People follow others and have done so for hundreds of years. And it's not
exactly the leader considering all the "influencers" who are out there doing
what they do best which is to "influence" others to do what they want them to
do and for the most part that is to buy something because that is
I have an old iPhone 7 sitting on my table here. I just experimented with it.
It has been restore to factory default settings. I activated the iPhone 7 and
press the home button three times and it turn voiceover on. And it hand the
hello and then set up in different languages. So I’m just
Richard, I don't want to be contrary, but Julian is correct, I have had
iPhones starting with the iPhone 4 in 2010 and a factory reset would always
restore the out of the box experience where you can start Voiceover with a
triple press of the home button, or in later models which don't have a
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Whose name? Richard, USA.“What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do” ~ John RuskinMy web site: https://www.turner42.comOn Aug 3, 2023, at 6:50 PM, Robert Doc Wright wrote:
What did they change their
What did they change their name to?
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Well, I suspect they will have to start asking everyone to subscribe at some
point. Again, Winston was going to do that at some point because in order to
have more than one individual who can support the app, you need to pay a staff,
etc. Beside, if only one person knows the code and he/she
Well, I wonder how much it cost them to give these voices for free. As somebody
who has been a long time user of the app, and paid for some voices, I really
hope they don’t use this as an excuse to start charging us. I don’t need any
more voices. Also, I wish to goodness they would put what
I mainly play RS Games and The Great Toy Robbery on my Mac. There’s not many
games for the Mac, although I have a friend who plays Change Reaction.
> On Aug 3, 2023, at 1:55 PM, Jen . wrote:
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> Hi just curious what your favourite apps and games are for the Mac.
> Jen
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Its very cool to have the voices for free. Maybe we'll have to pay
for new voices in the future. There are some great microsoft voices
I'd love to have access to. Some of the google voices are also very
good.
On 8/3/23, la...@comcast.net wrote:
> how interesting. I can use that to decide
how interesting. I can use that to decide which voices to download on to my
other devices.
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Date: Thursday, August 03, 2023 02:54 PM
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Subject: Voice dream reader, TTS update
Below is the phrase used to describe the latest
OK, the one I use is called Nespresso Essenza. It is small and very
easy to work.
There is also one called Lattissima, which comes with a milk frothing
pitcher on the side. I am not sure every blind person would be
comfortable using that, because the frother becomes very hot and the
milk is
I live In Israel, so I am not sure which models you would have over
there. The ones we have here can take pods from a few brands.
I use mugs with handles, because the small cups for espresso are too
small for me to hold comfortably when hot.
I will try to find out the name of the model I use.
On
Which machine do you have? So do you just put the pod and hit the button and
that's all there is to it. Do you need different mugs depending on whether you
want to make a long espresso or short. Sorry for all the dumb questions.
Which pods are your favourites? Can you all the nespresso
I did run across one that Amazon listed at $199 but it was out of stock.
Here is a review from this year:
It is the Prodigio Nespresso machine.
https://coffeeaffection.com/nespresso-prodigio-review/
Richard, USA.
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Hi Jen.
>From my personal experience, their small machines which work with pods
are very easy to work with. So far, I have worked with three different
models of those machines and in every instance, there were only two
buttons on top. The right one is always the long espresso and the left
one is
With that budget, your best bet would be to get something along the lines of a
Wacaco Picopresso: https://www.wacaco.com/products/picopresso or maybe the
Leverpresso: https://hughinc.com/collections/leverpresso
Flair also makes some good manual espresso machines, but they tend to have a
lot of
Bill, The problem is that the Dexcom app hasn't been fully made accessible to
work with IOS 16.6 yet. It is my understanding that it is still being tested to
work with IOS 16.6. I'm just repeating what I was told when I called Dexcom
before installing IOS 16.6. I chose not to update & I'm able
I double tapped on both, but messages came up before phone did.
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Okay
Yes, I did send her a text from there. That is very fine!
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You
LOL, Sieghard!
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I absolutely don't experience
So, maybe I shouldn't sell my Apple stock, you think?
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It's all good now.
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Yeah, if it shows the phone number, you do
What I ended up having to do was:
Double tap on Add to Favorites; double tap on Messages; Double tap on Phone.
Then she got there, and I called her this afternoon.
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Oh, you're welcome, but that's weird that it was randomly gone for you. Because
I was able to set up my 4S like that, and later on, I got a 5S, and also my
seven.
Joseph Hudson
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Thanks Joseph.
I never had an iPhone 7. The ones I did have, when they were erased, the
shortcut was gone as well.
Of course, that was in earlier iOS versions and I had set the shortcut up
myself when it was not there from Apple.
Richard, USA.
“Reality is the leading cause of
Actually, Richard, you don't lose the shortcut. For voiceover. You only lose
the shortcut if a carrier sets it up. Once the phone is reset, you can call the
VoiceOver on by holding and pressing the home button for three times.
> On Aug 3, 2023, at 2:50 PM, Richard Turner
> wrote:
>
> If you
With an iPhone 7, all you have to do is press the home button three times when the phone is powered up after the reset and you should hear Voice over speaking. Have personally restored several iPhone 7's and been able to get voiceover speaking following this method.Sent from my iPhoneOn Aug 3,
Finally, someone reliable mentioned this on this list. I had already started
to think that this release had been made available only for non English
speaking countries. Thanks Richard.
Best,
Leo Bado
"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive."
Elbert Hubbard
Below is the phrase used to describe the latest update.
Version 4.20.3, 1d ago, We updated the voice management screen in Voice Dream
Reader. Give it a try and let us know what you think!
What they did was to now include all the voices. So, they are all included now
so you do not have to buy
If you use the Settings, General, Reset, erase all data, you will likely lose the accessibility shortcut and will either have to use a computer with the phone connected via the cable with iTunes to enable it, or get sighted help to go through the setup and enable the shortcut again.Richard,
It's so stupid. Like follow the leader, and do what everyone else does.
On 8/3/23, Sieghard Weitzel wrote:
> Apparently Gen Z is very heavily favouring the iPhone in America as well
> although in my opinion it's all for the wrong reason, I mean, "being the
> dreaded green bubble", give me a
Voiceover is part of the operating system so you’re not going to lose it. Most likely when the iPhone turns on you initially won’t have voiceover, however, you can press the home button three times and voiceover will turn on.Sent from my iPhoneOn Aug 3, 2023, at 2:23 PM, Paula Jordan wrote:Hi
Hi all. I have an iphone 7 That I want to wipe, but I don't want to lose
voice-over. How do I go about that?
Thanks.
God bless!
Paula and the pups
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Richard, USA.
“Reality is the leading cause of stress for those who are in touch with it.”
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Okay great, but I don’t understand why they choose message instead of phone
Lyne
> Le 3 août 2023 à 14:58, Carolyn Arnold <2carolynarn...@gmail.com> a écrit :
>
> I called Apple Accessibility. The guy had me go into it,
> and:
>
> 1.Double tap on Add to Favorites
> 2.2. Double tap on
I called Apple Accessibility. The guy had me go into it,
and:
1. Double tap on Add to Favorites
2. 2. Double tap on messages.
3. 3. Double tap on number.
That is all that I have in her contact. So, after that, I
checked Favorites, and VOILA, she's there!
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Infograph face with a lot of complications loaded like weather, altitude, wind
speed and so on.
For apps, I like timers, reminders,
Hi,
No more than $200.
Jen
> On Aug 3, 2023, at 2:08 PM, Sieghard Weitzel wrote:
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> Maybe the most you want to spend would help more rather than saying "not
> looking for anything super expensive" because that is always a relative term.
> For some not super expensive may mean $100 and for
But, having to say 'please'(or an equivalent phrase) beforehand is akin
to attributing human intelligence to Artificial Intelligence, further
contributing to the fog of misunderstanding, confusion and fear that
already surround the use of AI.
On 8/3/2023 6:46 PM, Richard Turner wrote:
Well,
Maybe the most you want to spend would help more rather than saying "not
looking for anything super expensive" because that is always a relative term.
For some not super expensive may mean $100 and for somebody else it may mean
$300 and considering some of these espresso/coffee machines can run
Hi just curious what your favourite apps and games are as well as watch faces
for the Apple Watch if you are using voiceover exclusively.
Jen
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Hi,
I am looking to purchase an espresso machine for a friend who is totally blind
and I am wondering if there are certain models that are accessible with the
iPhone or some app because I was reading online that they have software
updates. I know nothing about these machines being visually
Well, if you say please first, it is not that much different than waiting a
moment to ask your question or give a command.
I just pause too. It works every time I do.
Richard, USA.
“Reality is the leading cause of stress for those who are in touch with it.”
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You still have to select that number under Call because you can also add a
favourite for texting, e.g. if you were to tap on a favourite added this way it
would immediately open a text message to that person.
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You might want to call Apple Accessibility to see if they can help you trouble
shoot because things like "Hey Siri what is the time" certainly seem to work.
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I absolutely don't experience this, a short pause after the Siri tone works
perfectly for me and while I consider myself to be perfectly polite, I don't
think I'll start telling Siri "please" and "thank you", next thing you start
doing so when you press the elevator button. .
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Apparently Gen Z is very heavily favouring the iPhone in America as well
although in my opinion it's all for the wrong reason, I mean, "being the
dreaded green bubble", give me a break and talk about peer pressure.
This is from a website called MacDaily News, but you can find tons of articles
Yeah, if it shows the phone number, you do have to tap on it to add it to
either call or text or whatever. Sorry for not including this.
> On Aug 3, 2023, at 12:27 PM, Lyne wrote:
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> Did it show you the phone number? Maybe you have to double tap on it
> If you have only one phone number you
Did it show you the phone number? Maybe you have to double tap on it
If you have only one phone number you should have many option too:
Text message, phone number, video…
If you want to choose phone number, you have to double tap on
Lyne
> Le 3 août 2023 à 11:49, Carolyn Arnold
The last time I tried it, Voice Dream Writer worked great for reading text
files. It's been a while though, so it's possible something has broken since.
Best,
Anna
Sent from my iPhone
> On Aug 3, 2023, at 9:24 AM, Richard Turner
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> The best way is on the braille display itself if
I did double tap on phone; I have only one number for her.
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Sometime you
The story is about a man in the UK.
https://9to5mac.com/2023/08/02/iphone-and-apple-disability-expenses/
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The best way is on the braille display itself if it has an SD card and a text
editor/reader.
If using it on an iPhone with VDR, the latest iOS supposedly fixed a bug that
if you have scroll page when panning turned on in the VoiceOver, Braille
settings, it would not allow you to pan.
If you
Hi,
Can anyone suggest a good app for reading a largish txt file with a braille
display? I have tried it with VDR but this is no good. i have to keep scrolling
the page and it often looses the first line. i used to use iLike2Read Pro, but
that doesn't seem to be updated for the latest IOS.
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Hey all,
I’m experiencing a similar problem with Siri since iOS 16.6; prior to the
latest iOS installation I could ask, “Hey Siri, what’s my glucose?”
I would then get the reading from my Dexcom G6 app. It isn’t working anymore
though and the “Hey Siri” command isn’t responding at all - not
Hi
Since IOS 16 I’ve been having a terrible time with Siri not catching the
beginning of what I say to it, no matter how long a pause I think I have left
before I start speaking. However, I have discovered that if you say please
before you tell Siri your request, it works every time.
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