Thank You Jayco, you taught me a couple of things.  Also good to hook
up with the VIPhone group, it's a blind Ipodand Iphone users group,
_Very helpful, Thanks, Danny.

On 5/11/10, Jaco Lubbe <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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
> Zr6jll
>
> -----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
> To: [log in to unmask]
> 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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