Single Tap Options

[WizeGuyDezignz]

Does anyone know what these two settings do? The second one is especially confusing. Don't you use a single tap to use those buttons in the first place?

 

[VidJunky]

It means just that... you are looking at accessibility options. These options help those who may not be as dexterous, visually or audibly capable as the average person. So when these options are used they allow the user to navigate regularly in the notification bar and the navigation menu, the way a person who would not need assistance would. So instead of reading or describing what is under the users finger it acts normally and the buttons do what they would normally do. Not sure how else to describe it... Instead of telling you that your finger is on the home button it just takes you home.

 

[WizeGuyDezignz]

It means just that... you are looking at accessibility options. These options help those who may not be as dexterous, visually or audibly capable as the average person. So when these options are used they allow the user to navigate regularly in the notification bar and the navigation menu, the way a person who would not need assistance would. So instead of reading or describing what is under the users finger it acts normally and the buttons do what they would normally do. Not sure how else to describe it... Instead of telling you that your finger is on the home button it just takes you home.

I'm not bashing you on your description at all, but I don't understand unfortunately. What does it do differently when you turn it on? The buttons on the navigation bar don't have words or anything and takes a single tap to perform an action. What does this do differently?

 

[VidJunky]

Right they don't have words to be read but the read out accessibility feature not only reads words to you but it can describe where you are touching as well. So if you placed your finger on the home button but were unsure if that was the location of the home button then it would say home button, then you could tap it again and access the home option. Turn on that little toggle and it assumes that you know you are touching the home button and just takes you home.

Here try this... Close your eyes with your phone in one hand and try to open an app with your other... Now you probably cheated and looked at the screen before you did it and knew about where the app was and instinctively went to the spot where it was and touched it. Now imagine you can't see the apps very well or maybe at all, you know they're there but hitting them reliably is an issue. Drag your finger across the screen and read out reads everything you touch, then when you find the thing you're looking for you touch it again. So everything becomes two touches.

 

[WizeGuyDezignz]

Right they don't have words to be read but the read out accessibility feature not only reads words to you but it can describe where you are touching as well. So if you placed your finger on the home button but were unsure if that was the location of the home button then it would say home button, then you could tap it again and access the home option. Turn on that little toggle and it assumes that you know you are touching the home button and just takes you home.

Here try this... Close your eyes with your phone in one hand and try to open an app with your other... Now you probably cheated and looked at the screen before you did it and knew about where the app was and instinctively went to the spot where it was and touched it. Now imagine you can't see the apps very well or maybe at all, you know they're there but hitting them reliably is an issue. Drag your finger across the screen and read out reads everything you touch, then when you find the thing you're looking for you touch it again. So everything becomes two touches.

Ohhh, got it now! Thanks so much for this info.