JPR,
to further clarify, if VO is on, you move around the screen until you
get what you want and then, while still keeping your finger in place, tap
once anywhere on the screen to actually type the character. That's what
split tap means. You don't find the key and press twice. You find the key,
which speaks it once, and then tap once more to type the key. Follow?
K.
-----Original Message-----
From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
[mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Martin Pilkington
Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 8:35 AM
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: touch screens?
Hi Jean,
Enabling VoiceOver changes the interaction model. A single tap selects
whatever is under your finger, you can then double tap anywhere on the
screen to invoke the action on the item. Scrolling isn't smooth, but instead
moves around by pages, using 3 finger swipe to move around. From my usage of
it, it seems far more intuitive than the keyboard navigation for voice over
(same goes for the similar trackpad command feature in Snow Leopard for
MacBooks with multi touch trackpads). Of course I'm not visually impaired
and don't use VoiceOver every day, so I'm maybe not the best to judge it,
but for testing purposes I find it to be a much nicer system.
Martin
On 25 Sep 2009, at 2:10 pm, Jean-Philippe Rykiel wrote:
Dear May,
let me be a little more specific. When you have a physical keyboard, as soon
as you type a character voice-over speaks and the character is typed as
well. If you have a touchscreen and you want to type with it, does
voice-over speak to you before the character is typed ? Or do you have to
type a character, and then hit, sorry touch, the backspace key if it was the
wrong one?
Cheers,
JPR
http://myspace.com/jeanphilipperykiel
----- Original Message -----
From: May McDonald <mailto:mcdonald....@gmail.com>
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 2:30 PM
Subject: Re: touch screens?
Like I said, voice over works great. You slide your finger across the
screen and voice over tells you what's there. Once you get use to
where things are then you can just go automatically to where that item
is and either double tap it or split tap and it opens.
On 25-Sep-09, at 5:05 AM, Jean-Philippe Rykiel wrote:
> Dear May,
> it's just a mechanical matter. How can you know which key you press
> before you pressed it? Actually, you don't press anything you just
> touch something, but as soon as you touch it the number or function
> assigned to the virtual key is performed. With a mechanical keyboard
> you can move your fingers through keys before you press them. How
> can you do this if you don't feel anything ?
>
> Cheers,
> JPR
> http://myspace.com/jeanphilipperykiel
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: May McDonald
> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
> Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 12:34 PM
> Subject: Re: touch screens?
>
>
> What is it you really want to know or what can't you figure out?
>
> I have an IPhone 3gs and love it. The voice over works great and not
> hard to use once you get use to the touch screen and where everything
> is located.
>
> Would be glad to help if I can.
> On 25-Sep-09, at 1:30 AM, Jean-Philippe Rykiel wrote:
>
> > Hi to all Iphone andIpod touch users.
> > Could you explain to a newbie how you deal with touch screens, I
> > just cant figure it out.
> > Cheers,
> > JPR
> > http://myspace.com/jeanphilipperykiel
> >
> > >
>
>
>
> >
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