowledge although I don't use one they do have a thing you can put over the screne that has raised up bumps or something to denote where you are on the phone. I am not sure if Apple have brought this out or a company dealing with specialised products for Visually Impaired people have done it. Although I am slow with texting on my iPhone it is completely accessible apart from that. I think that what you are trying to describe is making it more user friendly. There is a difference here and Voiceover, the screne-reader that Apple provides is excellent and much more human sounding than you will get with Talks. Now, I am not discrediting Talks either as it certainly served a purpose for me in the past but, and you are hearing this from a person that in the beginning totally ditched the idea of using an iPhone, I would not now make such a statement and I love my phone.
Cheers, Nicky.----- Original Message ----- From: "Susan Curry" <SusanCurry@xxxxxxx>
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hi Eleanor,I was in a apple shop looking at I phones and one of the members of staff told me that they where trying to bring out some sort of grid that would make the phone more accessible to a blind person, have you heard of this?Susan----- Original Message ----- From: "Eleanor Burke" <eleanorburke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2011 11:15 AM Subject: [vip_students] Re: mobile cornerNot Flor, but the Apple iPhone is a different platform from the Symbian s60 phones Susan. the voice-over is out of the box so to speak and is on the phones of sighted people with iPhones too only most of the sighted people are probably not even aware of it. The voice-over has been designed to meet the needs of visually impaired users Susan. These are touch screen phones and do not have tactile keyjpads. Some visually impaired and blind people love these phones and there are members on the list, Paul T included who use these phones.Eleanor----- Original Message ----- From: "Susan Curry" <SusanCurry@xxxxxxx>To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2011 10:07 AM Subject: [vip_students] Re: mobile cornerhi flor,forgive my ignorance but is voice over instead of talks? i have taken no interest in i phones up till now so don't know one thing about them.many thanks susan----- Original Message ----- From: "Flor Lynch" <florlync@xxxxxx>To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2011 12:44 AM Subject: [vip_students] Re: mobile cornerYou won't need to be too technical regarding Voiceover as used on the iPhone touch-screen.----- Original Message ----- From: "tony sweeney" <deirton711@xxxxxxxxx>To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 11:11 PM Subject: [vip_students] Re: mobile cornerJoe, Just to add, came across this post below from a UK list. That book reference sounds about right but I was looking for another! The one I'm thinking is in different formats. I go back to The Late show now. Best. Hi there There are a lot of podcasts about voiceover on www.blindcooltech.com especially those by Mike arrigo.You could also try www.icanworkthisthing.com and www.maccessibility.netfor further resources. Greetings, Anouk, ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ankers, Dave (UK)" <Dave.Ankers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 3:24 PM Subject: [access-uk] Apple Voice Over TutorialsHi All, Does anyone know of any good tutorials to enable me to quickly get to grips with using Apples voice over screen reader.I am used to using JAWS and have all the shortcuts to applications andfiles set up on my PC desktop. However, on the Mac, things seem a little different. The speed at which it responds to key commands is very impressive. I just need to master the key commands. Any help much appreciated. 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