Hi Siegard, The detailed description I found to be very useful so thank you! All the best, Cokes.
Sent from my iPhone On 25 Oct 2012, at 02:28 PM, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote: > Barbara, > > If all they want to do is answer and they have problems with the slide > gesture is also is just a matter of practice, after all, it’s the same > gesture they have to use to unlock the phone. I usually double tap, but the > slide gesture works fine in Voiceover and the main thing is to really start > on the very left and slide across to the very right in a straight line. > > > Regards, > Sieghard > > > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of > Barbara Wilson > Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2012 6:16 AM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Answering a Call > > Thanks for that detailed info. I was asking for a sighted person who was > finding it difficult to slide to answer and does not use a headset. I think > slide would be easier for them than tapping options to be given more options. > Shame you can’t answer with voice though. > > Barbara > > From: Sieghard Weitzel > Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2012 1:46 PM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: RE: Answering a Call > > Hi Barbara, > > You can’t answer by voice, of course you can answer very easily if your > headset is connected by pressing the answer/hang-up button which is also the > Play/Pause button when you are not on a call. It is the slightly resessed > middle area on the headsets remote. > > I rarely answer with a 2-finger double tap since it’s very easy to find the > “Slide to Answer” control. > > The choices are slightly different depending on whether your phone is locked > when the call comes in or whether you are doing something and it’s unlocked. > Keep in mind that you can press either the volume up or down key when it is > ringing and this will mute the ringer which of course makes it a lot easier > to hear Voiceover. > If you hear the caller Id and decide you don’t want to take the call you can > press the Power button twice quickly and that will decline the call and send > it to Voicemail. > > OK, so here is what I do when the phone is locked: > > As soon as the phone rings you only have 3 things on the screen: > > The caller’s identity, either their name if they are in your contacts or the > phone number. > > A large “Slide to answer” control > This si super easy to find as it takes up the entire bottom area above the > home key exactly like the “Slide to Unlock” control. You can just put your > finger on the home key, then slide up a bit and you will hear “Slide to > Answer”, now double tap anywhere and the call is answered. If you want to > hear the caller’s identity again, do the same and when you hear “Slide to > Answer” just do a quick single finger flick left and Voiceover reads the > caller’s identity/phone number. Do a single finger flick right and you are on > the “Call Options” button which I explain next. > > Third and this is new in iOS 6 is the “Call Options” button. If you double > tap it you get a new screen with the following 6 items from top to bottom: > > 1. Caller’s identity > 2. Decline button > 3. Answer button > 4. Call Options button (this will hide that screen again if you tap it) > > 5. Reply with Message button (I am always placed on this by default it > seems after I double tap Call Options” > If you double tap you get to choose 1 of 3 pre-programmed messages and the > caller will get a text message with the text of whichever message you pick. > You can configure what these messages say in “Settings”, “Phone” and “Reply > with message”. All 3 messages start with “Can’t talk right now” and then > whichever custom text you set up, e.g. Please call me back in 10 minutes. > Thank You.” > > 6. Remind Me Later button > Double tap this and you can choose from the following: > 1 hour > When I leave > When I get Home > When I get to Work > I assume the “When I get Home” or “When I get to Work” options of course > depend on whether you set up your home and work address as the phone has to > know who you are and what these locations are. The “When I leave” would most > likely refer to wherever you are currently and the geofence would bbe set up > based on your current GPS location. The “In 1 hour” reminder is of course a > simple time based reminder, the others are location based reminders and you > want to keep this in mind because as soon as you set up a location based > reminder your phone constantly monitors your location and this will use more > battery. > > OK, second scenario is that your phone is unlocked and it rings. Now instead > of one large “Slide to Answer” along the bottom you have “Decline from the > left edge to about the middle above the home key and “Answer” from the home > key to the right and on the very right is the “Call Options” button. Your > caller identification is displayed above. > > It is once again very easy. Put your finger on the home key and slide up and > to the right just a bit, maybe towards the 1 o’clock position. This will put > you right on the Answer button. Should you for some reason are on “Decline”, > just do a quick single finger flick right and you are on Answer. If you slide > to high and you hear the caller’s name or phone number, flick right twice, > first time it will go to Decline, second time to Answer. If you want the Call > Options flick right once if you are on Answer or twice if you are on Decline. > > I highly recommend you use your landline or, if you don’t have one, visit a > friend or family and ask them to call you repeatedly to become familiar with > the layout and practice this. > If you want to use the Call Options to Reply with Message, for example, you > don’t actually have to have this all done before it goes to Voicemail. As > long as you get to it you can finish making your selections even if the > caller has already been forwarded to Voicemail. > Since I know that after I double tap on Call Options focus is placed on Reply > with Message, all I do is double tap Call Options, then I double tap again > and for me I am always placed on the very top which is the common heading > “Can’t talk right now”. Then I can flick right to my first custom text > message, flick right again to the second, flick right again to the third. If > you flick right again you actually get a “Custom” button which allows you to > type a personalized message just for that particular call. Lastly there is a > “Cancel” button if you decide not to send a text. > > OK, hope this helps. > > Regards, > Sieghard > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. 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