927279 - [A11y] Enable Screen-reader with user action

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 957674

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia::First Time Experience, defect)

Description

[arky [:arky]]

Allow blind users to start screen-reader by drawing a gesture (draw a square) or triple tapping. 

This will enable blind users to start using the device right after unboxing.

Comment 1

[Marco Zehe (:MarcoZ)]

Some thoughts:
Experience on Android has shown that both methods have their flaws:
1. Drawing a square, as done in Android 4.0, has almost never worked for anyone, present company included. It took me three hours to get it to speak. Yes, three. A shape of any kind is just too unreliable, because everyone draws shapes differently. And blind users don't have any particular experience with drawing usually.

In Android 4.1 and above, the gesture to turn on TalkBack during initial setup is to place two fingers slightly apart on the display and keep them there for a few seconds, until the device starts speaking the first message. This, in turn, instructs the user to keep the fingers on the display a while longer to *really* start the device. The only device I've seen this working to some reliable degree is my Nexus 7 1st generation. It failed for me on a Nexus 4, and it also recently failed for the user Pratik patel, @ppatel on Twitter, on the Nexus 5. Took him several hours to get it working, also because of an update that was installed without any audible indicator.

The only reliable way I know is the home button triple-click done on iOS. I've never seen it fail since it was introduced in iOS 5 two years ago. So if we can find anything remotely similar, like your suggested triple-tap or so, that would be excellent.

Comment 3

[Eitan Isaacson [:eeejay]]

I like the holding two fingers down for a long duration approach. I think it should appear in two places, device menu (power button menu) and first screen in first time use setup.

In the FTU app, if the user does not touch the screen for 15 seconds, there should be a voice that would say something like "hold screen with two fingers to activate screen reader". When the user puts two fingers on the screen, after 5 seconds they would here "keep fingers on the screen to activate screen reader". 5 seconds later screen reader is activated.

If the device is already past FTU, the user could hold the power button to bring up the device menu. There would be a slight haptic feedback to let the user know the menu came up. And then the user could put two fingers on the screen to activate the screen reader, with a voice indication to hold it longer for it to activate like above. Unlike the FTU screen, there is no inactivity voice in the device menu.

Comment 4

[Yura Zenevich [:yzen] (please use "needinfo")]

I guess this is more involved than the quick toggle, reopening.

Comment 5

[Yura Zenevich [:yzen] (please use "needinfo")]

Another alternative Eitan and I were talking about (something that is already implemented for bug 957674) is the ability to enable/disable the screen reader by:
1) clicking the sleep button 3 times in short succession
2) hearing the instructional message to click the button 3 more times to disable/enable the screen reader
3) performing the 3 clicks as instructed.

Comment 6

[Eitan Isaacson [:eeejay]]

Could we call this fixed? Bug 957674 seems to have resolved this.