Still have to use third party screen reading solution Talk to me whem there is built in
Discussion closed Sent from my iPhone On Aug 23, 2012, at 12:09 AM, Christopher Chaltain <chalt...@gmail.com> wrote: > True and understood. I'm not saying that iPhone accessibility isn't superior > to Android's. I think it is, and that's why I'm an iPhone user and not an > Android user. However, people have just been saying incorrect things about > the Android phone and making generalizations without any facts to back their > statements up. There's plenty of totally valid and factual reasons why an > iPhone is the right choice for many people. there's no reason to spread dated > and incorrect information about any other product. > > My reference to significant improvements had to do with the changes from > Gingerbread to Ice Cream Sandwich to Jellybean, since many of the statements > on the list had to do with the state of Talk Back in Gingerbread. I'm just > saying that that information is dated and the improvements since then have > been significant. I don't think accessibility in Gingerbread was almost > non-existent, but that's a judgement call. > > I hear what you're saying about the set up process for a blind user on the > Samsung Galaxy S3, but the day I brought my iPhone home, I spent 4 hours > trying to get my Apple ID in the App Store. I eventually just gave up and > tried again the next day. I know you said the podcast author was familiar > with the iPhone, but picking up a new touch screen device is going to take > some time to get used to. I'll also point out that the Samsung Galaxy S3 > shipped with Ice Cream Sandwich and I know there were improvements in > Jellybean in the area of typing. > > On 08/22/2012 11:50 PM, Sieghard Weitzel wrote: >> Hi Christopher, >> >> It's not all that hard to improve something significantly which was almost >> non-existent before. I am interested in technology of any kind and recently >> listened to a very detailed 2-part german Podcast by somebody who is a very >> experienced tech user about Talkback on a I think Samsung Galaxy S3 >> top-of-line phone. This person also has an iPhone and he actually had to >> stop the Podcast and restart it because the gesture which was supposed to >> activate Talkback during setup did not work. He finally did get it going and >> then continued to setup the phone and boy was it painful to listen to his >> attempts to do the simplest things. At one point he had to enter his name on >> a virtual keyboard and it literally took him 5 or 6 minutes in the Podcast >> before he managed to enter his first and last name, as I said, it was simply >> painful and I was sitting there thinking why somebody would put him or >> herself through such frustration if you can get an iPhone, you triple click >> the home key and that's it. When I got my iPhone 4S I set it up myself in >> the store with Voiceover and the entire process took me about as long as >> what it took him to enter his name. I am not exaggerating, but the entire >> first part of the Podcast which was over an hour was about him getting past >> the few start screens and that is not counting the time where he paused the >> Podcast to even get Talkback to initialize. They may have come a ways, but >> they have a very very long road ahead before they get even close to the >> iPhone's accessibility and ease of use and as I said in my earlier message, >> I don't think they will ever get there. >> >> >> Regards, >> Sieghard >> >> > > -- > Christopher (CJ) > chaltain at Gmail > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
