VoiceOver Accessibility in Favorites for iPhone

A demo of the accessibility features (via VoiceOver) that I implemented for visually impaired users of my iPhone app, Favorites. The video cuts off at the 10-minute mark due to YouTube, but the rest of it was just a minute or so of me waffling about how it's very worthwhile to take the time to make sure your app is accessible. Which it is.

Incidentally, I shot this video with Favorites running on an iPhone 4, and used another iPhone 4 to record it before downsampling it to 720p in Quicktime.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• accessibility
• voiceover
• iphone
• favorites
• speed dial

[Stevowarner2]

thts cool and it works for all apps?

[mattgemmelluk]

@Stevowarner2 Yes, VoiceOver works in all applications on iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 (and iPad, and Mac OS X).

[163mike]

Can you change the voice?

[TheCasaya]

Im dutch and i got an iPhone4 but i have no idea how to use this :D

[zkrisher]

Thanks for making this app accessible and making this video.

As a low vision user I'll be relying on VoiceOver to help me use the iPhone. This video increases my confidence that I'll be able to enjoy great apps like this.

I'm also glad that you explain how you make the app accessible, hopefully other developers can learn from this.

[ugurozyilmazel]

matt, you are soo lucky... it is still not known when the iphone4 is available here in my country (: you've got 2 (: