the iphone is accessible.  Not all the third party apps are you'll just have 
to try them one at a time and find out. 730 pat kk3f

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From: "Danny Dyer" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 11:15 PM
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Is the iPhone accessible?: was RE: EchoLink is available for 
the  iPhone, and this brings up a question on my part.

> and the 32Gig, Ipod touch, with latest firmware, 3.whatever/soon to be
> upgraded to 4.0  does most if not all that the IPhone does, with A Wi
> Fi Connection-the IPhone also has Wi Fi capability that's independent
> of its' phone network.
> There's a learning curve, but I've had mine a week, and it's way more
> accessible than you might think.  Different but definitely learnable
> and useable. Danny
>
> On 5/10/10, Kevin Minor <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> 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
>> [log in to unmask]
>>
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