Narrator:
Once you take your iPad mini out of the box and have taken off all of the bits of plastic
around it, you can turn the unit on. You first of all get the Apple logo and it will come
onto a "welcome" screen after about half a minute.
Once that welcome screen appears, you can then start the VoiceOver screen reader and
continue the setup from there.
I can now triple tap with the Home button and turn VoiceOver on.
VoiceOver:
VoiceOver on.
Narrator:
You might need to play with the volume buttons at the right hand side of the screen in order
to get the volume as you like it.
What's going on on the screen now is it's cycling around the word "hello" in lots of
different languages.
VoiceOver: Hello hello.
Narrator:
There it is in English. If I swipe to the right and then double tap ...
VoiceOver:
Setup. British English.
Narrator:
On the next screen you're asked for a language, and this is to do with VoiceOver. I can double
tap again to choose that.
VoiceOver:
Back. Back button.
Narrator:
And now I can swipe to find which country I'm in.
VoiceOver:
Select your country or region. United Kingdom.
Narrator:
And double tap to choose that again.
VoiceOver:
Back. Back button.
Narrator:
Whenever you get the "Back" button it just means the screen has changed and you can swipe
to the right to find out what's on it.
VoiceOver:
Choose a Wi-Fi network. BT OpenZone. RNIBSkype2 secure, signal strength 83%. Double tap to
join the network.
Narrator:
Notice that if I leave it for a couple of seconds it actually gives me an indication,
a hint, of what to do. So I can double tap ...
VoiceOver:
Password. Secure. Text field. Is editing.
Narrator:
And now I need to type in our password. When typing in a password, you need to find the
letter that you want to type, then take your finger off and double tap the screen in order
to put that in. So I'll just demonstrate by finding the last letter of this password,
which is the letter "y". I can put my finger on the screen
VoiceOver:
B. H. Hotel. Y. Yankee.
Narrator:
And when I've found it, I can take my finger off and double tap anywhere on the screen
to input that letter.
And then, to find "Join", I can either use the Join key on the keyboard, or the Join
button towards the top of the screen, and I can find either of those with my finger,
and double tap.
VoiceOver:
Join. Join. In progress. Next button enabled. Back. Back button. Continue button.
Narrator:
I have to also enable location services, which is the next bit on the screen, and I'll just
show you a slightly different way that I can get to things. As well as being able to swipe
left and right I can put my finger anywhere on the screen, as I did on the keyboard, and
move it around to find something. So I'll find the "enable location services".
VoiceOver:
About location ... location services ... what is location services ... heading ...disable
location services ... enable location services.
Narrator:
And then, leaving my finger on the screen, I can tap on the screen anywhere with another
finger.
VoiceOver:
Set up as new iPad.
Narrator:
When you're doing that, moving your finger around the screen, if you hear a "dinging"
noise like this ... all that means is that you're on the touch-sensitive area of the
iPad - not the bezel around the edge, which is not touch-sensitive - but there is nothing
actually underneath your finger.
So I'm going to find out the next bit that I need to do now, so I'm going to start near
the top of the screen.
VoiceOver:
Five forty ... back ... set up iPad ... heading ... set up as new iPad.
Sign in with your Apple ID.
Narrator:
And now I'm going to go back to swiping.
VoiceOver:
Create a free Apple ... Sign in with your Apple ID ... create a free Apple ID ... skip
this step button.
Narrator:
Normally I'd use an Apple ID but I don't want to waste the time by typing in a password.
VoiceOver:
Are you sure? You must have a ... Skip button. Back. Back button. Terms and conditions. Send
by email. Important. Please read the following terms before using your iOS device.
Narrator:
You can tap with two fingers on the screen at any point to stop VoiceOver speaking.
For some reason the Back and Next buttons have been at the top of the screen up until
now. The Agree and Disagree buttons have actually moved to the bottom of the screen so if I
want to find them I have to swipe, keep swiping right until I get there ...
VoiceOver:
A ... iOS terms ... please ... if you ... disagree ... agree
Narrator:
And double tap.
VoiceOver:
Terms and conditions. I agree to the Terms and conditions ... Cancel button ... Agree
button.
Narrator:
I prefer doing the swiping on the screen because it means I don't need to know where things
are. I can just swipe left and right, find the thing I want, and then double tap anywhere.
VoiceOver:
Hide keyboard. Double tap and hold to alter keyboard.
Narrator:
So - it might not be obvious - what we're being asked here for is a passcode and again,
if I put my finger on the screen I can find this out.
VoiceOver:
Create a passcode. Enter a four digit passcode. Don't add passcode, button.
Narrator:
And I'm going to do that one for the time being; I don't care who sees what's on my
iPad.
VoiceOver:
Don't add passcode. A passcode secures your iPad. Add passcode. Continue, button.
Siri helps you get things done just by asking. You can send a message, dictate a note or
check ...
Narrator: Again this is an odd one in that the area that takes focus is now at the bottom
of the screen and I need to move toward the top of the screen ...
VoiceOver:
Don't use Siri. Use Siri.
Narrator:
To choose things.
VoiceOver:
Back, back button. Diagnostics. Automatically send. Welcome to iPad. Get started, button.
Home. Facetime. Double tap to open.
Narrator:
And that's it. That's gone through the setup now. Hopefully you can see that with VoiceOver,
the built in screen reader, it's possible to start that up by triple tapping the Home
button after you've initially turned your iPad on, and then go through the whole of
the setup process using VoiceOver.
Unfortunately it's not possible to do the same thing with Zoom, the built in magnifier,
but at least it means you can do it with VoiceOver, and then once you've got to this stage and
your iPad is set up, you can turn VoiceOver off and turn Zoom on.
Setting up your iPad in this way also has the effect of setting the triple click for
the Home button to be to switch VoiceOver on and off. In other words, now I can triple
click ...
VoiceOver:
VoiceOver off.
Narrator:
And it turns VoiceOver off. And if I triple click again ...
VoiceOver:
VoiceOver on.
Narrator:
I hope you found that short demonstration useful. Thank you.