Hi, I'm a bit confused here.
"It is just a shame that VoiceOver is switched off by default, meaning it has to be activated before the iPad can be used." and "It would have been a real bonus had the iPad been accessible out of the box. Unfortunately, this was not quite the case." These views are kind of strange and puzzling to me. It seems a weird definition of "out of the box". It's a mainstream product. That'd make it too confusing for a sighted user using the iPad if VoiceOver was on by default. And, by all rights, it shouldn't be on by default, as it is a product not geared "specifically" towards blind people. That's the only thing I found kind of odd, but otherwise, pretty nice. Regards, Nic Mobile Me: nic2...@me.com Skype: Kvalme MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk AIM: cincinster yahoo Messenger: cin368 Facebook Profile My Twitter On Apr 20, 2010, at 6:46 PM, marie Howarth wrote: > I would agree with you John. as a total VI user of an IPhone, I don't think > they praised the screen reader enough. And its that point of the > accessibility out of the box that has wound me up. I think that could put > users off entirely and let's see, how many products are accessible out of the > box that rNIB promotes readily? > I'll post a link to my blog I'm writing for you guys to agree or disagree > with me but on the whole, I think its a fair first impressions. > > On 20 Apr 2010, at 17:33, John J Herzog wrote: > >> Thanks for passing this article along. I think that, for the most part, this >> article was fair. They seem to point out both positives and negatives of the >> product which is good. >> The only area where I have some problems with the article, is that they made >> to big of a deal about activating voiceover through Itunes. This is not that >> hard since it is accessible on both mac and windows, and requires all of two >> seconds to do. Other than that, it's pretty good. >> >> John >> >> On Apr 20, 2010, at 12:18 PM, marie Howarth wrote: >> >>> Hi guys, >>> Thought I'd put this article out there for everyone to discuss. I will be >>> writing a blog on my opinions of this article shortly. But here it is for >>> you all to read. >>> >>> It's an article done by the RNIB which is the national charity for the >>> blind in the UK. You need to download the article, its in word format but >>> will read on text edit and such on the mac. >>> thanks >>> http://www.rnib.org.uk/livingwithsightloss/computersphones/Pages/technology_news_reports.aspx >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@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 macvisionar...@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 macvisionar...@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 macvisionar...@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.
