That's very true Erik. I can't tell you how many times my merely being able to use an iPhone has begun great conversations with genuinely interesting, and curious people. It's a fabulous feeling to know you've educated someone yeah?
Twitter: @IndigoCellist Sent from my iPhone On Mar 12, 2011, at 7:36 AM, erik burggraaf <e...@erik-burggraaf.com> wrote: > Sure, but then your fellow adventurer would never have known about voiceover > and how he could use it to listen to books with Ibooks. You gave something > back for the convenience of having him turn on voiceover, so you could say > that having to ask a sighted person sparked a valuable dialog which could > have lead anywhere. You just never know. > > Best, > > Erik Burggraaf > User support consultant, > Now posting occasionally on twitter at eburggraaf, > 1-888-255-5194 > http://www.erik-burggraaf.com > > On 2011-03-12, at 2:11 AM, Cheree Heppe wrote: > >> 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 >> tomacvisionaries+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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