Re: VoiceOver: a convenient option for the sighted?

2011-10-27 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi! I tend to agree with this. I've met very few employees who know about VoiceOver, but those who have have been knowledgeable in that area. I've watched Youtube videos where people deliberately go out of their way to display accessibility on iOS, and when VoiceOver is on they refer to the

VoiceOver: a convenient option for the sighted?

2011-10-26 Thread chris hallsworth
Hello all. Thought I would bring this up for discussion. I had a support worker this morning who has an iPhone 4. I mentioned that it can be used by the blind and visually impaired thanks to VoiceOver. So I made them aware of where to turn on VoiceOver. But I had some ideas that came into my

Re: VoiceOver: a convenient option for the sighted?

2011-10-26 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi Chris, I actually have a sighted classmate at university who uses VoiceOVer to read iBooks. However, I do know that iBooks also has a setting which lets you read kids books aloud, I believe, but I'm not sure if this extends to all books or simply depending on the author's permission.

Re: VoiceOver: a convenient option for the sighted?

2011-10-26 Thread Jane
I already know of soe sighted people who use VoiceOver here i the uS One Apple employee uses it to check Twitter on his way to work. Others use it for similar tasks. Some use it to listen to books with iBooks, just as you said. Jane On Oct 26, 2011, at 5:14 AM, chris hallsworth wrote:

Re: VoiceOver: a convenient option for the sighted?

2011-10-26 Thread Ian McNamara
hi yep i do think that voiceover could be useful for some sighted people although i don't think that a lot of the genral public would want to take the time to learn the diferent jesjures that are needed. Ian McNamara --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please

Re: VoiceOver: a convenient option for the sighted?

2011-10-26 Thread Travis Siegel
And, though it's off topic, I've tried to get the media access group at wgbh to market their dvs videos to sighted folks as well, for exactly those same kinds of reasons. Watching a movie in the car while going to work? Wow, helping adhd kids concentrate on what's going on? check, helping