Patent ID: 8707195

Claim:
An accessible electronic device, comprising: a touch-sensitive surface; a display; one or more processors; memory; and one or more programs, wherein the one or more programs are stored in the memory and configured to be executed by the one or more processors, the one or more programs including instructions for: displaying a first plurality of user-selectable objects on the display; detecting a first finger contact at a first location on the touch-sensitive surface; detecting movement of the first finger contact across the touch sensitive surface from the first location to an activation region that corresponds to a first user-selectable object in the first plurality of user-selectable objects on the display; while detecting the first finger contact at the activation region that corresponds to the first user-selectable object, initiating output of audible accessibility information associated with the first user-selectable object; detecting termination of the first finger contact with the touch-sensitive surface while the first finger contact is at the activation region that corresponds to the first user-selectable object; and, in response to detecting the termination of the first finger contact: performing a predefined operation associated with the first user-selectable object if the device has output at least a predefined portion of the audible accessibility information associated with the first user-selectable object when the termination of the first finger contact is detected; and forgoing performing the predefined operation associated with the first user-selectable object if the device has not output at least the predefined portion of the audible accessibility information associated with the first user-selectable object when termination of the first finger contact is detected.