iSee - Using various technologies from a blind persons perspective.

In this demo I show you how to access the accessibility short-cut menu, demo what happens if you only have one option on the accessibility menu or more, and not the fact that even you may have VoiceOver turned off, the accessibility menu will speak.

In this demo, I take you through a physical description of the Siri remote, and a run through of the functionality of the buttons on the remote: left had column Menu, Siri, and Play/Pause, and right column Home, and the volume up/down button.  Just occurred to me that after I completed the demo, that if you press on the trackpad, it'll bring up the move function at the Home screen of the Apple tv, at which time you can press the Play/Pause button to delete an app.

In this demo, I take you toggling on/off VoiceOver.  Show you were to find the accessibility short cut. demo the VoiceOver practise for VO gestures on the Siri touch remote. take you through the VoiceOver rotor options.  Use Direct Touch accessed from the rotor with main screen, keyboard, and within an app.  Finally, demo the press and hold of the Play/Pause button on the Siri touch remote to emulate the two finger flick up read from top of screen.FYI: Siri touch remote:top face is the trackpad touch screen, and thenleft middle 3 vertical column of buttons - Menu, Siri, and Play/Pause buttons,Middle right - Home button, and rectangular volume up/down button.VoiceOver gestures of course (smile) being performed on the trackpad at the top of the Siri touch remote as someone did ask me during the week was I touching the tv screen smile.

In this demo I take you through a number of things you can do with Siri on the Apple tv.  Siri doesn't speak as it does on the iPhone, iPod touch or iPad, but displays text as it does on the Apple watch.  However, VoiceOver will read the text that Siri generates.  To use Siri: hold down Siri button (middle button of 3 on Siri remote), speak command and release button.  The items I take you through include getting the time, date, and weather, turning VoiceOver on or off, activating controls on the viewable screen, returning to the screen, dismissing the Siri interface, opening apps, searching and playing movies/music, navigating the App store, and getting Siri to tell you what types of commands you can use.  Also tried to get Siri to tell me a joke but she wouldn't, instead she at least answered why the chicken crossed the road.

In this demo I demonstrate how you can navigate the Apple tv 4th generation using the Nimbus game controller with VoiceOver.  once paired, the cursor takes you up, down, left and right, left stick moves as cursor (although found this harder), right stick appears to do nothing as far as VO is concerned, DPad of buttons y button at 12 on clock face, x at 9, a at 6, and b at 3 - A acts as click and B acts as back menu button.  Front triggers and shoulder buttons move left and right across a row.  Front middle of Nimbus is the lightening connector for charge, slide on/off switch to the left of the lightening connector and pair to the right.  All up, easy to use with VoiceOver and to navigate.  Of course, no Siri button on the controller.  Figured, if my boys can have fun playing games with it, I can have fun navigating with it.  Final note: no need to turn it off via the slide switch as Nimbus will go to sleep after 15 minutes.  Remember that at time of recording, only two controllers can be paired along with the Siri remote or one BT head set and game controller plus the Siri remote.

In this demo, I make a note of changes to the purchased apps screen which now includes Recent purchased apps, Recent Updates and All app categories, When flicked down to, will let you then flick to the right to see what apps are in each of these categories.  Below this is a list of categories covering apps that you have purchased with the ability again to flick to the right to see what apps are in that category.  All Apps appeared to be the screen that I had in the previous demo of purchasing apps.After this, I then move in to the main demo of moving apps, deleting apps, checking how much space apps take up, and finally look at opening or quitting apps from the App Switcher which you get to the same way the you do on the iPhone, iPod touch or iPad: press the Home button twice on the Siri remote (right hand button above the volume control).

In this demo, I show you how you can check the battery level of the Siri touch remote by going in to Settings, General, Remotes and Devices, Bluetooth.  I also note that there seems to be no way of checking the battery status from the Apple tv of my Steel Series Nimbus game controllers from the Apple tv.

In this demo, I show how easy it is to access Apple tv enabled apps from your previous iOs app purchases, how to search for an app using the on-screen keyboard, and opening a few apps to see what they sound like and how one of them works with VoiceOver.