A great gift idea for blind iDevice enthusiasts

2022-02-28 Thread Ben Mustill-Rose
Hi all, I hope the moderator won't mind me drawing the groups attention to a really quirky iDevice related gift that I purchased for myself as a bit of a late Christmas present. To be clear, I have absolutely no relationship with the company at all - I'm only posting about it because I think it

Re: another orbit/iPhone question

2022-02-28 Thread Duane Steele
Hi Richard, I have turned off auto capitalization in settings, and it is as you describe. For example, it might write the word where as a divided word with capital letters randomly placed in the word. I might write for 20 minutes without a problem, and suDisenly have several capitilized words

RE: another orbit/iPhone question

2022-02-28 Thread Richard Turner
What you are describing sounds like the auto translate is getting in your way. By chance are the capitals often letters that if written alone would be capped, like I or O? I've not noticed the auto capitalization setting in General Keyboard to impact braille displays, but that may be worth

Re: another orbit/iPhone question

2022-02-28 Thread Duane Steele
HERE's an Orbit update. Notice that The very first word is in all caps, not my choice. I'M finding that if I input characters slowly, all seems to go normally. Perhaps that's the solution with the smaller device... to write more slowly. After all, I will use it mostly when away from home.

RE: another orbit/iPhone question

2022-02-28 Thread Richard Turner
Try writing something lengthy in Notes or Voice Dream Writer if you have them and see if the issue shows up and let us know. Richard My web site; https://www.turner42.com/ -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Duane Steele Sent: Monday, February 28, 2022

Re: another orbit/iPhone question

2022-02-28 Thread Duane Steele
Hi Richard and others, I'm using the Orbit Reader plus as my travel device. I have an iPhone 8 using iOS 14.7" or whatever the last iOS 14 was. mMybraille output and input settings are set to contracted braille. The unwelcome dot 6 can occur any Ptime during a text message, e-mail or on

RE: another orbit/iPhone question

2022-02-28 Thread Richard Turner
Hi, We need more information. Which iOS? Which app or apps? What grade of braille is set for both input and output? Can you give a specific example or two? Thanks, Richard My web site; https://www.turner42.com/ -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Duane

another orbit/iPhone question

2022-02-28 Thread Duane Steele
Hello listers, I'M breaking in a new Orbit reader 20 plus. But when using it with my iPhone 8, it randomly inserts capital letters, and I don't know how to stop it from happening. ANY suggesTions for solving this will be greatly appreciated. Peace & Blessings, Pastor Duane L. Steele Phone

Re: (Attn: Mickey) Accessibility issue with the Alexa app:

2022-02-28 Thread Mickey Quenzer
Hello Donna: Thank you so much for this tip. I forgot that I had asked you for that so thank you for sending that to me and I’m so happy that I found this today. I saved it in the notes so that I can do this when I get a chance. Again thanks a lot! These tips should be somewhere I don’t know where