The total number of blind people is around 0.5%. The iPhone, iPad, iPod, and so forth, are general market products. They are the first general market products of their type to have accessibility for the blind built in to every unit. Products made specifically for the blind are significantly more expensive and have fewer features. This is because the blindness market is so small.
The command structure for VoiceOver is quite different from the normal command structure of the iOS devices. When a sighted person goes into accessibility to activate VO, a warning pops up alerting the person that VoiceOver completely changes the commands of the device. If a sighted person, who knows nothing about VO, were to accidentally activate VO by pressing home three times rather than two times when activating the app switcher, said person would believe their iDevice was broken. They would complain and Apple would quickly develop a reputation for products which easily break. So, in this case, our choices are, deal with the fact that we need to activate triple-home click during initial set-up, have a sighted person activate VO for us, or use iTunes to activate VO; or we can switch to one of the specially designed products for the blind which we know will always work for us from the outset. The other choice, of course, is to switch to the latest Android device. So long as TalkBack is installed and accessibility is activated, TalkBack can be started at any time with a simple command. That said, the first time I attempted it with a friend's new Android device running the latest Android OS, TalkBack was not even installed, so he first needed to access the GooglePlay store and install TalkBack. This surprised me as I had been given to understand that TalkBack was on all Android Phones running the latest OS. Therefore, in my opinion, iOS is still the best system around. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone On 25/04/2013, at 8:08, Simon Wong <simon.simon...@gmail.com> wrote: > How come that setting is not automatic? > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 2013-04-24, at 4:03 PM, "Paul Ferrara" <paul.ferr...@insightbb.com> wrote: > >> What Christopher is saying is correct; I know because when we got our iPhone >> fives from Best Buy, they already were being set up by the associates there >> so tripple click home did nothing. >> >> Paul >> >> -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Chaltain >> Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 4:00 PM >> To: viphone@googlegroups.com >> Subject: Re: confirm my understanding? >> >> I think the triple click of the home button will turn on VoiceOver if >> you're setting up the iPhone for the first time. If it's already been >> set up, such as by a sighted person, without turning on VoiceOver, then >> you will need to go into settings on your iPhone or with iTunes to turn >> on VoiceOver and enable the triple click home shortcut. >> >> On 04/24/2013 02:29 PM, Dan Beaver GMail wrote: >>> Hmmm, >>> >>> My understanding is that the 3 home button clicks only works after that >>> setting is chosen. Someone will have to turn this on for you unless you can >>> setup your phone using Itunes from your computer. >>> >>> Am I wrong here? >>> >>> Dan Beaver >>> >>> -------------------------------------------------- >>> From: "RobH!" <bobs...@googlemail.com> >>> Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 3:24 PM >>> To: <viphone@googlegroups.com> >>> Subject: Re: confirm my understanding? >>> >>> Yes to 3 clicks of the Home button, yes, once on, it will, (should!) stayo >>> n. >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Ray T. Mahorney" <mahorney....@googlemail.com> >>> To: <viphone@googlegroups.com> >>> Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 8:17 PM >>> Subject: confirm my understanding? >>> >>> >>> The phone arrives tomorrow. As I understand it from ground 0 VO can be >>> brought up by punching the >>> home button three times in rapid succession? Also does VO remain active if >>> I turn the phone off and >>> turn it back on again? >>> >>> >>> Ray T. 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