I don't care to enter into this debate, but I will correct one point, you can get Android 4.1 phones with screen access built in. There's no need to download anything. You just enable the screen reader in a manner very similar to how you turn on VO on an iPhone. I'll let others discuss whether Talk Back stacks up to VoiceOver or not and whether Android phones measure up to the iPhone. For my part, each person needs to determine what phone and what screen reader meets there needs.
On 23/01/13 14:38, Alan Paganelli wrote: > Very well said. If your visually impaired, Apple has you covered. I > like to think of it as a portable hole. Drag it around the screen > anywhere you like. What ever appears inside that hole is magnified and > you can choose the degree of magnification. If your hearing impaired, > Apple has you covered. TTY is fully supported. You can also chose to > have the left/right stereo mixed into mono and there is an audio EQ to > better boost or cut various ranges to better help you hear. If your > blind, Apple has you covered. They have support for Braille displays > and if you don't have a Braille display, there is Voice-Over which reads > the screen to you. Apple has said that building accessibility into each > unit and spreading that cost over all units comes out to about $.32 per > unit. > > That having been said, go over to see any other cell phone maker and see > what they offer straight out of the box and you'll find the answer is > not much at all and what they do offer is no match for Apple products. > Some might offer a free screen reader but you've got to download it > because it's an add-on. Now if your it really gets tough. I'll stick > with iPhone. Hopefully this weekend we'll get our iPhone 5s My wife is > an RN and works long hours. We gave each other new iPhone 5's for > Christmas or I should say the money. We just haven't got back to the > Apple store. We did get in there once but the place was packed to the > roof it seemed so we just left. I guess allot of folks got money for > Christmas and it was burning a hole in their pockets! Whatta great spot > to be in heh! <grin> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Chittenden" > <dchitten...@gmail.com> > To: <viphone@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 7:46 PM > Subject: Re: Iphone 5 satisfaction ? > > > Many people are against Apple in principle now that it has become such a > large and successful company. I, on the other hand, have become an Apple > fan boy because Apple has done more for accessibility than any other > computer company in history. Thanks to Apple, I can use any iPhone and > any Mac, straight out of the box. Even their Apple TV is fully accessible. > > VO is the same in any iOS device. IPhone 5 has a faster processor, twice > as much operating RAM, and a larger display which permits more apps per > page, and more apps per folder. Also, GPS antenna is significantly > better, in my experience. Contrary to some reports, iPhone 5 is > significantly better than iPhone 4S. > > David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA > Email: dchitten...@gmail.com > Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 > Sent from my iPhone > > On 22/01/2013, at 15:18, Nimit Kaur Gmail <kaur.ni...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello everybody, >> >> I am almost about to get an iphone 5 and i heard a lot of people in my >> life that iphone 5 is not really so good, and i was wondering what you >> voiceover dependent people think of iphone 5? I mean in terms of >> accessibility? Has it improved or gotten worse? Thanks and any >> comment would be appreciated. >> Nimit >> >> Sent from my ipod >> >> -- >> 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. >> >> > -- 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.
