Mark, Just to let you know, after reading several of your posts concerning
Overdrive app, I decided to give it a try. I am totally blind but am now
using the app on a regular basis. I had some problems getting the library
set up but I am finding that I can use the program successfully. I belong to
Audible but always check the availability of the books I want in the library
first.
I want to thank you for the encouragement to use the app because the first
time I tried it did not seem accessible enough for regular usage.
Marie
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From: M. Taylor
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2018 9:43 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: Overdrive how to use it?
Hello Lelia,
I am going to paste in an answer that I posted to the list a while ago:
As some in this community may recall, I am a huge fan of Over Drive. I use
it, exclusively, to download commercial audio books; from classic fiction
such as “Gone with the Wind,” to modern non-fiction releases such as Hillary
Clinton’s recently published, “What Happened.”
Having said this, the answer to your question will depend a great deal on
whether or not you have any usable vision.
I will confess that Over Drive is one of the few apps on my phone that
compels me to use my vision in order to access certain areas of an audio
book. This is not to say that these areas are not VoiceOver accessible but,
accessing them requires more explore-by-touch than iOS users have come to
expect.
So, while the names of each chapter and section heading are completely
VoiceOver accessible, accessing this area can be a bit challenging if one is
totally blind.
Regardless, I will suggest the following navigation strategy, which requires
no vision, whatsoever, in order to execute:
1.
Place focus on the Play/Pause button, located near the bottom center of the
display.
2.
Single-finger, swipe from right-to-left, once. This will place focus on the
“Skip Back 15 Seconds”, button.
3.
Single-finger, swipe from right-to-left, again, in order to land on the
“Audio book, Previous Heading”, button. Each time you activate this button.
You will be taken back one subsection/chapter, at a time.
Good Luck and Enjoy,
Mark
-----Original Message-----
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
Of Lelia Struve
Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2018 1:23 PM
To: Viphone
Subject: Overdrive how to use it?
Hello everyone, so I didn’t know you could do this but I got a library card
online. So I got the over Drive app, but I can’t seem to save my library.
Any tips on how to use this app would be greatly appreciated. I went to the
Apple vis site and didn’t find too much. I thought someone would have made a
podcast but no luck. Thanks for any and all tips and tricks!
Lelia
Sent from my iPhone
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