Nook iPad app with VoiceOver – video transcript
Title:
Welcome to this short introduction to using the Nook iPad app with the built in VoiceOver screen reader.
Narrator:
VoiceOver appears on the iPhone, the iPod touch and the iPad. It can be started in a number of ways. On my iPad, I can triple click the Home button and then choose it from the menu that appears.
VoiceOver:
VoiceOver on. Messages. Double tap to open. Landscape. Home button to the left.
Narrator:
When VoiceOver first appears, it reads out some information from the screen, and you may see a black line appears around the item that it just read about.
The first thing I need to do is move to the page that has the app that I'm interested in. When VoiceOver is working, I have to use three fingers …
VoiceOver:
Page two of two. iBooks.
Narrator:
… and swipe.
VoiceOver:
Double tap to open.
Narrator:
Once I've got to the page I'm interested in, I need to find my app. There's a number of ways again this can be done. One of the ways is I can put my finger on the screen and move it around until I touch the thing I'm interested in.
VoiceOver:
Kobo. Nook. Double tap to open.
Narrator:
That double tap message can actually be done anywhere on the screen.
VoiceOver:
Nook. Alert. Accessibility tutorial. Would you like a tutorial on Nook's accessibility gestures?
Narrator:
One of the great things about Nook is they've thought about how a VoiceOver user might want to use this, and they've built a tutorial that only appears if you open it while VoiceOver is running. If you're going to use it fully, it would be a good idea to use the OK button to listen to that, but I am going to use the Cancel button …
VoiceOver:
Library heading.
Narrator:
… to leave that.
You may have noticed I used horizontal swipes to move round that screen. I can swipe to the right, and that will move me to the next item on the screen, or I can swipe to the left to move backwards. So this is another way that I can find the things I'm interested in.
I've been reading Pride and Prejudice before, so I'm going to try and find that book and then open it.
VoiceOver:
EBooks and accessibility. By Andrew Homer. Button. Pride and prejudice. Barnes and Noble classic series. By Jane Austen. Button. Pride and prejudice. Opening eBook. Ellipsis. Book page. Two finger swipe to read continuously. The story {pause} however {pause} with great spirit among her friends {pause} for she had a lively {pause} playful disposition which delighted in any thing ridiculous {pause} the e ...
Narrator:
When I open the book, VoiceOver starts reading on the page that opens, and it would carry on reading the book until the end, unless I stop it. The way I can stop it is to tap once on the screen with two fingers. Once I've done that, I can then start it speaking in the same way.
VoiceOver:
…altogether passed off pleasantly to the whole family {pause} Missus Bennet had seen her eldest daughter much admired by the netherfield …
Narrator:
There are some options on the screen that will allow me to do things like change the font size, or move to a particular page, and in order to get to those, which are above the text of the book, I can just put my finger on that menu …
VoiceOver:
Pride and Prejudice. Barnes and Noble classic series. By Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice. Contents. Bookmarks and notes. Button. Go to page. Button.
Narrator:
… and I can use swipes …
VoiceOver:
Text attributes.
Narrator:
… also to move between them.
VoiceOver:
Go to page. Button. Text field. Is editing. {Lower pitch} page number 1 to nine hundred and forty four
Narrator:
So for instance, I could move to page 200 …
VoiceOver:
{normal pitch} two {higher pitch} two {normal pitch} zero {higher pitch} zero zero (normal pitch} at go
Narrator:
… and then carry on reading at that point.
VoiceOver:
Book page. Two finger swipe to read continuously. Room {pause} her figure was elegant {pause} and she walked well {pause} but Darcy {pause} at whom it was all aimed {pause} was still inflexibly studious {pause} in the desp …
Narrator:
So when I've finished reading my book, I just go to the icon at the top left of the screen - that's my "Library" button …
VoiceOver:
Book page. Two fingers swipe to continuously read. Room {pause} her figure was elegant. Pride. Contents. Book marks and no ... Back to library button.
Narrator:
… and double tap to close the book.
VoiceOver:
Library heading.
Narrator:
If you're lucky enough to own a Bluetooth braille display, you can use VoiceOver to get the information from your book on the braille display and read it like that as well.
That's been a very quick introduction to how you can use the Nook iPad app with VoiceOver, the built-in screen reader. We hope you found it useful.
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This video featured the Nook iPad app version 3.4.1.14 running on an Apple iPad with iOS version 6.1.3
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