Re: SuperSense is on sale, is it worth buying?

2020-12-05 Thread Janet Bell
Hi yes I would say so for me but I think you get a trial first hth Janet On 05/12/2020 23:21, Fazil wrote: Does it support Urdu? (Pakistani Language(. Thanks! -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Cris Ali Sent: Saturday, December 05, 2020 2:55 PM To:

RE: Astreos

2020-12-05 Thread Larry Wayland
Yes, I would very much like to have the link. -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Yuma Decaux Sent: Saturday, December 5, 2020 6:53 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Astreos Hi Everyone, AstreOS is going through

Re: What Is Blue Sky and How Do You Turn It Off?

2020-12-05 Thread Laury, Shawnese (LEO)
The steps won’t help me because I also have the SE 2020 Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 5, 2020, at 10:16 PM, Holly wrote: > > CAUTION: This is an External email. Please send suspicious emails to > ab...@michigan.gov > > > > I do believe you have to turn it off for every app, at least, I

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2020-12-05 Thread Nimer Jaber
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Re: What Is Blue Sky and How Do You Turn It Off?

2020-12-05 Thread Holly
I do believe you have to turn it off for every app, at least, I have to do this with my iPhone SE 2020. But, some phones have a setting that helps. Earlier, Dave wrote, " There is one more possible option that could produce the unwanted descriptions, at least for those of us who have

Re: What Is Blue Sky and How Do You Turn It Off?

2020-12-05 Thread Laury, Shawnese (LEO)
I’ve turned it off but it looks like you have to turn it off for each app individually. Is this correct? Thank you Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 5, 2020, at 4:09 PM, Holly wrote: > > CAUTION: This is an External email. Please send suspicious emails to > ab...@michigan.gov > > > > Shirley:

Re: Astreos

2020-12-05 Thread Donna Casteen
Yuma, My 10y/o son, who is VI & has autism, would love the link. He loves astronomy. Donna > On Dec 5, 2020, at 5:53 PM, Yuma Decaux wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > AstreOS is going through an overhaul, as we are adding some AI features and > sonification tools to analyse the objects in the

RE: SuperSense is on sale, is it worth buying?

2020-12-05 Thread Cris Ali
Hi Richard, Now SuperSense supports Arabic and Hebrew and about sixty languages. I tried it with Hebrew and Arabic and it is okay. Yes I have been using Seeing AI and Voice Dream Scanner for all of my English OCR needs. They do a very good job. I have also bought the KNFB reader few years ago

RE: SuperSense is on sale, is it worth buying?

2020-12-05 Thread Cris Ali
I am not sure if it supports Urdu. Download the app and try it for two weeks free and see if it supports Urdu. I tried it for Arabic and Hebrew and it does an okay job. Cheers, -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Fazil Sent: Saturday, December 5, 2020 6:22

Re: Astreos

2020-12-05 Thread Richard Turner
Thanks very much Yuma. I for one am looking forward to if . Richard "You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space, that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when

Re: Astreos

2020-12-05 Thread Yuma Decaux
Hi Everyone, AstreOS is going through an overhaul, as we are adding some AI features and sonification tools to analyse the objects in the skies. the original project was simply to make things accessible in the augmented reality sense, but between adding the entire universe, uni, a ted talk,

Re: transferring pictures

2020-12-05 Thread Sherrie Gosling
Saving a photo from Facebook is very easy. Open the Facebook app on your iPhone. Do a one finger double tap on the photo to open it. Swipe to the word more. Double tap on it and the first choice is save photo which will save it to your Photos app on the phone I don’t know how to save pictures

Re: SuperSense is on sale, is it worth buying?

2020-12-05 Thread Richard Turner
When I had tried it a few months ago, I was not impressed. It only mentions English, Hindi and Turkish and I think Spanish for languages it works in, but it does not say what languages it scans. If you are really interested, you may want to try it before buying if you man Have you tried Seeing

RE: SuperSense is on sale, is it worth buying?

2020-12-05 Thread Fazil
Does it support Urdu? (Pakistani Language(. Thanks! -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Cris Ali Sent: Saturday, December 05, 2020 2:55 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: SuperSense is on sale, is it worth buying? Hi folks, supersense is now on sale

SuperSense is on sale, is it worth buying?

2020-12-05 Thread Cris Ali
Hi folks, supersense is now on sale until the end of the year, is it worth buying? I think one time life subscription is 49 US dollars,. I know that there are much less expensive scanning and OCR apps, but unfortunately they do not do non-latin-based languages like Arabic or Hebrew. what do you

Re: What Is Blue Sky and How Do You Turn It Off?

2020-12-05 Thread Holly
Mitch: You have to go into settings, accessibility, voice over, and rotor, then select the 'described images' in the rotor options, then it will appear on your rotor options when you turn the rotor. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have

Re: Skyview and Apple Watch

2020-12-05 Thread Richard Turner
Yes, Anna, you would think that would work; but even though it got the right spelling from my dictation, the app doesn't show up, but another app with a different developer shows up.Later, Richard "You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a

RE: What Is Blue Sky and How Do You Turn It Off?

2020-12-05 Thread Mich Verrier
Hi aall wile flicking through my I phone running ios 4.2 r what ever the latest version is it is a I phoe 8 vo sys blue sky and I am wondering where I would go to turn this off? I have checked the roader and don't see anything about described images I see containers, words, charicters, and

Re: What Is Blue Sky and How Do You Turn It Off?

2020-12-05 Thread Shirley Baker
Thank you all so much for your help. I finally got it turned off. Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 5, 2020, at 3:09 PM, Holly wrote: > > Shirley: > > If it shows up in any app, just go to the rotor and turn it off by flicking. > Once it is off, you won't have to do it again. > > Just make sure

Re: What Is Blue Sky and How Do You Turn It Off?

2020-12-05 Thread 'Simon Wong' via VIPhone
yes. - Original Message - From: "Shirley Baker" To: Sent: Saturday, December 05, 2020 4:26 PM Subject: Re: What Is Blue Sky and How Do You Turn It Off? Do I actually need to open the app first and then turn the rotor to describe images and turn it off that way? It says turn off

Re: What Is Blue Sky and How Do You Turn It Off?

2020-12-05 Thread Shirley Baker
Do I actually need to open the app first and then turn the rotor to describe images and turn it off that way? It says turn off describe images for so I’m assuming I have to open the app to turn it off? Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 5, 2020, at 3:09 PM, Holly wrote: > > Shirley: > > If it

Re: What Is Blue Sky and How Do You Turn It Off?

2020-12-05 Thread Shirley Baker
I turned off scene description but it has apply to apps. Should I choose that or just turn off scene description? I have done what you all suggest but I’m still seeing it with messages and mail again. I had it turned off in mail but it’s back. I have the iPhone 6S plus. I don’t have voice

Re: What Is Blue Sky and How Do You Turn It Off?

2020-12-05 Thread Holly
Shirley: If it shows up in any app, just go to the rotor and turn it off by flicking. Once it is off, you won't have to do it again. Just make sure you turn the rotor to characters or words, so you won't accidently enable it again. -- The following information is important for all members

Re: Skyview and Apple Watch

2020-12-05 Thread Anna Dresner
Hi Richard, You might try opening the app store on your watch and searching for it there. YOu can use dictation for the search. I would hope that since you've paid for the app and it's supposed to include a watch app, it would be available for free. Best, Anna > On Dec 5, 2020, at 1:31 PM,

Re: What Is Blue Sky and How Do You Turn It Off?

2020-12-05 Thread Dave Clement
There is one more possible option that could produce the unwanted descriptions, at least for those of us who have iphones that do not support the new Voiceover Recognition feature. Under Settings / Accessibility / Voiceover / Verbosity, there is an item called "scene description". Try turning

Re: What Is Blue Sky and How Do You Turn It Off?

2020-12-05 Thread Shirley Baker
I can’t get it off for messages but I got it off for everything else. Do I actually have to open messages, then go to describe images with the rotor and flick to turn it off? What a pain this is. Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 5, 2020, at 2:08 PM, Arnold Schmidt wrote: > > For whatever the

Re: What Is Blue Sky and How Do You Turn It Off?

2020-12-05 Thread Arnold Schmidt
For whatever the reason, turning off describe images in voiceover settings may not stop it. Go into the rotor, and add describe images. Then, when you encounter this stuff, turn the rotor to describe images, and do a one-finger swipe up, and it will say describe images off for the app that you

RE: What Is Blue Sky and How Do You Turn It Off?

2020-12-05 Thread Richard Turner
Try going to Settings, Accessibility, VoiceOver, VoiceOver Recognition. HTH, Richard "The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy has this to say on the subject of flying. There is an art, it says, or rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."

Re: What Is Blue Sky and How Do You Turn It Off?

2020-12-05 Thread Shirley Baker
Where do you go exactly to turn off describe images please? Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 5, 2020, at 1:48 PM, Richard Turner > wrote: > > If it isn't an app, it could be what the describe images is yacking about. > Turn off describe images if it is on. > If that isn't it, then someone else

RE: What Is Blue Sky and How Do You Turn It Off?

2020-12-05 Thread Richard Turner
If it isn't an app, it could be what the describe images is yacking about. Turn off describe images if it is on. If that isn't it, then someone else might know. Richard "The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy has this to say on the subject of flying. There is an art, it says, or rather, a knack

What Is Blue Sky and How Do You Turn It Off?

2020-12-05 Thread Shirley Baker
I know there was discussion about blue sky but I only started seeing it today and now I need to know how to turn it off please.Thank you. Sent from my iPhone -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running

Skyview and Apple Watch

2020-12-05 Thread Richard Turner
Do any of you that have the Skyview app, have an Apple Watch? You are supposed to be able to get it onto the watch, but I'll be damned if I can figure that out. I went ahead and paid the $1.99 to get the full version. Any ideas? Richard "The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy has this to say on

RE: Astreos

2020-12-05 Thread Richard Turner
I just tried it again by pointing the camera at the sky and it is amazingly nice with VoiceOver. Then, I discovered, it works indoors, even though the camera is only showing stuff in the house, it is reporting the stars etc., you would be pointing at if you were outside I guess. I saw until I

RE: Astreos

2020-12-05 Thread Richard Turner
I have no vision, but my wife is sighted. I took a quick browse through some information and it read quite well with VoiceOver though in some of the planet descriptions it was reading the code rather than some punctuation. When I can have my wife looking at it, I'll track down exactly what

Re: QARDIOARM blood pressure monitor?

2020-12-05 Thread Ann Byrne
It is fairly accurate, and works perfectly with VoiceOver. There is a history application that will mail your history to anyone. I usually mail it to myself, then print it for the doctor. You control it with the phone, tapping to start it, then reading the results on the screen. -- The

Re: Astreos

2020-12-05 Thread William Outman
May have to check out SkyView Lite myself. It’s a shame the other project seems to have been pulled, as I would have enjoyed it too. I used to be a high partial myself and even had a small telescope for a while. Bill Outman Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 5, 2020, at 12:02 PM, Pete Nalda

Re: Recording an audio iMessage with an iphone 12.

2020-12-05 Thread William Outman
I have an 8 Plus and I recall turning 3D touch off at one point because it was getting in the way, actually. There is a way to send audio messages through Siri. Don’t know what the time limit is, presumably as ong as Siri recognizes you talking or whatever the chunk limit is that Siri can

Re: Widget Tips

2020-12-05 Thread Chris Chaffin
You can also just do a single finger flick up or down until you get to previous or next, but the three finger flick up or down is much easier and quicker. Just goes to show, that sometimes there is more than one way to do things! Chris > On Dec 5, 2020, at 12:02 PM, Christopher Chaltain

RE: Widget Tips

2020-12-05 Thread Christopher Chaltain
Thanks a lot! I knew about all of that except #5, which will help a lot! Prior to that, I'd do a triple tap and then flick down to previous and next widget. The three finger flick up and down will make that feature and the widgets much more useful for me. -- Christopher (AKA CJ) Chaltain at

Re: Astreos

2020-12-05 Thread Pete Nalda
Will be curious to see how you get along with SkyView lite. I’m a high partial but noted everything was reading and tracking with voiceover. But if you have any vision, the graphics on SkyView Lite are pretty nice. Egun On, Lagunak! (basque for G'day, Mates Louie P (Pete) Nalda

Widget Tips

2020-12-05 Thread Chris Chaffin
In playing with multiple widgets, I learned a few things that I thought I would pass along. 1, To conserve space, I picked out 4 widgets I wanted to use, and after adding them to my home screen, I then used the same steps as in moving apps, and made a stack of all 4 widgets. 2, By doing a

RE: Astreos

2020-12-05 Thread Richard Turner
There has been no news since they pulled it from Testflight. Skyview light seems to be pretty accessible, though not designed for the blind the way Astreos was. Richard "The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy has this to say on the subject of flying. There is an art, it says, or rather, a

Re: Astreos

2020-12-05 Thread Donna Casteen
Does anyone know if there are any plans to add Astreos to the US app store any time soon? My blind autistic would love this app. Donna > > 'I noticed that too. And I had received an email from Catherine from that > project in August announcing that they were switching to the public >

Re: QARDIOARM blood pressure monitor?

2020-12-05 Thread John JD Denning
I am very interested in your experience with it. I’m looking for a good usable blood pressure monitor. Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 5, 2020, at 08:26, Malcolm Parfitt wrote: > > Hello friends. > > I trust and hope you are all keeping safe and well in the current pandemic. > > I have just

Re: I Listserv for Apple Watch

2020-12-05 Thread Nicki Keck
Also, thanks for giving the info for the Apple Watch uncomplicated list. My husband and I started it because at the time, there was no list for Apple Watch. That was about a month ago when we first got ours. We would like to see it more active. Nicki Sent from my iPad > On Dec 5, 2020, at

RE: Calendar App Alternative?

2020-12-05 Thread Richard Turner
I actually like this new method. I strongly dislike having to flick up or down to set the time by very small increments. I also use Siri a lot to set appointments, and that bypasses the need to deal with any of that. I have had no issues with using Siri for appointments when I use a pattern

RE: Recording an audio iMessage with an iphone 12.

2020-12-05 Thread Christopher Chaltain
The iPhone XR didn't have 3D touch, and it was removed altogether in all of the iPhone 11 models. https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-discontinues-3d-touch-iphone-11-replaces-with-haptic-touch-2019-9 -- Christopher (AKA CJ) Chaltain at Gmail > -Original Message- > From:

Re: Calendar App Alternative?

2020-12-05 Thread Bill Gallik
It would appear that the time field has been converted into an edit box and, as Mr. Turner suggested, you do not enter the colon (: ) character. I was able to add a calendar item, but I certainly do not care much for this change! I do have Fantastical installed on my iPhones, I do believe that

RE: Calendar App Alternative?

2020-12-05 Thread Richard Turner
I have not tried using BSI with the Calendar app for entering time since the number pad is right there and you do not need the colon between hours and minutes. So, the native Calendar app is working fine for me. Richard "The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy has this to say on the subject of

RE: Calendar App Alternative?

2020-12-05 Thread Loreal Lavigna
For me, I've just been using my google calendar, setting it as the default calendar, and only using the native calendar app on my iPad to view and not create calendar events. Unless I use Siri on my iPad specifically to create them. Sincerely, Loreal Lavigna General, Legal, Medical

Re: I Listserv for Apple Watch

2020-12-05 Thread Jennie Facer
Hi all, Thanks Richard for giving the subscription link to my list. I often forget it. Smile. I promise to try to make that list a little more active now that i purchased my new one. It will be here soon! Jenn Jenn and Kumi > On Dec 4, 2020, at 9:23 PM, Richard Turner > wrote: > > There

QARDIOARM blood pressure monitor?

2020-12-05 Thread Malcolm Parfitt
Hello friends. I trust and hope you are all keeping safe and well in the current pandemic. I have just ordered a QARDIOARM blood pressure monitor having recently undergone a laparoscopic nephrectomy of my left kidney. I would be grateful for any tips as to the use of the QARDIOARM from a

Re: Astreos

2020-12-05 Thread Richard Turner
'I noticed that too. And I had received an email from Catherine from that project in August announcing that they were switching to the public Testflight link instead of the private test link, then it was removed.I just checked out Skyview Light and now wonder if you are right that its

Astreos

2020-12-05 Thread Pete Nalda
Noticed that Astreos is no longer available on test flight. Is it because that accessibility has been improved in Skyview lite? Egun On, Lagunak! (basque for G'day, Mates Louie P (Pete) Nalda Facebook.com/lpnalda Linkedin.com/in/lpnalda Twitter: @lpnalda -- The following information is