Re: Deleting apps (was Re: 7 drastic changes coming to your iPhone with iOS 11 - CNET)

2017-08-07 Thread Vaughn Brown
Thank you E.T. That did the trick. Vaughn On 8/7/17, E.T. wrote: > Double tap and hold with one finger then when you hear the tone, > while still holding, split tap once with another finger. > > From E.T.'s Keyboard. . . >"God for you is where you sweep away

Re: sound when iPhone is starting up from power off?

2017-08-07 Thread Stacey Robinson
Tim, I wouldn’t know how to do that anyway. Thanks, Peace, Stacey Robinson and GEB dog Kirk. mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net > On Aug 7, 2017, at 5:14 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > > Hi, > > The only methods that I've heard of to accomplish

Re: 7 drastic changes coming to your iPhone with iOS 11 - CNET

2017-08-07 Thread Vaughn Brown
Hi, I am trying to delete apps from my iPhone. The old tapping pattern doesn't seem to work any more. Tahnk you for deconfusing me... LOL Vaughn On 8/7/17, Terje Strømberg wrote: > The Screen Curtain will be a feature for sighted people while driving a car. > The apple

When Scanning a Document, How to Know If It's Right Side Up?

2017-08-07 Thread Brandon A. Olivares
Hi, Just got my printer/scanner today, and it works great. Here's my question though: if I want to scan a document, is there a way to tell if it is right-side up? Like any apps I can use or anything? Most of the OCR apps will automatically flip it around the right way, but I'd like to make

Re: sound when iPhone is starting up from power off?

2017-08-07 Thread Stacey Robinson
I wish there were as well. Maybe I should write apple accessibility? Peace, Stacey Robinson and GEB dog Kirk. mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net > On Aug 7, 2017, at 4:34 PM, Daniel Miller wrote: > > Hi Stacy. Unfortunately, there is

Deleting apps (was Re: 7 drastic changes coming to your iPhone with iOS 11 - CNET)

2017-08-07 Thread E.T.
Double tap and hold with one finger then when you hear the tone, while still holding, split tap once with another finger. From E.T.'s Keyboard. . . "God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off

Re: Familiar iOS Charge Chime

2017-08-07 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Tim, Thanks. It works! Cheers, Anne > On 7 Aug 2017, at 18:01, Tim Kilburn wrote: > > Hi, > > Found this a couple of years ago, so some of you may already have had some > fun with it. Credit to OS X Daily for this. > > Would you like your Mac to make a sound when

Re: 7 drastic changes coming to your iPhone with iOS 11 - CNET

2017-08-07 Thread Terje Strømberg
The Screen Curtain will be a feature for sighted people while driving a car. The apple car system with siri. Can be turned off of course. Take care > Den 7. aug. 2017 kl. 10.27 skrev Simon Fogarty : > > Or try changing the world so that everyone else has to do everything

Re: sound when iPhone is starting up from power off?

2017-08-07 Thread Daniel Miller
Hi Stacy. Unfortunately, there is no way to make the iPhone make such a sound. I totally wish there wasn’t, but unfortunately there is not. Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 7, 2017, at 4:41 PM, Stacey Robinson wrote: > > Hello, > I use VO on my iPhone SE. On any iPhone

Re: 7 drastic changes coming to your iPhone with iOS 11 - CNET

2017-08-07 Thread E.T.
Kawal, That is a novel idea. Hand a sighted person the blindfold and then? It does not work. You are looking in the wrong place. I know someone who was born blind and he has absolutely no idea what the sighted world is like. All that matters to him is that he knows how to co-exist in

sound when iPhone is starting up from power off?

2017-08-07 Thread Stacey Robinson
Hello, I use VO on my iPhone SE. On any iPhone I’ve used there’s never been a way for me to tell when the iPhone is starting unless it’s plugged into power or my macbook. Is there any way that I can make my phone make some sort of sound when its restarting if it’s not plugged into power?

Re: 7 drastic changes coming to your iPhone with iOS 11 - CNET

2017-08-07 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
One thing I will say about this, we have been talking from all prospectives about using the I phone etc. As many of you know, I work and serve the blind community in my professional capacity. There is a project called Online today, and they go in to people's homes and teach people how to use

Re: sound when iPhone is starting up from power off?

2017-08-07 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, The only methods that I've heard of to accomplish this require you to JailBrake your device. I would not recommend that. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Aug 7, 2017, at 15:34, Daniel Miller wrote: Hi Stacy. Unfortunately, there is no way to make

Re: Reading ePub files on the mac

2017-08-07 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Kat, Another free option is Adobe Digital Editions. Cheers, Anne > On 6 Aug 2017, at 21:15, Kat DeNicola wrote: > > I have a friend who needs to read his ePub textbooks on the mac. Two > Questions about this: > > 1. I know ePub books read in iBooks, but I’m

Re: 7 drastic changes coming to your iPhone with iOS 11 - CNET

2017-08-07 Thread CHUCK REICHEL
Hi Simon, Agree 100%. Dive in to the beta and start learning the new stuff! :) GOD for you is the Creator of the engineers that produced Apple! C.R. On Aug 7, 2017, at 4:27 AM, Simon Fogarty wrote: > Or try changing the world so that everyone else has to do everything the > blind way! > > I

Re: Bluetooth Keyboards

2017-08-07 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! Talking of bluetooth keyboards. I would like to find a very very small keyboard that can fit in a pocket. I have one from Deltaco but since version 9 of Ios it does not work properly. Its extreemly small so it fits in my hand. But the buttons are big enough for my fingers. It can be a bit

Re: 7 drastic changes coming to your iPhone with iOS 11 - CNET

2017-08-07 Thread Sharon Hooley
I would say that we can look at both ends, both visual and non-visual aspects of this technology. > On Aug 6, 2017, at 11:08 AM, Anders Holmberg wrote: > > Hi! > One perspective is to read the article and then you could be able to help > your sighted friends and

Re: Reading ePub files on the mac

2017-08-07 Thread Kat DeNicola
Thanks! Downloaded it. It worked on the ePub book I have, so I’ll see if my friend can open his textbook in it if there’s no file protection issues. > On Aug 6, 2017, at 12:18 PM, John Panarese wrote: > > You’ll need to use the VoiceOver navigation commands to

Re: High Sierra VO Commands

2017-08-07 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! THe speech rootor is no more. Or at least not as it used to be. You have to hold down vo command shift and the arrow keys to get it to work. I have weritten to apple about this. I hate it. /A > 7 aug. 2017 kl. 06:11 skrev E.T. : > > Amending my query. Is there a

Setting VO to factory defaults

2017-08-07 Thread Michelle's Home Emails
Hi list What is the best way to reset voiceover on my MacBook Air 13 inch 2015 model. I want to use my braille display focus to input info but all i am getting is a bong sound. Interestingly enough when I log on to guest user the braille display does everything as it should. How do I reset

RE: Bluetooth Keyboards

2017-08-07 Thread Simon Fogarty
The apple wifi bt keyboard. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of E.T. Sent: Monday, 7 August 2017 10:13 AM To: MacVisionaries Subject: Bluetooth Keyboards What is a good

Re: Bluetooth Keyboards

2017-08-07 Thread Kliphton Miller
Bluetooth not wifi. Are you testing an apple beta? want to discuss bugs with other testers? Then come join a friendly, helpful, laid back community where we can squash these bugs together, and report them to apple. Subscribe here public-beta-users+subscr...@groups.io Because of the non

Re: Bluetooth Keyboards

2017-08-07 Thread Harry Bell
Is the Apple Wi-fi BT keyboard still available? I couldn’t find it in the U.K. Apple store, only the expensive magic keyboards. Regards Harry > On 7 Aug 2017, at 09:34, Simon Fogarty wrote: > > The apple wifi bt keyboard. > > -Original Message- > From:

Re: High Sierra VO Commands

2017-08-07 Thread lenron brown
yeah I hate the fact that they did that. It's really annoying, it's already bad enough you need so many keys to do certain things On 8/7/17, E.T. wrote: > Yes adding shift to the well known command is not smart. Apple > certainly could find one that is not already

Re: Reading ePub files on the mac

2017-08-07 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Your friend could try AniceSoft EPUB Converter.app that converts epub format to a number of other formats, one of them being rtf. The application, which I got in 2014, still works on the latest operating system. It's fairly accessible apart from the radio buttons which correspond to the

Re: Setting VO to factory defaults

2017-08-07 Thread E.T.
Open VO Utility, go to the File menu and arrow down to the reset command. From E.T.'s Keyboard. . . "God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off and say God did it." --Carl Sagan E-mail:

Re: Bluetooth Keyboards

2017-08-07 Thread E.T.
The Apple keyboard supports wifi? From E.T.'s Keyboard. . . "God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off and say God did it." --Carl Sagan E-mail: ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 8/7/2017 1:34

Re: High Sierra VO Commands

2017-08-07 Thread E.T.
Yes adding shift to the well known command is not smart. Apple certainly could find one that is not already in use. From E.T.'s Keyboard. . . "God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off and

Re: Bluetooth Keyboards

2017-08-07 Thread Erik Burggraaf
Hi Anders and all, Inclusive android has lots of accessible keyboard reviews. Heere is the latest IClever: https://www.inclusiveandroid.com/content/iclever-bluetooth-keyboard Here is another folding full sized keyboard with less features:

RE: 7 drastic changes coming to your iPhone with iOS 11 - CNET

2017-08-07 Thread Simon Fogarty
I'm also a blind person and I also use only voiceover to access / utilise my iPhone and iPads feature set. I will thank mark for sending these emails out as they are inlightening to me about the features that are coming in the next device and or operating system, Just because you use

Re: 7 drastic changes coming to your iPhone with iOS 11 - CNET

2017-08-07 Thread lenron brown
These articles are great and show us what's coming down the pipe line. We have access to a main stream device, why would there just be things shown from a blindness point of view? Matter a fact that will never happen before the device is released, because that's not what the main stream focuses

RE: 7 drastic changes coming to your iPhone with iOS 11 - CNET

2017-08-07 Thread Simon Fogarty
Mark I'm going to say thanks for sending these articals out. It's great to hear what is coming in the new releases Please yes keep sending them to us. As to those that don't like it. Build a bridge and get over it! -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

RE: 7 drastic changes coming to your iPhone with iOS 11 - CNET

2017-08-07 Thread Simon Fogarty
Or try changing the world so that everyone else has to do everything the blind way! I can't get my work colleagues to use jaws or voiceover on computers and in a lot of cases I can't get them to turn these products off instead they just mute the computers, If you think about what you are

Re: 7 drastic changes coming to your iPhone with iOS 11 - CNET

2017-08-07 Thread Scott Granados
Last time I checked, we live in a sited world. That’s pretty much the answer to your sited perspective question. I for one prefer this perspective because I do.not live in a blind bubble. That’s me though, I know there’s a lot of different viewpoints out there. > On Aug 6, 2017, at 12:33 PM,

Re: 7 drastic changes coming to your iPhone with iOS 11 - CNET

2017-08-07 Thread Donna Goodin
Very well said, Scott. Cheers, Donna > On Aug 7, 2017, at 10:59 AM, Scott Granados wrote: > > Kawal, I think you’ve completely missed the point of what Apple is doing and > I totally disagree with you. > > These articles are critical because there isn’t that much of a

Re: 7 drastic changes coming to your iPhone with iOS 11 - CNET

2017-08-07 Thread Scott Granados
Kawal, I think you’ve completely missed the point of what Apple is doing and I totally disagree with you. These articles are critical because there isn’t that much of a difference between our use cases and the sited community. Apple doesn’t view us as a totally different group. We’re not

Familiar iOS Charge Chime

2017-08-07 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Found this a couple of years ago, so some of you may already have had some fun with it. Credit to OS X Daily for this. Would you like your Mac to make a sound when the charge cable is connected, like your iOS device does? Newer MacBooks already do this, but as long as you have 10.10.3

Re: 7 drastic changes coming to your iPhone with iOS 11 - CNET

2017-08-07 Thread Scott Granados
I agree, I thank Mark for his latitude in the topics of articles he allows on list. > On Aug 7, 2017, at 4:22 AM, Simon Fogarty wrote: > > Mark > > I'm going to say thanks for sending these articals out. > > It's great to hear what is coming in the new releases > >

RE: 7 drastic changes coming to your iPhone with iOS 11 - CNET

2017-08-07 Thread gary-melconian
Totally agree with these points. The more perspective we hav on how sighted do things the better we are in competing in their competitive world. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Scott Granados Sent: Monday,