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I’ve been mentioning Apps connected to the iPhone and features. I was recently questioned at a conference in Roanoke, Virginia, and was questioned about the iPhone. Most folks were wondering where I found out about this device. Here’s an email I wrote an engineer in the industry who wanted to know some more info.
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So_An_So,
Here’s that data you wanted.
Main Apple Page about iPhone Accessibility
http://www.apple.com/accessibility/iphone/vision.html
Zoom Application Page (Bear in mind there’s over 100,00 apps on the iTunes store and at least 20 Magnifier apps some are free some are maybe $1.99 or something)
http://www.objectgraph.com/apps/Magnifier-Free.html
There’s other Apps for magnification that I’m sure are better on the store (like I said that take photos I used one for a while). If you needed to take a look at some of them you could use an iPhone app search-engine site (I have one listed below) or you could just install iTunes (free) and browse the online store. Just type in magnify or magnifier and then narrow your category down to Applications or Apps in the pane that shows up in the left hand side of the window.
http://iphoneapplicationlist.com
Other applications I’ve used on the iPhone that I’ve found helpful are a BigNames a Contact manager that I use to dial friends (Link below). And DragonDictate App which transcribes your voice so you can text it or email a message to someone. Of coarse the keyboard on screen can be used with the TTS VoiceOver feature of the phone, there’s a cool vidoe showing you how to do this (See Link below)
BigNames App
http://iphoneapplicationlist.com/app/bignames-large-text-contact/id305591358/
Dragon Dictate App
http://iphoneapplicationlist.com/app/dragon-dictation/id341446764/
Video on How to Use TTS VoiceOver feature with you Keyboard
http://www.apple.com/iphone/iphone-3gs/accessibility.html#video
Hope that helps So_An_So. Don’t forget the iPhone has an iPod built in or MP3 player , a voice memo feature, and Voice Control features. And of coarse it has GPS which I’ve never used with the maps much to see if it could work well for the non-sighted. Bear in mind that the iPod touch can do almost all the same stuff but for the time being doesn’t have a camera but rumor is it will soon. The Apple iPad also has the same built in accessibility features as the iPhone and can run the same apps, however it too doesn’t have a camera yet. There is also a Kindle app where you can buy digital books off Amazon but I’ve never tried it with the TTS VoiceOver on the Phone. Hope that helps let me know if you go any questions and I’ll try an help if I got the answer.
-David Ward
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In this email I mentioned the acronym TTS which stands for “Text-to-Speech”.
If you have any questions ask me at the following URL.
http://www.mahalo.com/member/dward
