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    iOS 8 Without the Eye
    iOS 8 Without the Eye
    iOS 8 Without the Eye
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    iOS 8 Without the Eye

    By Jonathan Mosen

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    When you look at that shiny iPhone or iPad with its touch screen and no physical keyboard, you may conclude there's no way a blind person could use such a device. Yet thanks to VoiceOver, a powerful screen reader built into every Apple device, many thousands of blind people are productive iOS users, taking advantage of built-in and third-party apps.
    Internationally renowned Blindness technology expert Jonathan Mosen, a totally blind iOS user himself, offers a unique perspective on all that's new in iOS 8. He methodically examines and describes all iOS 8's new mainstream and accessibility features from a blindness perspective.
    If you're an assistive technology trainer, a developer who wants to tap into this growing market, someone who knows a blind person who would benefit from the power of an iOS device, or a blind person using VoiceOver who wishes to maximise their efficiency and productivity, "iOS 8 Without the Eye" is a must-read.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJonathan Mosen
    Release dateFeb 1, 2015
    ISBN9781310569531
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      iOS 8 Without the Eye - Jonathan Mosen

      iOS 8 WITHOUT THE EYE

      By Jonathan Mosen

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2014 Jonathan Mosen. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced without the express permission of the copyright holder.

      Table of Contents

      Keeping Up with Mosen Consulting Projects

      About the Author

      Introduction

      Chapter One: Installing

      Supported Devices

      Backing Up

      Installing the Update

      The First Start

      Chapter Two: Accessibility Changes

      Speech Changes - New Screen, New Voice

      Direct Touch Typing

      Braille Screen Input

      Audio Ducking

      All New Braille Dialog

      New Braille Commands

      Always Speak Notifications

      Closed Captioning and Audio Description

      Low Vison Changes

      Significant Changes to Zoom

      Speech Settings

      Changes to Guided Access

      Chapter Three: Continuity

      Handoff

      Phone Calls and Texts

      Easy Wireless Access

      Airdrop

      Chapter Four: Extensibility

      Notification Center Widgets

      Share Extension

      Photo Extensions

      Action Extensions

      Storage Provider and File Sync Extensions

      Third-Party Keyboards

      Touch ID Got More Useful

      Chapter Five: Messages

      Changes to Settings

      QuickType

      The Details Screen

      Group Conversations

      Audio Messaging

      Share a Video

      Marking All Messages Read

      Chapter Six: Notifications

      Simpler Notification Center

      The Today View

      Notifications View

      Interactive Lock Screen

      Mute a Notification

      Chapter Seven: Siri

      Streaming

      New Languages

      Hey, Siri

      Name That Tune

      No App? No Problem

      Purchasing Content

      Chapter Eight: Safari

      Requesting the Desktop Version of a Site

      Credit Card Scanning

      Private Browsing Tab

      Search the Web without Being Tracked

      More Powerful Cookie Blocking

      You Don’t Have to Go to the Store

      Smart Searches

      RSS Comes to Shared Links

      More Intelligence Equals More Speed

      Safari And Apps - A Beautiful Friendship

      Chapter Nine: Family Sharing

      Chapter Ten: Health

      The Dashboard

      Health Data

      Sources

      Medical ID

      Chapter Eleven: Automation

      Chapter Twelve: App Store Changes

      Video Previews

      Beta Testing

      App Bundles

      Suggested Apps

      Chapter Thirteen: Communication Enhancements

      Recent and Favourite Contacts in the App Switcher

      Wi-Fi Calling

      Voice Over LTE

      Faster, Better LTE

      Faster Wi-Fi

      FaceTime Audio Conferencing

      Leave a Message

      Call Waiting

      VIP Threads in Mail

      Get to the Inbox When Composing

      Chapter Fourteen: iCloud Drive

      Chapter Fifteen: Spotlight Search

      Chapter Sixteen: The Camera and Photos

      iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus

      iCloud Photo Library

      Greater Camera Control for Developers

      Self-Timer for the Back Camera

      Burst Mode For All

      Panorama Mode Comes to iPad

      Time-Lapse Videos

      Chapter Seventeen: Apple Pay

      Chapter Eighteen: All New Weather

      Chapter Nineteen: Tips

      Chapter Twenty: A Bunch of Apples

      More Built-in Apps

      Notes Now More Noteworthy

      Airplay Goes Peer to Peer

      Hunt the Battery Hog

      Revamped Touch ID and Password Settings

      Any Last Requests?

      MIDI Over Bluetooth

      Manage your Apple ID

      Push Notificatoins for Season Pass Holders

      Conclusion

      Acknowledgments

      Keeping Up with Mosen Consulting Projects

      iOS 8 without the Eye is just one of a number of eBooks, audio tutorials and webinars already available or soon planned for release.

      To subscribe to a low-traffic list that will email you announcements whenever a new publication is available, please send a blank email to

      Announcements-subscribe@lists.mosen.org

      You can also follow @JonathanMosen on Twitter.

      About the Author

      Jonathan Mosen has been a user of assistive technology for over 30 years. During that time, he has helped people make sense of technology through the founding of many e-mail lists and the production of numerous audio tutorials.

      In 1999, Jonathan founded ACB Radio for the American Council of the Blind. While in this role, he created, presented, and produced the ground-breaking Main Menu assistive technology show. The show pre-dated the availability of podcasts, and produced two hours of assistive technology-related content each week, including insightful interviews with movers and shakers in the assistive technology industry.

      Jonathan has been working in leading assistive technology companies for over a decade, and now also operates his own company, Mosen Consulting. Mosen Consulting provides assistive technology training and consultancy to individuals and agencies. He is also producing a range of assistive technology webinars and eBooks.

      He is CEO of Appcessible.net, a company providing real-world end-user accessibility testing services to mobile application developers.

      Introduction

      This is the second book in what has turned out to be a series. I wrote iOS 7 Without the Eye in 2013, because Apple gave the operating system powering its mobile devices an extreme visual makeover. It occurred to me that when iOS 7 was released, there would be many articles written about the visual changes, such as the flatter look and the altered icons. I thought people might appreciate a book that focussed exclusively, and extensively, on how a blind person using VoiceOver, the screen reader built into all iOS devices, would use the new operating system.

      The response was absolutely overwhelming. Recently, I’ve produced a number of eBooks and audiobooks, but iOS 7 Without the Eye has well outsold the rest of them combined.

      The feedback I got was that people appreciated having a single, thorough, fact-checked document they could read in a variety of formats, well indexed so they could refer to it later, when they wanted to investigate a specific new feature.

      Will you be writing a sequel, people asked? And since Apple has written a sequel to iOS 7, I thought, Sure, why not, I’ll write a sequel to the iOS 7 book.

      And that, dear reader, is why you find yourself with this little book in your hand or on your device, for which I thank you.

      When I began writing this book, I was concerned there may not be as much material to work with as there was in 2013. A superficial look at iOS 8 would suggest a lot less has changed between iOS 7 and 8, than had changed between iOS 6 and 7. That’s actually not the case. Last year, there certainly were some great new features and a bold new look. But iOS 8 introduces some significant infrastructural enhancements that will radically change the way you use your iDevice. Some of those changes will be apparent immediately, others are going to become evident over the coming months, as developers take advantage of the much greater flexibility Apple has provided in this release. So, there’s plenty to tell you about, and that’s why this volume, much to my surprise, is quite a bit larger than the book on iOS 7. Cool, eh? Same price, more goodness, and still with the exact same number of carbs and calories as before.

      The book can’t be said to be an exhaustive list of absolutely everything that’s new in iOS 8. If you dig around a little, you may find some nuggets I’ve missed. I’m confident though that this book contains most of the highlights, and that going through it will save you valuable time as I not only take you through most of the new features, but also show you how to use them in conjunction with VoiceOver.

      This book omits references to bugs, some quite serious, that are present in iOS 8 on release day. That’s because Apple has been good about fixing serious issues in a timely manner, and this book is intended to be of use to people for the life of iOS 8. A bug I document may have been fixed by the time many of my readers read the book. For timely information about known issues with iOS 8, as well as a host of useful free resources, I recommend visiting the Applevis website at http://www.applevis.com.

      Since this book has been written with VoiceOver users in mind, all the gestures in this book assume VoiceOver is running. Most of the gestures covered here will not work if VoiceOver is off.

      So, sit back, relax, and enjoy the flight. You’ll be relieved to know you’re allowed to leave your mobile device switched on, and recline your seat if you want to.

      Oh and if by chance you find this book useful to you, I’d be ever so grateful if you could tell your friends via social networks, email, and even the quaint old notion of face-to-face. Word of mouth really helps a lot, so thank you.

      Chapter One: Installing

      Supported Devices

      One advantage of Apple manufacturing its own hardware and writing its own software is that there is no ambiguity about whether your device will be able to

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