2015-05-28 iFocus 10 Its All About the Watch
Seminars@Hadley
iFocus 10: It’s All About the Watch
Presented by
Douglas Walker
Moderated by
Larry Muffett
May 28, 2015
Larry Muffett
Welcome to Seminars at Hadley. My name is Larry Muffett, I’m a member of Hadley’s Seminars team, and I also work in curricular affairs. Today’s seminar topic is the tenth in our quarterly iFocus series entitiled, It’s All About the Watch. Our presenter today, as usual, is Hadley access technology instruction specialist and idevice trainer Douglas Walker.
Today Douglas will be exploring the accessibility features that are built right into the new Apple Watch. I also want to make this audience note, portions of today’s seminar have been prerecorded but Douglas is here online live to answer what I’m sure will be a host of questions. So without any further ado, let me welcome Douglas and we’ll get underway. Welcome, Douglas.
Douglas Walker
All right. Here we are with out tenth quarterly iFocus seminar. And the big news, of course, is a certain new product release from a certain California-based company. Okay. Today is, of course, all about the Apple Watch. Even though it’s been out for about a month, it’s still a very new device and people are still very curious as to exactly what it can do, so today we plan to discover all of the accessibility features that are built right into our watch. And then we’ll actually end up navigating through our watch and checking out exactly what it can do for us. Now, some of the gestures are very similar to how we typically navigate through our other idevices, so if you’re fairly proficient at using Zoom or Voiceover on your iPhone or your iPad, then the learning curve shouldn’t really be that big a deal to you.
Okay, so how about let’s get started. Now the Apple Watch is made to be a companion to our iPhone and with the update to iOS 8.3, we were given the Apple Watch app on our iPhone. Now we use our Apple Watch app to control a lot of our watch’s settings. And our setting menu in our Apple Watch app look very familiar to the menus in our iPhone settings app. Now the reason we’re discussing our apple Watch app is because that’s where we’ll go turn on and off many of our accessibility features.
Now some of our accessibility features can be controlled from our settings menu right on our Apple Watch. However, not all of them can be accessed right from our watch, and we’ll need to use our Apple Watch app on our iPhone to control them. We can also use our Apple Watch app to search for and download for new apps for our watch. At this point, we have about 3500 Apple Watch apps that are available for download. Now we’re going to run into the same issues on our watches, with our watch apps that we do on our iPhone because not all of the apps in the app store are going to be completely accessible. However Apple has done a really good job at making all of the apps that come pre-installed on our Apple Watch accessible for us. And that’s pretty great. Now the settings menu aren’t going to appear in our Apple Watch app until we actually have an Apple Watch paired with our iPhone. However, we’re going to flip through them today and see exactly what they look like as we discuss our accessibility features.
Now, today’s seminar will be divided into two segments. In our first segment, we’ll be exploring our Apple watch app on our iPhone. And then we’ll stop to take a few questions and then in our second segment, we will totally explore how to navigate through our Apple Watch.
All right, so how about we go ahead and launch our Apple Watch app on our iPhone. And to do that we’ll just flip to it.
Voiceover
Apple watch. Double tap to open.
Douglas Walker
Okay, and we’ll just single finger double tap to open it.
Voiceover
Apple watch. My watch. Heading.
Douglas Walker
All right, here we are in our Apple Watch app on our iPhone and we have been placed on our My Watch heading at the top center of our watch’s menu here. Again, this menu is going to look very similar to our iPhone settings menu and we’ll find our watch’s accessibility settings, you guessed it, under our general button. So how about we just right flick until we find our general button? We’ll just right flick.
Voiceover
App layout. Button.
Douglas Walker
Okay. Here’s our app layout button. Now activating this will give us the ability to control exactly how our apps will appear on our watch. And so that’s pretty great. But we’re headed to our accessibility settings, so we will just right flick.
Voiceover
Airplane mode. Button.
Douglas Walker
And here is our Airplane mode button. Now we’re able to turn our watch, or put our watch in Airplane mode right here. However, we can also choose to have our watch’s airplane mode sync with our iPhone, so if we place our iPhone in airplane mode, then our watch automatically goes into airplane mode, as well. And I really like that feature. Okay, so let’s just right flick.
Voiceover
Apple watch button.
Douglas Walker
Okay, so here’s our Apple Watch button. And this is where we can unpair our watch if we need to, and so we’re not going to do that, so how about we just right flick?
Voiceover
Notifications button.
Douglas Walker
Okay, so here’s our notifications button. Now this is where we’ll be able to control the types of notifications that we receive on our watch. So we have the ability to turn on and off notifications such as calendar alerts, text message alerts, email alerts, and maybe our reminders. I mean, we really do have a lot of control over the types of alerts that we get here. All right, so let’s just right flick. We’ll just right flick.
Voiceover
Glances button.
Douglas Walker
All right, here’s our glances button. Now, we’ll be checking out exactly what glances are in just a bit, when we’re using our watch. So let’s just right flick past this for now. So we just right flick.
Voiceover
Do not disturb button.
Douglas Walker
All right, and here is our do not disturb button and you guessed it, we have the ability to mute all of our watch’s notifications. Of course just like our airplane mode feature, we have the ability to have our do not disturb feature mirror our iPhone settings as well. And that can be really handy for us. Okay, so let’s just right flick again, so we’ll just right flick.
Voiceover
General button.
Douglas Walker
All right. Here we are on our general button and this is exactly where we want to be, because this is where we’ll find our accessibility settings, but before we activate our general button, let’s look at just one more button on this screen, so we’ll just right flick one more time, so we’ll right flick.
Voiceover
Brightness and text size button.
Douglas Walker
Great. Here’s our brightness and text size button, and if we were to activate this, we really do have a lot of control over the text size on our watch, and so that is really nice. Okay, so how about we head back to our general button so let’s just left flick again. So we’ll just left flick.
Voiceover
General button.
Douglas Walker
Great, and we’ll just single finger double tap to open our general settings here, so we’ll just single finger double tap.
Voiceover
General. My watch. Back button.
Douglas Walker
All right, so we’re getting there. Our general settings have opened and we’ve been placed on our back button in the top left corner of our screen, so we would just right flick until we find our accessibility settings on the screen. And we’ll just right flick.
Voiceover
General heading.
Douglas Walker
And there’s our heading, so we would just right flick again.
Voiceover
About button.
Douglas Walker
Okay. Here we find our about button, and this is where we will find all of the details regarding our watch, so we’ll just right flick again.
Voiceover
Software update button.
Douglas Walker
Okay, and here’s where we will have the ability to update our watch’s software. So just like updating our iPhone, it should be easy to keep our watch updated as well to its latest software. Okay, so we’ll right flick a couple more times, so let’s just right flick.
Voiceover
Automatic downloads button.
Douglas Walker
Okay, and here we find our automatic downloads button, now this feature gives us the option for having our apps automatically download to our watch. Now I prefer to have a bit more control over my apps that are synced. So I have this feature turned off at the moment. All right, so we’ll just right flick.
Voiceover
Watch orientation. Left wrist. Button.
Douglas Walker
Okay, so here’s our watch orientation and here we’ll be able to choose the wrist on which we are going to be wearing our watch. And this will be really handy for our left-handed users, as well. Oaky, and finally, if we right flick one more time, we will find our accessibility button, so we’ll just right flick.
Voiceover
Accessibility button.
Douglas Walker
And here we are, so we’ll just single finger double tap to open up all of our accessibility setting here, so we’ll just single finger double tap.
Voiceover
Accessibility. General. Back button.
Douglas Walker
Great. And here we are on our back button in the top left corner of our screen so we’ll just start right flicking through our accessibility settings to see what we have here and we’ll just right flick.
Voiceover
Accessibility. Heading.
Douglas Walker
Okay here’s our heading in the top center of our screen here, so we will just right flick.
Voiceover
Vision heading.
Douglas Walker
All right, so here’s our vision heading. So we know that everything listed here willbe related specifically to our vision accessibility settings, so we’ll just right flick. We’re going to right flick.
Voiceover
Voiceover. On button.
Douglas Walker
Great. Here, we find our voiceover settings and as voiceover just announced, voiceover is of course turned on on our watch. So how about we just single finger double tap to open our voiceover settings and we’ll do that. We’ll just single finger double tap.
Voiceover
Voiceover accessibility. Back button.
Douglas Walker
Okay, so here we are on our back button, so let’s just right flick to explore all of our voiceover settings here for our watch and so we’ll just right flick.
Voiceover
Voiceover. Heading.
Douglas Walker
And there’s our heading in the top center of our screen again, so we’ll just right flick.
Voiceover
Voiceover on. Double tap to toggle setting.
Douglas Walker
And of course, here is where we would single finger double tap to toggle our watch’s voiceover on and off and we want to leave it on, so we’ll just right flick from here. So we’ll just right flick.
Voiceover
Voiceover speaks items on the screen.
Douglas Walker
Great. Now just like our iPhone’s settings menu, we’re given just a few voiceover gestures here. And these will help us hopefully get up and running. So we’ll just flick through these. So we’ll just flick.
Voiceover
Tap once to select an item.
Douglas Walker
Oaky, so we tap once or touch the screen to select an item here. We’ll just flick again.
Voiceover
Double tap to activate the selected item.
Douglas Walker
And just like our iPhone, we’ll single finger double tap to activate whatever item is selected. Let’s right flick again.
Voiceover
Swipe two fingers to scroll.
Douglas Walker
And here we swipe with two fingers to scroll. Now it’s a little bit different on our iPhone. You swipe or flick up and down with three fingers to scroll, so that gesture has been changed, of course, because our screen size is so much smaller. On our Apple Watch. Let’s flick again, seewhat we have here.
Voiceover
Speaking rate heading.
Douglas Walker
All right, so that’s it for our little hints that you get here. And just like our iPhone, it’s pretty much given just enough to be dangerous, but that’s actually just enough to move around, so let’s move on from here. Allright. Here we find an adjustable bar for changing our speaking rate, so let’s flick to that. We’ll right flick one more time.
Voiceover
Speaking rate. 50%. Adjustable. Swipe up or down with one finger to adjust the value.
Douglas Walker
All right, and we currently have ours at 50% here, which is the default for our watch. So we’ll just leave it at that and let’s right flick again. And you know, we could right flick or flick up or down to change that speaking rate there, so let’s just right flick.
Voiceover
Voiceover volume. Heading.
Douglas Walker
All right, and here we are able to adjust voiceover and volume on our watch. And we’ll flick to that.
Voiceover
Voiceover volume, 80% adjustable.
Douglas Walker
There it is.
Voiceover
Swipe up or down with one finger to adjust the value.
Douglas Walker
And as we heard, we can swipe up or down to adjust the value there. That’s pretty great. All right. We’re also able to use a two finger double tap and hold on our watch. And then we can slide our fingers up or down our screen to adjust our watch’s value, and we might actually take a look at that how that works in just a bit if we have time when we’re actually navigating through our watch. But for now, we’ll just right flick from here, and check our the rest of our voiceover settings, so we’ll just right flick.
Voiceover
Hints on. Double tap to toggle setting.
Douglas Walker
All right. And here’s our hints toggle switch. Now I have found that it is really handy to have our hints turned on when we first begin using our watch because many of our gestures are the same as they are on our iPhone. However there are some that are just a bit different, so it’s kind of nice to hear these hints when we’re first learning how to navigate our watch. And we’ll hear these in action in just a bit when we’re using our watch. So we’ll just right flick.
Voiceover
Screen curtain. Off. Double tap to toggle setting.
Douglas Walker
Okay, so here’s our screen curtain button, and just like our iPhone, we have the ability to have our screen blacked out or completely dark, and you know, this is really great if we need a little bit more privacy when we’re using our watch. All right, we have one more voiceover setting, so we will just right flick.
Voiceover
Speak onwrist raise. Off. Double tap to toggle setting.
Douglas Walker
All right, here we have our speak on wrist raise button. Now, mine is currently turned off because I don’t want voiceover to announce the time every time I raise my arm up or lift my arm. That can be, can kind of get to be quite annoying after a little while. I just prefer to have the ability to just touch my watch’s face to wake my watch up and have the time announced. Anyway, the option to speak on wrist raise is here and it’s available if we need it.
All right, so that’s all our voiceover settings. So let's go ahead and move back to our accessibility settings to check out the rest of our accessibility settings here. So we’ll just find our back button in the top left corner of our screen, so we’ll just touch.
Voiceover
Accessibility. Back button.
Douglas Walker
That right there. And we’ll just single finger double tap to move back to our previous page here. Single finger double tap.
Voiceover
Accessibility. General. Back button.
Douglas Walker
Okay, here we are, back in our accessibility list, so we’ll just right flick until we get past our voiceover button. And so we’ll just right flick.
Voiceover
Accessibility. Heading.
Douglas Walker
Accessibility heading.
Voiceover
Vision heading.
Douglas Walker
That’s our vision heading again.
Voiceover
Voiceover on.
Douglas Walker
We’ll flick again.
Voiceover
Zoom off button.
Douglas Walker
Okay. Here we have our Zoom, or magnification feature. And as voiceover just announced, it’s currently turned off, so how about we just single finger double tap to open our zoom feature here so we’ll just single feature double tap.
Voiceover
Zoom accessibility. Back button.
Douglas Walker
Okay, here we are on our back button in the top left corner of our screen, so we’ll just right flick to explore all of our Zoom settings here. And so we’ll just right flick.
Voiceover
Zoom heading.
Douglas Walker
Okay, there’s our Zoom heading on the top center of our screen, so we will just right flick again.