[vicsireland] Fwd: HTML versions of the new iOS4 user guides for iPhone and iPod Touch

From: Dónal Fitzpatrick <dfitzpat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 09:42:01 +0100
FYI anyone who has upgraded to the IOS 4 OS.


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> Subject: HTML versions of the new iOS4 user guides for iPhone and iPod Touch
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I did some digging around for HTML versions of the iPhone and iPod Touch User 
> Guides under iOS 4, and here's what I found. These are all in English, so I 
> don't know whether there are versions up for other languages.  Trying the 
> obvious things (like changing "en" for English to "fr" for French, etc.) 
> didn't work.
> 
> • The Accessible Version of the new iPhone 4G User Guide, which you can read 
> from any web browser
> http://help.apple.com/iphone/4/voiceover/en/
> 
> • The iPhone 4G User Guide (only shows up in HTML when viewed from an iPhone 
> or iPod Touch, otherwise you get taken to the Apple Support Page for the 
> device)
> http://help.apple.com/iphone/4/
> 
> • The iPod Touch User Guide under iOS 4 ((only shows up in HTML when viewed 
> from an iPhone or iPod Touch, otherwise you get taken to the Apple Support 
> Page for the device)
> http://help.apple.com/ipodtouch/4/
> 
> These last two versions of the user guides likely show up under bookmarks in 
> Safari if you have bought a new device, and if you don't have MobileMe (with 
> a setup so that your Safari Bookmarks from your computer sync to the iPhone 
> or iPod Touch).  I don't know about the iPod Touch User Guide -- that was 
> absent in the Safari bookmarks on devices at the time I bought my iPod Touch 
> (last September), and for several months afterwards, according to checks of 
> the devices in the Apple Stores.
> 
> One warning: these last two versions of the HTML guides have the same 
> VoiceOver bug that we discovered last December: if you access the HTML pages 
> of these guides from your iPhone or iPod Touch with VoiceOver turned on, you 
> will be able to flick to, but not activate, any linked entries beyond the 
> first page.  The rule is, if you can't touch the entry and double-tap it on 
> the screen, you won't be able to open the page.  The work-around is to toggle 
> VoiceOver off (with a triple click of the home button), do a three-finger 
> flick up to move past the first screen of entries, and then toggle VoiceOver 
> on again.
> 
> I suggest that people add bookmarks to the accessible HTML version of the 
> iPhone users guide given in the first link.  You can put an icon on your 
> device screen by going to that page in Safari on your iPhone or iPod Touch, 
> then double tapping the "Utilities" button at the bottom center of your 
> screen, just above the home button.  You can then put an icon for the 
> accessible iPhone 4 manual on your home screen by double tapping the "Add to 
> Home Screen" button, or you can simply add it as a bookmark in Safari by 
> double tapping the "Add Bookmark" button.
> 
> I personally choose to put a link to the section on VoiceOver on my home 
> screen:
> http://help.apple.com/iphone/4/voiceover/en/iph3e2e4218.html
> 
> Others may want to start one level up, at the Accessibility chapter, in order 
> to access information like the new large text fonts in mail and messages:
> http://help.apple.com/iphone/4/voiceover/en/iph3e2e2c13.html
> 
> Still other will only want to link one level down, to the VoiceOver gestures 
> section:
> http://help.apple.com/iphone/4/voiceover/en/iph3e2e2281.html
> 
> Just to summarize, the new gesture under iOS 4 is:
> Two-finger "scrub": Move two fingers back and forth three times quickly 
> (making a "z") to dismiss an alert or go back to the previous screen.

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