Hi Guys. I could not resist telling you guys this story told to me by a blind friend of mine. He was laughing so much about this, that he just had to call me up and tell me all about it. This will just go to show you just how much we have come forward with accessibility, thanks to Steve and all his folks.
This friend was having difficulty with his old phone, and he was thinking about getting an iPhone. I think he eventually will when his current contract runs out in a few months. He thought it was time because he thought his current phone was dead. He asked the salesman at Sprint to show him the new Siri iPhone. The man, with all the confidence of someone who thought he knew what he was doing blurted out: "I don't think it will work for a blind person. It's got a flat screen." After making this incredibly uninformed statement, he handed the iPhone to my friend at his request. Luckily, he had some experience with iPhones from his sighted iPhone using friends; he's never seen mine. He said to the guy: "just let me show you something here." Luckily they were so uninformed that they hadn't messed with the defaults on the Siri iPhone. So, my friend pressed the home key three times, and when it came up he said into it: "show me the weather in Miami, Florida." It did, and VoiceOver started reading it. The salesman, pretty much in shock, said: "I will never say a thing like that again. That shows me." Regards, Gigi -- 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.
