Cheree Heppe here: That sounds very discouraging.
Could you enlist the help of a friend with a car? Regards, Cheree Heppe Sent from my iPhone On 11/03/2011, at 23:54, "brandt" <brandt.steenk...@gmail.com> wrote: > I wish for one, I had an apple store near enough to me so I could get to it, > and secondly, I wish our public transport were good and safe enough to be > used by any sighted, let alone blind person! Then only might I have a look at > an iPad. > > Warm regards, > > Brandt Steenkamp > > You can tune in to my show wednesday afternoons at 3 PM UTC by going to > www.TheGlobalVoice.info > > Contact me: > > Skype: brandt.steenkamp007 > MSN: brandt...@live.com > Google talk/AIM: brandt.steenk...@gmail.com > Twitter @brandtsteenkamp > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Cheree Heppe > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2011 9:11 AM > Subject: O M G, it's beautiful > > Cheree Heppe here: > > This afternoon, I took the light rail to the Apple store to get a hands on > look at the IPad 2. > > The line for the IPad 2 was even longer than the last time, when the first > IPad was released. > > One of the mall security guards tried to warn me away with tales of the long > line and of people having to take tickets to get in to buy an IPad 2. > Undaunted, I asked the security guard to speak with one of the Apple reps. > The Apple rep knew me and I got right in. Thank you, oh, thank you! > > The store had a bunch of IPad 2's arranged around a square table near the > front of the store. The Apple store was jam-packed, as usual, but even more > so. My little German shepherd dog guide settled herself under the table in > front of where I stood and rested quietly while various curious IPad > enthusiasts came and went and I examined the IPad 2. > > This IPad 2 looks and feels smaller, but it is actually the same outer > dimensions as its predecessor. Somebody had an IPad 1 with them and we held > the two against each other to prove that the IPad 2 was the same outer > dimensions. Where the IPad 2 is smaller is in its weight and thickness, > which is immediately noticeable, if one has handled the IPad 1. The IPad > 2's rounded edges make it seem even thinner without feeling fragile in any > way. > > There was a fellow customer examining the IPad 2 next to me on my right and I > asked him to turn on Voice Over. He was doubtful about being able to do this > at first, but I talked him through Settings to General, to Accessibility and > through engaging VoiceOver and Triple Click Home. > > Once those preliminaries were done, my newly met sighted assistant felt more > confident about playing with the IPad 2 in front of him. I told him that all > IPads have VoiceOver on them and that he could use VoiceOver to read books to > him. He sounded interested and amazed. > > In order to hear VoiceOver in the hubbub of the store, I paired my Bluetooth > ear bud with the IPad 2 in front of me. Several previous customers had > paired various phones with this IPad 2 and when I left, I didn't unpair > those, just my own gadget. > > Using VoiceOver, I looked around and found a lot more features on this IPad > 2. Maybe they loaded a few extra non-native apps on it, but I found three > pages of apps. > > After navigating to YouTube and watching the first part of the original > Star Trek's Doomsday Machine, I re-entered Settings; General; Bluetooth and > un-paired my ear bud, clicked back to the Home screen and tapped Triple Click > Home to return that particular IPad 2 to Sighted Standard Mode. > > This IPad feels a lot faster than the IPhone 4. In fact, it feels like a > computer in its responsivity and I really can envision this device morphing > into a full fledged computer in very short order. The sighted guy next to me > thought the same thing. > > I left and took a break at the Starbuck's in the mall before heading home. > > Wow, what a gadget!! > > Even more amazing to me is my ability to get right on the IPad 2 and > navigate and perform functions correctly and independently the first time. > My only regret is that blind users still must recruit sighted assistance to > initially turn VoiceOver on in the absence of an ITunes interface. If there > were a start-up way to have VoiceOver on by default, I would have never had > to recruit my fellow IPad adventurer to turn Accessibility on for me. > > > Regards, > Cheree Heppe > > -- > 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. > -- > 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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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