Comments on: iPhone 3.0 Accessibility Preview

By: Barry-Alan Davey

Barry-Alan Davey — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 08:52:05 +0000

I know that 3.0 has an accessability option in the menu iv’e ssen from the screen shots but iv’e been hunting the internet trying to find exactly what options there will be, specificly for visual impairments, but not speech or anything that requires speech as being Deaf and visually imapred any speech options would be useless..

im talking about big fonts on everything, the abilty to zoom on everything, grey scale contrasting, ect…

do you know what these options will be?

Im surprised Mac didnt put an accessability option in to the original OS, they have a good history with access especially for the Deaf visually impaired.

Thanks

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 01 May 2009 10:46:45 +0000

You bring up some excellent points here. I should start a regular seires of post with ideas for accessible iPhone apps. Maybe a developer will follow up on a few. Thanks!

By: Donald Murray

Donald Murray — Fri, 01 May 2009 05:42:59 +0000

I’m wondering why nobody has done a magnifier for the iphone (using the internal camera). Note that zoom can be done in software by taking a photo at a higher resolution than can be displayed and displaying only a part of that image.
Part of the problem could be getting focus.

I’m a developer for the blackberry storm currently and I’ve just discovered that RIM doesn’t provide enough API to the camera to produce a magnifier (which I wanted to develop). The hardware on the storm is capable of producing magnification if the API were opened up more.

I’m also kind of surprised that nobody in the apple world has written their own video app. Shouldn’t be that tough….just take photos quickly at the lowest resolution….maybe there is No low res photo capability.??

Hope you get what you want in the next iphone.