When a verification request pops up on my second device, it often disappears
before I can locate and tap on it. Where does it go after the banner disappears?
Thanks
Harry
> On 4 Apr 2018, at 01:41, Sieghard Weitzel wrote:
>
> Jewel,
>
> I have two-factor authentication enabled and that does n
Mark! Your description of a person who does not, really need 2 step
varification, i.e, over 75 and
owning only 1 Apple device is me, so I am relieved to find that I am in no
great danger by my
refusing to have it.
Jewel
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Aah, sounds more like it, time lag between introduction and me buying.
BobH.
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From: "Robin"
To:
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2018 1:27 AM
Subject: Re: Who enjoys using ootunes and curious about voice over, the
accessibility with the iphone
Correction:
Apple's VoiceO
along a similar line of inquiry is there a way to disable that delete
confirmation dialog? That kind of thing is something that needs to be user
definable.
From: Doc wright
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2018 23:06
To: mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: messaging junk
Is there a way to hide a
Hello Doc,
Read the following for the answer to your question:
Mark
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From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of
M. Taylor
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2017 6:09 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: Hide the annoying app dock in
they should definitely increase it, 5 gb is nothing! mine reached the limit
ages ago and there is an annoying message saying the phone couldn't be
backed up because there is no space. 50 gb is a good amount of space to
offer.
Husna
-Original Message-
From: M. Taylor
Sent: Thursday,
Hello Dionesque,
You ask an excellent question. I have given it a lot of thought and, by my way
of thinking, two-step verification is a very good thing, by and large.
However, I generally do not recommend it for older people, say those over 75,
who only have 1 Apple device. To my way of think
If you use a system that uses the ALARM.COM app, you will find it to be
accessible. We have a system from Moni Smart Security. it uses the ALARM.COM
app, so its functions are accessible through the app. The panel is not
completely accessible, but you get a key fob with tactile controls.
Andy
Hello folks,
I am considering installing a home security system in my house. Do you have
any experience and you recommend a particularly accessible home security system
with an accessible iPhone app?
I hope that the control panel will be buttons not touch screen, and the iPhone
app would be tot
Is there a way to hide all of that crap that shows after the record button in
the message app?
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I use both Sams Clubn and their Scan and go app.
With the main app you can do anything you did on the web site. you can even
renew or upgrade your membership.
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From: Arlene
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Sent: April 3, 2018 09:53 AM
Subject: is anyone using
When using the document channel, you really need to be about 16 to 18 inches
above the page. I am not sure why, but I have about 99 percent success rate at
that height, which is about 6 inches higher than KNFB reader needs.
It does help to start with the camera centered on the page, and then slo
When I replied to Sieghard's message, I, suddenly, realised that I don't know
how to * lock my phone. I lock the screen so that unwanted things don't
happen, but, of course, locking the screen is not the same as locking the
phone.
Jewel
From: Sieghard Weitzel
Sent: Wednesday, Ap
Hi Sieghard,
During my bout with trying to get rid of 2 factor authenication I learned a
great deal more about it than I knew before my upgrade fiasco. Well like I
said in my post prior to this one, I don't keep anything on my phone of any
importance, so the pin code / 2 factor authenication i
Agree whole heartedly. Plust the fact is that I don't keep anything on my
phone that someone would find useful, that they couldn't get much more
easily by hacking my email or something similar.
Take care. Mike. Go Dodgers!
Sennt from my iBarstool.
Arguing with a woman is like reading a softwar
Well, if you live in a place where that is safe then that’s great. I also live
in a very small town but nonetheless I lock my door even if it’s only so my
insurance will pay if somebody does empty out the place. If they walk in
through an open door the insurance company who will do anything to a
I never lock my phone and, for that matter, I never lock my house. The only
persons kept out by a locked dorr are honest people! those who want to get in
just have to break a window!
Jewel
From: Sieghard Weitzel
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2018 12:41 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.c
If you Google the model number it comes up as an LG gas dryer, the thing is
positively huge and while it does say it's WiFi compatible the only thing about
an app is this:
Monitor your laundry remotely with an ingenious smartphone app. You can stop or
check the status of your running wash anytim
Jewel,
I have two-factor authentication enabled and that does not require me to type
in any email address or long passwords and my trusted devices which I use all
the time behave just as always. However, if there is an attempt to access my
account from a new device then even if somebody had my
Correction:
Apple's VoiceOver 1st appeared in Apple's
iPhone3GS in June2009 & Apple's Siri emerged on
its iPhone in October4th 2011 on Apple's iPhone4S
At 12:09 PM 4/3/2018, you wrote:
VoiceOver first came in the 3GS, about 2010.
Siri is a lot later, around the time of the 5 I think.
BobH.
It is just a great bore. When I open my iPhone, I want to have immediate
access to whatever I opened it for, not have to mess around for 5 minutes:
exaggerating a tad, but I am sure that you know what I mean: typing in a long
email address and then an, equally, complicated password. There a
Hello all,
I’m looking into purchasing a dryer that is compatible with my phone and is
Bluetooth compatible. Does anyone know if this below model number happens to
have a compatible phone app that works with voice over so I can control the
dryer from my phone.
Or does anyone know of any other d
I have an Otterbox Defender.
Sent from my iPhone
> On Apr 3, 2018, at 6:46 PM, Sieghard Weitzel wrote:
>
> If it's a proper case designed for the phone you have it should have an
> appropriate opening for where the camera lens is. But it would be easy to
> find out, just take the phone out of
Hi Everyone,
Are there any apps for the Apple Watch that will continually monitor and
read your heart rate with voice over?
I have a FitBit. It does read your heart rate for a while. I think when your
phone locks or you haven't interacted with the screen, it stops reading. I
need to get f
If it's a proper case designed for the phone you have it should have an
appropriate opening for where the camera lens is. But it would be easy to find
out, just take the phone out of the case and try it without, if you suddenly
get much better results then the case obviously might have something
I suggest you try this when a sighted person is around, take an easy document,
something that's just plain print rather than some complicated magazine page
where you might deal with colours and poor contrast and all that. Then put the
phone lens down on the document, open the app, select the doc
Could having one's phone in a case interfere with the camera?
Sent from my iPhone
> On Apr 3, 2018, at 5:33 PM, Terri Stimmel wrote:
>
> Hello Sieghard,
>
>
> Yes, I do believe that my camera lens is clean.
>
> And no, I've never gotten Seeing AI to work.
>
> However, I have a money reader
Hi Terry,
Open VoiceOver Settings and choose Speech. Double-tap the name of the voice you
are using, which is a button near the top of the screen. Find the voice you
want to delete. You may be able to flick up or down to Delete and double-tap.
If that doesn't work, double-tap the voice's name,
>
I am not sure if you are talking about the Sam's app or the scan and go. The
scan and go app allows you to scan your items while shopping. You can then
check out on your phone. I use it all the time.
The Sam's app is for shopping online and also finding in store availability of
items.
Hello everyone,
I was using Alex on my phone. I liked it a lot.
However, at the suggestion someone here made the other day, I tried out
Tom. I prefer this voice over Alex.
So how do I go about removing Alex?
Thank you,
Terri
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Hello Sieghard,
Yes, I do believe that my camera lens is clean.
And no, I've never gotten Seeing AI to work.
However, I have a money reader App on my phone. It seems to work just
fine. I had a little bit of a problem the other day. But I was able to
work it out.
Terri
On 4/3/2018 4:25 PM,
Hi Dave,
Yes, I did go through the help sections and dismiss them.
Terri
On 4/3/2018 11:31 AM, Dave wrote:
> when you first installed the app, did you dismiss, all the help
> sections, that are on each channel, as it won't work, until you do.
>
> Dave.
>
>
> -Original Message- From:
I guess if it works for her sometimes then permission for the app to use the
camera must have been given otherwise it wouldn't work at all ever.
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From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Sieghard
Weitzel
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2018 2:26 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups
Hi Andy,
Oh no, I understand why you asked the question. But yes, I did give it
permission to use the camera.
Now there may be an issue with the lighting, and I did wonder about
this. I don't have the best lighting in my apartment. Plus, I have no
usable vision at all. I don't think this help
Have you made sure your camera lens is clean? I mostly use the short tex
function since it provides such good ands immediate results. But just out of
curiocity I grabbed a print out of a report for my retail business which
happened to be on my desk. I put the phone down on it so the camera lens
Hi Anna you are a star thanks very much. Janet
From: Anna Dresner
Sent: Tuesday, April 3, 2018 8:14 PM
To: VIPhone Mailing List
Subject: Re: changing apple items
Hi Janet,
If you go into the Apple ID section of Settings, just below the search box,,
you'll find a list of all the devices asso
Let me add that many, many times this is what will happen: I will hold
the phone a foot above a document on the "document" channel (with proper
lighting); Seeing AI will take a picture immediately; and come back with
"no text recognized". There are normal documents I have tried this on
ten time
I have used Seeing AI since August 2017, and have had a maybe 50%
success rate. I've had a number of people on lists insist that this is
human error, but I have also had sighted people test it with similarly
bad results.
On 4/3/2018 3:17 PM, Andy Baracco wrote:
You might not have enough ambie
Hi Marie,
I had turned on both pass code & 2 factor authenication, but it's all turned
off now! My Pop-up blocker was turned on in IE11, & that was causing all my
navigation problems on the Apple ID log-in page. Thanks again, from a now
happy camper! LOL
Take care. Mike. Go Dodgers!
Sennt
Mike,
I believe you said you just installed 11.3 and set up the two factor
verification. Are you sure you did not just set up a passcode instead? I don’t
remember being asked if I wanted to set up the two factor verification when
doing an upgrade to the IOS.
Marie
From: Mike B.
Sent: Monday,
Hi Janet,
If you go into the Apple ID section of Settings, just below the search box,,
you'll find a list of all the devices associated with your account at the
bottom of the list of settings. Double-tap the iPad, and choose Remove. It will
be removed from your account.
Best,
Anna
> On Apr 3
You might not have enough ambient light in the room. This may sound stupid,
but did you give the app permission to use the camera?
Andy
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From: "Terri Stimmel"
To:
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2018 7:12 AM
Subject: Seeing AI help
Hello everyone,
Could someone pl
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Free and yes.
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From: "Arlene"
To:
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2018 3:58 PM
Subject: Re: Who enjoys using ootunes and curious about voice over, the
accessibility with the iphone
That's really interesting, Tom. I didn't know some of this so that's why I
was curious too.
VoiceOver first came in the 3GS, about 2010.
Siri is a lot later, around the time of the 5 I think.
BobH.
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From: "Arlene"
To:
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2018 1:52 PM
Subject: Re: Who enjoys using ootunes and curious about voice over, the
accessibility with the iphone
All over the world, yes. I don't know what the price for it is now. It may be
free. I think I paid $4.00 from way back when.
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From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Arlene
Sent: Tuesday, April 3, 2018 7:59 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Who enjoys
Just out of curiousity: what's so bad about the 2 steps verification that so
many people are avoiding it??
Greetings,
⭐️ Dionesque 🎵🎼🌹
> Am 03.04.2018 um 06:17 schrieb Jewel :
>
> I downloaded and install IOS11.3 3 nights ago, and despite the notice that
> Apple recommendedd that I
> have 2
when you first installed the app, did you dismiss, all the help sections,
that are on each channel, as it won't work, until you do.
Dave.
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From: Terri Stimmel
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2018 3:12 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Seeing AI help
Hello everyone,
Yes I really love the app. The developer is looking for more
beta testers.
Get Outlook for iOS
On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 11:54 AM -0400, "Becky Hesselmeyer"
wrote:
Hi Steph,
I use Tweetings. So far, it is a good little app. You can also use the app
called Twitterific or the native Twitter app. You may just have to play and see
which app works best for you.
Jenn
Jenn and Kumi
> On Apr 2, 2018, at 5:23 PM, Stephanie Mitchell
> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
Yay this is awesome news
Sent from my iPhone
> On Apr 3, 2018, at 11:24 AM, Chris Chaffin wrote:
>
>
> For those that use to use the Fleksy keyboard, I wanted to let everybody know
> that the developers have just designed a brand new app called FlickType. It
> is currently in beta, so it i
I wonder if there's anyone that uses the sams club store app? How does it work
and what does it let you do? Thanks.
Arlene
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For those that use to use the Fleksy keyboard, I wanted to let everybody know
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released anytime.
Jeff Thompson from Blind Abilities did an i
If you mean the 4s, that did seem to be a good phone, bcause I had a friend
that had one, and hearing him use it over the phone, it sounded great.
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From: "Steve Matzura"
To:
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2018 8:22 AM
Subject: Re: Who enjoys using ootunes and curious abou
That's really interesting, Tom. I didn't know some of this so that's why I
was curious too. Now about ootunes, is there a price for ootunes, and can
you get stations from all over the world?
Arlene
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From: "Tom Rash"
To:
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2018 8:00 AM
Subje
Ian,
Do you have a dog or do you walk with a cane? If cane then have you had O&M
training? I am a very big believer that you have to first know how to get
around without these apps before they become really useful. If you are not
profficient in travelling with a cane and to make the best out of
As they explained, it's basically bricked due to it likely being stolen. Can't
do much with a phone like that other than using it as a paperweight or selling
it for parts.
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Sent: Tuesday, April 3, 2018
If you want to read mail or some printed info, use the quick text mode. Raise
your phone up slowly from the printed text and it will start reading. This is
a live reading, no processing, so when it starts reading you can pull the phone
away, and it will continue reading what it saw.
To read ba
Using any application that purports to read printed text is always a
trial-and-error situation. It took me half an hour to find the bar code
on a can one day. This is not abnormal. One never knows just where bar
codes are.
There's also the matter of contrast between the text one wishes to rea
Hello everyone,
Could someone please give me some tips on how to possibly use Seeing AI?
I've tried to get it to work a couple of times now, with absolutely no
luck! I think it's human error. I really don't know for sure though.
I tried to read a can yesterday. It wouldn't do anything. So I
Hi Ian,
First, in my opinion, there is no definitive answer. Everyone has a slightly
different take on the best combination.
Personally, I would choose Google Maps and Blind Square.
Or, if you want an app that combines the best of both into one app, Nearby
Explorer.
Personally, I find Google M
I remember the first iPhone on which I ever got to lay my hands was
definitely the 3G. Pradik Patel showed it to me one day by simply
handing me the phone and saying "have a play." No instructions, no
VoiceOver quick-start, just, here, see what you make of this. Of course,
not knowing anything
I know that the first iPhone did not have much accessibility.
It wasn't until the iPhone 3G came out. I think that was the model. I can't
remember what year. I want to say around 2008 or 2009. Seri wasn't originally
part of Apple. I first used it as an app that you had to download. It was
I'm going to get the ootunes app, that sounds great and also the old time
radio. You've made me curious about the history of where voice over is
concerned with iphones and also siri. How long as it been that the
accessibility with voice over has been in iphones? I was just curious, and
thinkin
Dear listers,
I have decided to become a bit more independent in walking around. I am a
pretty experienced voice over user but struggle to set up journeys for turn by
turn guidance in both Apple maps and Google..
I have listened to many in depth podcasts but cannot seem to find one or t
It’s only Alex that breathes. Try one of the Vocaliser voices.They don’t
breathe at all.
Debbie
From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Paul and
Paula Jordan
Sent: Tuesday, 3 April 2018 2:05 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: ugly breathing sounds with voice over
Does anyon
Terry,
One use phone old iPhone, which I saw on YouTube the other day, as a security
camera. there is an app for the iPhone called, and here I hope I have it right,
presence. with this app you can monitor what is happening within the view of
your old iPhone, and it has motion detection which can
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