Hi all
If you do not have two step verification enabled on your Apple ID, you
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Unless someof us tried it, they wouldn't know about all the bugs; so the
rest of the more adventurous are doing the rest, and You, a big favour
really.
Hope you appreciate that.
R.
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From: Pablo Morales pablomorale...@gmail.com
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Sent:
Hi Everyone:
I am considering purchasing a braille display and pairing it with my
Iphone and using this as a notetaker.
Currently, I have a very old, very outdated Pacmate from 2007 that I
haven't used in like two years.
Because the cost of a traditional blindness notetaker (such as say the
No, it is not true. The beta testers informed apple about the most part of bugs
found in IOs8, even though, they didn't pay attention to these reports.
So, what is the function of the beta testers then?
People in this email list are beta testers, and they reported those bugs to
apple. No matter,
Hi,
I often use my braille display to take notes in meetings at Work. It works
quite well, as long as your not too worried about formatting. If you haven't
typed anything in a while, just type a space and delete it, to prevent your
display from going to sleep. Your braille display will go to
If you lock orientation, will it also stay locked while in camera mode? Or
is camera mode the exception?
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From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
Of Isaac Hebert
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2014 11:08 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Yes it will stay locked.
Isaac Hebert
hebertisaa...@gmail.com
On Oct 10, 2014, at 5:33 AM, Tom Rash dadnthed...@gmail.com wrote:
If you lock orientation, will it also stay locked while in camera mode? Or
is camera mode the exception?
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From:
well spoken.
bugs have been reported the accessibility team at all cycles of the
betas ...
cheers.
Em 10/10/2014 11:03, Pablo Morales escreveu:
No, it is not true. The beta testers informed apple about the most part of bugs
found in IOs8, even though, they didn't pay attention to these
I have also with the new i-pad and my i-phone 5. I think I read somewhere that
this is a bug.
Cathy Pilot Dog, Tiny:
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Hi all.
I like using my phone for taking notes together with a braille display.
It depends on how you have set up your braille display if it will go to sleep.
It also depends on how many cells a display needs to have.
I tend to recommend a 32 cells display from human ware (Brailliant 32 bi)
There is a serious delay when inputting braille on iOS 8. But reading braille
is just fine. Hopefully the input problem will be resolved in iOS 8.1, but who
knows.
The new Vario Ultra braille displays from Baum are very nice. You have a
choice of 20 or 40 cells. They have I think 32 GB of
One really neat feature in iOS 8 with a Braille display is the ability
to have pages turned automatically. I use this in iBooks and it is
quite nice. I don't have to turn the page, then hunt for the start of
the next page's content. Now, when I get to the bottom of the current
page, a message pops
If you are talking about the US or UK English onscreen keyboard, no, when I
touch the letter d, Alex says it just fine. I checked with both.
Richard
Richard
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From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
Of Anouk Radix
Sent: Thursday,
Hello List,
I'm wondering if others are experiencing this the app store when viewing their
update list. The change just happened this morning when opening it up. I'm
using an iPhone 4 with iOS 7.0.6. When flicking to the right, VO only announces
the name of the update of the app and the size,
Hi, Even i am experiencing the same. I am running IOS 7.1.2 on iPhone 4s.
On 10/10/14, Eileen Misrahi eileen.misr...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello List,
I'm wondering if others are experiencing this the app store when viewing
their update list. The change just happened this morning when opening it
Hi Eileen and Bhavesh,
I can't reproduce this on my 5S with iOS 8, see example below, I used the
3-finger quadruple tap to copy that text to my clipboard and then pasted it
here:
CamFind - Search, QR Reader, Price Comparison Barcode Scanner, Version
3.0.5, 17.9 MB, What's New
If I double tap
I wonder if this is something specific to IOS 7 now.
I can reproduce this behavior on my iPhone 4S running IOS 7.1.2. However the
version does appear when I check updates on my iPad Mini running IOS 8.0.2.
From: viphone@googlegroups.com
I think you may be right! grin
Regards,
Alan
Go Chicago Bears in 2014!
Teenagers; Tired of being harassed by your stupid parents? Act now! Move
out. Get a job. Pay your bills wile you still know everything.
Please click on:
HTTP://WWW.home.earthlink.net/~alanandsuzanne/
There,
it seams that this issue only occurs with ios 7.
Sent from my iPhone
On 10-Oct-2014, at 9:06 pm, Ekstrand, Pamela A. -ND
pamela.a.ekstrand@disney.com wrote:
I wonder if this is something specific to IOS 7 now.
I can reproduce this behavior on my iPhone 4S running IOS 7.1.2.
I have a Focus 40 braille display and use it all the time to take
notes with my iPhone. I use the Notes app for this. I did not know
that notes sync with Outlook, so I am happy to learn this. I have no
problems going to the next line with my Focus and it stays connected
very well.
I do have IOS 8
The Westminster Chimes apps will chime on the hour quarter hour and a half hour
so you can just go look for and Westminster Chimes In and you can get three
different kind of times and I love you can turn the trains off and just have
announced that go Drive Debt App Ibotta pretty good
On Oct
Hi,
What I do with my JamBox and my 5S is to turn the JamBox on, press the
pairing button until the voice says pairing, then go to the 5S and find
the blue tooth in settings and activate it. At this point, your phone will
see the JamBox and you double tap on it. It will connect
HTH
thanks to all who thoughtfully responded to my question. I was
thinking there might be an option to type in a adate and go to it but
these alternatives will work just fine.
On 10/6/14, Kramlinger, Keith G., M.D. kramlinger.ke...@mayo.edu wrote:
You can also ask Siri What day of the week is
My phone is an iPhone 5. The firmware is 8.1.2. I just got a wireless router
yesterday, and am getting 3 of 3 WiFi bars on the phone. I would like to set
up syncing with iTunes wirelessly. What is required, what are the steps, and,
most importantly, are there bugs? Thanks in advance.
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I don't know of any bugs currently but here's how to set it up.
1. Connect to iTunes via the cable.
2. Select the summary radio button. In there check the sync this device
over wifi check box, whether that be iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch.
3. Click apply button.
Note
On the mac you will have to
Charles,
Can you let me in on the secret as to how I get iOS 8.1.2 *smile*
Anyhow, you already received an answer as to how to set it up. Just thought
I add that I always found the WiFi sync was a pain in the neck because for
one thing it's very slow compared to syncing when the iPhone is
Hi Michael,
I don't know if you have the original Jambox or the large Jambox speaker. I
believe Ron has the big one and it may have a dedicated pairing button, but
the original one does not. What you do is when you are in Settings,
Bluetooth is to turn on the Jambox with the slider on the
8.1.2 is either a secret or a typo, and I'll give you one guess as to which it
is. You've got a 50 50 chance of getting it right, but, if you're
knowledgeable, you've got a 100 percent chance. (grin)
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Hi Everyone;
What is the swipe gesture used to close the app switcher?
Thanks
Anthony
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The swipe gesture to close apps from the app switcher is a three finger swipe
up.
Isaac Hebert
hebertisaa...@gmail.com
On Oct 10, 2014, at 1:31 PM, Anthony Vece ajv...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Everyone;
What is the swipe gesture used to close the app switcher?
Thanks
Anthony
Sent from
It's actually a flick up with three fingers as if you're moving
something away from the screen.
Sent from my laptop
On 10/10/2014 19:31, Anthony Vece wrote:
Hi Everyone;
What is the swipe gesture used to close the app switcher?
Thanks
Anthony
Sent from my ATT iPhone 5s!
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To close the app switcher after you close all the apps with the three finger
swipe up gesture then double tap the home option and then the app switcher will
close.
Isaac Hebert
hebertisaa...@gmail.com
On Oct 10, 2014, at 1:32 PM, Isaac Hebert hebertisaa...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Everyone;
Hi All,
In the KNFBReader app, is there a way to email a scanned file directly from
the app? Thus far the only way I have found to do so is to export it and then
email it from another app. This to me seems like a really weird way to deal
with this and seems like something that would have been
Yes my Iphone 5 also does this. I've also heard it's a bug.
Cheers
Alex
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
Of Cathy
Sent: 10 October 2014 12:25
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Voice Over keeps restarting
I have also with the new i-pad
Three finger swipe up to close each app.
Take Care
John D. Panarese
Director
Mac for the Blind
Tel, (631) 724-4479
Email, j...@macfortheblind.com
Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com
APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX 10.7 LION and 10.8 Mountain
Lion
AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE
One press of the home button will also close the app switcher.
Christopher (CJ) on the move
Chaltain at Gmail
On Oct 10, 2014, at 12:38 PM, Isaac Hebert hebertisaa...@gmail.com wrote:
To close the app switcher after you close all the apps with the three finger
swipe up gesture then double
No at this time that is not possible.
Isaac Hebert
hebertisaa...@gmail.com
On Oct 9, 2014, at 11:06 PM, Christine Szostak szosta...@buckeyemail.osu.edu
wrote:
Hi All,
In the KNFBReader app, is there a way to email a scanned file directly from
the app? Thus far the only way I have found
Hello Christine, no this is not possible yet I wish.
On Oct 9, 2014, at 11:06 PM, Christine Szostak szosta...@buckeyemail.osu.edu
wrote:
Hi All,
In the KNFBReader app, is there a way to email a scanned file directly from
the app? Thus far the only way I have found to do so is to export it
No, but if you write supp...@knfbreader.com and request that feature, it might
get it implemented sooner rather than later.
I'd also like to see them add more apps to the open in list.
Richard
The fact that an opinion is widely held is no evidence that it is not utterly
absurd.
- Bertrand
There is the Focus14 Blue braille display, which I have. It's available
in the UK and ireland, so presumably it's available in europe also. No
problem with it staying connected while in use, with iOS7.1.2.
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From: Annie Skov Nielsen annieskovniel...@gmail.com
To:
I believe Anthony is asking how he can close the app switcher itself with a
gesture not how to close apps in the app switcher.
As Christopher pointed out pressing the home button will close the app
switcher and Isaac mentioned another way which is to double tap the home
icon in the app switcher
Hi,
It would have been nice from Apple to have gotten an alert that these changes
were going to occur. I haven't gone back into the app store to see how else to
obtain the information. It looks like I'll be spending more time going through
all of my 80 or more apps to see if the versions have
Hi Eileen,
I agree that iOS 8 wasn't exactly a polished product and actually it still
isn't. However, whatever Apple did so that version numbers are apparently
not read in iOS 7 any more is probably some change on the backend of the app
store which they probably aren't even aware causes Voiceover
Or, a two-finger scrub right to left will do it, also, at least in 7.1.2.
Arnold Schmidt
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From: Christopher Chaltain chalt...@gmail.com
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2014 2:57 PM
Subject: Re: THE SWIPE GESTURE!!!
One press of the home
Hi I had some epubs which i have on my local laptops harddrive but i
wanted to read them on my phone with ibooks. I thought that just opening htem
into the macversion of ibooks would sync them using icloud. But this does not
seem to work.
Is the only way to accomplish this through
Hi Sieghard,
I have the JamBox mini which has a tiny pairing button just above the usb
port. What a sound for such a small speaker.
Ron Danvers
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
Of Sieghard Weitzel
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2014 2:29
Is there a chime app that will speak the time at the hour half hour and
quarter hour? This is why I hate it that chime is no longer in the store.
I am so afraid that I will loose it when I activate my new phone. Just got
it today. I am excited about getting it. It is the i-phone 6. Oh
I recall getting strange results in the Apps Store while remaining on ios 6
after iOS 7 was released. Apparently, the Apps store and how it functions is
closely tied to the latest ios version. Fortunately, I get the info I mainly
need regarding updates without knowing the current version
I was extremely upset when my phone was replaced and I realized that Chime was
no longer in the App Store. However, try Timely. It does the same things and
the voice is better.
Best of luck.
Regards,
Paula Mack
On Oct 10, 2014, at 6:30 PM, Cathy cats.car...@gmail.com wrote:
Is there a
Hi Paula,
This is one of the situations where syncing your phone to iTunes comes in
handy since even apps which get removed from the app store can be used until
they won't work any more for reasons of compatibility. If you sync your apps
with iTunes a physical copy of all your apps is kept on
every time my Westminster chimes app is running, I get a notification in my
notification center, every time the app does anything. does this app behave
that way? I love the chimes, but don't like having to clear all the
notifications out of the notification center.
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Hi,
I believe the instruction from the app's maker suggest turning off
notification center banners and alerts and leaving sounds set to on to
optimize the experience of the app.
I hope that helps.
Robin
-Original Message-
From: Gail the U. S. Male
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2014
Hi Robbin, it does, except I want other notifications, so can't disable them
all, and I didn't find any way to do this in the app settings itself.
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From: Robin Frost robinn...@gmail.com
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2014 9:28 PM
Subject: Re:
thank you, sir. I have the original jambox. How do you update the firmware on
it etc?
From: Sieghard Weitzel
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2014 11:29 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: instructions on using jambox speaker with iPhone 5s needed
Hi Michael,
I don't know if you
It is just a 64-bit CPU deal. In other words, the iPhone 5S or newer, iPad Air,
or second-generation iPad Mini or later, I believe. Sorry, but no Alex for your
iPod Touch, nor for my iPhone5.
On Oct 10, 2014, at 10:40 PM, leliastr...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello, I just got an iPod touch the
Correct, Alex requires a 64 bit system. Basically, iPhone 5S or newer
David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA
Email: dchitten...@gmail.com
Mobile: +64 21 2288 288
Sent from my iPhone
On 11 Oct 2014, at 15:40, leliastr...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello, I just got an iPod touch the latest generation 16 gigs
Even though I won't be getting one right away, I am curious to find out if
Apple will release a 64-bit iPod.
Teresa
We can see with the eyes, but we see with the brain as well, and seeing with
the brain is often called imagination.--Oliver Sacks
On Oct 10, 2014, at 7:48 PM, David Chittenden
Hi, all,
I was playing with the Bard app and realized I couldn't use Braille quick keys
while reading a book on the Braille display. I remembered that I had used them
before in iOS8. Basically, if QuickNav is on, Voiceover steals those commands
for navigation. However, if you turn QuickNav
Just a follow-up: no direct Touch in Bard, so it's a question of making sure
QuickNav is off before using the Braille quick keys.
Teresa
We can see with the eyes, but we see with the brain as well, and seeing with
the brain is often called imagination.--Oliver Sacks
On Oct 10, 2014, at 8:22
Hi,
Oh dear me you don't have to disable all notifications you merely navigate
to settings, notification center, then tap on the icon for Westminster
chimes and under there you can set alerts to none turn off appearing in
notification center but leave sounds on and you've got it made.
I hope
Ok, I thought I'd done that, but I'll try that again! I may have missed a
step or something.
- Original Message -
From: Robin Frost robinn...@gmail.com
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2014 10:30 PM
Subject: Re: Is there a chime clock app that strikes every hour
Does anyone know if the Giraffe reader will work with the iPhone 6?
Andy
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According to the website, it does not yet support the iPhone 6.
On Oct 10, 2014, at 11:58 PM, Andy Baracco w...@socal.rr.com wrote:
Does anyone know if the Giraffe reader will work with the iPhone 6?
Andy
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