Hi Mike and Helena,
I just tried Logos 5 on my iPad and it's slightly more accessible than the
iPhone app. Both let you read the text of each book. It's just a little
tricky bringing up the resource area. Once you are on it though, you can do
a two finger swipe down and VO will read each page and scroll to the next
page.
The difference with the iPad app is that the screen layout is more
accessible. VO speaks more items and doesn't loose focus as much as the
iPhone app does.
As for the Mac app, so far it's not as accessible. You can bring up a book
and have the program read back to you, however, VO cannot access the text.
I also have it running on Windows 7 with a little more success.
Right now your best bet is either the website biblia.com or running the iOS
apps. You can access all your books and read them either with speech or a
braille display. You can even do searches and bring up bible passages. I am
working with the developers at Logos to make all their apps accessible. The
iOS apps were made accessible recently and I have been talking to the
Windows programmer to make it more accessible as well. The last area we need
to push them on is the Mac. I did send them Apple's guidelines and gave them
feedback as to what needed to be fixed.
It might be helpful if we continue to email them about getting the Mac
version accessible. Currently the main issue is just like Accordance: most
things work accept reading the actual text.
Feel free to write me off list for some work arounds and the contacts at
Logos.
Vinny
PS If you need access to bibles and resources, contact Optasia Ministry
http://www.optasiaministry.org
They provide simple text files that can be viewed on both Mac and Windows as
well as all the braille notetakers.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Arrigo" <n0...@charter.net>
To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2013 10:09 AM
Subject: Re: Logos progrm on Mac or iPad
Last I checked, these programs were not very accessible, but there is a
work around. If you go to http://biblia.com you can log in with
your email address and password and read your purchased books in your web
browser. If you do this on a desktop computer, choose the option to switch
to mobile view. This will disable the automatic scrolling which will make
each section easier to read.
Original message:
Hi, all! Does anyone know if the logos bible program is accessible with
VoiceOver either on the Mac or the iPad? I could use this program, or at
least something like it for Bible-studies and such things, cause I'm
going to a Bible college. I have three bible programs on my computer, and
none of them work; the accordance program is completely inaccessible; you
can do everything with it except get VoiceOver to read the Bible (Sheesh,
what else is a Bible program for if you can't actually read the Bible on
the darned thing), and my River Bible program doesn't work at all, and
neither does MacSword, at least not with Mavericks. (It just barely
worked the last time, never mind now; it won't even launch, and with the
river Bible, it just keeps crashing and saying that there's a problem
report). I really need something that'll work soon, so if someone can
tell me what to do, that'l be awesome. I'm leaving for a Mission Exposure
trip in January, and if my computer won't work, I pretty much won't be
able to take my Bible with me, except the ones on my iPhone, but the
iPhone ones go crazy after awhile when I have no service; either that or
they work so slowly it takes forever to find one passage. Does anyone
have an iPad they'd like to get rid of? I'd want it to be in decent shape
obviously, but I'd be willing to pay a decent price for it, and if all
the cases and what-not could come with it too, that'd be all the more
awesome, and my professor promised to bring his iPad to school and he has
logos on it, so hopefully we'll be able to find out if it works with
VoiceOver, which I don't think it did on my phone. Sorry, but I'm kind of
desperate, cause my braille Bible's huge, and you'd pretty much need a
van or a decent sized car to carry it alone, never mind me and my other
stuff and the rest of our group, so I can't take it along on the mission
exposure trip.
Thanks!
God Bless!!!
Helena
May The Lord Bless you and keep you; May his face radiate with joy
because of you' May He be gracious to you, show you His favour, and give
you His peace.
(Numbers 6;24)
In Jesus' Name.
Amen
Helena Fehr
helena.torch.li...@gmail.com
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