Mary, please don't! I won't either! Long live as both :-) On 6 May 2016, at 16:17, Mary Otten <motte...@gmail.com> wrote:
I am with you, Carol. I can't get very excited about these drives, so long as their use is circumscribed with the use of a single app. That is a huge advantage of android. If Apple would just let us have greater control, as you say, that would be great. I probably shouldn't hold my breath waiting for that though. Mary Sent from my iPhone > On May 6, 2016, at 8:05 AM, Russ Kiehne <russ94...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I’ll keep you updated. The Leef Ibridge flash drive has it’s own app. > > From: 'Carol Pearson' via VIPhone > Sent: Friday, May 06, 2016 6:18 AM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: iTunes for windows and screen readers > > Do keep us updated with this because I am interested. Does the drive save in > your usual folders or does it have its own software, do you know? I guess it > has its own software and that is what I do not really like. I wish Apple > would allow us to take more control of our phones! :-) > > > > Carol P > Sent from my iPhone using MBraille > > On 4 May 2016, at 14:45, Russ Kiehne <russ94...@gmail.com> wrote: > > At this point in time, the only drive I know that has the open in option, is > the Leef Ibridge. If anyone knows of any other drive that has the open in > option, I would like to know about it. I'm waiting for them to make this app > accessible with voiceover. Perhaps if several of us write tech support, this > will happen real soon! > > -----Original Message----- From: Terrie Terlau > Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2016 5:31 PM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: RE: iTunes for windows and screen readers > > > Hi all, > I am very eager to try one of these drives. However, I was first under the > impression that most of them allowed the "Send to" option so that material on > the drive could be sent to another app. I learned (fortunately before I made > a purchase) that this is not the case. We need to wait till the software for > the drive that allows Send To is accessible or until other drives offer the > Send to option with accessible software if we want to, as I do, grab books > from my computer and put them in Voice Dream Reader. > Let's keep our fingers crossed. For those of us who want to use the drive to > play material in its proprietary app, some of these drives are good solutions > now. > Terrie Terlau > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of > Chip Orange > Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2016 7:31 PM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: RE: iTunes for windows and screen readers > > Yes, I agree Rus, I think these drives, if they are accessible and will > handle all file types, are far superior. The increased cost is rather small > (I mean, suppose they are $40 instead of $20 for a standard drive of some > given size, $20 isn't so much that it makes it impossible). > > Chip > > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of > Russ Kiehne > Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2016 10:23 AM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: iTunes for windows and screen readers > > From what I understand, with using dropbox, you first have to upload the > file to the cloud. Then you would use your Ios device to download the file > from the cloud. I have a number of zip files that are 600mb in size. This > would take a while to upload to dropbox. Using a flash drive, the transfer > would be a lot faster in my case. > > -----Original Message----- From: Sieghard Weitzel > Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2016 7:05 AM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: RE: iTunes for windows and screen readers > > I have no idea which dual USB-Lightning flash drives have accessible apps > since I have no plans or interest in buying one. Most of them are very > expensive compared to just an equivalent USB drive of the same size and the > limitation of only using the app doesn't get me very excited. Anyhow, as far > as I can tell I can do anything these flash drives can do with Dropbox or > OneDrive both of which I already have installed and use. > > Regards, > Sieghard > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf > Of Russ Kiehne > Sent: Tuesday, May 3, 2016 6:52 AM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: iTunes for windows and screen readers > > Do you happen to know which ones are the most accessible with voiceover? > > The one I've been looking at is the Ibridge by Leef. The app for this flash > drive has a open in option. I've been exchanging email with there tech > support. They tell me that they hope to have this app accessible with > voiceover very soon. When this happens, I'll be buying one. Then I can say > vood buy to itunes file sharing! > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sieghard Weitzel > Sent: Monday, May 02, 2016 2:53 PM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: RE: iTunes for windows and screen readers > > You can access whatever information is on the USB drive, but only via > whatever app goes with the drive. You cannot, for example, put music on the > drive and then get this music to show up in the music app or, for that > matter, even copy it to the internal storage of your iPhone. Ringtones is > another example where you either have to buy them from iTunes so they are > available on the iPhone or you have to use iTunes to sync them to your > phone. > The thumb drives are really no different than Dropbox or OneDrive in that > they are a way to access files stored on them by the app just as you can > access information stored in Dropbox or OneDrive with the Dropbox or > OneDrive app. Only difference is that with Dropbox or OneDrive the files are > in the cloud and with the USB drives they are physically on the drive which > you then have to plug into your Lightning port. > > Regards, > Sieghard > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf > Of Chip Orange > Sent: Monday, May 02, 2016 12:59 PM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: RE: iTunes for windows and screen readers > > What about those new thumb drives which are supposed to work on both I > devices and Windows devices? Can be sure of any of their names (one may > have been Istick), but I thought I read they were supposed to do exactly > this (with the help of an app which came supplied on the thumb drive). > > Anyone know anything about these as an Itunes sync replacement? > > Thanks, > > Chip > > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf > Of Russ Kiehne > Sent: Friday, April 29, 2016 9:21 AM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: iTunes for windows and screen readers > > I just wished there was a good third party program to make it easy to > transfer content to your ios device. Itunes 12 is much harder to use than > itunes 11 was. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Cristóbal > Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2016 2:49 PM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: RE: iTunes for windows and screen readers > > Accessible and easy to use aren't necessarily the same thing. > iTunes is accessible, but it can be clunky to get around in. Even sighted > folks like to complain about iTunes. I'm a Jaws uer and the times i have to > interact with iTunes, I can, but my preference is to do as much as I can on > the phone. > I will say, it is a good app for organizing your media library at the very > least. > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf > Of Mary Otten > Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2016 2:38 PM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: iTunes for windows and screen readers > > I have never used iTunes for windows, because I have a Mac. However, if > friend of mine was just told by an Apple accessibility senior representative > that window eyes works with iTunes for windows and is the only screen reader > which Apple says does that. I know that a few years ago, and it literally > has been years, GW micro had been touting this fact. But I know a lot of > changes have happened with both window eyes and iTunes since then I suspect > that this is the case of apple not keeping their propaganda, I mean their > publication, up-to-date. So for you who use Windows version of iTunes and > screen readers two questions. One, Is it true, WE users, that iTunes works > perfectly well with the latest version of window eyes? And two, what about > other screen readers? 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