Using the Stopwatch
iFocus@Hadley
Using the Stopwatch
Presented by
Douglas Walker
January 19, 2017
Douglas Walker
The Hadley Institute for the Blind and Visually Impaired
presents iFocus; tips on using the vision accessibility
features in iOS. In today's installment we'll look at using
the stopwatch.
Hello, my name is Douglas Walker. Today, we are going
to be looking at how to use our stopwatch and we'll be
using our iPhone for today's demonstration.
Now, we have a really great stopwatch that is built right
into our clock app. Apple has done a fantastic job of
making it totally accessible. Our stopwatch is actually part
of our clock app and our clock app is right here on our
desktop. We just need to flick to it to get started here. We'll
just flick to it here.
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Voiceover
Clock 1:37 pm. Double tap to open. Swipe up or down to
select a custom action, then double tap to activate.
Douglas Walker
All right and here we are on our clock app. We'll just single
finger double tap to activate it. We'll do just that. We'll just
single finger double tap.
Voiceover
Clock edit button.
Douglas Walker
Great. Our clock app has opened for us and we're actually
currently in a world clock tab, here and we've been placed
on our edit button in the top left corner of our screen. We'll
begin by first exploring our clock app interface so that we
know exactly where to find our stopwatch. We have five
tabs that make up our clock app. If we're not familiar with
how tabs work, well tabs are like buttons. These tabs are
lined up across the bottom edge of our screen. If we single
finger double tap or if we activate any of our tabs, it's like
opening up a whole new screen in which we're able to
interact.
It's almost like having four apps within one app because
each of our tabs is a totally different time related task for
us. Again, these tabs are across the bottom edge of our
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screen and they run from left to right. When we first launch
our clock app, we're typically placed right back into the last
tab that we happened to be using. In this case, of course,
as we said earlier we've been placed in our world clock
screen.
Now, we know that we're headed to our stopwatch tab.
Our stopwatch tab is actually our fourth tab and it's near
the bottom right hand corner of our screen. How about to
orient ourself, let's just touch down here in the bottom right
hand corner of our screen. We'll go ahead and just touch
down here and we'll touch.
Voiceover
Timer tab. Five of five.
Douglas Walker
Here's our fifth tab and this is our time tab as we heard.
Now, we know that our stopwatch is our fourth tab, so we'll
just left flick one time to find our stopwatch tab. We'll just
left flick here, and we'll left flick.
Voiceover
Stopwatch tab. Four of five.
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Douglas Walker
Okay, and here we are. We're on our stopwatch tab and of
course this is exactly where we want to be. We'll just
single finger double tap to go ahead and open it up or
activate it. We'll just double tap anywhere. Great.
Our stopwatch screen or interface is open and read to
start using it. Now, our stopwatch is a really handy tool if
we really need to time ourselves to see how long it takes
to perform a given task like running laps on a track or
maybe how long it takes to finish watching this video,
maybe. You get the idea.
How about we go ahead and we just totally explore our
stopwatch interface and we'll checkout how it all works. At
the very top center of our screen and just below our time
and our status bar is our heading. How about we go ahead
and just touch our heading and we'll move to the top of our
stopwatch screen. We'll just touch our heading.
Voiceover
Stopwatch heading.
Douglas Walker
Okay, so here's our stopwatch heading and now all we
need to do is start right flicking through our screen to see
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what we have here. We'll go ahead and just right flick from
here. We'll right flick.
Voiceover
Zero seconds.
Douglas Walker
Here, we find our elapsed time. The elapsed time is going
to display our total time and of course it's zero right now,
but this is going to change once we actually start our
stopwatch. We'll just go ahead and right flick from here.
We'll right flick.
Voiceover
Lap button.
Douglas Walker
Okay, here we find our lap button and this is the button
that we're gonna activate each time we want to record
another or an additional lap. Now, it's important to know
that once we've actually started and stopped our
stopwatch, that our lap button is going to turn into a reset
button. Of course, we would use our reset button to totally
reset our stopwatch app back to zero and we'll check out
how to reset our stopwatch at the end of today's video.
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We're almost there. How about we go ahead and we right
flick a couple more times and we'll just right flick.
Voiceover
Start button.
Douglas Walker
Great, so here we find our start button and of course we
would activate our start button here to actually begin our
stopwatch. Once we activate our start button, it's actually
gonna turn into a stop button. We'll come back to see how
all this works once we've finished exploring the rest of our
screen, here. Let's go ahead and just right flick again.
We'll right flick.
Voiceover
Page one of two. Digital stopwatch, adjustable. Swipe up
or down with one finger to adjust the value.
Douglas Walker
Okay, so here we are on adjustable bar and voiceover
announced that we have the ability to flick up our screen
or flick down our screen and we can choose between our
digital or our analog stopwatch. Now, our digital stopwatch
is currently selected here; however, we can just flick up
our screen and we would choose our analog stopwatch if
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we like, but we're just gonna leave ours set to our digital
stopwatch, however it's always nice to have choices,
right?
We mentioned earlier that all of our lap times are gonna
be listed at the bottom of our screen; however, we don't
have any lap times yet so if we were to right flick again
instead of then counting our lap times, we actually jump
back into our tabs down here at the bottom edge of our
screen. Okay, so how about we go ahead and we get our
stopwatch going. We just left flick and we'll get back to our
start button here. We'll just go ahead and left flick.
Voiceover
Start button.
Douglas Walker
Okay, so this is exactly where we want to be, so we'll go
ahead and we'll just single finger double tap to activate our
start button. We'll just double tap and we'll double tap
here.
Voiceover
Stop.
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Douglas Walker
Our stopwatch has started and our start button turned into
a stop button. That's pretty great. Now, remember the
reason we heard stop button is because our start button
turned into it once we activated it there, so we know that if
we were to single finger double tap again that our
stopwatch would of course stop for us. How about we do
that. We will just perform a single finger double tap and
we'll stop our stopwatch. I'm getting tongue tied. We'll just
single finger double tap and we'll do that.
Voiceover
Start.
Douglas Walker
Great. We hear a little click audio cue and of course that
let us know that our stopwatch had stopped for us and our
stop button has once again turned back into a start button
for us. If we want to start it again, of course all we need to
do is do another single finger double tap; however, how
about we just left flick back to our elapsed time and we'll
see how much time has elapsed. We'll just left flick and
we'll left flick.
Voiceover
Reset button.
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Douglas Walker
Okay, so here we find our reset button, now. Remember
this was our lap time button that we saw earlier. We told
you earlier that it would turn into a reset button once we
activated and stopped our stop button over here. You've
probably already guessed that all we need to do is just
single finger double tap. If you wanted to reset our
stopwatch time back here to zero, however, we don't want
to do that for now because we're actually looking for our
lapsed time, so we'll just left flick. We'll left flick here.
Voiceover
41.10 seconds.
Douglas Walker
Here we see that we have 41.10 seconds here and of
course this is how much time elapsed between the time
that we activated and stopped our start button, there. This
is pretty great. All right, so how about we do this. Let's
right flick back to our stop button, now and we'll start our
stopwatch back again and then we'll check out how to
create some lap times for us now. Let's just right flick until
we get back to our start button. We'll right flick.
Voiceover
Reset button.
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Douglas Walker
Of course there's a reset button, so we'll right flick again.
Voiceover
Start button.
Douglas Walker
Great and here's our start button again. We'll just single
finger double tap to get our stopwatch going again. We'll
just single finger double tap.
Voiceover
Stop.
Douglas Walker
Right, again we heard our audio cue, so we know for sure
that our stopwatch has started back up again for us and of
course our reset button has turned back into our lap
button. We'll go ahead and just left flick once to get back
to our lap button and we'll just left flick.
Voiceover
Lap button.
Douglas Walker
All right, so this is great. Here, we find our lap button and
of course all we need to do now is just single finger,
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double tap. We'll record a lap time. It's important to know
that we've already recorded one time down here by
starting and stopping completely our timer, but this will
actually probably be our second lap time here, so we'll go
ahead and we'll just single double tap to record another
time. Double tap.
Voiceover
1:34.
Douglas Walker
Okay, we heard voiceover announce 1:34 and of course
our elapsed time is still running up here. If we flick to the
right past that adjustable bar that we saw earlier, we're
gonna find a list of our lap times down here. The very last
lap that we make will actually be at the top of our list. So
far we only have a couple down here. Since we're still on
our lap button, how about we go ahead and single finger
double tap and we'll add another lap time. We'll just single
finger double tap.
Voiceover
Lap 46.8 seconds.
Douglas Walker
Now, we are 46 point some odd seconds. I didn't catch the
end of it there, but now we have a couple of lap times
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recorded down here. Let's go ahead and just right flick
back to our start button and we'll stop our stopwatch and
we'll just right flick to it.
Voiceover
Stop button.
Douglas Walker
All right, so here we are on our stop button. We'll just
single finger double tap. We'll double tap.
Voiceover
Start.
Douglas Walker
Okay. We heard our stop audio cue and our stop button
has once again turned back into our start button. How
about we right flick a couple of times and we'll check out
our lap time area. We'll just right flick a couple of times.
We'll right flick.
Voiceover
Page one of two. Digital stopwatch, adjustable. Swipe up
or down with one finger to adjust the value.
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Douglas Walker
Here's our adjustable bar again. We'll just right flick again
and we'll find our lap time here. We'll just right flick.
Voiceover
Lap three, 31.25 seconds. 2:55.02 elapsed.
Douglas Walker
Here's all of our lap times. Of course, we only have a
couple down here, but remember the last lap that we
recorded is actually at the top of this list. We just right flick
again and we'll see our next lap.
Voiceover
Lap two, 46.81. 2:23.77 elapsed. Fastest.
Douglas Walker
Okay and here we find our next lap. This is pretty great.
Okay, so how about let's go ahead and wrap things up by
we'll just left flick back to our reset button up here and we'll
check out how to clear out our stopwatch. We'll just left
flick back to our reset button.
Voiceover
Lap three-
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Douglas Walker
We'll flick again.
Voiceover
Page one of two. Digital stopwatch, adjustable start
button.
Douglas Walker
There's our start button, again.
Voiceover
Reset button.
Douglas Walker
Here's our reset button. Of course, all we need to do to
clear everything in our stopwatch, you just perform
another single finger double tap. We'll do just that. We'll
just single finger double tap anywhere, here.
Voiceover
Lap.
Douglas Walker
Okay, now our elapsed time and of course all of our lap
times down here at the bottom of the screen have all
cleared and we're all set to start from scratch again. It
really is so nice that we've been given such a great
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accessible stopwatch that, I tell you, really is super easy to
use. It's pretty great.
Again, my name is Douglas Walker. Take care and I'll see
you next time.
For more from the iFocus series including many other
topics of interest to individuals with vision loss, visit the
videos at Hadley page on the Hadley Institute for the Blind
and the Visually Impaired website at www.hadley.edu.
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