[vip_students] Re: IPhone Mini Tutorial!
- From: Eleanor Martha Burke <eleanormarthaburke@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 09:22:47 +0100
I am not a beginner but found this tutorial Fairy useful and picked up some
tips today
> On 19 Aug 2014, at 08:55, "[NCBI] Support" <support@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I came upon this tutorial recently and thought I would pass it along for
> beginners perhaps.
>
> In this tutorial, I will discuss the commands used to interact with
> VoiceOver, the screen reader apple has built into the iPod, iPad, and
> iPhone. Unlike traditional screen readers that are controlled using hotkey
> combinations, VoiceOver is controlled through a touch screen. Although the
> idea of working with a touch screen may seem daunting at first, you will
> soon discover that:
> a. There are not that many things you need to know in order to explore
> the screen and interact with elements. And,
> b. The methods for discovering items and interacting with them will
> quickly become intuitive.
> Gesture Types
> VoiceOver gestures can generally be divided into two types: tap gestures and
> flick gestures. With flick gestures, you will flick one or more fingers over
> your display; much like the motion you might use to brush crumbs or lint off
> a shirt. Sometimes, when performing a flick with multiple fingers, I will
> use the word "swipe." In this case, the terms "flick" and "swipe" are
> synonymous. Tap gestures are performed by tapping your iPhone one or more
> times with one or more fingers.
> Interacting with your display
> Let's begin the process of "unlocking" the iPhone. This is done by pressing
> the physical button on the right-hand side of the top edge of the phone. I
> will now demonstrate the three methods VoiceOver has provided for exploring
> and interacting with the items on your display.
> Slide Gesture
> The first technique is to place my finger on the screen, and move my finger
> around. The clicking sounds produced by VoiceOver indicate there are not any
> elements or controls in the location under my finger.
> [demo]
> Flick Gesture
> A second way I can interact with items on my display is to use VoiceOver's
> single-finger flick left and right gestures. As I flick right, VoiceOver
> will select items from left to right and top to bottom. As I flick left,
> VoiceOver selects items from right to left and from bottom to top.
>
> When I press the button on the top edge of the iPhone to begin the unlocking
> process, Voiceover announces the time because it is selected. I will now
> flick to the right. The date is selected and spoken. If I flick to the right
> again, the control to unlock the phone is selected. The order in which items
> are selected is reversed as I flick to the left.
> [demo]
> Notice that the single-finger flick gestures are much quicker than simply
> moving your finger around the screen. This is because the flick gestures can
> only move focus to selectable items, ignoring blank space on the display.
> Direct Selection
> I will begin the unlocking process one more time by pressing the physical
> unlock button on the top of the phone.
> [demo]
> To select the "unlock" button, I will use the third technique that voiceover
> has provided for interacting with items on the screen. I simply touched the
> area of the screen where the unlock button resides.
> [demo]
> As you gain experience with your iPhone, you will discover that certain
> controls generally appear in the same location. Examples include the unlock
> control, which appears directly above the physical home button. The back
> button in applications, which appears near the top left of the screen. And,
> the keypad for dialing phone numbers, which appears near the center of the
> screen. Gaining sense memory about these items will help you touch controls
> directly. This can be faster than dragging a finger around the screen or
> using flick gestures, both of which require additional time and hand
> movement.
> Single-finger Gestures
> Once I have selected an item using any of the techniques described, I can
> activate it by using the double-tap gesture. Double-tapping is performed by
> tapping twice quickly with a single-finger on the display. This can be done
> anywhere on the display. VoiceOver ensures the item you selected is the one
> activated, no matter where on the display you double-tap.
> I will now activate the unlock button with a single-finger double-tap.
> [demo]
> Voiceover announces "messages"
> Whenever you unlock your iPhone, you will be on the same screen, in the same
>
> is generally on the first item in the upper left hand corner of the screen.
> Before locking my phone, I was on a page of my Home screen. Messages is the
> first application listed. If I double-tap on messages, the application is
> opened.
> [demo]
> Since I currently have no new messages, I am being asked if I wish to create
> a new message.
> The single-finger Left and right flick and the double-tap are the most
> common gestures you will use to navigate and interact with your phone. You
> will not only use the single-finger double-tap to unlock your phone and
> launch applications, but to open e-mail and text messages; open and view
> calendar items; initiate editing and any other number of things that will be
> discovered as you work with your iPhone.
> Double-finger Gestures
> I will now discuss double-finger gestures. A two-finger swipe up or down
> controls how VoiceOver reads the screen. Swiping down with two fingers
> causes VoiceOver to read from the current cursor position to the end of the
> content.
> [demo]
> An upward swipe with two fingers causes VoiceOver to read from the top of
> the content to the end, regardless of the cursor location.
> [demo]
> A 2-finger single-tap silences speech. A subsequent 2-finger single-tap will
> resume speech at the location where it was stopped.
> [demo]
> This gesture is a toggle; so, you can start and stop speech as often as you
> want.
> The 2-finger double-tap gesture is used frequently. Its uses include
> answering and ending phone calls, starting and stopping music and video
> playback, stopping recording of an outgoing voicemail greeting, and more.
> A two-finger triple-tap gesture activates an "item chooser" feature. This
> utility presents the items on the screen in alphabetical order. This can be
> extremely handy when you're looking for an item located near the end of a
> long list, but the item name begins with a character that falls near the
> beginning of the alphabet.
> Here is a concrete example.
> I launched the iPhone "settings" application.
> Within the settings application, I have selected the "general" category and
> activated it. [demo]
>
> The General settings category contains 19 selectable items.
> I want to select "accessibility," which falls near the end of the list.
> In order to select "accessibility" using one of the techniques I
> demonstrated earlier, I would have to either touch the item directly or
> swipe approximately 16 times until I reached it. I will now create an
> alphabetical list using the item chooser.
> [demo]
> Since accessibility begins with the letter 'a", it is now near the top of
> the list and can be selected with just a couple of single-finger flicks to
> the right. There's the accessibility option.
> [demo]
> When I double-tap an item in the item chooser, such as accessibility, the
> item is not activated but simply selected. Once the item is selected, I can
> double-tap to activate it. [demo] I am now ready to change settings within
> the accessibility category.
> Three-finger Gestures
> I will now discuss three-finger gestures. A 3-finger single-tap near the
> middle of the screen will report the location of the selected item. Exactly
> what information you are given will depend on the type of information being
> displayed. For example, I am currently on my Home screen.
> "Notes" is the selected application.
> I will perform the 3-finger single-tap gesture. [demo]
> I now know that Notes is on the second of three pages, near the top of the
> screen. I will now single-finger right-flick a few times. Then, then I'll
> repeat the three-finger single-tap gesture. My cursor is now at the center
> of the screen.
> [demo]
> The 3-finger single-tap gesture can also be used to get table-related
> information in iPhone applications. The settings application and the
> notification center are 2 such applications. The table-related information
> you receive may not be the most meaningful. In short, the triple-finger
> single-tap may be a somewhat useful command but I have personally found it
> of limited use.
> The three-finger double-tap gesture is a toggle for turning speech on and
> off. I have turned speech off with the three-finger double-tap command
> [demo]
> Issuing it again reactivates speech.
>
> [demo]
> The 3-finger triple-tap gesture turns on and off the "screen curtain."
> Screen curtain blanks the screen, so others cannot read the contents of your
> display.
> Three-finger triple-tap once and the feature is activated.
> [demo]
> Perform the same gesture again, and the screen curtain is deactivated.
> [demo]
> As you may have already guessed, there are three-finger swipe gestures. The
> most common of these are three-finger swipe left and three-finger swipe
> right. These are used on the Home screen for switching from page to page, or
> in other applications with multipage displays.
> I am now going to press the Home button to display my Home screen and the
> applications installed on my iPhone. Messages is the currently selected
> application. I will 3-finger swipe to the left.
> [demo]
> VoiceOver tells me I am on page 2 and that Notes is the currently selected
> application.
> If I 3-finger left swipe again, VoiceOver tells me I am on page 3 and that
> Test Flight is the currently selected application.
> [demo]
> It may help to think of the 3-finger left and right swiping gestures like
> turning pages in a book. Advancing pages - that is, moving from page 1 to
> page 2 and so on - is accomplished by taking the page on the right and
> turning it to the left. So, imagine placing the tips of three fingers on a
> right-hand side page and dragging it to the left.
> The 3-finger swipe to the right moves through the pages in reverse. If I am
> on page 3, a 3-finger swipe to the right moves me to page 2, and another
> 3-finger swipe to the right moves me to page 1.
> As an aside, there is another, though slower, technique for moving among
> pages on the iPhone Home screen. You can single-finger flick through the
> items on the page until you reach the page selector control. This is a
> slider control. When the slider control is selected, a single-finger flick
> up will move you forward through the pages, and a single-finger flick down
> will move you back through the pages.
> [demo]
> 3-finger flicking left and right is a much faster way to move among pages.
> Use of the page selector control not only requires you to perform multiple
> single-finger flicks to
>
> locate the control but once you select another page, you may have to perform
> several more single-finger flicks to reach the item of interest.
> The Three-finger flick up and three-finger flick down gestures are used to
> scroll a list up and down by some number of elements. To demonstrate this, I
> will open an e-mail inbox.
> I will now single-finger right flick until I reach the list of e-mail
> messages.
> [demo]
> This is the first message. I know this because if I three-finger single-tap,
> I am told
> That I have X messages, and that the first five are visible, and that I am
> located at the top of my screen.
> [demo]
> If I three-finger flick up, messages 5 to 9 are visible
> [demo]
> A second 3-finger flick up displays messages 9 to 14.
> [demo]
> If I three-finger flick down, scrolling is reversed.
> [demo]
> Notification Center
> There is a specialized use of the three-finger flick down gesture I will
> mention here. At the top of your screen, just below the forward-facing
> camera, is a small horizontal bar called the status bar. This is where the
> Wi-Fi strength, cell signal strength - if you are using an iPhone, the
> current time, and a variety of other information are displayed.
> [demo]
> As I just demonstrated, a 3-finger swipe down pulls down the "notification
> center."
> The notification center is a highly configurable area that allows you to
> display information of importance to you: your calendar, reminders,
> headlines - if you have certain news application installed, the current
> temperature for the city selected, and more can all be set up to display in
> this area.
> Four-finger Gesture
> The final voiceover gesture of which you should be aware is the 4-finger
> single-tap gesture. If you 4-finger single-tap at the top of your screen,
> then the upper left most item will be selected.
>
> I am currently in the general category of the settings application. If I
> 4-finger single-tap at the top of my screen, I am told the name of the upper
> left-most item.
> [demo]
> I can verify this by single-finger left flicking. Since I hear the tone that
> indicates that there are no more items, I know the top left-most item is
> selected.
> [demo]
> If I 4-finger single-tap at the bottom of my display, voiceover selects and
> speaks the lower right-most item on the display.
> I can verify this is the last item with a 1 finger flick to the right.
> [demo]
> Practicing Gestures
> Now that you are familiar with the most commonly use VoiceOver gestures, you
> may wish to practice what you have learned. You can practice gestures
> without effecting your phone by using the VoiceOver practice mode. Here is
> how to find and launch the VoiceOver practice mode.
> Press the physical Home button on your phone to display your Home screen.
> [demo]
> Flick through the applications until Settings is selected. [demo]
> The applications and the order in which they appear on my iPhone will be
> different from what is on your phone. This is to be expected.
> Once selected, double-tap to launch the Settings application. [demo]
> Flick through the items until General is selected. [demo]
> Double-tap to open the General settings. [demo]
> Once you are in general settings, use either the item chooser or
> single-finger
> flicks and select Accessibility. Then, perform a single-finger double-tap to
> activate it.
> [demo]
> I will use the item chooser.
>
> Once you are in the accessibility area, locate the VoiceOver button and
> activate it by double-tapping.
> [demo]
> This is where you will find the VoiceOver practice feature.
> Locate and activate the VoiceOver practice button. [demo]
> Now you can issue any VoiceOver command that you wish and it will be
> described. As an example, I will perform a left flick.
> [demo]
> When I am finished practicing gestures, I will touch the upper right corner
> of the screen and locate the "done" button. Once selected, I will end the
> practice session by double-tapping.
>
>
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