Hi there When you do, say what brightness you need to set your screen for. I set mine for 100%, and I am afraid that it might be too high. This is because my scan had a few mistakes in it. I still could figure out what was on there. Gigi
Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 23, 2015, at 12:55 PM, Portia Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > > Wow. That is really amazing. I will definitely have to see about this too. > Thanks for The tip. It is really appreciated. This goes to show that Knfb > reader is really amazing! This app will always come in handy for us blind > users. > > Portia > >> On Monday, February 23, 2015, Eugenia Firth <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi guys >> Yesterday, a blind friend of mine told me something that I didn’t think one >> could do, so I just decided to test it. She and a blind friend of hers were >> updating Yosemite this past week, and for some reason, probably because she >> is a new Mac user, she was on the phone with Apple accessibility at that 877 >> number. The advisor just happened to say that he wished they had a sighted >> person present to check to see how much time was left on the update. Of >> course, VoiceOver was out of the picture at that moment, so her totally >> blind friend whipped out his iPhone with KNFB reader and scanned the screen >> and found out how much time was left. She told me this, and I was skeptical >> because I had tried it before and it didn’t work. So I increased the >> brightness on my screen, and sure enough, my iPhone read the screen. It >> wasn’t perfect, but enough to figure out what was on there. So next time I >> need a sighted person to scan the screen, maybe I’ll try the iPhone first. >> >> Gigi >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
