That’s an interesting/ingenious idea, will bear it in mind. I say that because the issue is now resolved. Several attempts produced the same experience, but for some reason my last attempt [doing exactly as I had before] made the onscreen keyboard available again. No idea why it wasn’t showing up all those other times; just one of those IT oddities! -
Andy On 5 Sep 2014, at 17:24, Matthew Carello <mcarell...@comcast.net> wrote: > Hello Andy. Have you thought of typing the password in a note or something > and copying it into the password field? This should in theory work. Hope this > helps, > > Matt > On Sep 5, 2014, at 11:09 AM, Andy Collins <a...@recreation.plus.com> wrote: > >> I know that, when it comes to regular Braille, but think about it when it >> comes to entering a password for the iPhone. The dot 6 will get seen as the >> first character of the password which of course is not what I want - >> >> Andy >> On 5 Sep 2014, at 16:05, Eleanor Martha Burke <eleanormarthabu...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> dot 6 before the capital letter. >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Collins" <a...@recreation.plus.com> >>> To: "OS X & iOS Accessibility" <mac-access@mac-access.net> >>> Sent: Friday, September 05, 2014 3:21 PM >>> Subject: Re: Using the Apple store app on my iPhone to make a genius >>> barappointment >>> >>> >>> I don’t have one. However, the suggestion got me to try using a Braille >>> display; the problem there was that I couldn’t figure out how to enter >>> capitals and numbers in Braille that would display in the password edit >>> field the way I needed them to be. I did try using computer numbers, but as >>> the display just fills up the cells as the phone does in order to keep the >>> password invisible, I couldn’t check if what I entered worked or not. Well, >>> actually, it didn’t as I kept getting an error message regarding my >>> username and password - >>> >>> Andy >>> On 5 Sep 2014, at 13:10, Eleanor Martha Burke >>> <eleanormarthabu...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> guess you could try using a Bluetooth keyboard >>>> >>>>> On 5 Sep 2014, at 12:58, Andy Collins <a...@recreation.plus.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi all - >>>>> >>>>> I followed the list advice and now have the Apple store app on my phone. >>>>> >>>>> When trying to make a Genius bar appointment, I was able to select a day >>>>> and time, but when it came to clicking the reserve button, a screen came >>>>> up asking for my Apple ID. Although VO said text edit for the password >>>>> field, there was no onscreen keyboard for me to use to enter it. 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