Hi Marcy, I do find the business about trying to get to the Favorites screen tricky, and in my initial post I mentioned that the "To Do" list worked fine, as did the ability to email recipes, but that I wasn't sure that I could mark any recipes as "Favorites". I definitely could not get the "Rating" to work while VoiceOver was switched on. Double tap and hold pass through gestures in this area simply did not work for me. I had to toggle VoiceOver off to get a rating to register, and I needed to use my thumb on "Rating" as a reference pointer. You might try lightly tapping around with the forefinger of your right hand in the area to the right of your thumb. That works pretty well, but I found that I had to tap around in different spots in order for this to register, before toggling VoiceOver back on again and double tapping the "Favorites" button. Simply tapping once and then toggling VoiceOver back on didn't seem to hit a "rating star" with high enough accuracy, but doing a few t aps in the area before turning VO on seemed to work. Also, with the first method I am still giving a light tap to the screen when I stroke to the right. In most instances you are supposed to click or tap on entries to add them, so you might want to check that you have lightly tapped.
This is one of the actions that is difficult to describe in posts. New iPhone users have a hard time getting used to how light and quick the touch screen gestures are in practice, and for experienced users, describing when you might need to put in slightly more force (when tapping around the screen), is also hard to convey. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Nov 23, 2011, at 07:25, Marcy Weinberg wrote: > Hi, Esther, > > I've followed your directions for rating a recipe and then either it already > going into favorites, or being able to addd it to favorites, but I can't get > the recipe in no matter what I do. > > Adding the recipe to the todo list works fine, and in there is a list of the > recipes I've added, so its' like a favorites list, but I'd still like to be > able to add to the favorites with the method youve described. > > Any other tips or tricks you can suggest would be very much appreciated! > > Thanks! > > Marcy > > On Nov 23, 2011, at 12:05 PM, Esther wrote: > > Hi Colin and Others, > > In SoupMaster the button to add to (or remove from) the "To Do" list not > labeled as a button but as an image, but has the letters "b t n" included in > the name as a clue. Flick right from the name of the recipe at the top of > the screen to "Rating", then flick again to the next item that sounds like > VoiceOver is saying "add todd oh BTN PNG image". This is actually a button, > and you can set the rotor to characters and flick down to hear the characters > read one by one. When you double tap it, your recipe will be added to the > "To Do" list that you can access from the "To Do" button at the bottom center > of the screen, just above the Home button. Now when you flick to this > control, you'll hear that the label has changed, and VoiceOver will announce > this as "already todd oh BTN PNG image". If you double tap again, the recipe > will be removed from the entries of the "To Do" list screen. > > As far as using the "Favorites" button, it appears that you need to be able > to rate the recipe in order to mark it as a favorite, and show up on the > screen for the "Favorites" category (designated by the third of the three > buttons at the bottom of the screen). But the rating field is not being > announced by VoiceOver. I got around this by holding the iPhone in my left > hand, and moving my thumb down the left side of the screen until it was on > the button that said "Rating". Then I toggled VoiceOver off by triple > clicking the Home button, and lightly touched the screen to the right of my > thumb. I got the best results by stroking from left to right, starting from > the end of my thumb. The further to the right you stroke, the higher the > rating will be, although you'll only be able to tell how the rating came out > if you double tap the "Favorites" button at the bottom right corner of the > screen so that the recipe is added to your "Favorites". These are grouped > under categorie s > of "5 stars", "4 stars", etc. It doesn't matter if the recipe was only rated > "1 star" -- as long as you managed to rate it, it will show up under > "Favorites" when you double tap that button. If you choose to rate it again > (e.g., by toggling VoiceOver off again on the "Recipes" screen, and stroking > further to the right of "Rating"), it simply gets reclassified on the > "Favorites" screen by moving to the new category. Entries on the "To Do" > and "Favorites" screens can be deleted in the normal way, via an "Edit" > button in the top right corner. When you double tap the "Edit" button, there > will be "Delete" switch buttons to the left of each recipe entry, and double > tapping any of these to set the delete "switch button" to "on" will remove > the entry. The "Edit" button in the top right corner of the screen has now > become a "Done" button, that you double tap when you want to leave delete > mode. > > HTH. Cheers, > > Esther > > > On Nov 23, 2011, at 04:28, Red.Falcon wrote: > >> Hi All! >> Yes this is a great app! >> I also bought the dessert version! >> But in both I cannot find how to make them go to the [to do ] or >> [favourites] I thought that the free version might explain why you could not >> do it in that app! >> But it's the same in the paid app! >> But is this a case of vo not seeing or the app not letting vo see? >> Do all of you who got this app have the same trouble or does it work for you! >> hth Colin >> Qapla! >> >> On 23 Nov 2011, at 04:45, Mary Otten wrote: >> >>> Thanks so much, Esther. This is the perfect time of hear to find this kind >>> of app, and I'm sure I'd have missed it if you hadn't pointed it out. >>> >>> Mary >>> >>> Mary Otten >>> motte...@gmail.com >>> >>> > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
