Transcript
iPad VoiceOver series with Sharon Nichols
Apps: Intro to iBooks, continued: part 2
[Continues from last video.]
Video time: 8:07
VoiceOver: New book, Alice’s
Adventure in Wonderland, iPad
Starter Guide, MacWorld Editors,
computers.
Sharon Nichols: And I told you that
was the book I was looking for,
so once I find that book I’m gonna
go ahead and double-click
to open the book.
[Tap, tap.]
VO: Library, button. Sharon: It will
always open on the Library button
at the top left of the screen, because if
you chose the wrong book it’s gonna
let you go back to the Library. Now if
I flick one finger to the right I hear the
choices in this book, and it’s the same
choices you get in every book.
VO: Table of contents, button.
Sharon: So I can go to the table of
contents if the book has a table of
contents, flick once more with one
finger to the right.
VO: iPad Starter Guide
Sharon: That’s the title of my book.
Flick once to the right again.
VO: Brightness button.
Sharon: And I –
VO: Change display brightness.
Sharon: I can change the display
brightness, but since I’m a VoiceOver
user I don’t care much.
VO: Fonts, button. Change font
attributes. Sharon: You can change
the fonts, you can make
them larger, you can choose what
font type you want to use.
VO: Search button.
Sharon: This is really nice, because you
can double-tap and search in your book for anything you’re looking for
and if you think about it if it’s a
literature book that the student is
reading for a class they can search
for a where they know that
vocabulary word is that
is going to be on a test
and then read from there.
The last choice on the top, I’m gonna
flick with one finger to the right—
VO: Add bookmark, button.
Sharon: Is to add a bookmark, and you
can add a bookmark to any page.
Remember it said “button,” so all I would
have to do is double-tap to add a
bookmark here. [Tap, tap.]
VO: Remove bookmark, button.
Sharon: And it says “remove bookmark
button” now because it has added one.
So I’m going to remove that bookmark. [Tap, tap.]
VO: Remove bookmark, add
bookmark. Button.
Sharon: And now it’s back on add
bookmark, so I know there’s not one.
Now I’m gonna go ahead and do
the two finger flick up because
I might not know where I am
on the screen and where
I am on the book. The nice thing
is at leastit opens to the page
you were reading on last. So I’m
going to take two fingers, flick up—
VO: Library button, table of contents button, iPad Starter Guide,
brightness, button, fonts, button, search,
button, add bookmark, button,
date and time the screen lets you
choose between 12 and 24 hour clock.
You can also set your date and time
manually from here. And choose the
time zone you are in. Keyboard and the
keyboard screen you can turn four
different typing features on and off.
Auto correction prompt. From a list of
languages. If you opt for more than
one language. Sharon: You can stop
the reading by simply touching the screen with one finger,
but if you touch it on the words
it actually is going to move to that
place on the page. Now say I want to
read from that page on—remember I
take the two fingers and I flick it to the bottom. VO: From the list of languages,
if you opt for more than one language
a small gold key will appear to the left
of ?????????????? allowing you to
toggle between all the international
keyboard passages you have turned on. There is also an [click] international
menu. Choose the language you--.
Sharon: And I touched it once more.
I don’t know if you noticed the voice change from the buttons up at the top to
when it started reading, but it will have a
subtle change of voice. It will also have
the typical screen reader problem of
saying “spuhs bar” instead of “space
bar.” And you will run across many
words like that. Now since I’m a user
who cannot see the screen, and I’m using the screen reader,
obviously I’m not going to know
when to turn the page. So, I’m going
to take my two fingers, flick down and
have it read to the bottom of that screen
and see what it does.
VO: International from this menu
Choose the language you prefer your iPad to--. In addition, you can set
your keyboard options.
See about and you choose the format
the iPad chooses to display times, dates, and phone numbers by default.
Accessibility—this screen allows you
to turn VoiceOver spoken items on or off.
With an additional option to use phonetic
and pitch change. You can
also turn systemwide zooming
on and off. Battery Percentage—
This screen allows you to set whether—
Sharon: Now I don’t know if you heard
the small beep, but that means it changed pages. And it will just continue
to read through the book, because
it assumes you just want to turn
the page as you read. And that some
of the things, but say you want to turn
to a specific page just like the pages
of your App screens.
Once again saying, you take three
fingers and you swipe to the left,
VO: Next chapter, Mail,
Contacts, Calendars,
Sharon: Once again. VO:
Fetch new data in the
fetch new data section.
You will choose how often you are—
[3 finger swipe left]—Next chapter.
Safari. In the Safari screen,
you, iPad. There is also a
developer tab you can
tap on that will ???end ????.
Sharon: So everytime I take my 3
fingers and I swipe to the left it
goes through the book. If I wanna
go backwards remember I just
take the 3 fingers and swipe back.
Now, that’s all I really want
to show you. This time in the iBooks,
but it’s a really nice feature. It doesn’t
have the best voice for reading,
but all of the books I have in here--
Let me slowly touch the screen
and move back up to Library.
[VO reads text from the book as
she moves her finger up the screen.]
VO: Safari heading level 3, iPad
Starter Guide. Sharon: OK, I heard
iPad Starter Guide; I’m going to take
one finger and flick to the right.
VO: Brightness, button.
Sharon: Wrong direction.
VO: Change display brightness.
Sharon: So, I’m gonna take
one finger, flick it to the left.
VO: iPad Starter Guide.
Table of Contents, button.
Library, button.
Sharon: And each time
I flick it gives me a different choice,
I’m gonna go back
to my Library. [Tap, tap.]
VO: New book. Over the Bridge.
Randy Noble.
Mysteries and Thrillers.
Sharon: And that is where I would
get to another book if I wanted to.
Maybe I want to show you one
more book, because it has pictures
and I want you to see what happens
when you use the pictures. Now.
I don’t want to move my fingers
slowly through them, so remember
if I move with it’s at the first book
so if I take two fingers and flick down.
VO: New book, Over the Bridge,
Randy Noble, Mysteries and Thrillers.
New book, The Reluctant Miracle,
Part One: The Escape. David C. Ashley,
Mysteries and Thrillers. Soul Identity,
(beep) Soul Identity, Dennis Batchelder,
Mysteries and Thrillers.
Sharon: I tapped the screen
to make it stop reading,
but it will repeat the line
you’re on. Now here’s a feature
I want to tell you about. From
From that book, if I take
my finger and I
touch the screen
and slowly move up—
VO: Soul Identity, new book,
The Reluctant, new book,
Over the Bridge. [Bonk...] Search.
Text field. Double-tap to edit.
Sharon: It's a search and it
said, "Double-tap to edit."
Now that’s for if I want to find
any book that I know is in my Library.
If you look at the titles of the books,
you will notice there’s quite a few.
I did not pay for any of these books.
They were all free and available
on the iBook bookstore. So I
encourage you to go to the store
to find the ones that are free,
and it will be a lot of them that are
Jack London, Dracula, Alice’s
Adventuresin Wonderland, but they
also have some fun ones. Like, uh,
Winnie the Pooh.
And Winnie the Pooh’s written very
nicely because it does is it also
describes the pictures.
Not all of them are that well written.
That’s kind of where I’d like to stop
right now in the iBooks. Thank you.