Re: Braille Touch and texting

2013-04-04 Thread Joseph Hudson
u don't need to open an email program. > - Original Message - From: "Regina Alvarado" > > To: > Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2013 12:39 PM > Subject: Re: Braille Touch and texting > > >> Brings up a question. When texting, is it the phone number that is wa

Re: Braille Touch and texting

2013-04-03 Thread Christopher Chaltain
ram. - Original Message - From: "Regina Alvarado" To: Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2013 12:39 PM Subject: Re: Braille Touch and texting Brings up a question. When texting, is it the phone number that is wanted, (always used phone numbers), or can a text be sent with email address? Reggie

Re: Braille Touch and texting

2013-04-03 Thread Alan Paganelli
il program. - Original Message - From: "Regina Alvarado" To: Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2013 12:39 PM Subject: Re: Braille Touch and texting Brings up a question. When texting, is it the phone number that is wanted, (always used phone numbers), or can a text be sent with ema

Re: Braille Touch and texting

2013-04-03 Thread Arianna
I don't use this app, but people have been saying that it uses the standard messaging screen for iOS. That being said, you can type in contacts names, and above the keyboard, there will be options such as home, mobile, ET see. You should just be able to double-tap on one of those, and it should

Re: Braille Touch and texting

2013-04-03 Thread BrailleTouch
Hi Reggie, I'm glad you are finding BrailleTouch useful. We are making progress on Grade 2 for BrailleTouch, but it will take some more time to get all the details right. Unfortunately we cannot use existing software for the translation tables due to licensing issues, so we have to recreate th

Re: Braille Touch and texting

2013-04-03 Thread Regina Alvarado
Sandy: When you flick to the left to send text, why do you land in your contacts? I end up on the text message in the "to" box. Then I just put the number in. Still don't know how to get to contacts to be able to add from there if I don't remember the number. Interestingly enough, after I enter

Re: Braille Touch and texting

2013-04-03 Thread Regina Alvarado
Caleb: How is getting grade 2 going for BrailleTouch? I just love it. I just went to receive another guide dog, and I used BrailleTouch for writing all my updates from training! Just getting faster and faster, but grade 2 would make it even faster. Just a wonderful app. By the way, still need to

Re: Braille Touch and texting

2013-04-03 Thread Regina Alvarado
esday, April 02, 2013 3:15 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Braille Touch and texting Caleb, Richard and others, I think Richard may have helped uncover something. Using Braille Touch, I texted myself and I got the message and I obviously have an iPhone. I then tried to text my husba

Re: Braille Touch and texting

2013-04-03 Thread brian albriton
Hi, Sandy. after tapping the text message choice, I land in the messaging app with the text in the body. I type a few letters of my contact, then double tap the contact I I want. I then tap send and the message is sent. That said, the text message choice seems a bit finicky. try copying inst

Re: Braille Touch and texting

2013-04-03 Thread Alan Paganelli
Text messages go to the sender's telephone number rather to their name. For example, if you were sending a text message to me, you would enter in to the to field, 7 0 2 4 1 2 7 4 5 3. You would not enter that persons name and expect contacts to select the correct number. How is contacts to k

Re: Braille Touch and texting

2013-04-02 Thread Sandy Finley
est. > Maybe that's theo nly way to force it. I'd like to see more on this aspect > too, please. > > I'll go fiddle with it in a minute or few. > > Rh. > - Original Message - > From: "Sandy Finley" > To: > Sent: Tuesday, April 0

RE: Braille Touch and texting

2013-04-02 Thread Richard Turner
Behalf Of Sandy Finley Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2013 10:01 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Cc: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Braille Touch and texting Sandy Finley On 02/04/2013, at 8:09 AM, BrailleTouch wrote: Hi Sandy, I think Rob is correct that is has something to do with iMessage

Re: Braille Touch and texting

2013-04-02 Thread Sandy Finley
Maybe that's theo nly way to force it. I'd like to see more on this aspect > too, please. > > I'll go fiddle with it in a minute or few. > > Rh. > - Original Message - > From: "Sandy Finley" > To: > Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2013 11:15 AM

RE: Braille Touch and texting

2013-04-02 Thread Richard Turner
phone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sandy Finley Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2013 3:15 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Braille Touch and texting Caleb, Richard and others, I think Richard may have helped uncover something. Using Braille Touch, I texted myself and I got the message and I obvi

Re: Braille Touch and texting

2013-04-02 Thread Sandy Finley
Maybe that's theo nly way to force it. I'd like to see more on this aspect > too, please. > > I'll go fiddle with it in a minute or few. > > Rh. > - Original Message - > From: "Sandy Finley" > To: > Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2013 11:15 AM

Re: Braille Touch and texting

2013-04-02 Thread BrailleTouch
aspect too, please. I'll go fiddle with it in a minute or few. Rh. - Original Message - From: "Sandy Finley" To: Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2013 11:15 AM Subject: RE: Braille Touch and texting Caleb, Richard and others, I think Richard may have helped uncover something.

Re: Braille Touch and texting

2013-04-02 Thread Carol Pearson
clipboard, but I'd like to cut out > those steps. Thanks! > > > > > -Original Message- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf > Of BrailleTouch > Sent: Monday, April 01, 2013 8:56 PM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Braille Tou

Re: Braille Touch and texting

2013-04-02 Thread RobH!
ee more on this aspect too, please. I'll go fiddle with it in a minute or few. Rh. - Original Message - From: "Sandy Finley" To: Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2013 11:15 AM Subject: RE: Braille Touch and texting Caleb, Richard and others, I think Richard may have helped

RE: Braille Touch and texting

2013-04-02 Thread Sandy Finley
t out those steps. Thanks! -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of BrailleTouch Sent: Monday, April 01, 2013 8:56 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Braille Touch and texting Hi Sandy, I'm sorry you are having troub

Re: Braille Touch and texting

2013-04-01 Thread Jennie Facer
I have no problems sending text to my husband, and he doesn't have a smart phone even let alone Braille Touch. Jenn Sent from my iPhone On Apr 1, 2013, at 6:55 PM, BrailleTouch wrote: > Hi Sandy, > I'm sorry you are having trouble texting with BrailleTouch. It sounds like > you are doing eve

Re: Braille Touch and texting

2013-04-01 Thread Richard Turner
I just sent an iMessage with my Touch to an iPhone without any trouble with BrailleTouch. However, when I tried to send a text to a non-apple device, it failed. So are you sending from an iPhone? If you are, then I am not sure what is wrong. But if you are sending from a Touch or iPad, it may be

Re: Braille Touch and texting

2013-04-01 Thread BrailleTouch
Hi Sandy, I'm sorry you are having trouble texting with BrailleTouch. It sounds like you are doing everything correctly. Please try sending a message to the same person directly from the phone number in your iPhone address book without using BrailleTouch. If that works, please try closing Brai

Re: BRAILLE touch AND texting

2013-03-04 Thread RobH!
I do it this way:- 1, write msg in BT 2, flick and tap send text, 3, in the msg app, find the add from address book, find contact and appropriate number, 4, flick around to check I got the content in the msg field, 5, tap send. Not failed yet. Alternative: open msg app, navigate to the po

RE: BRAILLE touch AND texting

2013-03-03 Thread Debbie Downey
Sandy, I follow the same procedure as Rebecca but instead of typing the first few letters of the contact I just double tap on add from contacts, then find the contact and double tap on it and then double tap on the send button and then you're back in Braille Touch where you can just tap the scree

Re: BRAILLE touch AND texting

2013-03-03 Thread Rebecca Ilniski
Hi Sandy. Here's how I do it. I go in to braille touch and type the text. Then I do the two finger swipe left and go to send text message. It switches back to portrait mode. I type the first letter or two of the first or last name and select my contact. Then once I double tap on that I sw

Re: BRAILLE touch AND texting

2013-03-03 Thread Mickey Quenzer
Can you just write the message and then edit copy to clipboard and then find the contact and create text message and paste that contents from the application into your message that's what I would try Sent from my iPhone On Mar 3, 2013, at 1:45 PM, "Sandy Finley" wrote: > I HATE TO ASK THIS BE