RE: VoiceOver not reading photo text

2024-01-01 Thread Sieghard Weitzel
By adding a description, do you mean that you double tap and hold on a picture and then replace the image name with a descriptive name? From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Richard Turner Sent: Monday, January 1, 2024 9:48 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: VoiceOver not

Just a Quick Thanks to you All, from Moderator Mark

2024-01-01 Thread VIPhone
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RE: BE My AI Question Please.

2024-01-01 Thread janet gross
Hi Richard and Alan, I finally got a chance to work with the Be My AI. Thank you both so much for this. I followed your instructions, and they worked like a charm! Thank you again, as it is greatly appreciated. Janet From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Richard Turner Sent: Thursday,

Re: keyboard disappearing issue on Iphone. Help needed.

2024-01-01 Thread Ann Byrne
Single finger double tap in an edit field does not restore the keyboard. At 04:47 PM 1/1/2024, you wrote: Hello Anne, If focus is on the keyboard and one does a two finger forward/back movement, (which I believe is mapped to VO-escape) then the keyboard is supposed to hide itself. Moving

Re: keyboard disappearing issue on Iphone. Help needed.

2024-01-01 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Hello Anne, If focus is on the keyboard and one does a two finger forward/back movement, (which I believe is mapped to VO-escape) then the keyboard is supposed to hide itself. Moving away and back to a text field should re-expose it. When this happens VO says keyboard hidden, but it is not a

Re: keyboard disappearing issue on Iphone. Help needed.

2024-01-01 Thread Ann Byrne
My setting for Braille keyboards says "onscreen keyboard on". I was ending a call with the magic tap, nothing extra connected, and a button appeared saying "hide keyboard". I don't know where it came from, but I skipped away from it and nothing happened. Sometimes, though, the keyboard

Re: Question: Trying to Remember the name of an iOS App that Allowed Off-Road Navigation for the Blind and Low Vision

2024-01-01 Thread Jonathan Cohn
I believe Good Maps has a off-road version. > On Dec 31, 2023, at 7:08 PM, Jennie Facer wrote: > > I believe it is. I don't think it has been updated for a long time, but I > think you can still download it. > > Jenn > Jenn and Kumi > >> On Dec 31, 2023, at 5:06 PM, M. Taylor wrote: >> >>

Re: keyboard disappearing issue on Iphone. Help needed.

2024-01-01 Thread Jonathan Cohn
So you are saying that when you have a bluetooth keyboard or Braille display connected you see the on-screen keyboard, but as soon as it is disconnected the onscreen keyboard disappears? I have seen this a few times all the way back to IOS-10. Toggling the show keyboard option in a setting

Re: keyboard disappearing issue on Iphone. Help needed.

2024-01-01 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Hello, I believe it is standard behavior for the onboard keyboard to hide itself when a bluetooth input tool is available. There is a checkbox in the VoiceOver settings for Braille displays that should change this. > On Jan 1, 2024, at 12:37 AM, Ron Canazzi wrote: > > Hi Group, > > I also

RE: how do I turn speech back on my iphone 14

2024-01-01 Thread Carolyn Arnold
Well, of course, I know you know, Richard, Speech and Voiceover are different; you were right with both commands. I am guessing it is more likely that Speech gets turned off than Voiceover. -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of

RE: how do I turn speech back on my iphone 14

2024-01-01 Thread Carolyn Arnold
Tripple finger double tap turns speech on and off. -Original Message- From: 'john riehl' via VIPhone [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2023 4:21 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: how do I turn speech back on my iphone 14 I somehow accidentally turned

Re: Music recognition again

2024-01-01 Thread Richard Turner
Music recognition is not a rotor option. I just say, "What is playing?" Or, Siri, what is playing and it always works. It says something about let me listen, or listening, or some variation and then it identifies it. Richard, USA “Grandma always told us, “Be careful when you pray for

Music recognition again

2024-01-01 Thread Maria Campbell
Here's a new wrinkle with my music recognition.  I can't get Siri to do music recognition no way no how.  However, if I go to music recognition in my control panel and double tap it, music will be recognized.  Using SE third gen and latest IOS. Is it possible to get music recognition on the

RE: Forwarding Text Messages?

2024-01-01 Thread Christopher Chaltain
I think that just forwards a text message to someone as a text message. There's a copy option if you want to paste the text into something, such as an email message, and forward it that way. -- Christopher (AKA CJ) =>÷ Chaltain at Outlook, USA -Original Message- From:

RE: VoiceOver not reading photo text

2024-01-01 Thread Richard Turner
Yes. Richard, USA “Grandma always told us, “Be careful when you pray for patience. God stores it on the other side of Hell and you will have to go through Hell to get it.” -- Cedrick Bridgeforth My web site: https://www.turner42.com/ Microsoft

Re: VoiceOver not reading photo text

2024-01-01 Thread 'John André Lium-Netland' via VIPhone
Ok, so VO automatically reads what you have written in the title or description field when you navigate in the library?Sendt fra min iPhone.1. jan. 2024 kl. 16:16 skrev Richard Turner :I am not having that problem. I am on iOS 17.3 beta. Richard, USA“Grandma always told us, “Be careful when you

RE: Forwarding Text Messages?

2024-01-01 Thread Richard Turner
Yes. Flick up on the message with one finger to More and double tap. Then, flick right until you get to delete then forward. Double tap on forward. I don't know if that forwards the entire conversation if there is more than one message... HTH, Richard, USA “Grandma always told us, “Be

Forwarding Text Messages?

2024-01-01 Thread donmoore48
Is there a way to forward a text message? Thanks in advance. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners

Re: VoiceOver not reading photo text

2024-01-01 Thread Richard Turner
I am not having that problem. I am on iOS 17.3 beta. Richard, USA “Grandma always told us, “Be careful when you pray for patience. God stores it on the other side of Hell and you will have to go through Hell to get it.” -- Cedrick Bridgeforth My web site: https://www.turner42.com/ > On

VoiceOver not reading photo text

2024-01-01 Thread 'John André Lium-Netland' via VIPhone
Hi, Previously, if I wrote something both in the title text field and the photo text field/description field for a photo in the Photos app on my iPhone or Mac, VoiceOver would automatically read this text when I navigated between photos both in the iOS Photo app and the MacOS photo app. It was