Hello,
I did some digging around for HTML versions of the iPhone and iPod
Touch User Guides under iOS 4, and here's what I found. These are all
in English, so I don't know whether there are versions up for other
languages. Trying the obvious things (like changing "en" for English
to "fr" for French, etc.) didn't work.
• The Accessible Version of the new iPhone 4G User Guide, which you
can read from any web browser
http://help.apple.com/iphone/4/voiceover/en/
• The iPhone 4G User Guide (only shows up in HTML when viewed from an
iPhone or iPod Touch, otherwise you get taken to the Apple Support
Page for the device)
http://help.apple.com/iphone/4/
• The iPod Touch User Guide under iOS 4 ((only shows up in HTML when
viewed from an iPhone or iPod Touch, otherwise you get taken to the
Apple Support Page for the device)
http://help.apple.com/ipodtouch/4/
These last two versions of the user guides likely show up under
bookmarks in Safari if you have bought a new device, and if you don't
have MobileMe (with a setup so that your Safari Bookmarks from your
computer sync to the iPhone or iPod Touch). I don't know about the
iPod Touch User Guide -- that was absent in the Safari bookmarks on
devices at the time I bought my iPod Touch (last September), and for
several months afterwards, according to checks of the devices in the
Apple Stores.
One warning: these last two versions of the HTML guides have the same
VoiceOver bug that we discovered last December: if you access the HTML
pages of these guides from your iPhone or iPod Touch with VoiceOver
turned on, you will be able to flick to, but not activate, any linked
entries beyond the first page. The rule is, if you can't touch the
entry and double-tap it on the screen, you won't be able to open the
page. The work-around is to toggle VoiceOver off (with a triple click
of the home button), do a three-finger flick up to move past the first
screen of entries, and then toggle VoiceOver on again.
I suggest that people add bookmarks to the accessible HTML version of
the iPhone users guide given in the first link. You can put an icon
on your device screen by going to that page in Safari on your iPhone
or iPod Touch, then double tapping the "Utilities" button at the
bottom center of your screen, just above the home button. You can
then put an icon for the accessible iPhone 4 manual on your home
screen by double tapping the "Add to Home Screen" button, or you can
simply add it as a bookmark in Safari by double tapping the "Add
Bookmark" button.
I personally choose to put a link to the section on VoiceOver on my
home screen:
http://help.apple.com/iphone/4/voiceover/en/iph3e2e4218.html
Others may want to start one level up, at the Accessibility chapter,
in order to access information like the new large text fonts in mail
and messages:
http://help.apple.com/iphone/4/voiceover/en/iph3e2e2c13.html
Still other will only want to link one level down, to the VoiceOver
gestures section:
http://help.apple.com/iphone/4/voiceover/en/iph3e2e2281.html
Just to summarize, the new gesture under iOS 4 is:
Two-finger "scrub": Move two fingers back and forth three times
quickly (making a "z") to dismiss an alert or go back to the previous
screen.
HTH. If anyone finds versions of the user guides for other languages,
please post. Cheers,
Esther
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