Hi, I can see that as a possibility. Expanding voice control would definitely be a good idea, especially because the speech will confirm what you just said.
Regards, Nic Mobile Me: nic2...@me.com Skype: Kvalme MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk AIM: cincinster yahoo Messenger: cin368 Facebook Profile My Twitter On Apr 21, 2010, at 12:28 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hello, > > I don't think turning on VO the way the iPhone/iPod touch/iPad is a great > struggle for most the way it's currently configured but, I do think Apple > should allow Voiceover to be turned on via the voice control. I wouldn't > think this would be very difficult to implement. There are some people who > will buy these devices and will being using iTunes for the first time. > iTunes can be a pain when first learning it, especially on the windows side. > Having VO turned on by using the voice control would ease this a bit. > On Apr 20, 2010, at 6:20 PM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Vo doesn't kick in. You have to activate that as well when turning on any >> Mac. Which is the point. >> >> Regards, >> Nic >> Mobile Me: nic2...@me.com >> Skype: Kvalme >> MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk >> AIM: cincinster >> yahoo Messenger: cin368 >> Facebook Profile >> My Twitter >> >> On Apr 20, 2010, at 10:39 PM, Dónal Fitzpatrick wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Nick while I agree with you entirely, I think the point they were trying to >>> get across is this. When one turns on any kind of mac desktop or laptop, if >>> no interaction takes place for a specific time VO kicks in. I think that >>> this might be the kind of thing they wanted to happen with the iPad. >>> >>> Of course I could be entirely wrong, and to be honest this doesn't make any >>> sense, but my feeling is that this is the point the article was trying to >>> make. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Dónal >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >>> [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Nicolai Svendsen >>> Sent: 20 April 2010 21:20 >>> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >>> Subject: Re: Article from the RNIB about the IPad >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm a bit confused here. >>> >>> "It is just a shame that VoiceOver is switched off by default, meaning it >>> has to be activated before the iPad can be used." and "It would have been a >>> real bonus had the iPad been accessible out of the box. Unfortunately, this >>> was not quite the case." >>> >>> These views are kind of strange and puzzling to me. It seems a weird >>> definition of "out of the box". It's a mainstream product. That'd make it >>> too confusing for a sighted user using the iPad if VoiceOver was on by >>> default. And, by all rights, it shouldn't be on by default, as it is a >>> product not geared "specifically" towards blind people. That's the only >>> thing I found kind of odd, but otherwise, pretty nice. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Nic >>> Mobile Me: nic2...@me.com >>> Skype: Kvalme >>> MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk >>> AIM: cincinster >>> yahoo Messenger: cin368 >>> Facebook Profile >>> My Twitter >>> >>> On Apr 20, 2010, at 6:46 PM, marie Howarth wrote: >>> >>>> I would agree with you John. as a total VI user of an IPhone, I don't >>> think they praised the screen reader enough. And its that point of the >>> accessibility out of the box that has wound me up. I think that could put >>> users off entirely and let's see, how many products are accessible out of >>> the box that rNIB promotes readily? >>>> I'll post a link to my blog I'm writing for you guys to agree or disagree >>> with me but on the whole, I think its a fair first impressions. >>>> >>>> On 20 Apr 2010, at 17:33, John J Herzog wrote: >>>> >>>>> Thanks for passing this article along. I think that, for the most part, >>> this article was fair. They seem to point out both positives and negatives >>> of the product which is good. >>>>> The only area where I have some problems with the article, is that they >>> made to big of a deal about activating voiceover through Itunes. This is not >>> that hard since it is accessible on both mac and windows, and requires all >>> of two seconds to do. Other than that, it's pretty good. >>>>> >>>>> John >>>>> >>>>> On Apr 20, 2010, at 12:18 PM, marie Howarth wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi guys, >>>>>> Thought I'd put this article out there for everyone to discuss. I will >>> be writing a blog on my opinions of this article shortly. But here it is for >>> you all to read. >>>>>> >>>>>> It's an article done by the RNIB which is the national charity for the >>> blind in the UK. You need to download the article, its in word format but >>> will read on text edit and such on the mac. >>>>>> thanks >>>>>> >>> http://www.rnib.org.uk/livingwithsightloss/computersphones/Pages/technology_ >>> news_reports.aspx >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> 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. >>>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >> > > -- > 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. 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