Re: Data entry on the iPhone 4 with OS5

2011-11-18 Thread Geoff Waaler
ramatically reduces data entry time in most instances. Best regards. Geoff - Original Message - From: "Michael Busboom" To: "Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility" Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 11:16 AM Subject: Re: Data entry on the iPhone 4 with OS5 As usua

RE: Data entry on the iPhone 4 with OS5

2011-11-18 Thread Bubba
: Re: Data entry on the iPhone 4 with OS5 As usual, Esther, your response was delightfully thorough and instructive. One question I forgot to ask in my original note was about the orientation of the iPhone when entering data. Should it be oriented to landscape or portrait? Along similar lines, does

Re: Data entry on the iPhone 4 with OS5

2011-11-18 Thread Michael Busboom
As usual, Esther, your response was delightfully thorough and instructive. One question I forgot to ask in my original note was about the orientation of the iPhone when entering data. Should it be oriented to landscape or portrait? Along similar lines, does the iPhone need to be lying on a su

Re: Data entry on the iPhone 4 with OS5

2011-11-17 Thread Sarah Alawami
OH no worries. I'm actually surprised it does not work on a bt keyboard as well. I cannot take a excerpt from a web page or blog and just paste it in to an email let's say. I dunno why apple took it out, if indeed they did. The reason I say that is this. I dunno if it is out for good or if it i

Re: Data entry on the iPhone 4 with OS5

2011-11-17 Thread Esther
Hi Sarah, Thanks for the heads up. I was cutting and pasting from old answer posts in hopes of getting some coverage of how the insertion point material works for Mike. What I remembered is that Kevin explained the way that the insertion point and rotor works in the second part of the podcas

Re: Data entry on the iPhone 4 with OS5

2011-11-17 Thread Sarah Alawami
Actually kevin's method no longer works. They removed the ability some time back. if you are to double tap and hold on a line of text or what not in a email there is no edit option. Not as far as I can tell, Also they removed the spell check feature even though in the keyboard option it says

Re: Data entry on the iPhone 4 with OS5

2011-11-17 Thread Esther
Hi Mike, Sarah's explanation of the behavior of the insertion point position describes how to tell where you are positioned in a text entry, and also which characters will be removed when you press the delete key, but I'll try to answer your specific questions by interleaving replies. You migh

Re: Data entry on the iPhone 4 with OS5

2011-11-17 Thread Sarah Alawami
> To answer your delete question you need to imagine the mac curser. You hear > the letter when you flick down after you switch to chars via the router. Now > you hear the letter you want to get rid of and you can swipe back up to the > letter as it will repeat. Now you know you are on the le

Data entry on the iPhone 4 with OS5

2011-11-17 Thread Michael Busboom
Hello everyone, I am having some difficulties entering data into my iPhone 4 under OS5. Although I was able to glean a little information from the Vision Australia podcast on Read2go, I am still struggling. Here are my questions: 1. How can a document that is currently being written checked