Not when the nearest apple store is 250 kilometers (about 155 miles) away.
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----- Original Message -----
From: Cheree
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2011 9:58 AM
Subject: Re: O M G, it's beautiful
Cheree Heppe here:
That sounds very discouraging.
Could you enlist the help of a friend with a car?
Regards,
Cheree Heppe
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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.
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----- 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
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