iPhone, iPad and Apple VoiceOver

Don't want to see Ads? Register for your free dotSUB account here!

Duration: 8 minutes and 48 seconds

Country: Australia

Language: English

License: CC - Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives

Genre: Instructional

Producer: Roger Hudson, Russ Weakley, David Woodbridge

Director: Roger Hudson

Views: 2,754 (1,584 embedded)

Posted by: webusability on Jun 6, 2010

David Woodbridge demonstates how a blind person can use iPhone and iPad with the Apple VoiceOver screen reader

Report this video as offensive

Translate and Transcribe

Embed Video
Embed normal player
Embed a smaller player
Advanced Embedding Options
Embedding Options

Size:

Language:

Embed Code
Embed transcript
Embed transcript in:
Invite a user to dotSUB

Your invitation to join dotSUB was successful

There was an error inviting that user to dotSUB

Video Transcription

Show in new window

MAIN TITLE
[DAVID] Hi my name is David Woodbridge and I am the senior adaptive
technology consultant at Vision Australia.
I'm part of the equipment solutions team and
my job is to do the adaptive technology help desk -
I'm one of the people that do that, and
also research and evaluate products, including Apple products.
And, one of the exciting things last year was the
iPhone 3GS because it actually has all the
universal access options built into it. So basically
you've got a screen reader which is the VoiceOver program
on the Mac, it's now on the iPhone.
You've go Zoom, the large print software
and you've got Black on White.
A really cool thing about VoiceOver, especially on iPhone,
particularly for sighted people that want to help blind or low vision people
out is that under Settings, General Accessibility
what you can actually do is associate the
Home button with turning VoiceOver, in
my case, on or off. So, if just press my Home
button three times [PRESSES BUTTON]
[iPHONE] VoiceOver off
[DAVID] Now my iPhone is a perfectly standard iPhone
so if I need sighted assistance for something
they can do it with standard gestures. And then, one, two, three [PRESSES BUTTON]
[iPHONE] VoiceOver on. [DAVID] And I've got myself
an accessible iPhone again. And, basically what happens with VoiceOver
is when you touch the screen [MOVES FINGER ACROSS SCREEN]
[iPHONE] Clock, maps, photos, calendar ...
[DAVID] It actually reads out what's happening.
Now some people say, well look that's okay because
you are used to it, but how do you know where things are?
What you can actually do with VoiceOver is you can actually do
a left finger flick to the left or a right finger flick to the right
[iPHONE] Weather, Voice memo, notes ... (continues read with finger flicks)
[DAVID] And you can move item by item
so you've got total control over where you are.
[iPHONE] ... you tube
[DAVID] Now the other really good thing about the screen as far as the screen
reader is concerned is that if I take my finger to the top
of the iPhone and bring it down slightly
[iPHONE] Twelve forty one p.m.
[DAVID] I'm now on my status line so I can read all the information about the status of
what the phone is doing. So if I flick to the left
[iPHONE] 67% WiFi, signal. Optus network two bars
[DAVID] Two bars [FLICKS TO RIGHT] and to the right
[iPHONE] Status, 31% battery power
[DAVID] 31% battery power. And I can now
just take my finger down to the rest of the screen
and I'm back on the main iPhone screen itself.
Down the bottom, where you've got all your apps
that you like to access all the time.
[iPHONE] Phone
[DAVID] I normally use my home button as an orientation point, so I come
down here, go to the left, go up a little bit.
[iPHONE] Phone
[DAVID] So I've got Phone to make phone calls [FLICKS RIGHT AND LEFT]
[iPHONE] Phone, mail - 95 new items.
[DAVID] Mail with 95 new items. Flick to the right again
[iPHONE - safari] Safari [iPHONE - ipod] and the ipod. But, with
the release recently of the ipad
the accessibility for the VoiceOver application
in my case has actually got even more spectacular
And, I'll just mention one particular feature which
really gets me excited. At the moment, if I say
bring up my Spotlight search for the iPhone [iPHONE voice]
and I touch my qwerty keyboard [PRESSES KEYBOARD LETTER]
[iPHONE] G
[DAVID] Ok so I am finding my letters [MOVES FINGER ACROSS KEYBOARD]
[iPHONE] G, R, E
[DAVID] Now, to put a letter in I normally have to double tap with
one finger to put the letter in. So it's almost a three sequence:
Find the letter, [iPHONE: A, G]. Double tap with one finger
[iPHONE] G
[DAVID] it puts it in the search.
What they've actually done with the iPad ...
[PUTS DOWN PHONE, MOVES HAND TO iPAD]
[DAVID] is if I bring up my search [TURNS iPAD ON]
[iPAD] Search iPad, search field ...
[DAVID] And I touch my keyboard
[iPAD] Auto-cap keyboard, capital C
[DAVID] First thing it says is keyboard so I know I am on the keyboard,
second thing it says is, if, I hold
my finger down on the screen long enough, it says the
phonetic of the character, so ...
[iPAD] Capital F, foxtrot.
[DAVID] F, foxtrot [MOVES FINGERS ON KEYPAD]
[iPAD] Capital T, tango
[DAVID] And so on. But the really cool thing is
when I find the letter I want [MOVES FINGERS]
[iPAD] Cap, cap, capital G [LIFTS FINGERS]
[DAVID] Take it off, take my fingers off the screen
and it puts the character in straight away. So your
accessibility has just increased phenomenally
because I'm not having to find the character,
double tap it, I just find the character
take my finger off and hey presto its going.
[PRESS HOME BUTTON] To come back to the main home screen with
the home button. And again I've got the same thing that I can
do with the iPhone. [PRESSES HOME BUTTON] I can do one, two, three
[iPAD] VoiceOver off.
[DAVID] VoiceOver off. Use it normally. Back on again, one, two three.
[iPAD] Voiceover on.
[DAVID] And we have got the status line. And what Apple have done this time
with the status window is, if I come down from the top [SLIDES FINGER DOWN SCREEN]
[iPAD] Beeps, contacts, beep, 12.44 p.m.
[DAVID] It gives me a bleep when I hit the status area and [MOVES FINGERS DOWN SCREEN
and I can do the same thing, flick left and right [FLICKS FINGERS OVER SCREEN]
[iPAD] 39% battery
[DAVID] And if I come down to the dock. I drag my finger down to the dock.
[iPAD] Beep, beep, dock. Mail forty new items.
[DAVID] It gives a double beep, plus it actually says dock.
Another really exciting feature of
VoiceOver on the iPad is
when I am using the iPhone [PICKS UP iPHONE] and I flip it [ROTATES PHONE]
to landscape or its upside down VoiceOver
actually doesn't tell me that I am actually moving it
But what the iPad does [PUTS PHONE DOWN NEXT TO iPAD] is that -
I've currently got this in landscape mode and at
the moment I physically know where my Home button is because
I can feel it on the left hand side of the screen. [PICKS UP iPAD]
But if I actually rotate my iPAD
[ROTATES iPAD BY 90 DEGREES]
[iPAD] Portrait
[DAVID] OK, so I am now in portrait mode and I know from experience my Home button
is always on the bottom. But, if I now flip it to the left ...
[ROTATES iPAD BY 90 DEGREES]
[iPAD] Landscape, Home button to the right.
[DAVID] It tells me Home button's now to the right, so I
know exactly where my Home button is and I can go straight to it
without any problems at all. If I do a flick to upside down [ROTATE iPAD]
[iPAD] Portrait flipped.
[DAVID] Portrait flipped, and again I know my Home button is exactly at the top of the screen
up here. And if we do another flick
[ROTATES THROUGH 90 DEGEES RETURNING TO LANDSCAPE VIEW]
[iPAD] Landscape, home button to the left.
[DAVID] Home button to the left and I can put my finger right on it. And just one
finally thing I want to show people, because this is the thing that always gets people confused.
They say, look I'm pressing the [BEEP SOUNDS] volume up
button, and I'm pressing the volume down button,
but when I actually go back to my speech [FLICKS ACROSS SCREEN WITH FINGERS]
[iPAD] Help, contact, notes ...
[DAVID] It's the same volume. So the trick is ... [PUTS iPAD ON TABLE]
you actually start the screen reader reading and then
the volume up and volume down button actually then controls
the screen reader voice. So if I do a two finger
flick down the screen to start it reading.
[iPAD] Calendar, contacts [CONTINUES READING]
And now when I do it [PRESSES VOLUME BUTTON - iPAD VOLUME DECREASES]
[iPAD] Settings, photos, page one of two ...
[DAVID] Volume's going down, and back up again [VOLUME INCREASES]
And I can do a two finger touch on the screen to stop it talking.
So that's basically VoiceOver on the iPad [PUTS iPAD DOWN ON TABLE]
When I'm actually doing web browsing. [MOVES FINGER ALONG DOCK SECTION]
[iPAD] Safari - SOUND FX
[DAVID] Just quickly
[iPAD] Safari, Apple
[DAVID] The way that gestures work on the
iPhone and the iPad, besides basically moving your fingers
around the screen, one finger, double tapping,
there's actually a system called the Web Rotor.
[iPAD SCREEN] If I do a two finger rotate ... [TWIST/ROTATE TWO FINGERS ON SCREEN]
[iPAD] Links
[DAVID] I can rotate between different elements on the screen. So, I can do links ...
[ROTATE FINGERS] [iPAD] form controls
[DAVID] Form controls ....[ROTATE FINGERS]
[iPAD] Visited links.
[DAVID] And then when I want to move on one of those elements, so let's go back to links.
[iPAD] Form controls, [ROTATE] Links
[DAVID] When I flick up and down with one finger
[iPAD - FINGER FLICKS] Apple, Store, Mac, iPod ....
[DAVID] I'm actually moving up and down the following.
And of course, when I get to the one I want to get to, I can
double tap. Now the similar gestures for the iPhone and
the iPad are exactly the same commands
that I would be using with VoiceOver on the multi-touch trackpad on
a Macbook Pro. So, once you've got a
Macbook, an iPhone or and iPad you know
how to use the gestures in the whole three systems.
[DAVID] Okay to finish off, I think I might make a phone call because the
iPhone does actually have the ability to make phone calls.
So, I am going to go to my phone app. [PRESSES SCREEN - SOUND FX]
I'm going to find my keyboard ...
[iPHONE] Contacts, keypad, keypad, selected.
[DAVID] And to speed things up I going to use one
finger to find the number and while my finger is on the screen
I'm going to use my second finger to complete the double tap sequence.
[ONE FINGER MOVES OVER SCREEN TO LOCATE NUMBER. OTHER FINGER TAPS TOP OF SCREEN]
[iPHONE] Nine, nine, three, three, three,
[iPHONE FINGER MOVES AND TAPS] four, four, three, three, three, three.
[DAVID] And, if I zip down the bottom of the screen.
[iPHONE] Seven, star, zero.
[DAVID] Find zero, come right down.
[iPHONE] Call button.
[DAVID] And, if I did a double tap now I would
actually make a phone call to Vision Australia.

iPhone, iPad and Apple VoiceOver

Translate and Transcribe

Share

Video Transcription

Other videos from webusability