Android 4.0 Accessibility Demo: Turning on Accessibility

[andema83]

OMG... this voice is horrible.

It´s good news though that google has improved its android- accessibility....

[UoPJoe]

is it possible to enlarge the text rather than use the screen reader?

[stalform]

how would you text using this? or use the keyboard? it would be cool if u could show that to on this phone.

[MTBLVStech]

Will there be an option to shut off the backlight to extend battery life? Add in an easy gesture combination to toggle it back on?

[lmjabreu]

Very cool, audio feedback for the list scrolling was very interesting. One thing I noticed though, the reader doesn't make a distinction between elements. The country selector wasn't identified as a select list, neither the icons as apps or anything else, the button was spoken as if it was a label and so on.

[provideos2011]

does anyone know if this is available for the honeycomb tablets out now? I found the talk back feature, but it doesn't preform the same function.

[SebaZerega]

Siri Voice lol

[lpnalda]

I hope you talk about the large text features too.

[elensule]

Are there more voices available? This one seems quite, khem, specific.

[biggerben2010]

@farwazar94 iOS is not the best. It's a shit OS

[fawazar94]

iOS is the best

[arulanandcisco]

@fawazar94 Yes but if Google is going to start in Apple model like making device and software all by them-self, then we are at a risk

[pitermach00]

This is very impressive. I may actually hold off on getting an iPhone, now that I've seen what 4.0 is capable of. The only problem is I've never been good at drawing shapes. It's hard for me to hold a straight line, even harder on the touch screen (that's what I fail at in aurifi on my iPod touch usually) so i'm not sure if this way of enabling access would work for everyone. perhaps something like alternately pressing the volume keys 5 times would work better?

[sujaybarad]

Please show me some screen magnification/zoom tools. I'm desperate.

[siglmgga]

Battery life on the Samsung Galaxy (new one, 2S) seems quite limited (about one day) even with power saving on....this is a different issue, yet also important.

[siglmgga]

Are there captions for this? don't see any and so so so important!

[EyesFreeAndroid]

@siglmgga captions are up now. Thanks to Claude for transcribing them on a weekend!

[WorcesterYid]

@EyesFreeAndroid If it only took a day to transcribe the video to caption it, why weren't the captions added BEFORE the video went live? It's another example of accessibility being considered AFTER the fact. No matter the type of EIT, nothing should be released until it's fully accessible to everyone - anything less is second class treatment.

[arulanandcisco]

@siglmgga Those are for the guys who have eyes to see but they are deaf

[ToneRok]

I wish you had to double tap, not just the one,  but still can't wait to try it.

[VideoGuyNC]

My question is simply this. From which screen can accessibility be turned on using that gesture? Can it be done as soon as one turns on the phone?

[EyesFreeAndroid]

@VideoGuyNC yes, the gesture to turn on accessibility works as soon as you turn the phone on for the first time.

[appie21]

@EyesFreeAndroid will it only work the first time new out of box? because i have the new asus android prime and it didn't work :(

[dnlsmy]

The AI sounds like she's going to cry.

[lightsrage1985]

I want it on my comet!!!!!!!! wahhhhh!!! This is sad, t-mobile cant give me a straight answer. So, do i call hua?

[wireman1990]

@lightsrage1985 You aren't getting it. The Comet is too low powered for it to run properly.