Oh yes, you can navigate solely with the touch screen. I use the keyboard mostly for typing long passages, and I like to explore the keyboard implementation, but iOS has the most accessible touch-screen interface I've ever encountered. I'm fairly sure that physical Bluetooth keyboard implementation was added later.
HtH, Teresa "We can see with the eyes, but we see with the brain as well, and seeing with the brain is often called imagination."--Oliver Sacks > On Aug 7, 2014, at 8:31 AM, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote: > > Hi Michelle, > > OK, I now understand what you mean by Voiceover commands with a Bluetooth > keyboard. Well, I have been an iOS user for almost 5 years and while I do > have a Bluetooth keyboard, I don't use it a lot and when I do it's mostly > when I really want to write a long email on my iPhone. Otherwise I > exclusively use touch screen gestures which really is what the iPhone is > designed for. Apple has done a fantastic job of adding Bluetooth keyboard > and braille display support, but I prefer to use the touch screen especially > for just navigating around and reading. > > > Regards, > Sieghard > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf > Of Michelle Bernstein > Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2014 7:56 AM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: doing basic functions with only voiceover gestures > > Yes, voiceover gestures are where you tap the screen, flick up or down, etc. > and voiceover commands are where you hold down the vo keys and then other > keys on the keyboard. If you are not a JAWS user, it can be difficult to > get familiar with using the keyboard for commands and learning basic > gestures such as taps and flicks is a much easier way to navigate the > screen. I imagine that many JAWS users can easily transform to learning > Voiceover commands as they are used to navigating the keyboard with > commands, but as a non JAWS user, it is a lot to learn. > > Michelle > > Sent from my iPad > >>> On Aug 7, 2014, at 10:16 AM, Michelle Bernstein >> <michellebbbernst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Is it possible to perform basic functions such as reading email and > downloading books from BARD and Bookshare by using only voiceover gestures > and no voiceover commands or do you need to memorize some voiceover > commands to perform these basic activities? Michelle > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. > All new members to the this list are moderated by default. 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 or moderators > directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list > can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. > All new members to the this list are moderated by default. 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 or moderators > directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list > can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. 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 or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
