Re: reading long emails
Ok, Thanks for the suggestions. For all those who rely full on an device, I thought there must be a magical trick within the email. Glad to know I wan't missing something, although I would have liked it to have been a simple answer. Maybe I'll try sending it to kindle. -- From: Cheryl Lenartiene cheryl.lenarti...@gmail.com Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2014 2:53 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: reading long emails You could get an Otterbox Defender case, or any case that comes with a holster that allows you to put the phone in the holster with the screen facing in. Then, you lok the screen orientation, start reading, and put the phone in the holster with the screen facing in. That would keep you from bumping the screen. Cheryl Be joyful always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus. 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 Sent from my iPhone On Mar 22, 2014, at 12:16 AM, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com wrote: Basically, don't bump the screen. :) It sounds simple, but keep in mind that touches can register through cloth, so if your phone is in your pocket with the screen in, it might touch your leg and register a touch. Or, if it is facing out, a bris of your hand over that pocket could be enough. Personally, I'd consider sending something that huge to Instapaper and reading either from the Instapaper app or an app like Voice Dream Reader. Basically, you send your email to a special address you are given when you sign up, and anything you forward there is converted into the Instapaper format (which is, ideally, just the text and important bits of the message or article). You can then read that generated article however you wish. Note that using VDR to read it requires a subscription to Instapaper, a monthly fee you can pay for within the Instapaper app itself, using iTunes credit. The only other thing I can think of is to try to remember a bit of text from where you left off in the email. Then, open the message and use a two-finger triple tarp to bring up the Item Chooser. Activate the search field, type the text you remember, and hope you remembered/typed it right. Go to the matching item and, in theory, you will be back where you left off. On Mar 22, 2014, at 12:08 AM, Van Lant Family vanlant2...@msn.com wrote: I'm using the native email app in my iphone. I was trying to read a really long newsletter that was in the text of the message. Voiceover said it was 160 pages long. Unfortunately, as much as I tried to not bump the screen, it seems that I would occasionally do so, sending the focus back to the beginning of the message or back to my inbox. I would go back into the message and triple finger flick up to find the correct page and start reading again, only do bump the screen again at some point. After multiple times and getting to page 100 or so, I gave up and decided I didn't want to triple finger flick 100 times. Any advice for managing really long emails like this? I had the screen orientation locked, so that was not the issue. I had it in my pocket some of the time, thinking I was less apt to bump the screen, but, alas, I did it again. Please share your advice. My only other option is to just wait and read it on my laptop. Thanks. Robin -- 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. -- Have a great day, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com -- 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
reading long emails
I'm using the native email app in my iphone. I was trying to read a really long newsletter that was in the text of the message. Voiceover said it was 160 pages long. Unfortunately, as much as I tried to not bump the screen, it seems that I would occasionally do so, sending the focus back to the beginning of the message or back to my inbox. I would go back into the message and triple finger flick up to find the correct page and start reading again, only do bump the screen again at some point. After multiple times and getting to page 100 or so, I gave up and decided I didn't want to triple finger flick 100 times. Any advice for managing really long emails like this? I had the screen orientation locked, so that was not the issue. I had it in my pocket some of the time, thinking I was less apt to bump the screen, but, alas, I did it again. Please share your advice. My only other option is to just wait and read it on my laptop. Thanks. Robin -- 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.
Re: Linked in question.
Jed, I haven't been on the Linked In site in a couple months and hadn't seen much progress at that time, but my acquaintance only took the job late last fall. I'll try to get online to LinkedIn and message him to find out a status update. Robin -- From: Jed Barton j...@jedbarton.com Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2014 7:26 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Linked in question. Wow, what's the status of their site now, is it accessible at all? -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Van Lant Family Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2014 12:34 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Linked in question. Being on LinkedIn is a good professional move. I've been contacted by recruiters based on my experience. Be aware that this is intended for professional networking, so you really want to be sure that your profile looks clean. Don't let the accessibility issues of the site or app hurt your professional image; ask a sighted person to give your profile a visual review. Every person should do this, regardless of whether they are visually impaired. This is an online resume. While the apps and websites are not greatly accessible, the good news is that Linked In recently hired a totally blind person to advise them on accessibility. He's a guy I know from past professional and recreational activities and I think he'll be a great advocate for us. My recollection is that he just moved to the job in last fall. I'll let you all know if I connect with him and have an update on his attack plan for improving accessibility. Robin -- From: Christopher Chaltain chalt...@gmail.com Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 8:00 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Linked in question. Yes, you can search for contacts, using criteria like places worked, schools attended and so on. LinkedIn will also suggest different people you can connect with. On the LinkedIn page, you can also point to or upload your contacts from Outlook, Google and so on, and LinkedIn will see if those people are already on LinkedIn and give you the chance to connect with them. When you invite someone to connect with you, after they accept your invitation, you'll get an email that will also include suggestions from LinkedIn on who in their connections you might want to connect to. You can also look at your connection's connections and extend an invitation to any of them if you want to. On 02/24/2014 07:56 AM, Mária Orovčíková wrote: Ricardo and all, thanks for your reply. So according to what criteria you can find people on Linked in in case you want to make some new contacts? Is something like that possible? Regards Maria On 24. 2. 2014 13:36, Ricardo Walker wrote: Hi, Yes, there is a linked in app. The accessibility is terrible. I mean truly atrocious. Linkedin is basically a social network based on careers and employment. The more your network grows, the more access you have to other people. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Feb 24, 2014, at 3:52 AM, Mária Orovčíková maria.orovcik...@gmail.com wrote: Hello list, please is there anyone using linked in? What is this network all about? Is there Linked in app available for iphone which is accessible for blind users? If there is someone using this network, could you please tell me something more about it? I created an account on there, but not sure how to use it. Thanks. With regards Maria -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- Christopher (CJ) chaltain at Gmail -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group
Re: Linked in question.
Being on LinkedIn is a good professional move. I've been contacted by recruiters based on my experience. Be aware that this is intended for professional networking, so you really want to be sure that your profile looks clean. Don't let the accessibility issues of the site or app hurt your professional image; ask a sighted person to give your profile a visual review. Every person should do this, regardless of whether they are visually impaired. This is an online resume. While the apps and websites are not greatly accessible, the good news is that Linked In recently hired a totally blind person to advise them on accessibility. He's a guy I know from past professional and recreational activities and I think he'll be a great advocate for us. My recollection is that he just moved to the job in last fall. I'll let you all know if I connect with him and have an update on his attack plan for improving accessibility. Robin -- From: Christopher Chaltain chalt...@gmail.com Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 8:00 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Linked in question. Yes, you can search for contacts, using criteria like places worked, schools attended and so on. LinkedIn will also suggest different people you can connect with. On the LinkedIn page, you can also point to or upload your contacts from Outlook, Google and so on, and LinkedIn will see if those people are already on LinkedIn and give you the chance to connect with them. When you invite someone to connect with you, after they accept your invitation, you'll get an email that will also include suggestions from LinkedIn on who in their connections you might want to connect to. You can also look at your connection's connections and extend an invitation to any of them if you want to. On 02/24/2014 07:56 AM, Mária Orovčíková wrote: Ricardo and all, thanks for your reply. So according to what criteria you can find people on Linked in in case you want to make some new contacts? Is something like that possible? Regards Maria On 24. 2. 2014 13:36, Ricardo Walker wrote: Hi, Yes, there is a linked in app. The accessibility is terrible. I mean truly atrocious. Linkedin is basically a social network based on careers and employment. The more your network grows, the more access you have to other people. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Feb 24, 2014, at 3:52 AM, Mária Orovčíková maria.orovcik...@gmail.com wrote: Hello list, please is there anyone using linked in? What is this network all about? Is there Linked in app available for iphone which is accessible for blind users? If there is someone using this network, could you please tell me something more about it? I created an account on there, but not sure how to use it. Thanks. With regards Maria -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- Christopher (CJ) chaltain at Gmail -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
Re: Kindle Books
Curious to hear this answer, too. My method to date is to add to my wish list, then purchase from there. The add to wish list link is pretty apparent under the combo box for selecting where to send the Kindle book. -- From: Jenny Dawson jjdaw...@iinet.net.au Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2014 8:17 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Kindle Books Hello Listers I have the Kindle app on my 5S and it's working well. The problem I'm having is buying books from the Kindle Books site. I can find and select the book but can't see where to add it to the shopping cart. I am normally a pretty savvy internet shopper. I'm using Windows 7 with JAWS 15. If anyone can shed some light on this I would be greatful. Thanks in anticipation. Jenny Jennifer dawson Phone: 08 94961024 Email: jjdaw...@iinet.net.au -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: Kindle Confusion - an update
Steve, Is that accessible Kindle reader for PC something I find on the regular Amazon site? That might be a nice thing to try since it syncs. Also, just curious, is the only way you can buy Kindle books through Safari or the standard Amazon site? I tried using the Amazon app and the accessible Amazon site on my PC and both said they did not support Kindle downloads. So, I used the regular Amazon site on my PC to make my purchase. Thanks. -- From: Steve pipeguy...@gmail.com Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2014 9:42 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Kindle Confusion - an update Robin, Do you have an ID for Kindle? You need or at least I have one which routes my purchased content to Kindle, it is my em...@kindle.com. When you have that, you should be able to get your downloaded books. I have the latest update of Kindle and it works well. I also have the Accessible Kindle reader on my Windows computer. If I read on one device, it will automatically pick up where I left off on the other device. Cool! Steve - Original Message - From: Van Lant Family vanlant2...@msn.com To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2014 12:26 AM Subject: Re: Kindle Confusion - an update Just went back to my Kindle app and it had loaded to a screen with some menu options. I clicked on Return to book and again got to a screen that won't read anything and I can't even figure out how to get back to the menu. I finally closed the app and started over. and am now back at the Welcome screen that won't voice. Ugh. -- From: Van Lant Family vanlant2...@msn.com Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 9:51 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Kindle confusion - what did I do wrong? With great excitement, I downloaded the Kindle app a couple weeks ago. I put in my amazon login info and cruised around the app as best I could without any books or documents to read. It seemed as promising as this list and the Fedora Outlier website had indicated. Then over this past weekend, I finally got around to purchasing my first Kindle book and told it to sync to my phone. I also emailed my myself two PDF documents, using the provided kindle.com email address. All felt great. However, when I went back to my phone and launched the Kindle app, it loaded to a screen that won't read with VO. At first I thought it was just downloading my new book, but I'm still not past this screen. It just makes the clicking noise as I move my finger around. My husband says the screen says Welcome to Kindle and has an image of a boy reading a book on it. If I turn off VO, I can see enough to see that left and right flicking move some screens. Ash! What happened! I did update about 16 apps automatically over the weekend, too. Did I upgrade Kindle to an inaccessible version? Please help restore my excitement to have kindle available! If it matters, I'm on an iPhone 4 running IOS 7.4. Robin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone
Re: Alarm Clock setting when you don't have Sire
Thanks, Chris. I guess the trade off there is that I can't get any emergency phone calls from family if I'm on Do Not Disturb. Oh well, I really don't use the iPhone as an alarm that often, but maybe I'll find new uses for a daytime alarm. -- From: Chris H christopher...@gmail.com Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 11:59 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Alarm Clock setting when you don't have Siri Yes use Do Not Disturb. Go to Control Centre and it's in there. It's a toggle. Regards Chris On 20/02/2014 04:20, Van Lant Family wrote: Thanks for responding on this question. Setting the alarm was as easy as indicated and, much to my relief, went off at the specified time. however, I also was awoken by a text message from my bank arriving at 5:00 AM, an hour before my desired get up. Is there something that you can do to not hear that stuff, but still use the alarm function? Thanks Robin -- From: Sieghard Weitzel siegh...@live.ca Sent: Monday, February 10, 2014 5:15 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Alarm Clock setting when you don't have Siri Hi Robin, If you just want to set an Alarm there really is no need to get any extra app. Yes, there are probably hundreds of Alarm apps out there, but the alarm function that is part of the Clock app in iOS works perfectly fine. 1. Open the Clock app 2. Double tap the Alarm tab (second from the left across the bottom) 3. Double tap Add at the top right of the screen 4. Swipe right until you come to the hour picker control, swipe up or down with one finger to set it to the hour you want (it always displays the time when you opened the Clock). Swipe right again and adjust the minutes in the same way. Lastly, swipe right again and specify AM or PM. 5. Swipe right and double tap Repeat, Never if you want to repat the alarm on certain days, you have a list of each day of the week, if you want, for example, the same alarm from Monday to Friday, double tap on those days to select them, then tap on Back at the top left to go bac to the main Alarm screen. 6. Label: Alarm - here you can give your alarm a different name/label. 7. Sound - here you can pick from the available alarm sounds or you can pick a song from your music library. 8. Snooze: this is on by default, turn it off if you don't want the snooze function to repeate the alarm. 9. When you are done double tap Save at the top right of the screen and that's it. It's simple and straight forward, if you are happy with no repeat, snooze and the default sound all you have to do is set the time and tap Save. Any alarms you create will stay in your list of available alarms, if they are not repeating they go off at the specified time and then are turned off, but you can just double tap on any alarm and turn it back on if you want to use it again. This way if you have certain time when you get up, for example, 6 AM, 6:30 AM, 7 AM, 7:30 AM, 8 AM etc. you could create an alarm for each of these times and then all you have to do is pull up the Clock app, Alarm will stay selected unless you change it and then double tap on the alarm you want to turn it on, then press Home to get back to your home screen. If you have an active alarm it will say Alarm Set in the status bar, unfortunately Apple does not include the time there which I think would be a good idea. If you want to Edit or delete an existing alarm, maybe change the time or the sound it uses, just double tap on Edit at the top left of the screen, then you have a Delete switch next to each alarm, double tap it to turn it on, then double tap again to delete. To Edit double tap on the alarm itself and the same screen opens as when you set up a new alarm and you can make changes, then Save it. Regards, Sieghard from the -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Van Lant Family Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2014 10:37 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Alarm Clock setting when you don't have Siri I'm on an Iphone 4 with no Siri. Is it pretty easy to set an alarm clock (for waking up) or do you recommend a particular app? Staying at a hotel this week and I've never set an alarm on my phone. Robin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving
Good for Enterprise
Anyone successfully using Good for Enterprise to read your work email calendar? I had a friend turn on VO with Good to test it for me before I bothered downloading. Seems like it read the inbox Ok, but I guess we didn't fully test it. Might also be that updates to Good made it even less accessible. I can barely read my email and really cannot get the calendar to work. My whole point of getting the app was to be able to check my work calendar without logging into our VPN connection on my office pc. Because i work for a bank, security is really tight on our network. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: Alarm Clock setting when you don't have Siri
Thanks for responding on this question. Setting the alarm was as easy as indicated and, much to my relief, went off at the specified time. however, I also was awoken by a text message from my bank arriving at 5:00 AM, an hour before my desired get up. Is there something that you can do to not hear that stuff, but still use the alarm function? Thanks Robin -- From: Sieghard Weitzel siegh...@live.ca Sent: Monday, February 10, 2014 5:15 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Alarm Clock setting when you don't have Siri Hi Robin, If you just want to set an Alarm there really is no need to get any extra app. Yes, there are probably hundreds of Alarm apps out there, but the alarm function that is part of the Clock app in iOS works perfectly fine. 1. Open the Clock app 2. Double tap the Alarm tab (second from the left across the bottom) 3. Double tap Add at the top right of the screen 4. Swipe right until you come to the hour picker control, swipe up or down with one finger to set it to the hour you want (it always displays the time when you opened the Clock). Swipe right again and adjust the minutes in the same way. Lastly, swipe right again and specify AM or PM. 5. Swipe right and double tap Repeat, Never if you want to repat the alarm on certain days, you have a list of each day of the week, if you want, for example, the same alarm from Monday to Friday, double tap on those days to select them, then tap on Back at the top left to go bac to the main Alarm screen. 6. Label: Alarm - here you can give your alarm a different name/label. 7. Sound - here you can pick from the available alarm sounds or you can pick a song from your music library. 8. Snooze: this is on by default, turn it off if you don't want the snooze function to repeate the alarm. 9. When you are done double tap Save at the top right of the screen and that's it. It's simple and straight forward, if you are happy with no repeat, snooze and the default sound all you have to do is set the time and tap Save. Any alarms you create will stay in your list of available alarms, if they are not repeating they go off at the specified time and then are turned off, but you can just double tap on any alarm and turn it back on if you want to use it again. This way if you have certain time when you get up, for example, 6 AM, 6:30 AM, 7 AM, 7:30 AM, 8 AM etc. you could create an alarm for each of these times and then all you have to do is pull up the Clock app, Alarm will stay selected unless you change it and then double tap on the alarm you want to turn it on, then press Home to get back to your home screen. If you have an active alarm it will say Alarm Set in the status bar, unfortunately Apple does not include the time there which I think would be a good idea. If you want to Edit or delete an existing alarm, maybe change the time or the sound it uses, just double tap on Edit at the top left of the screen, then you have a Delete switch next to each alarm, double tap it to turn it on, then double tap again to delete. To Edit double tap on the alarm itself and the same screen opens as when you set up a new alarm and you can make changes, then Save it. Regards, Sieghard from the -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Van Lant Family Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2014 10:37 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Alarm Clock setting when you don't have Siri I'm on an Iphone 4 with no Siri. Is it pretty easy to set an alarm clock (for waking up) or do you recommend a particular app? Staying at a hotel this week and I've never set an alarm on my phone. Robin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options
Kindle confusion - what did I do wrong?
With great excitement, I downloaded the Kindle app a couple weeks ago. I put in my amazon login info and cruised around the app as best I could without any books or documents to read. It seemed as promising as this list and the Fedora Outlier website had indicated. Then over this past weekend, I finally got around to purchasing my first Kindle book and told it to sync to my phone. I also emailed my myself two PDF documents, using the provided kindle.com email address. All felt great. However, when I went back to my phone and launched the Kindle app, it loaded to a screen that won't read with VO. At first I thought it was just downloading my new book, but I'm still not past this screen. It just makes the clicking noise as I move my finger around. My husband says the screen says Welcome to Kindle and has an image of a boy reading a book on it. If I turn off VO, I can see enough to see that left and right flicking move some screens. Ash! What happened! I did update about 16 apps automatically over the weekend, too. Did I upgrade Kindle to an inaccessible version? Please help restore my excitement to have kindle available! If it matters, I'm on an iPhone 4 running IOS 7.4. Robin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: Kindle Confusion - an update
Just went back to my Kindle app and it had loaded to a screen with some menu options. I clicked on Return to book and again got to a screen that won't read anything and I can't even figure out how to get back to the menu. I finally closed the app and started over. and am now back at the Welcome screen that won't voice. Ugh. -- From: Van Lant Family vanlant2...@msn.com Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 9:51 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Kindle confusion - what did I do wrong? With great excitement, I downloaded the Kindle app a couple weeks ago. I put in my amazon login info and cruised around the app as best I could without any books or documents to read. It seemed as promising as this list and the Fedora Outlier website had indicated. Then over this past weekend, I finally got around to purchasing my first Kindle book and told it to sync to my phone. I also emailed my myself two PDF documents, using the provided kindle.com email address. All felt great. However, when I went back to my phone and launched the Kindle app, it loaded to a screen that won't read with VO. At first I thought it was just downloading my new book, but I'm still not past this screen. It just makes the clicking noise as I move my finger around. My husband says the screen says Welcome to Kindle and has an image of a boy reading a book on it. If I turn off VO, I can see enough to see that left and right flicking move some screens. Ash! What happened! I did update about 16 apps automatically over the weekend, too. Did I upgrade Kindle to an inaccessible version? Please help restore my excitement to have kindle available! If it matters, I'm on an iPhone 4 running IOS 7.4. Robin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Alarm Clock setting when you don't have Siri
I'm on an Iphone 4 with no Siri. Is it pretty easy to set an alarm clock (for waking up) or do you recommend a particular app? Staying at a hotel this week and I've never set an alarm on my phone. Robin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: Replying to text messages
If you read the text from your locked screen, you can double tap on the message and it will take you right to that message string, Then, near the very bottom is the text message field. My recollection is that in the new IONS is doesn't say double tap to edit on that reply field, but I could be wrong. Either way, double tap that field and you should be able to reply. -- From: Donald L. Roberts donald.robert...@gmail.com Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2014 10:47 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Replying to text messages Two questions on this subject. First, is it possible to reply to a text message using Siri? So, what is the command to issue? Second, when not using Siri to reply to a text message, what is the most convenient way to reply to the most recent text message? I ask because I can get this done, but it seems I have to fumble around quite a bit as if I have to figure it out each time. Thanks. Don Roberts -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
a couple basic iPhone questions
Hi, I've had my iPhone 4 for about 9 months; getting the hang of it, albeit slower than I'd expected on some things. I have a couple basic questions: 1. Seems like I end up turning the volume down so that VoiceOver isn't blaring when I'm around other people, but then I find I miss hearing my phone ring. Is this normal behavior that the volume of the ringer and VoiceOver are tied? What do you do to not have the volume super loud, but not miss phone ringers. (My phone is often near me or on a desk/counter, not on me where I would feel the vibrate.) 2. I'm used to standard speech software where you can start a read-to-end function from wherever you are in an email. So, if I right flick through some initial lines of text to get past the clutter at the top an of email or webpage, I would like to start a read to end function from that new point, gut it seems the the 2 finger flick up always starts me back reading at the top? Is this correct? Any advice on ways to jump past the initial clutter or pick up where you left off with a read-to-end? 3. I get the Access World monthly newsletter. I've started reading the articles on my phone using Safari. Kind of building off the last question, i try to navigate to the article and seems like I have to wade through a bunch of stuff at the top of the web page first. And, while I hear a jump to article link on the page that works on my desktop PC with Window Eyes, I can't get that link to work and/or be able to start a read-to-end function. Any advice here from others who read this newsletter -- just as a specific example to help me learn to navigate more efficiently? Thank you! Robin Van Lant -- From: Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona hanksm...@hanksmith.net Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2013 8:18 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: google all access music on ios? Hello what apps are folks using to access google all access music service on ios? I can access it on my android okay but am looking for a voice over ios app that would allow me to access the service and is vo friendly thanks Hank -- website: www.solavei.com/hanksmith email: hanksm...@hanksmith.net skype: hank.smith966 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
accessible Bible app
Hi, I'm new to the list and still pretty new to my iPhone 4. I'm looking for an app to read the ESV version of the Bible on my phone. I just downloded 2 apps (out of 70 some that came up in the app store search) and both are inaccessible to VO. One reads some of the icons, but not the important stuff. The other was recommended by a sighted friend and seems cool, but won't read. Without downloading and trying each of the other 70 some options, can anyone point me to one that works? I'd prefer the ESV translation, but would consider others just to have an accessible one. Can developers make these apps accessible somehow if I were to contact them and ask about it? Robin Van Lant -- 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 Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
