Does it work with VO, or does VO become disabled with it? Teresa
"Man is matter's ability to contemplate itself."--Albert Einstein On Nov 15, 2011, at 2:50 PM, Chad King wrote: > I've played with it a little. Seems that I had trouble opening some apps when > it was enabled. > I would double tap on the app, but the app didn't open for some reason. I'll > have to play with it a bit more. > Sent from my MBP > > On Nov 15, 2011, at 4:38 PM, Red.Falcon wrote: > >> Hi all! >> Well some of you have said you've got Motor-control problems! >> So I wonder if this would work with vo! >> But it is Apple doing there thing! >> Colin >> Qapla! >> Chegh chew jaj Vam jaj Kak >> http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/10/apples-assistivetouch-helps-the-disabled-use-a-smartphone/ >> >> Apple’s AssistiveTouch Helps the Disabled Use a Smartphone >> >> Plenty has been written about the new iPhone 4S, with its voice-controlled >> virtual assistant Siri, and about iOS 5, its software. >> >> But in writing a book about both, I stumbled across an amazingly thoughtful >> feature that I haven’t seen a word about: something called AssistiveTouch. >> >> >> The Times’s technology columnist, David Pogue, keeps you on top of the >> industry in his free, weekly e-mail newsletter. >> Sign up | See Sample >> Now, Apple has always gone to considerable lengths to make the iPhone usable >> for people with vision and hearing impairments. If you’re deaf, you can have >> the LED flash to get your attention when the phone rings. You can create >> custom vibration patterns for each person who might call you. You can >> convert stereo music to mono (handy if you’re deaf in one ear). >> >> If you’re blind, you can literally turn the screen off and operate >> everything — do your e-mail, surf the Web, adjust settings, run apps — by >> tapping and letting the phone speak what you’re touching. You can also >> magnify the screen or reverse black for white (for better-contrast reading). >> >> In short, iPhone was already pretty good at helping out if you’re blind or >> deaf. But until iOS 5 came along, it was tough rocks if you had >> motor-control problems. How are you supposed to shake the phone (a shortcut >> for “Undo”) if you can’t even hold the thing? How are you supposed to >> pinch-to-zoom a map or a photo if you can’t even move your fingers? >> >> One new feature, called AssistiveTouch, is Apple’s accessibility team at its >> most creative. When you turn on this feature in >> Settings->General->Accessibility, a new, white circle appears at the bottom >> of the screen. It stays there all the time. >> >> When you tap it, you get a floating on-screen palette. Its buttons trigger >> motions and gestures on the iPhone screen without requiring hand or >> multiple-finger movement. All you have to be able to do is tap with a single >> finger — even a stylus you’re holding in your teeth or fist. >> >> For example, you can tap the Home on-screen button instead of pressing the >> physical Home button. >> If you tap Device, you get a sub-palette of six functions that would >> otherwise require you to grasp the phone or push its tiny physical buttons. >> There’s Rotate Screen (tap this instead of turning the phone 90 degrees), >> Lock Screen (tap instead of pressing the Sleep switch), Volume Up and Volume >> Down (tap instead of pressing the volume keys), Shake (does the same as >> shaking the phone to undo typing), and Mute/Unmute (tap instead of flipping >> the small Mute switch on the side). >> >> If you tap Gestures, you get a peculiar palette that depicts a hand holding >> up two, three, four, or five fingers. When you tap the three-finger icon, >> for example, you get three blue circles on the screen. They move together. >> Drag one of them, and the phone thinks you’re dragging three fingers on its >> surface. Using this technique, you can operate apps that require multiple >> fingers dragging on the screen. >> >> To me, the most impressive part is that you can define your own gestures. In >> Settings->General->Accessibility, you can tap Create New Gesture to draw >> your own gesture right on the screen, using up to five fingers. >> >> For example, suppose you’re frustrated in Google Maps because you can’t do >> the two-finger double-tap that means “zoom out.” On the Create New Gesture >> screen, get somebody to do the two-finger double-tap for you. Tap Save and >> give the gesture a name—say, “2 double tap.” >> >> From now on, “2 double tap” shows up on the final AssistiveTouch panel, >> called Favorites, ready to trigger with a single tap by a single finger or >> stylus. (Apple starts you off with one predefined gesture already in >> Favorites: Pinch. That’s the two-finger pinch or spread gesture you use to >> zoom in and out of photos, maps, Web pages, PDF documents, and so on. Now >> you can trigger it with only one finger.) >> >> I doubt that people with severe motor control challenges represent a >> financially significant number of the iPhone’s millions of customers. But >> somebody at Apple took them seriously enough to write a complete, elegant >> and thoughtful feature that takes down most of the barriers to using an app >> phone. >> I, for one, am impressed. >> >> And I’d also like to hear, in the Comments, from people who actually use >> AssistiveTouch. 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