What is a text label?
When you make a text label, you
simply go to the website and type up to 100
characters of text to be encoded on your label. Text labels are read and voiced
by your phone. These are different from audio labels, where you record what you
want to hear when the label is scanned.
How do I make a text label?
When you make a text labels,
you'll print your sheet of text labels and stick one on the item
you want to label
When you scan the label, the phone will read and voice the
content of your label to you.
What are the advantages of text labels over audio labels?
Text
labels are useful when you know in advance what you want
the label to say or where you want to share content (perhaps inventory labels or
tags that identify critical household papers.) The content
associated with a text label is public because anyone who has
Digit-Eyes on their phone can read it.
Do text labels have to be in English?
When making text labels,
you can use symbols and numbers in
addition to upper and lower case alphabetic characters when
creating your Digit-Eyes labels. You can also use
non-English characters such as those in the Arabic, Greek,
Hebrew, Hindi, Hiragana, Kana, Kanji, Korean or Russian
character sets.
VoiceOver voice most, but
not all of these languages. VoiceOver, the voicing software on the iPhone, can render the
following languages: Chinese (Cantonese, China, Taiwan), Dutch,
English (British and US), Finnish, French (Canada and France),
German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil and Portugal),
Russian, Spanish (Mexico and Spain) and Swedish. Thus, if your text labels are to be used by the sighted, you
can use any language; if you are making labels for people who are not sighted,
you'll need to use only languages that VoiceOver supports.
Click here
for frequently-asked questions about text labels.
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