Up Close and Personal with the iPhone 3GS #5: Accessibility Features

Butterscotch Tutorial Special iPhone 3 GS New Features Overview Part five of five: Accessibility Feature Sean Carruthers: Hi I'm Sean Carruthers and welcome to fifth in a five part series on the iPhone 3GS. Today we're going to talk about accessibility features. Now you may know accessibility features from Windows or the Mac, on a full size computer, they have been introduced into the iPhone 3GS now. Now what accessibility features do is they allow people to interact with the phone in different ways depending on their needs. So incase you have a visual disability or in case you can only hear in one ear or can't hear at all, then the phone will actually deal with that in various ways. Now the way you get to it is by going into setting, scrolling to general and then scrolling down to accessibility, it's a slightly awkward placement if you're turning it on for the first time, but now we have a few different options, now again depending on your needs you can set these things up in various combinations. So let's talk about things in the middle first, because they're fairly quick. The white on black. So if you find the screen too bright and need it inverted, as many people do, you can just flip that switch and now its whiter text on a darker background. So it might be easier to make out the text in this case. So you can just flip that on and off. Mono audio incase you cannot hear in one year, you can flip that and now anything that comes through the phone, through the speakers or through the earphones will be the same in both ears. So if has listened to the Beatles "Yellow Submarine", you'll know what I'm talking about. It's pretty hard and that'll actually put everything into the same channel. And speak auto text and by flipping that one on you can actually have the phone read out any corrections that it makes. So if you're in mail or you're from the notepad and it is automatically making corrections it will actually tell you when it's doing so. A couple of other features here that are little bit more involved, talk about zoom. So by clicking through the zoom it magnifies the entire screen. So you know that you can do the pinch and the zoom in things like photographs or in the web browser, but this will you to do it across the board here, so in case you have a bit of trouble seeing things, you can actually magnify it. So by turning that on you have the ability now to zoom in on anything. So to zoom you double tap with three fingers and it'll zoom right in, to scroll around you do this with three fingers and to change it, now this is the one that's a bit tricky, you double tap with three fingers and then hold and move it around up and down and it'll actually change the size. So tap, tap and then you can actually zoom anywhere between 100% and 500% on this. So if you really need to get in close, by default it's 200%. But you can zoom way in or back down to the regular 100%. So that's the zoom feature and you do that anywhere on the iPhone. So again it's not just on the zoom screen, you can actually go in here, double tap and zoom in, scroll around or zoom out. And we don't we see that. So triple tap to get back out, go back into settings and we'll disable that again. I'm getting used to some of these for the first time, it can take a little bit of work. But once you have this down you're good to go. Now the voice over feature is for people that maybe can't see the screen at all. So what it'll do is it'll read what's going on the screen by enabling this. So we're going to click this, now this one actually does take even more getting used to because it changes the way the iPhone itself works. So this could be a little bit of fun here. So to enable it, it will reading in voice and it'll tell you want you want to do. So it will in fact change your gesturing base system that you're used to. So you'll notice that when we did that accessibility up at the top, got highlighted. When you want to do something else, you move your finger around on the screen and it'll change the options here. Click that. So you'll notice you can't actually just flip it off, like you would under normal circumstance. Now what you have to do is you need to find it and hold it and you need to double tap on things. So instead of flipping the switch you actually double on the switch itself. So now what that will do is it will do that anywhere else on the iPhone again as well. So you go back to your main screen. So again you double tap things now to open. And again you just double tap now, double tap to open and there you go. So again it takes a little bit of getting used to. It is a different way to interact with the -- interact with your iPhone. So if you have turned this on by mistake it'll start interacting in a much different way than you expect and again select what you need first before you can double tap and double tap it to open things as opposed to single tapping, select, and I'm showing you how to turn it off just in case you've gotten into that mode. Scroll, select, double tap, select, select the button itself, double tap and now it's back to the regular way it operates. So there you go that is the voice over function and that is the accessibility features on the iPhone 3GS. 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