[Electronics-talk] the I phone and jaws

[David Andrews]

Liz:

While I don't have one -- everybody I have talked to about the iPhone 
says that text entry is a little slow.  That may ultimately be its 
big drawback for blind people -- although I don't find 2/abc 3/def 
particularly fast either.

Dave

At 08:55 AM 12/15/2009, you wrote:
>Hello Dewey, the difficulty you are having is between ITunes and Jaws, not
>the IPhone itself.
>
>I assume you are using iTunes 9 with Jaws 11?
>
>The registration is not easy, but it's doable.
>
>I registered mine by opening ITunes, then going to the devices tab where it
>shows the IPhone.
>
>When entering your name and so forth, tab to each field and hit the down
>arrow before entering each item. I believe the phone's serial number is
>already filled in for you.
>
>Also, wehn using the iPhone, give yourself a lot of time to master the touch
>screen with the various gestures that are outlined on Apple's accessibility
>page.
>I still have my Nokia E71X because there are some functions I havent'
>figured out, such as the IPhone's maps feature. i have Wayfinder and Talks
>on the Nokia, so it's a good backup.
>
>I think one has to have a lot of patience to work with the IPhone, but I
>find it to be quite useable and fun, and I feel like I'm on an equal footing
>with my family and friends, most of whom have IPhones. We can share
>conversations about apps and so forth.
>
>I'll be honest though, I am still having a hard time entering text quickly
>for e-mails, contacts and so forth, bubt I need to practice more.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>Liz Campbell
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Dewey Bradley" <dewey-bradley at att.net>
>To: <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
>Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 9:57 PM
>Subject: [Electronics-talk] the I phone and jaws
>
>
> >I just got my I phone, for the life of me I can not get the thing
> >registered, I am trying to use jaws11 and Itunes9
> > I was able to get my first and last name put in, but It stopped reading
> > the other fields, I have never seen anything like that before ever.
> > Is this one of these things to were it's not accessable without sight??
> > I knew it was to good to be true, all this stuff everyone is saying about
> > the I phone being accessable to the blind, there always has to be
> > something that wont work.
> > I know there was some talk on the list a while ago, but if anyone has any
> > ideas on getting this thing working could you get ahold of me.
> > I know that Itunes says that they perfer window eyes 7.1 with the
> > software, well we all know the problem in solving that problem.
> > I'm at the point of takeing this thing back.