Transcript for iPhone, iPad and Apple VoiceOver

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[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.