I’m a touch typist, running around 60 words per minute. I’m working really hard at learning to type, which is quite a challenge. I’m getting reasonably good at remembering to double tap but my accuracy appears to be pretty bad, I often have to double tap 2-3 times before I get it right. Makes sense because you have to touch it first with your finger to figure out what it is, so a single tap wouldn’t work. The hardest thing to get used to in VoiceOver on iOS is that you don’t tap items to select them, you double tap. Now this is SUPER handy for me to figure out when I’m botching things up, but I don’t really know why it’s there for the visually impaired. First the phone starts to speak to you, but it also oddly gives you visual clues showing you what’s active on screen by drawing a box around the item. There’s more than just accessibility for the blind in here, but for now just turn on VoiceOver. Open Settings, go to General, and then down to Accessibility. If you’d like to play along with our home game while you’re listening, try this. If by some miracle I get good at it quickly I won’t’ do weekly updates, but for now it looks like this might be a torturous trail. I thought I’d keep a running diary of what I’m learning and talk a little bit about the learning process. so I have 2 months to learn to be at least moderately proficient at navigating iOS and OSX. I’ve decided to approach this like learning a language, you can try to take a class once a week to learn Spanish, or you can live in Spain for the summer – immersion is the only way to go. I’ve played around a bit from time to time but quickly I turn it off because it drives me nuts. I did this to force myself to learn how to do it. Week One – VoiceOverįor years I’ve tried to get in as a speaker at Macworld, and I’m thrilled to announce that this year I was accepted! I’m sooo excited about this, because the paper they excited is really risky – the name of my presentation is Blindfolded! Yes, I’m going to do my entire presentation blindfolded, demonstrating the VoiceOver accessibility features of iOS and OSX. Today is Sunday Octoand this is show number 336. Hi this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Mac Podcast, hosted at, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Macintosh bias. In Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart goes through his “Autumnal Cleaning” computer style. George from Tulsa tells us about the free, cross-platform application DiffMerge from. He also dedicates the Backyardigans Castaways song to the NosillaCastaways. Rod Simmons reviews Award Wallet free in iTunes and the Android Marketplace. SCOtutor for Lion from Don McAllister from the Mac App Store. I’m speaking at Macworld | iWorld on blind accessibility – calling my speech Blindfolded! Week one of my VoiceOver learning experience.
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