Siri will go through whichever network is available, so wifi plenty good.
Cell if not around wifi. wifi of less than 4mbps is hardly broadband at
all. If cell data can handle it, than wifi should.
An iPad with cell data would be a big jump in price, but could go anywhere,
and still have wifi
I wonder if this RII mini keyboard supports swedish keyboard layout since it is
different from the american/english one? Does the documentation or web site if
any say anything about that? It could be interesting to know although i'm
actually against using keyboards other than the on-screen one,
I tired of bt keyboards as yet another gadget, took up mBraille as I could
type fluently on that and transfer my text when done.
That supports swedish for sure.
Ok, fairly sure.
Sez, Me.
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If the headphones do not work for you, you could try the Afterfshokz Bluez
which are designed for people who have hearing aids as the pads sit on your
cheeks rather than your ears as the sound is conducted through your cheeks.
It takes a while to get use to.
Best of luck with what you
i found that the keys on this bt keybord were to small for my fingers to
type compteribley. right now i am typing on my laptop and like the keys that
i am typing on. i would like to find a keybord that i could use to type on
that would have bigger sise keys on it but would be still small in
Hello the list,
Can someone recommend an app that will be able to tell me if the LED light is
on or off?
Thanks in advance,
Sandy
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Hi,
You might like to try Fleksy VO (the VO being for voiceOver), free, from
the App Store. It mimics most of the keys of a QWERTY keyboard on the
phone screen, and produces click sounds in responds to key presses. then
there are More... tabs, with Numbers, letters, Symbols, etc. it's fast.
In Control centre, doesn't the torch button tell you this?
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Sent: Monday, August 11, 2014 11:38 AM
Subject: Light indicator app
Hello the list,
Can someone recommend an app that will be
Rob,
As far as I am aware, the torch that is in the control Centre,
enables/disables the flashlight which is built into the phone. I am looking for
a camera app which can tell me if LEDs are on or off.
Thanks for the response though,
Sandy
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On 11 Aug 2014, at 12:21, RobH.
I have not seen this, but I would suggest you check out the Braille Pen
Slim. This is a Braille keys keyboard.
I have been using the BP12 recently, and while the display is smaller than I
want, it has been a delight using the Braille for input. I am a very
proficient typist and had been very good
I have found that my battery life is horrible if I have say 10 apps open and
I am using IOS 7. I generally close them all down each morning before I
leave for work, yesterday I did not even think of it as I had not really
used the phone much on Saturday and by 11 in the morning I was at 70%
Hi.
I am using the two finger down gesture to start continuous reading, but with
page changes I seem to be missing large swatches of text. Enlightenment
appreciated.
Bill
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hello. a few months ago I inquired about this Braille pen and was told that
it was no longer being made but that the Braille pen 12 was still being made
and that they were waiting for apple to in prove something at there end
where Braille is concerned. maybe people who have used this displays'
Another cool thing about this is that, if you are interested, you can also get
a free copy of Windoweyes since you’ll have the office365 subscription. That’s
quite a deal for $99 per year.
From: Sieghard Weitzel
Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2014 8:44 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject:
I agree, Cheryl. And you are absolutely right. It is because of the NFL.
They are cutting off these stations as they find them. As I said before, my
favorite team is the Eagles, and last time I tried all football radio, I was
not able to get any station to give me the Eagles broadcasts. Sure,
Hello,
You can try our application Seeing Assistant Home which has many functions,
but also can detect light sources.
You can not only check whether the light in the room is turned on, but also
whether an electronic device with display is turned on, or even whether LED
of some electrical
Hi all. I used one of the apps that was discussed here a few weeks
ago. It was the 1500 ring tones free app. i downloaded them and did
file sharing in itunes and got the tones on my phone. I wanted to
change the new mail alert sound that I have so I went in to settings and
selected the one
Sent from my iPhone hi all, my sister, who is cited, has lost her sounds on her
iPad too. Sounds include email sounds both sending and receiving and clicks as
she types such as sending messages can anyone help thank you Wendy
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Have you had her make sure the mute switch is off? It's right above the volume
buttons; slide it up or down whichever way it will go, and see if that fixes
things. If not, or if she has that switch set to lock orientation instead, open
Settings Sound and check the volume/mute status in there.
Please, take your pick which way you think you can help.
I have had a Skype number for some time. It is about to expire. Using
Windows and JAWS, I cannot for the life of me figure out how to extend that
number; even how to price extending it. I am working off the Skype web site.
So, I signed up
Hi Rebecca,
Mail alert sounds also have to be changed in Settings, Notifications, Mail.
This is the case because if you have more than one mail account setup you
can set different alert tones here.
Regards,
Sieghard
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It sounds like the Seeing Assistant app will do what you need, but I thought
I'd mention Light Detector as well. It turns light into sound: the more ambient
light you have, the more high-pitched the sound is. It may not be accurate for
pinpointing specific light sources, but I find it handy for
That doesn't usually happen under normal circumstances. You might try removing
the app from your app switcher, and if that doesn't work, reboot your device.
Are you reading a pdf or an epub file? I find that pdfs are a little
unpredictable in iBooks when it comes to scrolling text.
HtH,
Teresa
That's what happens for Green Bay. They always seemed to either not even
stream the game, or it went out sometimes near the end of the first quarter,
sometimes close to half time, it kind of varried, but the main station here
doesn't let that stream continue all the way in either event.
-
Around Wisconsin, I think they reduced the quality, at least over FM, for
some reason. I first noticed it on the Brewer games, although it seems that
Bob Ueker's voice artifacts less than the commercials or other people
talking. For whatever reason, the guys on the Packers' post game revealed
You should be able to double tap on saved messages then flick to the delete
button.
Unfortunately, with 7.1.2, double tapping on music or messages or whatever,
does nothing.
So, if you have 7.1.2, you are probably out of luck there.
On Aug 9, 2014, at 6:32 PM, Conrad Bennett
The last Bears game got cut off after the pregame stuff on line.
Regards,
Alan
Go Chicago Bears in 2014!
Teenagers; Tired of being harassed by your stupid parents? Act now!
Move out. Get a job. Pay your bills wile you still know everything.
Please click on:
Ok, I must be stupid because I cannot find on the NFL Mobile app anywhere to
subscribe to the audio pass. Unless it isn't available for ATT customers.
Regards,
Alan
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Teenagers; Tired of being harassed by your stupid parents? Act now!
Move out. Get a job.
I would like to copy and paste an annotation for a BARD book to my email, but
the option to use control plus c is not available on the touch screen. How do
you copy and paste a BARD annotation with the iPad?
Michelle
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Greetings all. I opened iBooks this weekend to read some more in one
of the books I had purchased. I found myself in a list of PDF files.
The last time I had opened iBooks, I had mistakenly chosen to open a
PDF file within iBooks. I will not do that again. Anyway, I can't get
back to my library of
Greetings. I had a weird issue pop up last week when trying to edit a
recurring event in Fantastical 2. This has never happened before. I
opened an appointment from a recurring series with the intent of
editing the appointment, setting its start time an hour later than all
other appointments.
That happened to me as well.
I have not written Fantastical yet.
Richard
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education. - Victor Hugo
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On Aug 11, 2014, at 9:53 AM, Wayne Merritt wcmerr...@gmail.com wrote:
Greetings. I had a weird issue pop up last week
Try using three finger quadruple tap.
Respectfully,
Aser Tolentino, Esq.
On Aug 11, 2014, at 9:50, Michelle Bernstein michellebbbernst...@gmail.com
wrote:
I would like to copy and paste an annotation for a BARD book to my email, but
the option to use control plus c is not available on
Yes, I did ask her to check the mute switch and she said it was off.
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Of Alex Hall
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2014 9:59 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: No sounds on iPad 2
Have you had her make sure
When I try three finger quadruple tap on the page with the description of the
BARD book with VoiceOver on, it activates the screen curtain.
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I have found plenty of sites that give me most basic commands for working
voiceover with a bluetooth keyboard, but I have a few questions.
I want to be able to copy and paste unediditable text such as off of safari, is
this possible using a bluetooth keyboard? Also is there a keyboard command
Hi Wayne,
You should find a PDFs button near the top left of the screen, or somewhere
near the top. When you press that, you'll have several options, including
Books. Choose Books, and you'll be in a list of your ePub books.
Best,
Anna
On Aug 11, 2014, at 11:44 AM, Wayne Merritt
Hi,
Sounds like Zoom is on. Turn off Zoom, and be sure VoiceOver has just spoken
the annotation. Then try the three-finger quadruple tap.
Best,
Anna
On Aug 11, 2014, at 12:17 PM, Michelle Bernstein
michellebbbernst...@gmail.com wrote:
When I try three finger quadruple tap on the page with
Thank you, Anna and Asher. Once I turned off the zoom function, it did work. I
assume that I then move to whatever document In which I want to paste the
annotation, touch the screen and double tap to paste the annotation. Btw, Anna,
I am finding your book, Getting Started with the iPhone quite
Hi michelle,
i'm so glad you're finding the book useful.
When you're in the document where you want to paste, double-tap so you can
edit. Then use the rotor to choose Edit, flick up or down until you get to
Paste, and double-tap.
Best,
Anna
On Aug 11, 2014, at 1:36 PM, Michelle Bernstein
Hi,
When I travel, I let my emails sit unattended, but upon return I have a lot to
wade through.
I usually like to read messages individually, but I have been finding recently
a need to streamline the process.
I can't figure out how to change to thread view in Outlook 2010 on
Hi Everyone,
I received an advertisement for the Amazon Fire TV this morning. According
to the info I read, voice recognition will be built into the remote. My
understanding is user's will be able to use the voice recognition feature to
find movies and other content available through the remote.
Hi, I think this is nice but it is all we can do, we can't scroll around
to see what is on the device.
But if searching by voice makes it really work, then maybe I'll think
about getting it too.
Patti
On 8/11/2014 2:50 PM, Lynda Ingraham wrote:
Hi Everyone,
I received an advertisement for the
Also, with zoom on, most VoiceOver gestures need an extra tap. So, to copy what
VoiceOver just said would take 5 taps with three fingers instead of 4.
I think it is easier to remember to turn off zoom.
HTH,
Richard
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education. - Victor Hugo
Just curious; is there a Braille equivalent for the three-finger quadruple-tap?
I know on the keyboard it's VO-shift-C, yes?
Teresa
We can see with the eyes, but we see with the brain as well, and seeing with
the brain is often called imagination.--Oliver Sacks
On Aug 11, 2014, at 11:52 AM,
Hi, Shawn,
The keyboard command for copying last-spoken text to the clipboard is
VO-shift-C. The best place to find VO keystrokes is in the user manual. There's
a section called using Voiceover with an Apple Wireless keyboard. Most of
those are applicable to third-party keyboards. You can turn
Sorry, I understand now, I think we could all use one of those if it turns
up.
Thanks, Rh.
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Sent: Monday, August 11, 2014 12:41 PM
Subject: Re: Light indicator app
Rob,
As far as I am
May I have the subscription link please?
Haya Simkin guide dog Pammy
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On 11 Aug 2014, at 04:41, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com wrote:
Chris or Cara. They are usually good about approving, but Google Groups
sometimes fails to notify them that anyone joined. I think you can
Paul,
You wrote:
Unfortunately, with 7.1.2, double tapping on music or messages or whatever,
does nothing.
So, if you have 7.1.2, you are probably out of luck there.
I do not understand your conclusion. I just looked into this on my 5 S
running 7.1.2 and upon selecting Music, for example, had
Hello, everyone.
What resources do you use to explain Voiceover to application
developers? When contacting people to ask for accessibility, how much
explaining is typically required to get the ball rolling? Do you find
that this process takes a lot of explaining, or does simply mentioning
VO get
Hello is there a way to upload the stuff to the cloud and remove it from
the computer and have it save it and not remove it?
I had a simular cloud storage threw google drive and when I removed the
stuff from the hard drive it decided it would also remove the stuff from
my google drive as well
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On Aug 11, 2014, at 3:43 PM, Haya Simkin guide dog Pammy
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May I have the subscription link please?
Haya
It in interesting to me that even when I contact the apple accessibility
telephone number, I have to explain the apps that I am asking for help with
accessing. Two recent examples are the Bard mobile app and the nfb Newsline
app. In the case of the nfb Newsline app, the only way that I could
Jonathan Mosen has a site devoted to explaining accessibility for apps and
you might want to check it out here and bookmark it:
http://www.appcessible.net/
Alan Lemly
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I'm used to getting the above subject error message when charging my iPhone
5 using the third-party lightning cable I bought from Amazon on the cheap.
However, I'm now starting to get it from time to time when charging using
the Apple cable that came with my iPhone.
I'm curious with what
hmmm, maybe these got changed. I just went to the app store on my iPhone and
NFB Newsline was the third choice when I typed nfb and bard mobile was the
second choice when I typed bard. I then tried the same searches on my iPad with
the same results. So maybe something has been changed since you
Well, I've had my lightning cable sense I got my iPhone 5s on October 20, 2013
so it's just months short of a year. I got my iPad Air in January of this
year. Both cables are still in perfect condition. I too take very good care
of my equipment and cables and connectors. Even when I
The bard mobile app is easy to locate I agree. The nfb Newsline was not, for
me, when I searched nfb or national federation of the blind in the iTunes Store
and the App Store. What was surprising to me was that these apps were not
familiar to the people who answered the apple accessibility
Hi,Since this thread has been a long one, I am not sure if someone previously
responded to this issue, but to hear AudioPass games, you need to do the
following:When you know that an NFL game is live, navigate to schedule. Tap on
this. The app screen will refresh and you will see the games
Hello Rajiv,
I've asked several times but didn't get the step by step explanation. Will
this work even with ATT users? Thank you in advance for your assistance.
Regards,
Alan
Go Chicago Bears in 2014!
Teenagers; Tired of being harassed by your stupid parents? Act now! Move
out.
Hi Allen,This is carrier-independent because I am using my long-standing PC
subscription and I have T-Mobile as my provider.Rajiv
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Sent: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 17:57:42 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re:
Hi,
I got this error message for a while while charging my iPhone 5, but if I
flipped the charger connector over and plugged it in the other way, it
charged just fine. I surmise that some dust got in there and queered the
connection. Since then, it cleared itself up and I haven't gotten the
You can not subscribe to Field Pass through the NFL Mobile app. The
following link will take you to the page where you can subscribe, then
listen on the pc. It uses flash for listening on the pc, so I don't know
what would happen if you tried to listen on a Mac. You allegedly can link
this
Hi,
I have the same message charging with non apple certify cable when i was
overseas.
I think, since then, it rulen my battery life quite significantly. i was away
for quite some period of time.
I guess, just be aware of the damage it might cause, using the 3rd party cable.
According to Apple,
I subscribed to NFL AudioPass on my PC, but I'm pretty sure you can also
subscribe to it through an in app purchase on the NFL Mobile App.
1) If you bring up the NFL Mobile App, you can double tap on the menu
button at the top of the screen.
2) Now double tap on the Schedules button. I find
Hi, Alan,
I just recently acquired an iPhone case with a battery charger in it and it's
really neat. However, from time to time, I also get that error message with
that. I can't remember the brand name of this case, but a lot of the time I
have to press the charge button on the case to
To my way of thinking, Apple *facilitates accessibility
in third-party apps, and not all of the reps at the accessibility service
number will necessarily know all of the specific blindness-related apps.
this is not to say that they shouldn't be familiarized with them to some
extent. However,
I recently called Apple Accessibility line for help with an encrypted backup. I
was told that I’d been referred to a “Senior advisor”, or some such. Later, I
was shunted to someone else. Both of these Apple Accessibility geniuses kept
telling me to “Go Down” or “Just below that”, even though I
The Apple certified cables with lightning adaptors have a special chip which
communicates with the battery system in the iDevice to best manage the battery
charge and condition. Non Apple certified lightning adaptor cables do not have
this chip, and will shorten one's ultimate battery life. I
One key, that people forget, is to always press search in the lower right
corner of the keyboard, or enter on the bluetooth keyboard, when searching for
an app in the App Store.
David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA
Email: dchitten...@gmail.com
Mobile: +64 21 2288 288
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On 12 Aug
Both apps you mention are third-party apps, so are not Apple's responsibility.
I would not expect Apple Accessibility to know third-party apps any more than I
would expect you to know how to program my washing machine. For assistance with
third-party apps, one must always contact the app
I have been advocating for increased technology access for 25 years
now. In the process, I have piled up a number of advocacy successes
from talking ATMs by the biggest banks to accessible audio interfaces
of voting machines to audio description at movie theaters. I have been
a moving force that
David,
Can the older Apple wall jacks that came with the 30-pin connector be used with
the lightning ended cables?
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Sent: Monday, August 11, 2014 8:19 PM
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Subject: Re: This
Thanks much but this wasn't the issue most people were having. The issue was
that the app wasn't providing us a place to sign in where it was supposed to be
or anywhere else that we could find. So several of us reinstalled which did
allow us to log in to our audiopass subscription but then
All right, but you don't have to wait until a game is on to subscribe. There is
also a path to do this through settings. In fact, that was the problem many of
us were having; in settings there was a purchase button but not a sign-in
button until we reinstalled.
And yes, you definitely can
I didn't have to do that in order to find the bard mobile app or the nfb
newsline app. Usually I start out by not tapping search; then if I don't see my
choice I tap it just to be sure.
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I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf.
I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper
thrown in
Hey all. Could someone tell me how touch ID works? I set up the fingerprint
but am wondering where to to place my finger to unlock the screen and use the
fingerprint? Thanks.
Rebecca and Zeb
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twitter: zebs_mom
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Hey all, I hate to be the bearer of bad tidings and I hope this isn't happening
to everybody. I just discovered that even though I was able to sign in to my
audiopass acount the other day by reinstalling the app, it now doesn't
apparently acknowledge me as signed in and only provides a purchase
Hi there. You just place your finger lightly on the home button after you hit
the power button or the home button to get to the unlock screen. The first time
you do this, it will ask you for your numerical passcode.
Hope Paulos
On Aug 11, 2014, at 10:21 PM, Rebecca Ilniski
Hi,
Hope no one minds me chiming in as I took the plunge tonight and purchased
the pass via the in app purchase. Now my question is do I need to log in
somewhere as it didn't ask me at any point to create any user name password
or the like it did confirm that my purchase was successful and
Hi all,
I have google sheetz on my iPhone 5. Does anyone use this app and if so,can
someone please help me with it?
I want to set up a spread sheet for my Lions club to keep track of members
dues and attendance with all club members names ect and if they were at the
meeting or not and
I purchased the Amazon Fire TV media device. It is not at all
accessible nor useable. I bought it for my wife and it's a great
media box for those who can navigate by seeing the TV screen for
menus. But, nothing is spoken so there's no way of selecting
functions, selecting from among search
your home button
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Sent: Monday, August 11, 2014 8:21 PM
Subject: touch id
Hey all. Could someone tell me how touch ID works? I set up the fingerprint
but am wondering where to to place my finger to
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