RE: using iPhone and braille display for reading text without having to change pages

2012-10-31 Thread K. F. Ifill
I've been using the panning keys and the command keys to try to adjust the pages. I've even tried the dots @-4-6 and reverse commands for changing pages. Regards Kerry From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Cheryl Homiak Sent: Tuesday, October 30,

Re: using iPhone and braille display for reading text without having to change pages

2012-10-31 Thread Scott Howell
Try chord-dots 2, 4, and 6 to move forward and chord-dots 1, 3, 5 to move back. Also remember you need to be in the text of the book. So, if you encounter the page chooser, pan/navigate back into the text before issuing the command. On Oct 31, 2012, at 6:54 AM, K. F. Ifill

Re: using iPhone and braille display for reading text without having to change pages

2012-10-31 Thread David Chittenden
dots 1 3 5 space and dots 2 4 6 space change pages horizontally, whilst dots 1 4 5 6 space and dots 3 4 5 6 change pages vertically. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone On 31/10/2012, at 23:54, K. F. Ifill

Re: using iphone and braille display for reading text without having to change pages

2012-10-30 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi Brett. I have bought downloads. It is useful for many differents tasks, it is really worth the price 13 dkr. I have tried reading in the program. It works well. My advice to braille users is that ILike2ReadPro is a great app, there are still some smaller bugs, but I am using it all the

Re: using iPhone and braille display for reading text without having to change pages

2012-10-30 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi. There are a few other improvements in ILike2ReadPro my loved search function. The possibility to read epub files, if you open them from dropbox. If you are reading on 2 or more devices, you can start reading on another device such as an IPad without having to figure out where you are in

RE: using iPhone and braille display for reading text without having to change pages

2012-10-30 Thread K. F. Ifill
Hi my challenge is with changing pages. Since I upgraded to IOS6 using my Brailliant display, I can't change pages in any app including Ibooks, pages, or any other. It is quite annoying! Anybody has suggestions? Regards Kerry -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com

Re: using iPhone and braille display for reading text without having to change pages

2012-10-30 Thread Cheryl Homiak
What are you trying to do to change the pages? -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) On Oct 30, 2012, at 6:08 AM, K. F. Ifill resurrectio...@gmail.com wrote: Hi my challenge is with

Re: using iPhone and braille display for reading text without having to change pages

2012-10-30 Thread Woody Anna Dresner
Hi Annie, with the original ILikeToRead, if I load a braille file directly by changing the extension to TXT, a good deal of text isn't displayed. Is that true in the Pro version as well? And are you saying you can search the text of any file using ILikeToRead Pro? Thanks, Anna On Oct 30,

Re: using iphone and braille display for reading text without having to change pages

2012-10-29 Thread Brett
Hi, Two ways to read without having to scroll pages in braille are: one Copy a word document to an app such as downloads. This will let you read Word documents without having to scroll pages. 2. For greater navigation control, add Word heading styles in your document to mark up the sections

Re: using iphone and braille display for reading text without having to change pages

2012-10-29 Thread Scott Howell
Brett, Does the FileApp Pro that was free the other day remember the same place or behave as the Downloads app? I had been using a file I exported as an epub, but changing pages was slowing me down a bit to much in this specific situation where I needed the text to be at my finger tips. :)

Re: using iphone and braille display for reading text without having to change pages

2012-10-29 Thread Brett
Hi Scott, Yes it does, as long as you click the back button to close the document before you close the app. Cheers, Brett. Sent from Brett's iPhone On 29/10/2012, at 8:29 PM, Scott Howell scottn3...@gmail.com wrote: Brett, Does the FileApp Pro that was free the other day remember the

Re: using iphone and braille display for reading text without having to change pages

2012-10-29 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi. I have a couple of comments here. 1. I often uses ibooks for reading braille. I make sure to have the smallest letters and when I play a little with which letters gives the smallest amounts of pages in a document, that helps a lot. When I read a page uses the line up to go to the start of

Re: using iphone and braille display for reading text without having to change pages

2012-10-29 Thread Scott Howell
Brett, Just to confirm, the Downloads app does not require that you press the back button before closing the app? I understand using the FileApp Pro you do need to press the back button first. Thanks, Scott On Oct 29, 2012, at 8:46 AM, Annie Skov Nielsen annieskovniel...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: using iphone and braille display for reading text without having to change pages

2012-10-29 Thread Nicki Keck
Is this downloads app free or does it cost? If it reads Word documents, could be invaluable. What would be nice is an app that doesn't display file text in one, long, continuous line so that you can keep your place in a file even if you lock the screen or switch apps and come back. Notes and

Re: using iphone and braille display for reading text without having to change pages

2012-10-29 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Good idea, but I'm not making a word document. Also I have never heard of a downloads app. will have to check this out. -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my redeemer. (Psalm 19:14, HCSB) On Oct 29, 2012, at 9:04 AM,

Re: using iphone and braille display for reading text without having to change pages

2012-10-29 Thread Woody Anna Dresner
Hi Brett, Does the Downloads app keep your place in text files too, or just Word and HTML? I saw that it can do text searches of PDF files; can it do text search in other files formats as well? Thanks, Anna On Oct 29, 2012, at 3:08 AM, Brett brettst...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Two ways to

Re: using iphone and braille display for reading text without having to change pages

2012-10-29 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi Scot. This downloads app, who has made this one, I can not just find it. I believe I miss another thread which I have not read. Best regards Annie. Den Oct 29, 2012 kl. 2:44 PM skrev Scott Howell scottn3...@gmail.com: Brett, Just to confirm, the Downloads app does not require that you

Re: using iphone and braille display for reading text without having to change pages

2012-10-29 Thread Scott Howell
Hi Annie, I have not used the Downloads app, but I did find it in the U.S. store for $1.99 and I'm pretty sure this was the one Brett referred to. The URL is https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/downloads-downloader-download/id343307433?mt=8. Regards, Scott On Oct 29, 2012, at 3:58 PM, Annie Skov

RE: using iPhone and braille display for reading text without having to change pages

2012-10-29 Thread Brett
Hi, They all do, well at least all the ones I have tried. The only one that doesn't is ILike2Read. If you read books in txt format or need to read a lot of text documents in detail, this app is worth having. Save some money though and don't bother with ILike2Read Pro, as it doesn't offer any

RE: using iphone and braille display for reading text without having to change pages

2012-10-29 Thread Brett
Hi Anna, Downloads, well the one I am using by Hian Zin Jong doesn't allow you to search for text in a word document or a HTML document. It does allow you to search for text in a PDF, but once you choose the text you want to jump too, the PDF isn't accessible to VoiceOver, so as a PDF reader its

RE: using iphone and braille display for reading text without having to change pages

2012-10-29 Thread Brett
Hi Annie, The downloads app I am referring too: is made by Hian Zin Jong. It actually shows up in the app store as Downloads - Downloader Download Manager. Searching for Downloads will find it. I am not sure of the price as it doesn't show me as I have already bought it, but there is also a

using iphone and braille display for reading text without having to change pages

2012-10-28 Thread Cheryl Ann Homiak
Today I took my iPhone and braille display to try to sing with everybody and follow along in the Scripture passages at church. I had typed everything onto my computer and sent it to Pages on my iPhone. It worked reasonably well. The only problem I had was that sometimes I would change pages

Re: using iphone and braille display for reading text without having to change pages

2012-10-28 Thread Cheryl Ann Homiak
Well, after exploring my question this afternoon, i've decided to use the Notes app next week. Everything loaded in there reads straight through without the need to scroll pages and either the issue with vo doing strange things when a note gets too long doesn't happen when speech is turned

Re: using iphone and braille display for reading text without having to change pages

2012-10-28 Thread Mary Otten
Sheryl, I'd be interested in how you plan to use the notes app. I assume you are getting various documents or Bible verses or whatever from various sources and putting them into a document that you will then use at church. How will that happen with the notes app? I assume you will not be

Re: using iphone and braille display for reading text without having to change pages

2012-10-28 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Hi Mary. Good question. I will do a combination of typing directly into a file on my computer and copying and pasting. For my test this afternoon, the file had already been put into iTunes and from there into Pages and I simply copied and pasted all the text into Notes. I can use this

Re: using iphone and braille display for reading text without having to change pages

2012-10-28 Thread Cheryl Ann Homiak
Because I also had a similar issue in iBooks with scrolling using the braille display, which Anna told me how to solve by going to the end of the text field, panning left once, and doing the scrolling chord, I find that i can now also scroll reliably in the Pages app. In the case of the