Thank you for the info
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From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Rob
Armstrong
Sent: 22 November 2019 21:42
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: ID caller
These instructions are using the last release of iOS 12.
Double-tap Settings.
Scroll down and
Why don't you try it.
Alan said it doesn't work for him, but you never know until you try and also
try Christina's suggestion to turn on the HDMI switch in Voiceover Settings >
Audio, then forget your speaker and repair it.
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From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf
I have that send to HDMI turned off which I believe is the default, but the two
Bluetooth speakers I have both receive all audio, Voiceover and system sounds.
From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Christina
Sent: Friday, November 22, 2019 3:29 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re:
Had a similar experience and discovered that the button to turn on my Bluetooth
headphones was getting pressed in my backpack. It was a absolutely terrifying,
as I was standing there waiting for my Uber to pick me up and counldn't figure
out why my phone wasn't talking.
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Hello Max,
Maybe try Apple Disability help, and let them remote into your phone? Also,
maybe shut it down and restart your phone to see if you can see it then?
From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Agent086b
Sent: Friday, November 22, 2019 4:26 PM
To: viphone
Subject: Re: a fix for
Assuming you have VoiceOver on, when you lock the screen and the audio stops,
press your home button or side switch and do a two finger double tap.
The Netflix will continue playing and the phone will remain locked.
HTH,
Richard
"Reality is the leading cause of stress for those who are in
I am looking for an app for my iPhone that will let me lock my screen, but
still be able to drain content by streaming such as Netflix with the PBS Kids
app. When I let my little girl have my phone, I want to be able to lock my
phone so she can’t activate things on the screen, but when I do it
I was told that the battery compartment should go towards your sholder and the
other end just above your elbow. I believe this is what the techs told me a
Qardio arm.
Mr. Ed
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Dan
Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2019
Hi Alan,
I have a few thoughts and ideas. I do have a question though. When VO goes to
your phone instead of through the speaker, is it only going to the ear speaker
where you can barely hear VO? Or is the sound just fine? I actually heard about
this some time ago and I was under the
Yes they are on.
Thanks,
Max.
> On 23 Nov 2019, at 10:15 am, Carolyn <4carol...@windstream.net> wrote:
>
> Do you have your hearing aids with Bluetooth on? Sieghard told me to do that.
> I did; that worked.
>
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Hi,
yes that is at the bottom of the screen. A swipe up shows there is nothing else
on the screen.
Max.
> On 23 Nov 2019, at 9:53 am, Terri Hedgpeth wrote:
>
> Is that at the bottom of the screen? If so, try a three finger swipe up and
> see if you can find it then.
>
> From:
Hi everyone;
I am exchanging my AirPods Pro. The right AirPod is just very low in volume and
I can’t do anything with it. So I’ll exchange them and see what happens. I’m
even contemplating going back to my AirPods second generation. They are less
complicated. I’ll let you know what happens.
Do you have your hearing aids with Bluetooth on? Sieghard told me to do that. I
did; that worked.
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From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of
Agent086b
Sent: Friday, November 22, 2019 5:48 PM
To: viphone
Subject: Re: a fix for the
Is that at the bottom of the screen? If so, try a three finger swipe up and see
if you can find it then.
From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Agent086b
Sent: Friday, November 22, 2019 3:48 PM
To: viphone
Subject: Re: a fix for the hearing aid issue that works
Hi,
possibly I am
Hi,
possibly I am missing something.
When I go to Voice Over I can only find Speech channels . and my name 1 & 2. I
do not see sound channels at all.
Max.
> On 23 Nov 2019, at 2:02 am, Terri Hedgpeth wrote:
>
> Hello all,
> Just heard a tip from Jonathan Mosen podcast on how to fix the
Hi,
I set it up with my hotmail and can get in using the relevant email address and
password with my SiriusXM app or the website just not on the Google Home it
says the information is incorrect and I know what my info is and it’s correct.
> On Nov 22, 2019, at 4:52 PM, Mary Otten wrote:
>
>
Once you get past that inaccessible initial link, you should’ve had a choice,
whether to let Google search for and find your information, if the email
address SiriusXM has on file is the Google one. Or you would have to take the
other choice and then enter the relevant email and password, which
Unfortunately, the fix posted to have Voiceover broadcast through hearing aids
instead of through the iDevice's speakers didn't work for my connected Bose
Mini Soundlink 2 bluetooth speaker. Voiceover is still broadcasting through my
iPhone's speakers after I took the posted steps.
Alan Lemly
These instructions are using the last release of iOS 12.
Double-tap Settings.
Scroll down and double-tap Phone.
The first item under the Calls heading is:
Announce Calls. VoiceOver will say what the value is for the Announce Calls
item. iOS 12
Double-tap the Announce Calls item and choose
I finally located the track position slider—by accident—and the problem is that
it is not accessible via flicking from element to element any longer, as it
should be. In other words, the only way you can find it is to move your finger
around the screen.
From: viphone@googlegroups.com
Ok, try this..Find your post, just past your name there is a Nore button, tap
on More, a list of options will appear, one of which is delete post, tap delete
& confirm that you want to delete the post. If this doesn’t work, Im at a loss.
Donna
>
> have tried your method Donna but it doesn't
Oh, thank you. I am glad and shared the information with the Blind Hearing Aid
users. My husband is really glad.
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From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of
Terri Hedgpeth
Sent: Friday, November 22, 2019 2:36 PM
To:
I am glad it worked for you as well.
Best,
Terri
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From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Carolyn
Sent: Friday, November 22, 2019 12:29 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: a fix for the hearing aid issue that works
Yes. That solves the iOS problem in 13.
Yes. That solves the iOS problem in 13. My husband could not hear anything, and
I could hear the sounds in my hearing aids with Bluetooth turned on.
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From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of
Moop Curran
Sent: Friday, November 22,
Yes, having the hearing aids paired to Bluetooth does make those features
available, Anna.
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From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of
Anna Dresner
Sent: Friday, November 22, 2019 12:18 PM
To: VIPhone Mailing List
Subject: Re: a fix
Go to settings then phone and the caller ID. It may be called announce calls.
You can turn this to always and that should work.
Jenn and Kumi
TO THE WORLD YOU ARE SOMEONE BUT TO SOMEONE YOU ARE THE WORLD!
> On Nov 22, 2019, at 11:48 AM, Anthony Borg wrote:
>
> Hi folks
> Can somebody
Is there a way to get the Reminder to give the little
signal, like it used to. I never hear anything, unless I
open Reminders. Thanks for any help.
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Can somebody explain to me how to enable the ID when someone calls me
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On Nov 22, 2019, at 10:15 AM, Moop Curran wrote:
Hi,
I wonder if that would work for the
Hi,
I wonder if that would work for the bluetooth speaker issue (see thread
about Bose speakers and iOS 13). I doubt I’d be that lucky, lol.
On 22 Nov 2019, at 10:19, Carolyn wrote:
I could not find
“Speech Channels (your name)”,
But, I did find where to turn off Notifications - YEA! I can
Hi,
I did get some help when I contacted the Google disability support through Be
My Eyes but now Google home will not recognize my SiriusXM username and
password it says the information is incorrect but I can get into my account
just fine through the website or the SiriusXM app so not sure.
I
Yes, Anna, you are correct. If one does not have their hearing aids on and/or
connected via Bluetooth, you will not see the speechand sounds headers.
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From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Anna
Dresner
Sent: Friday, November 22, 2019 10:18 AM
To: VIPhone Mailing
There is a problem with the link that you need to get in order to start the
connection process. If you can manage to get it done through be my eyes, good
luck. I had to get a sighted person to do it. The link is somehow in properly
coded, and you cannot access it when voiceover is turned on.
HI Carolyn,
Speech and Sound Channels options are only available and visible when you have
an audio device connected to your iPHone, such as headphones. I would think
having hearing aids connected would also make them available, but I don't know
for sure.
Best,
Anna
> On Nov 22, 2019, at
I'll keep that in mind. I've never utilized Search.
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From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of
Sieghard Weitzel
Sent: Friday, November 22, 2019 11:05 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: Getting notifications to not speak
I did that, but finally decided to go for broke. I'm pretty vigilant about
checking things.
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From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of
Sieghard Weitzel
Sent: Friday, November 22, 2019 11:02 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject:
Josh:
This same thing happened to me with my blue tooth compatible hearing aids.
I disconnect the battery compartment on the hearing aids at night and put
them in a de-humidifying container.
One night, I didn't get the battery compartment completely disconnected and
when I tried to hear my
Thanks - got it! I'll share with Blind Hearing Aid Users.
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From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of
Sieghard Weitzel
Sent: Friday, November 22, 2019 11:00 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Maybe a fix for all Bluetooth
Hi Russ and all,
When I move through the list of books in my library, it still speaks their
running time using the latest version. Is that what you're talking about?
Best,
Anna
> On Nov 22, 2019, at 7:28 AM, Russ Kiehne wrote:
>
> Speaking of voice dream reader, has any one noticed that
It's in the same place where Microsoft Accessibility is, under Specialized Help
and the Technical heading.
Currently there is only google and Microsoft Accessibility, under the "Other"
heading which comes before Technical you also have Clearblue, which I believe
is a company which makes
It's in Voiceover Settings.
Remember you have a search box at the top of settings, if you know the name of
a setting but can't remember where it is all you have to do is type its name or
part of it in that search box.
In this case, if you type "Always" the setting you want is the second search
You have full control whether notifications appear on the lock screen in
Settings > Notification Centre.
Just go to each app listed, e.g. Apple News, Messages, Mail etc. and turn off
"Show on lockscreen".
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From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Carolyn
Sent:
Caroline, you will only see these options for speech channels and sound
channels if you have your hearing aids or a Bluetooth speaker connected.
I wonder if this would also fix the Bluetooth issue some people have.
Moop and others who report that they don't hear system sounds or even Voiceover
Hi,
Where do I find google accessibility in the be my eyes app.
The info was entered correctly as well.
Jen
> On Nov 22, 2019, at 10:37 AM, Sieghard Weitzel wrote:
>
> You can actually speak to Google Accessibility via the Be My Eyes app.
> Always the first question, did you or your sighted
Since upgrading to IOS 13, I have not gotten all of my sent messages in the
sent folder. Sometimes when I am reading something on the web and I want to
save it, I send an email to myself. Prior to 13, I would get a copy in my
inbox and one would be in my sent folder. For the record, I am
You can actually speak to Google Accessibility via the Be My Eyes app.
Always the first question, did you or your sighted friend type the login
information and are you absolutely sure it was entered correctly?
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Sent:
Mine comes on, or did, whenever I unlocked, when I'd wanting to know the time,
not some something from Apple News that I didn't care about. I found that, for
me, most annoying.
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From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of
Anthony
I could not find
“Speech Channels (your name)”,
But, I did find where to turn off Notifications - YEA! I can find my own
messages, mail, and calls.
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From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of
Terri Hedgpeth
Sent: Friday, November
It certainly won't hurt to write to accessibil...@apple.com and describe the
issue, you can always tell them you could provide a screen recording if they
can't reproduce this or say there is no issue.
I would also include what Spotify said about this being a Voiceover issue and
not a Spotify
I found that with my harp, if I touch the string while it’s still ringing
before Talking Tuner speaks, I don’t get an accurate reading.
When I purchased my first harp – I’ve had several before switching to my pedal
harp, I was told “you spend half your time tuning, and the other half
I just lock the screen and that stops the notifications.
Sent from my Verizon iPhone XR!!!
> On Nov 22, 2019, at 10:00 AM, Carolyn <4carol...@windstream.net> wrote:
>
> I looked for Always Speak Notifications in the Settings and on the Home Page
> (swipe down with three fingers). I could not
Hello all,
Just heard a tip from Jonathan Mosen podcast on how to fix the hearing aid
issue so all sounds go through your hearing aids.
Go to voiceover,
Select Audio,
Swipe down to "Speech Channels (your name)",
Right below this you should find:
Terri1 of course it would be your name.
I looked for Always Speak Notifications in the Settings and on the Home Page
(swipe down with three fingers). I could not find it to turn it off; yet, I
know I've seen it in there.
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Richard
The issue I have is with the braille cursor. When I'm using my braille
display, I can't move my cursor wherever I want using the routing
keys. I literally have to turn on VO and use gestures on the phone to
move my cursor. Quite annoying. Has anyone else experienced this? I
have the Focus 40 Blue.
Hi,
I am having Great difficulty trying to connect my SiriusXM account to my Google
home mini speaker using the Google Home iOS app. What happens is when I go to
the app hit add then radio there is no link so when you press on it nothing
happens so first question is does anyone know of a
Hi to all. Last night, I decided to stop using my phone to listen to
a couple described movies I had put on my victor stream. So, I turned
off the bard book I was listening to on my phone and plugged in a
cable to my bluetooth/wired headphones. I didn't turn off my headset
or turn off bluetooth
With my guitar, I don't always let the string ring until it stops.
That shortens things up quite a bit.
I used to have a Celtic Harp but got tired of tuning it and sold it about a
year before I found Talking Tuner.
O well.
Richard
"Reality is the leading cause of stress for those who are in
Hi all,
I wrote to the list a few weeks ago saying that I can no longer read
descriptions of playlists on Spotify, although I was able to with
older versions of the app. I have also posted to apple vis, and put
out a few posts in various facebook communities. A small number of
people agreed that
Speaking of voice dream reader, has any one noticed that voice dream reader
no longer announces the play time ffor each mp3 file?
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From: Greg Wocher
Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2019 7:14 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Updated Voice Dream Reader not
I find it fairly accurate. It doesn't like background noise, though. I get
good results by mounting my phone in one of the sound holes at the back of my
harp. My husband found a handy little clip that is made for mounting a phone
on the air vent in the dashboard of a car. It works perfectly
Thanks! I thought about that but I think the easiest way is to just turn off
speech with a 3 finger double tap!
Debbie
From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Richard
Turner
Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2019 11:41 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Getting notifications to
have tried your method Donna but it doesn't seem to work probably missing
something obvious but can't work out what Janet
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From: Donna
Sent: Friday, November 22, 2019 11:27 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Deleting messages from the facebook pages app
Find your message, use 1 finger & double tap, a menu list will show up, one of
the options in the list is delete post. This is how to remove a post using the
facebook app.
Donna
>
> Hi,
> Can you delete messages from the Facebook pages app. How do you do this
> since it is not the same
Hi,
Can you delete messages from the Facebook pages app. How do you do this since
it is not the same procedure as regular messenger.
Jen
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I use this too, though not by any means perfect. I can repeat the same note
and it give a different answer every time. If I get
it to say the same thing 2 or 3 times, I conclude it must then be right.
That, and the time lag while it ponders makes for a fairly frustrating
experience, but it's
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