[nabs-l] question on Ipods

[Chris Nusbaum]

Hi Ashley,

Here are some answers to your questions:

* Memory Space: That Shuffle must be pretty old! The newer iPod's 
come in a lot bigger sizes; I have a 8 GB Nano.  There are 16 gig 
models too.

* VoiceOver: All iPods after the Classic have VoiceOver built in, 
to the best of my knowledge.  It might have started with the 1st 
generation Nano, though; I can't remember.

* Nano and touch stcreens: I have a Nano, and it is a combination 
of a touch screen and buttons.  However, you can't really tell 
that they are buttons at first because they're not very raised, 
so it looks like a touch screen.  To fix this problem, I put Wiki 
sticks on each button to raise them, and had a sighted person 
help me learn which button did what.  I then used the clock-face 
technique to learn it.  On the Nano, the button at: 12 o'clock is 
the "go forward" button (to go forward a track in an album or go 
to the next song in a playlist, genius mix, or when the iPod is 
in shuffle mode,) 3 o'clock is the play/pause button, 6 o'clock 
is the go back button, and 9 o'clock is the menu button (to go to 
the previous menu.) The button in the middle of the circle where 
all the buttons are is the "OK" or "select" button.  If you are 
hearing a song and you want to know the title and artist of the 
song that is playing, just hit the center button and VoiceOver 
will tell you.  You may have to do this twice.  And if you shake 
the device, it will shuffle the songs; this is the "shake to 
shuffle" feature.  The only time you will need to use a 
touchscreen-like gesture is when you are in a menu.  Just a 
little flick (1 finger) forward will move you to the next item in 
the menu; a flick back will move you to the previous item in the 
menu.  When you get to the item you want, hit the center button.

If you have any more questions about the iPod Nano, please let me 
know! Hope this helps!

Chris

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 ----- Original Message -----
From: "Ashley Bramlett" <bookwormahb at earthlink.net
To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list" 
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:57:32 -0500
Subject: [nabs-l] question on Ipods

Hi all,

What are your experiences with Ipods? Are all now built in with 
that talking speech voice over? I have a small ipod shuffle that 
was a present to me a few years ago.
What memory sizes do Ipod shuffles come in now? Mine is only 1 
gig, which I’m discovering is not big enough!
I’m not interested in a touch screen device because I think it 
would be too easy to press the wrong thing.  Are any ipods screen 
based but not a touch screen? I thought the ipod nano was a touch 
screen, but not sure.

Anyone used an ipod for books or movies? What is the navigation 
ability with them? By chapter?
I might get an ipod again  with a bigger memory capacity and 
wondered my options.  I like the shuffle because its small and 
simple to use; few buttons.  So I might stick with that.

Thanks.
Ashley
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