To use Zoom, use the Digital Crown to navigate across the screen by rows, or simply use two fingers to move around the screen. Zoom can be enabled on the watch. How to Unzoom Apple Watch · Open the Watch app. · Tap the My Watch tab. · Select Accessibility. · Touch Zoom. · Tap the button next to Zoom to turn.
 
 

 

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If the iPhone’s volume was a ten, what would the watches volume be in comparison? I would very much appreciate hearing more about your experiences. The Apple watch’s volume is probably low by design. Lets think about this for a second. It is much much easier for the watch to just speak the time, instead of having to come up with a super-complicated series of vibrations or taps on the wrist.

They’re trying to make it so everyone can pick up the watch and just start using it. I’m reading other threads on the site about all these complicated ways of the watch letting people know the time, and as I said in that topic, it made my head spin.

Keep it simple, guys. Speaking the time is not going to ruin anyone’s day in the grand scheme of things, this is not the talking watches we all remember with the ridiculously loud bong sound followed by some impossibly obnoxious voice speaking the time. It literally takes the watch what, a second and a half to tell you the time, and if the volume is low, you can do this without too much concern.

Also, we’re all just speculating. Until someone gets the watch into their hands full time, and gets a chance to spend some time learning its quirks, this is all pure speculation. It’s popular enough that I’m seeing at least 3 different forum topics about it. We shall see how it goes. Its kind of like the book if you give a mouse a cookie.

I don’t know if anyone els has ever read that book, but its like, we worry about the watch being accessible,and then find out that it is, then we worry about if it will include a full version of voice over and we find out that it does, then we worry about how an accessible apple watch will fit into our lives, it is almost like we can’t be happy. I’m sorry for my previous posts that have fed into that.

I don’t think the tactile time telling thing is really a big deal, maybe a feature for the future, but I’m excited to get the coolest and most accessible talking watch ever if its current features work well.

The only reason I originally posted about the vibration stuff is because it was what people were talking about and I am so excited about the watch that I just want to talk about it, no matter where the conversation goes. I agree though that speculations about any way of improving the time telling feature is not the best thing to talk about right now.

So lets talk about something that is more worth while, like the watches volume. I think that you make a good point that often it would be desirable for the watch to have a low volume. After all the most attractive thing about the Apple watch is that it offers a convenient, unintrusive way of accessing technology. I don’t want to be able to only use my watch in a quiet room like David mentioned in his original post.

I have not had a chance to play with the watch yet, so I have no idea about the quality of the speaker. I just see low volume as being a potentially big drawback for me, depending on how low it really is of course. I think that any potential lack of volume in the speaker is probably more a tradeoff that Apple made, because of the size of the watch, then anything els. I just hope it can get loud enough and I would very much appreciate hearing any more, first-hand experiences about the watch, since I might not be able to see one until mine arrives in two weeks.

I think some of you guys are just expecting far too much too soon. Some of you can’t ever just be happy with what we have now. Is it accessible?

Seriously, these iDevices are modern wonders. Think for a minute about the time it takes to create, design and test such a device. Also remember that the watch uses an operating system all its own, called watch OS.

There are going to be imperfections, bugs, etc. This is the first generation of this thing, Apple has never attempted something like this before, and the road will possibly be bumpy. So if absolutely everything isn’t accessible, please give Apple a break. I consider it a treat that any of these iDevices are accessible in the first place. Most modern tech companies don’t even give accessibility a second look. I said all that to say, please lets be thankful for what we have.

It was very difficult to hear VoiceOver at maximum volume in my local Apple store. Any more than a foot or so away from the watch, and I could not hear anything. Keep in mind that the overall noise level in the Apple store was quite high.

It was difficult to hear the Apple employee a few feet away, let alone the watch. I will not attempt to make a comparison to the volume of VoiceOver on an iPhone because I did not use an iPhone at all in the Apple store.

I don’t think we should be “grateful” just because a product is accessible. The fact that other products aren’t, isn’t a reason to treat accessibility as an after-thought. I’m not suggesting that apple aren’t considering accessibility, as they clearly lead the field in terms of off-the-shelf accessibility. But that is not a reason to just accept whatever is offered without making constructive suggestions.

And note I say “constructive”, not just complaining. So, the fact that some people find a talking watch inconvenient and intrusive is not unimportant. There’s nothing about the watch’s technology and current build that prevents it from running an app to provide various ways to use the taptic engine to tell the time. It doesn’t require a complete redesign or the imposition of an overhead on anyone else. Some people would just like to suggest that there are other ways to let the wearer know the time in a subtle and unobtrusive way, using the existing features of the watch.

Let’s not restrict feedback and suggestions just to seem grateful please. We’re just as much customers and consumers of the product as anyone else, and we pay the same price. So our feedback and ideas are equally valid. Having been a software developer for 30 years, I know it’s easier to build accessibility in at the start, and to design the products to allow enhancements.

Apple seem to do this in general. So getting feedback from customers is vitally important to improving the product and ensuring that design decisions are validated and improved. Apple watch sport I hear you say voice over on what about battery life I like sound of it sounds like it so near sighted persons as always thought watches for people with no sight are not nice looking sounds out date we are limited.

I am so interested want see it but cons urn apple wouldn’t have 1 with voice over running. With voice over on bout running wifi. How long bat last and what about alarms reminder. I agree david. I like your way of thinking. Now I just wunder, does this have a headphone jack? And will it be possible to connect to the mac and pc? No the watch does not have a headphone jack; you will connect headphones, and other audio devices, through bluetooth.

I, of course, do not know what Apple will or will not due, “in time” but for right now I believe it is correct that all sinking of music, or other content, will be managed through the phone app. I would just like to put it out there that I am in no way complaining about the accessibility strides apple has already made, because I think that this is a wonderful start to what could in many ways be a game changer!

My biggest thing here is that apple does not seem to have allowed third-party watch faces, otherwise I would just code this myself once the watch came out and deploy via my dev account to my own devices. The problems I have seen with most talking watches are that you either have to have the volume loud enough for you and possibly those in your very immediate vicinity to hear, or you have to raise your wrist up closer to your face to hear, which makes it very obvious that you’re checking the time.

In a meeting or small social circle that might seem rude if done incorrectly. I have ordered an apple watch and who knows? I might find that it’s not an issue at all. All I’m saying is that I think it would be a neat feature to add not only for us, but for sighted individuals as well. Cheers, Megan. Agreed, and for the deaf or deaf blind. I’m slowly loosing my hearing due to something I did 9 years ago and I work better with vibrations sometimes then with speach.

Who knows maybe apple will allow you to code faces so that a vibration can be for the time like the pocket watch what’s his face reviewed somewhare. I just got a gen 5 Apple watch “no Cellular”. I am running voice over all the time. My My usage is basic, i did a few short Facetime audio call, a workout, some basic music and I am getting about 20 hr or less. Is this what I should expect? Home Blog. Submitted by AppleVis on Thursday, April 9, Overview The Apple watch is rectangular in shape with rounded edges.

With Watch on your left wrist, the layout is as follows: Front: The touch screen; the screen ends at the curved sides of the watch face. Right Edge: Digital Crown at the top; oval-shaped “Friends” button at the bottom.

Back: Raised convex housing for the watch charger; watch sensors; two small holes where the two ends of the band connect with the watch. Left edge: The speaker is directly across from the Digital Crown, and the microphone is directly across from the “Friends” button. Following is a detailed look at each accessibility feature, based on the information provided to us: VoiceOver VoiceOver is fully integrated into the Apple Watch OS, and all of the built-in apps are completely accessible.

Following the release of WatchOS 8, the company has introduced a new feature that can alleviate eye strain when using the Zoom function on your watch. To get started, you need to first visit the Watch settings on your iPhone. This is where you can enable the Zoom function that magnifies the entire screen. On your watch, you get similar settings but the numerical levels are replaced with a slider and you can try that out too. After the double-tap, the screen gets magnified on your watch and a small box appears on the top right that shows you a preview pointing at the place you have magnified.

An easier option would be to just rotate the digital crown on your watch, which would move the magnification area. Connect with us. Once you have enable these settings, the next step would be to learn how to use it. Zoom by double tapping with two fingers. Drag two fingers to move around the screen.