Unfortunately, you can't move icons like that. Using Zoom you can enlarge the screen, but icons will always fill home screens to the right and down. You can move icons wherever you like on Android, but not iOS. That said, you could always just have a bunch of folders or home screens with only a few icons each. On Jan 23, 2014, at 9:56 AM, Eugenia Firth <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks Alex. I am going to be helping this lady's nephew tomorrow. He's got > three different iPads, the highest of which is an iPad 3. I'm going to talk > him into giving this one to his aunt so that she can have dictation and Siri. > > You guys with low vision correct if I'm wrong, please, but I thought that > because she's very elderly also, that we could move the icons around on the > iPad so that they would be separated and make them bigger. I even thought > about moving them so that they are in the corners of the iPad so that when > her vision gets worse she can know where they are. We can switch her to the > iPhone if we have to if she goes totally blind or pose to it. She has got an > iMac that somebody gave her, and I thought that she could use it for looking > at her pictures on her big screen. Her nephew is a computer guru, so I'm just > giving him a crash course in VoiceOver. > > Regards, > Gigi > > On Jan 22, 2014, at 9:57 PM, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Either way is fine. It is the same gesture used to activate the back button, >> so however you do that will work here. This requires Voiceover to be on - if >> it is off, the pinch out will split the keyboard, and the pinch in will join >> it. >> On Jan 22, 2014, at 10:43 PM, Eugenia Firth <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi Alex >>> Excuse me for being a little dance here, but does that mean scrub from top >>> to bottom or does that mean scrub from left to right when the keyboard is >>> up? >>> Gigi >>> On Jan 22, 2014, at 9:14 PM, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> While focused in the edit field, with the keyboard visible, do a >>>> two-finger scrub. That should toggle the keyboard's split mode. >>>> On Jan 22, 2014, at 6:39 PM, Eugenia Firth <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi guys >>>>> I am in the process of helping someone set up an iPad free for an elderly >>>>> lady with low vision. I think she might need the feature of splitting the >>>>> keyboard so that you can use two hands to type with. I think she may need >>>>> voice over part time, and maybe later full time. I understand that her >>>>> vision loss is progressive. DWhat is the command for doing that? >>>>> Sincerely, >>>>> Gigi >>>>> >>>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> 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/groups/opt_out. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Have a great day, >>>> Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) >>>> [email protected] >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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/groups/opt_out. >>> >>> -- >>> 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/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> >> Have a great day, >> Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) >> [email protected] >> >> >> >> -- >> 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/groups/opt_out. > > -- > 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/groups/opt_out. 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