Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for accessibility using a touch-sensitive surface

• US 10,474,351 B2
• Filed: 07/13/2018
• Issued: 11/12/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 06/07/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Fleizach, Christopher Brian, Seymour, Eric Taylor
• Primary Examiner(s): Simpson, Lixi C
• Application Number:
  US16/035,068
• Publication Number:
  US 20190065023A1
• Time in Patent Office: 487 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04808 Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

An accessibility method is performed by an electronic device with a display and a touch-sensitive surface. The method includes: displaying a plurality of user interface elements on the display; in response to detecting a first user interface navigation gesture by a finger on the touch-sensitive surface, navigating in the plurality of user interface elements in accordance with a current navigable unit type; in response to detecting a first user interface navigation setting gesture on the touch-sensitive surface: changing the current navigable unit type from the first navigable unit type to a second navigable unit type; and outputting accessibility information about the second navigable unit type; after changing the current navigable unit type, in response to detecting a second user interface navigation gesture by the finger on the touch-sensitive surface, navigating in the plurality of user interface elements in accordance with the current navigable unit type.

Claims

1. An electronic device, comprising:

a touch screen display having a center;

one or more processors; and

memory storing one or more programs configured to be executed by the one or more processors, the one or more programs including instructions for;

displaying content in a user interface at a first magnification on the touch screen display;

detecting a first multi-finger gesture on the touch screen display, wherein detecting the first multi-finger gesture includes detecting concurrent multi -finger contacts on the touch screen display; and

in response to detecting the first multi-finger gesture on the touch screen display, magnifying the content in the user interface to display a zoomed region of the content in the user interface to a second magnification, greater than the first magnification, on the touch screen display, including;

in accordance with a determination that the first multi-finger gesture is detected near the center of the touch screen display, the zoomed region is centered on a location of the first multi-finger gesture in the content; and

in accordance with a determination that the first multi-finger gesture is detected near an edge of the touch screen display, the zoomed region is offset from the location of the first multi-finger gesture in the content but includes the location of the first multi-finger gesture in the content.

2. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the first magnification corresponds to a default unmagnified view.

3. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the first multi-finger gesture includes a three-finger tap gesture.

4. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the zoomed region is displayed at an edge of the touch screen display when the first multi-finger gesture is detected at the edge of the touch screen display.

5. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein displaying a zoomed region of the content in the user interface to the second magnification further includes:

while magnifying the content in the user interface to display a zoomed region of the content in the user interface to the second magnification, detecting a second multi-finger gesture on the touch screen display; and

in response to detecting the second multi-finger gesture on the touch screen display, demagnifying the content in the user interface to the first magnification.

6. The electronic device of claim 5, wherein the second multi-finger gesture is a three-finger gesture.

7. The electronic device of claim 5, wherein the second multi-finger gesture is a three-finger, double-tap gesture.

8. The electronic device of claim 5, wherein the second multi-finger gesture is substantially the same as the first multi-finger gesture.

9. The electronic device of claim 5, wherein demagnifying the content in the user interface includes displaying a zooming-out animation.

10. A method, comprising:

at an electronic device with a touch screen display having a center;

displaying content in a user interface at a first magnification on the touch screen display;

detecting a first multi-finger gesture on the touch screen display, wherein detecting the first multi-finger gesture includes detecting concurrent multi -finger contacts on the touch screen display; and

in response to detecting the first multi-finger gesture on the touch screen display, magnifying the content in the user interface to display a zoomed region of the content in the user interface to a second magnification, greater than the first magnification, on the touch screen display, including;

in accordance with a determination that the first multi-finger gesture is detected near the center of the touch screen display, the zoomed region is centered on a location of the first multi-finger gesture in the content; and

in accordance with a determination that the first multi-finger gesture is detected near an edge of the touch screen display, the zoomed region is offset from the location of the first multi-finger gesture in the content but includes the location of the first multi-finger gesture in the content.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the first magnification corresponds to a default unmagnified view.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the first multi-finger gesture includes a three-finger tap gesture.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the zoomed region is displayed at an edge of the touch screen display when the first multi-finger gesture is detected at the edge of the touch screen display.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein displaying a zoomed region of the content in the user interface to the second magnification further includes:

while magnifying the content in the user interface to display a zoomed region of the content in the user interface to the second magnification, detecting a second multi-finger gesture on the touch screen display; and

in response to detecting the second multi-finger gesture on the touch screen display, demagnifying the content in the user interface to the first magnification.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the second multi-finger gesture is a three-finger gesture.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein the second multi-finger gesture is a three-finger, double-tap gesture.

17. The method of claim 14, wherein the second multi-finger gesture is substantially the same as the first multi-finger gesture.

18. The method of claim 14, wherein demagnifying the content in the user interface includes displaying a zooming-out animation.

19. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing one or more programs configured to be executed by one or more processors of an electronic device with a touch screen display having a center, the one or more programs including instructions for:

displaying content in a user interface at a first magnification on the touch screen display;

detecting a first multi-finger gesture on the touch screen display, wherein detecting the first multi-finger gesture includes detecting concurrent multi -finger contacts on the touch screen display; and

in response to detecting the first multi-finger gesture on the touch screen display, magnifying the content in the user interface to display a zoomed region of the content in the user interface to a second magnification, greater than the first magnification, on the touch screen display, including;

in accordance with a determination that the first multi-finger gesture is detected near the center of the touch screen display, the zoomed region is centered on a location of the first multi-finger gesture in the content; and

in accordance with a determination that the first multi-finger gesture is detected near an edge of the touch screen display, the zoomed region is offset from the location of the first multi-finger gesture in the content but includes the location of the first multi-finger gesture in the content.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 19, wherein the first magnification corresponds to a default unmagnified view.

21. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 19, wherein the first multi-finger gesture includes a three-finger tap gesture.

22. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 19, wherein the zoomed region is displayed at an edge of the touch screen display when the first multi-finger gesture is detected at the edge of the touch screen display.

23. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 19, wherein displaying a zoomed region of the content in the user interface to the second magnification further includes:

while magnifying the content in the user interface to display a zoomed region of the content in the user interface to the second magnification, detecting a second multi-finger gesture on the touch screen display; and

in response to detecting the second multi-finger gesture on the touch screen display, demagnifying the content in the user interface to the first magnification.

24. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 23, wherein the second multi-finger gesture is a three-finger gesture.

25. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 23, wherein the second multi-finger gesture is a three-finger, double-tap gesture.

26. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 23, wherein the second multi-finger gesture is substantially the same as the first multi-finger gesture.

27. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 23, wherein demagnifying the content in the user interface includes displaying a zooming-out animation.