Have you got Javascript on in your Settings under Safari then Advanced?
Christopher Hallsworth
Student at the Hadley School for the Blind
www.hadley.edu
On 17/06/2014 02:22, Teresa Cochran wrote:
Hi, folk,
I'll just introduce this by explaining that I want to work with bookmarklets, which are
I find the regular Facebook app to be accessible at least with speech.
For Twitter I use Tweetlist 4 which is also accessible with speech. I
guess then they should both work with Braille.
Christopher Hallsworth
Student at the Hadley School for the Blind
www.hadley.edu
On 16/06/2014 22:48,
I have a similar problem with Gmail.
I haven't used the account for a long time and there are 3000 messages in the
inbox that I can't delete on my IPhone.
I configured Microsoft Outlook to pick up the messages but for some reason,
they don't delete from the server and I have the tick box
You should log into your gmail account and check your settings. I think
that maybe your gmail account is configured as a POP account; you should
change it to IMAP. With IMAP there is no such option as Leave a Copy on the
Server. With IMAP all mail is synced between your gmail account and your
Additionally, there is a setting on the gmail website to keep/archive all
messages, no matter what your email program tells gmail to do with the
messages. When I set up my gmail account many years ago, this was the default
setting.
David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA
Email: dchitten...@gmail.com
Thank you so much for your help.
I logged in to the settings and there is an option to set pop3 to deliver all
messages, even previously downloaded ones.
I think I will try that initially, it should force them to download again and I
can then delete them hopefully.
I will then configure it to be
I think you'll find that the Mail app uses very little space even if you
have thousands of email messages on the server. It only downloads a tiny
part of each message, and I think it's good at anticipating which
messages you want to see more of.
I'm not sure what you're saying in your last
Hi all
I'm trying the autocorrect and spell check features on iOS. Pretty
accessible! Trouble is I'm not sure how to accept an autocorrection. I
have hints turned on and am told to double tap to cancel the
autocorrection. But how do I accept it? Did I do it right by pressing
return? Thanks
Speaking of apps for getting around, has anyone els noticed apple maps giving
the address across the current location? I think this happens when you're
walking.
Haya Simkin guide dog Pammy
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On 17 Jun 2014, at 04:38, Donna merma...@bellsouth.net wrote:
Tracie
Another pro
Good catch. Yes, I do. Javascript was one of the first things I checked.
Thanks,
Teresa
Winging its way from my iPod
On Jun 16, 2014, at 11:46 PM, Christopher Hallsworth
christopher...@gmail.com wrote:
Have you got Javascript on in your Settings under Safari then Advanced?
Christopher
Hi Chris,
I usually flick until I get the corrected word and double tapped to accept
the corrected word.
HTH.
Godwin Adoyi
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Have you checked out the highly informative article on this topic from
Chris Gilland on AppleVis? He has figured it all out and walks
everyone through these features in great detail.
Kelly
On 6/17/14, Godwin Adoyi Agada gad...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Chris,
I usually flick until I get the
Figured it out I think but will check out the article on Applevis. Cheers!
Christopher Hallsworth
Student at the Hadley School for the Blind
www.hadley.edu
On 17/06/2014 12:36, Godwin Adoyi Agada wrote:
Hi Chris,
I usually flick until I get the corrected word and double tapped to accept
the
Well, we had the weather sirens go off last night in a very big storm, and
my emergency tones were never heard. I guess I'll have to do some research
on what exactly triggers them. They are on, so I thought they should have
sounded, but they did not. I'll see what I can find.
Neal
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Is the app you are refering to the one which is free or $1.99? One is
called places around and the other is places around me.
On 6/17/14, Haya Simkin guide dog Pammy hayasim...@gmail.com wrote:
Speaking of apps for getting around, has anyone els noticed apple maps
giving the address across the
They are pretty loud and pretty annoying. From what I know, you have to be in
the geographic area of an alert for them to sound. For instance if an alert was
given for Edgewood, and you were in Baltimore, you wouldn't get the alert.
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On Jun 17, 2014, at 10:24 AM, Neal Ewers
Voice Dream Reader should do it. I'm not low-vision, so I haven't tested this,
but I believe it offers word highlighting and many font/color choices for best
visibility. You can try the lite version; it only reads for a few seconds at a
time, but aside from that it is fully functional.
On Jun
Is there a good app paid or free out there for reading on the ipad mini. A
friend who is not blind but wants to improve literacy skills wants an app
that will read aloud and let him read along visually, he doesn't like voice
over.
Any suggestions appreciated.
Thanks
Tessa
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I was actually referring to the native maps app. Sorry about the confusion.
Haya Simkin guide dog Pammy
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On 17 Jun 2014, at 17:42, John Diakogeorgiou jdiakoge2...@gmail.com wrote:
Is the app you are refering to the one which is free or $1.99? One is
called places around and
They've also started putting Kindle and Audible stuff together, You can buy an
ebook and get the Audible version downloaded into the Kindle app, then you can
read and listen at the same time But like someone else said, Voice Dream is a
good choice, as well.
Jane
On Jun 17, 2014, at 10:58
so automatic. When it goes off, it's very loud. Loud enough to wake you up
but it certainly will get your attention as it was designed to do. I don't
believe you can turn that one off. I believe though that you can turn off
the Amber Alert feature if it's available in your area. Of course,
The original app in this thread is Places Around, the $1.99. :)
I'll have to check out looking for just business names. That is a bonus.
I haven't noticed that with Apple Maps. Sadly, so far, I have an easier time
with Google Maps app.
Traci
On Jun 17, 2014, at 8:15 AM, Haya Simkin guide
That was just my personal opinion of course. You can turn off the emergency
alerts, such as weather warnings, and the amber alerts, but you can't turn off
the presidential ones.
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On Jun 17, 2014, at 11:37 AM, Alan Paganelli alanandsuza...@earthlink.net
wrote:
so
Voice Dream Reader was originally designed for a sighted user, the programmer
himself. My sighted wife is using it more and more because of the font
settings, and occasionally using one of the high quality voices for listening.
Also as someone else said, Audible and Kindle can be used together
Hi, no it is not a web interface it is a full blown mail app.
On Jun 17, 2014, at 2:39 AM, Hicks Steven (CORNWALL IT SERVICES)
steven.hi...@nhs.net wrote:
Thank you so much for your help.
I logged in to the settings and there is an option to set pop3 to deliver all
messages, even previously
Hi, there is iBooks, bard if you are in the US, kindle, and many more.
On Jun 17, 2014, at 8:58 AM, Tessa tessa...@tbaytel.net wrote:
Is there a good app paid or free out there for reading on the ipad mini. A
friend who is not blind but wants to improve literacy skills wants an app
that will
As someone who still uses POP email via Outlook on my desktop computer, I
think it's important to mention an issue that seems to have been omitted
from this thread. If you currently use POP on your computer's email client,
you cannot just go in and change it to an IMAP account. Also, if you want
Hello. I have the free tornado app from the American Red Cross. When we had a
tornado a month ago, my phone was sitting on its charger with all apps closed.
The thunder was rumbling outside. I could hear it started to rain.
All of a sudden a loud siren sounded followed by a voice saying,
Some months ago I indicated that I could not get music to the phone. I could
get it to the media
folder but it did not transfer to the phone. What might I have been doing
wrong? Also is it
necessary to convert the MP3 files to M4A if so how does one make that happen?
Or, am I just out in
I don't remember your original post, but are you using iTunes to sync
the music to your phone?
On 6/17/14, Ray T. Mahorney mahorney@googlemail.com wrote:
Some months ago I indicated that I could not get music to the phone. I
could get it to the media
folder but it did not transfer to the
Hi Ray,
First of all it is important that your music shows up in your iTunes music
library. I think the easiest way to do this is that you put all your music
together into one folder. Of course you can use subfolders for artist and
album and, if you like, you can use Genre as well. For example, I
did all that and it does not get to the phone. also the bloody thing won't let
me delete a few
things from the phone that I want to remove I guess to make that happen I have
to do a hard reset.
I get the impression apple has never heard of KISS?
Ray T. Mahorney
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affirm and it ain't getting there.
Ray T. Mahorney
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Kimber Gardner
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2014 17:04
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Subject: Re: music on the IPhone
I don't remember
Ray,
Well, I am not sure what you are doing then because if you correctly do all
I described it will work. By the way, MP3 is fine, no need to convert to
AAC. Sorry I can't help further, but without being able to trouble shoot on
your computer and your phone it is difficult to tell you what's
well I believe I managed to get it to work. There were steps which I appeared
to have missed when I
was attempting to do it before and some of those steps appeared to be selecting
what needed copying
to the device now it reported one file could not be copied because it could not
be found which
Hello
Is there a way to stop voiceOver from announcing the caller ID automatically
when receiving an incoming call?
Thanks in advance.
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I have always wanted a good caller ID, but have never found one.
Now I ask y'all:
Is there a good accessible caller ID that heavy Braille users
could be able to better identify the caller?
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No, there is not.
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of
Rami
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2014 12:07 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Announcing caller ID
Hello
Is there a way to stop voiceOver from announcing the caller ID automatically
The native caller ID should do, when a call comes up, the person that is
calling will be displayed on the braille display. You can then use whatever
commands your display uses to get to the decline and accept buttons.
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On Jun 17, 2014, at 3:21 PM, todd patkus
Then, there should be a feature Apple should definitely enhance
in their iOS!
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To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Date sent: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 12:16:52 -0700
Subject: RE: Announcing caller ID
No, there is not.
From:
Ray,
As for the file that wasn't found, try playing it in iTunes in the music
library. It's possible that maybe something was changed in the name or the
location of that song. As I said before, the song listings in iTunes are
basically like shortcuts which point to the actual song. If you change
in this case what I am trying to remove are photos
Ray T. Mahorney
WA4WGA
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Sieghard Weitzel
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2014 19:24
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: music on the IPhone
Todd,
I don't think it's feasible for Apple to put in Settings to allow for the
smallest customization which a very small percentage of users might want. I
think most people want Voiceover to announce who is calling without having
to pick up the phone and fiddle around with it before they hear
Hi
If you have no other notifications that you need voiceover to read to you on
the lock screen, you can Go to Settings, General, Accessibility, voiceover and
turn off notifications to be announced on the lock screen. If you just want to
stop the caaller ID for calls being announced, there is
Sieghard,
It is easy to say such. But you miss many points here.
The point here is: we each have our right for something
accomplished. Yes, it is part of the civil rights act.
I really care less about that Voiceover! So what
That is completely useless to me! Apple should know
Photos are easy. Just plug your phone into the computer, go to Computer
and find your phone. It will show up as a drive just like a USB stick and
you can copy photos to your computer with just the standard Windows commands
Control+C for copy and Control+V for paste. If youw ant to copy all of them
got the music off the phone per your instruction approached the photos the same
way tried to find
the phone as a device under computer and it was not reported that's likely
operator error on my
part.
Ray T. Mahorney
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Hi,
I have conquered clever clues and am now looking for other word games. My wife
and I are about to do some serious traveling and are hoping to find accessible
games that I can manipulate on my IPhone and she can play along too as she
drives without looking at the screen.
I have tried a
Hi Todd,
I understand where you are coming from and that the challenges you face are
different and in many ways tougher than those somebody has who is just
blind. However, this list is not or should not be a platform for political
issues and what I said has nothing to do with pride. However, the
Hi Ray,
I should have mentioned that what I described for copying and deleting
photos only applies to photos in the camera roll. For me a dialogue pops up
as soon as I plug in my iPhone is there are pictures in the Camera Roll,
e.g. it pops up just as it would if I plugged in a USB stick. This is
I'll name a few here. Unfortunately, I won't be able to provide links at this
time. These are accessible with VO.
FunBlast Trivia
wordundrum
Word Ladder
Four Down
IAssociate 2
I seem to have lost a game that I used to play, which had a crossword grid with
no clues. I don't remember the name of
You can do it from the device itself.
On Jun 17, 2014, at 1:30 PM, Ray T. Mahorney mahorney@googlemail.com
wrote:
in this case what I am trying to remove are photos
Ray T. Mahorney
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I could not work out how to do that.
Ray T. Mahorney
WA4WGA
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alberto
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2014 20:26
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: music on the IPhone
You can do it from the
I completely forgot about that method. I would also like to add you can do it
from the phone, but with in the photos app go on to edit and then select all
photos you want deleted and delete.
On Jun 17, 2014, at 1:48 PM, Sieghard Weitzel siegh...@live.ca wrote:
Photos are easy. Just plug your
one more thing on the music question, I assume it will allow me to copy
individual songs rather than
whole albums?
Ray T. Mahorney
WA4WGA
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Sieghard Weitzel
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Hi Ray,
I don't think you can. Easiest way to do this I found was to put these songs
into a playlist and then sync that playlist.
Regards,
Sieghard
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and you have to create this playlist somehow?
Ray T. Mahorney
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Sieghard Weitzel
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2014 20:32
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: music on the IPhone
Hi
Hello Sieghard I second all you said I couldn't of said it better myself.
I believe if anyone needs to advocate it is a good thing, but we should never
take it to extremes because it never gets us good results as it may in a well
controlled manner and keeping all possibilities in consideration.
Hi, yes using iTunes first make the playlist, then select and add all songs
wanted. All this must be done with iTunes.
On Jun 17, 2014, at 2:34 PM, Ray T. Mahorney mahorney@googlemail.com
wrote:
and you have to create this playlist somehow?
Ray T. Mahorney
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Two games that interest you are iAssociates 2
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/iassociate-2/id370423110?mt=8
The second game is
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/words-inside/id595674495?mt=8
Both of these apps are fully accessible with voiceover. I suggest using the
casual mode in the words
Very easy to do a playlist.
1. Click File menu, New and New Playlist. Give it a name.
2. In your listing of songs find the first song you want to add, right click
it or use Application key, then from the menu select Add to Playlist (the
shortcut key is A, you have to press it twice to find Add
My favorite is 7 little words. It's almost like clever clues and you
get a free daily puzzle. There are also puzzle packs that you can get.
I haven't heard of this words inside game I'll have to check it out.
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I'll have to play with that thank you again sir.
Ray T. Mahorney
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Subject: RE: music on the IPhone
Unfortunately, Parallels is not accessible from what I understand.
David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA
Email: dchitten...@gmail.com
Mobile: +64 21 2288 288
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David,
Neither have I seen any parallels on any devices anymore. Only
serial still exists. USB became standard, along with the new
micro USB. But in time, they will become obsolete.
Chris, you should know this fact.
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From: David Chittenden
I've recently moved into a new home in which there is a shopping center in
close walking distance so trying to utilize blind square to help me identify
what stores are in the shopping center. Right now I have blind square set to
announce directions via degree but it seems to be giving directions
Yes, this is correct. There are several nice fields one can leave focus on
depending on the information one prefers VO to speak automatically. Besides the
nearest address, when running a route, one can leave focus on remaining
distance to next turn, remaining time to next turn (calculated based
Um… They're talking about software to host a virtual machine, not a computer
port. Not trying to be demeaning in anyway, but just saying
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On Jun 17, 2014, at 5:24 PM, todd patkus tpat...@shellworld.net wrote:
David,
Neither have I seen any parallels on any devices
Hi Todd,
Parallels Access is a company which offers a remote access solution that
allows users to connect to a laptop or desktop via their iPhone, iPad or
Android mobile device and run applications which are on the computer on
their mobile device. It has nothing to do with a parallel port which
Josh,
No, you are not demanding anything. I just said that I have not
seen any parallels for years now. No more. All printers now
have USB or Bluetooth. My printer is USB but no serial.
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Sieghard,
I understand what you said. I just tell you I do not or almost
never see parallel ports or almost never hear them said. None my
equipment have have them, only USB. The Braille device I have
has serial/USB ports and a Bluetooth. That is it.
Todd
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Hi
Inside shopping centers the location accuracy is not the best possible
and this affets both location data and your current location info.
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It rarely translates to real life. do you know how many inaccessible things
there are in the world with no plans to make them accessible. The fact we can
use iphones and macs at all is amazing to me. I can ask them to improve things,
but IMO I don't have a right to everything I ask for.
If
Hello,
While I was out yesterday, I noticed that Blind Square gave me an update on
location using the wrong address and street. I was just beginning my walk, so I
knew which street I was on and realized immediately that Blind Square was
having a bad hair day at that moment. I have my
Hi. I walked yesterday and was getting wrong directions and noticed finally
that I had put my phone in my front pocket bottom up instead of bottom down.
I put it back in my pocket with the button up and bottom down and that made
a big difference.
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Parallels is a software program / app. I am not referring to the parallel
device communication system / protocol that was popular back in the 80's and
90's. It was replaced by USB.
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Email: dchitten...@gmail.com
Mobile: +64 21 2288 288
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On 18 Jun
By the way, USB and Micro USB are the same. USB is now on version 3. Micro USB
is a specific port connector for USB, and has been around for several years. It
is slowly replacing mini USB.
David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA
Email: dchitten...@gmail.com
Mobile: +64 21 2288 288
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Did you hapen to check the GPS accuracy at that moment?
If you don't have really good GPS accuracy, all bets are off.
Richard
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On Jun 17, 2014, at 4:10 PM, Eileen Misrahi eileen.misr...@gmail.com
On the perfect conditions day, GPS can be as accurate as 15 feet. Typically,
GPS is about as accurate as 30 to 60 feet. I have seen GPS be as inaccurate as
three miles on a nicely completely overcast day. There is nothing any app can
do when the GPS accuracy drops because of factors outside the
Hi, recently, I've been receiving emails and not all but a lot are
giving me the email addresses of the people sending the emails. It
didn't used to be like that, is there a way to just get the emails and
not the whole address? I hope this makes sense.
I have an iPhone 5 s running the latest
Hi there. I have an odd issue that seems to have stemmed from having had my
iPhone replaced by Apple over a year ago now. As far as I knew, it was
designated as a Sprint 4S, and that's who I used it on until I got a
different phone for my Sprint account. I had put it on Ting so I could use a
Hey everyone, for those who might be interested, I have a new pod cast
on the blind geek zone web site, comparing the latest version of the
seeing eye gps app on I O S, and the newest version of nearby explorer
on android. These are currently the 2 gps apps for blind users that
provide
Hi, you will need to contact Apple and they will be able to switch this around
for you.
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Hi there. I have an odd issue that seems to have stemmed from having had my
iPhone replaced by Apple over a year
If they are yahoo groups e-mails it's because of the new way yahoo groups is
formatting e-mails. They put the address in the from field when you post a
message to one of their groups. Some other groups on like emissives are
doing this too. Unfortunately, on the iPhone there is no way to make it
Hi there Nikki, that explains it, I am on some Yahoo! Groups. I didn't realize
that was the way they had changed stuff. It is a bit annoying but I guess it's
easy to get used to. Guess we have no choice.
Lelia
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On Jun 17, 2014, at 7:54 PM, Nicki Keck jesusgir...@gmail.com
I find it really hard to believe that Apple would've used a device with a
verizon meid and programmed it for Sprint, and it actually worked until I
swapped it for a different phone on that account, but probably never
would've worked if I would've Ebayed it like I thought of doing until the
Hi,
Word Ladder is great fun, and it would be pretty easy to play with someone who
was driving since each clue only varies from the previous one by one letter.
Best,
Anna
On Jun 17, 2014, at 2:58 PM, Dan Beaver dbeaver...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I have conquered clever clues and am now
Hello,
I sent a message to the list a few hours ago regarding how to change or
update Apple ID info. I never received the message from the list as I
usually do. Did anyone see it on the list?
Mark
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