Just to clarify, any button or interactive item can be discovered/read on the screen either by touching it or by navigating to it. Because actioning the item takes either a double tap or the aforementioned split-tap you can touch all over the place to explore and only do the action gesture once you found what you want. By nature of being a portable device some buttons can be quite small to find. For these its easier to touch something in the general area and then flick left or right which steps focus from item to item without skipping any. Handy for actioning the tiny clear button found on the right side of input fields. There is also a 'rotor' gesture where you turn a virtual knob with two fingers to change settings. In a web browser this can set the flick gesture to jump from link to link or heading to heading.
In other words, they have developed a whole gesture system that makes the sheet of glass an interactive experience. Truly groundbreaking advance. CB Kevin Gibbs wrote: > JPR, > to further clarify, if VO is on, you move around the screen until > you get what you want and then, while still keeping your finger in > place, tap once anywhere on the screen to actually type the > character. That's what split tap means. You don't find the key and > press twice. You find the key, which speaks it once, and then tap > once more to type the key. Follow? > K. > > -----Original Message----- > *From:* macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Martin > Pilkington > *Sent:* Friday, September 25, 2009 8:35 AM > *To:* macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > *Subject:* Re: touch screens? > > Hi Jean, > > Enabling VoiceOver changes the interaction model. A single tap > selects whatever is under your finger, you can then double tap > anywhere on the screen to invoke the action on the item. Scrolling > isn't smooth, but instead moves around by pages, using 3 finger > swipe to move around. From my usage of it, it seems far more > intuitive than the keyboard navigation for voice over (same goes > for the similar trackpad command feature in Snow Leopard for > MacBooks with multi touch trackpads). Of course I'm not visually > impaired and don't use VoiceOver every day, so I'm maybe not the > best to judge it, but for testing purposes I find it to be a much > nicer system. > > Martin > > On 25 Sep 2009, at 2:10 pm, Jean-Philippe Rykiel wrote: > >> Dear May, >> let me be a little more specific. When you have a physical >> keyboard, as soon as you type a character voice-over speaks and >> the character is typed as well. If you have a touchscreen and you >> want to type with it, does voice-over speak to you before the >> character is typed ? Or do you have to type a character, and then >> hit, sorry touch, the backspace key if it was the wrong one? >> Cheers, >> JPR >> http://myspace.com/jeanphilipperykiel >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> *From:* May McDonald <mailto:mcdonald....@gmail.com> >> *To:* macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> >> *Sent:* Friday, September 25, 2009 2:30 PM >> *Subject:* Re: touch screens? >> >> >> Like I said, voice over works great. You slide your finger >> across the >> screen and voice over tells you what's there. Once you get >> use to >> where things are then you can just go automatically to where >> that item >> is and either double tap it or split tap and it opens. >> On 25-Sep-09, at 5:05 AM, Jean-Philippe Rykiel wrote: >> >> > Dear May, >> > it's just a mechanical matter. How can you know which key >> you press >> > before you pressed it? Actually, you don't press anything >> you just >> > touch something, but as soon as you touch it the number or >> function >> > assigned to the virtual key is performed. With a mechanical >> keyboard >> > you can move your fingers through keys before you press >> them. How >> > can you do this if you don't feel anything ? >> > >> > Cheers, >> > JPR >> > http://myspace.com/jeanphilipperykiel >> > ----- Original Message ----- >> > From: May McDonald >> > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> >> > Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 12:34 PM >> > Subject: Re: touch screens? >> > >> > >> > What is it you really want to know or what can't you figure out? >> > >> > I have an IPhone 3gs and love it. The voice over works >> great and not >> > hard to use once you get use to the touch screen and where >> everything >> > is located. >> > >> > Would be glad to help if I can. >> > On 25-Sep-09, at 1:30 AM, Jean-Philippe Rykiel wrote: >> > >> > > Hi to all Iphone andIpod touch users. >> > > Could you explain to a newbie how you deal with touch >> screens, I >> > > just cant figure it out. >> > > Cheers, >> > > JPR >> > > http://myspace.com/jeanphilipperykiel >> > > >> > > > >> > >> > >> > >> > > >> >> >> >> >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
