Accessible is an understatement.
 
I never had a better phone in my life!
To add to the reading options.
First things first.
To turn voice over on with out going into the settings.
Click the home button 3 times
Choose  turn voice over on,
You might need sighted assistance but you can also just tap once sort of in
the middle of the screen to turn voice over on.
To turn it off do the same
You will be able to do this yourself since you will still hear the voice to
assist you.
to mute the voice tap the screen 2 times with 3 fingers.
to turn mute back on do the same
to blank the screen tap the screen 3 times with 3 fingers
I like this option, it saves the battry. 
If your are blind what do you want to do with the screen any way. 
If you want to show your girlfriend off to a sighted friend
Tap the screen 3 times with 3 fingers again to turn the screen on
Reading options 
Flick or drag  2 fingers up or down to read the screen 
To move one page up or down flick or drag 3 fingers up or down.
I also do geo cacheing with my iphone. 


I hope you find this helpful.
Maybe you can teach me a few things of the I phone. 
You can also check the iphone podcast on www.blindcooltech.com
73
Jaco 
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-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Kevin Minor
Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 4:59 AM
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Subject: Is the iPhone accessible?: was RE: EchoLink is available for the
iPhone, and this brings up a question on my part.

Hi Blake.

The accessibility of the iPhone depends on how comfortable you are with
doing things differently.  It uses a touch screen, which, at the surface,
seems pretty daunting.  Apple, however, has implemented something called
VoiceOver right into the operating system, so you don't have to buy any
fancy screen reading software for it.  For a sighted user, all they do is
look at the screen, touch the spot that they want to activate, and the
iPhone does what the user wants.  VoiceOver does things a little
differently.  You can either move your finger on the screen over the thing
you want to activate, or you can do what is known as a left or right flick,
which is like flicking a bug off the screen of the iPhone, and it announces
the link you have focus on.  If you have your finger on the item, you can
tap another portion of the screen to activate it, or you can remove your
finger from the screen and do what is known as a double tap, which means you
quickly tap the screen twice.  You don't have to do this hard on the screen.
It is, after all, a touch screen.

I personally find the iPhone quite useable.  So far, I've mainly used it to
listen to major league games, as well as listen to music I've loaded onto
it.  I've tuned into internet stations, and they sound great, and what makes
it nice is you're not stuck in one spot to hear the audio from sites.  If
you have a 3G or EDGE connection, you're good to go.  It's a bit tricky to
enter text into the iPhone, but I'm slowly but surely mastering that, and I
also would appreciate the app that lets you input text using CW.

Oh yeah.  Did I mention that you can use the iPhone as a phone as well?
<grin>

Hope this all makes sense.  For $300 U.S., the iPhone, in my opinion, is a
nice piece of equipment.

Have a good day, and don't work too hard.

Kevin Minor, Lexington, KY
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