*Yes *It *Is!
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From: "Patrick Gormley" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 7:32 PM
Subject: Re: Is the iPhone accessible?: was RE: EchoLink is available for 
the iPhone, and this brings up a question on my part.


> 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
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>>>
>>