Hey Jake, Terrific post!
As I wrote yesterday on the definition of hacker, I said that a program like JailBreak was likely written by a very talented programmer or team thereof. I also said that programs like it and others can cause some stability problems and, while I forgot to mention them, accessibility problems as well. Knowing which app is running is essential to a program like VO. If you can put programs into the background using undocumented procedures, you will likely break a ton of the assumptions that VO makes about the world in which it lives. cdh On Dec 31, 2009, at 6:01 AM, Jake wrote: > Hi > I've not jailbroken mine but I helped set up a friend's iPhone that > came jailbroken and unlocked. My observation is that, unless you want > to unlock your iPhone (i.e. enable it to take sim cards from any > carrier) then it's not worth doing. A good majority of the apps, > including the jailbroken app manager Sidea, are not accessible in the > slightest as they are not written using the iPhone's native toolkit. > Remember that a good majority of these apps would never be approved > for that reason alone, let alone anything else they might do. Further, > certain things you can install such as custom icons and background > apps and the like can really screw with Voiceover. The phone I helped > with came with backgrounder installed which is an app that can force > any other app into the background without closing it. However, the > custom icon badges backgrounder used to tell you which apps were > backgrounded rendered status information under the icon useless with > Voiceover. For example, instead of hearing "Mail, 1 new message" you > heard something similar to this (the number varied) "mail, > wb_badge_label 0x2d4a883 new message." It essentially rendered a quick > glance at any icon that has an accompanying badge to show new items > useless, and that includes the phone app with missed calls showing. > In addition to all that, of course, it does void your warranty. My > advice: don't bother. > > Jess wrote: >> Hi all IPhone users, >> >> Have any of you jailbroken your IPhone? If so, did it impact VoiceOver at >> all? Did it cause your IPhone to become a brick? What are the benefits of >> Jailbreaking? >> Jess > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@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. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@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.
