Re: Question: Trying to Remember the name of an iOS App that Allowed Off-Road Navigation for the Blind and Low Vision

2024-01-03 Thread Jonathan Cohn
this is called the getting warmer feature, and essentially after you’ve marked a location you’d like to go to regularly, you can then pull it up, and will tell you, approximately how far away it is, and what direction it is. With voice stream, and probably therefore, Voice Vista the direction

Rotor New Settings in iOS17

2024-01-03 Thread Mike B.
Original Message From: Richard Turner This is likely the same in iOS 17.2... but has anyone else been bothered by the fact that the rotor, especially in the mail app, instead of defaulting to Actions, it defaults to headings? I find each time I open the mail app, and land on a message or

Re: Question: Trying to Remember the name of an iOS App that Allowed Off-Road Navigation for the Blind and Low Vision

2024-01-03 Thread Barbara Stahl
So how does it work > On Jan 3, 2024, at 5:46 AM, dlmlao...@gmail.com wrote: > > I would use Voice Vista for at least part of the strategy, and set a beacon > at your front door. I think BlindSquare has a similar capability, perhaps > many gps apps for the blind do. > > > > -Original

Re: Apple watch and sleep focus

2024-01-03 Thread Jonathan Cohn
I finally got taptic time to work for me on my SE watch. I had to turn off raise to speak time in the VoiceOver settings, which didn’t seem to do anything. Thanks for all the notes, otherwise I would have just thought it was an unreliable service when VoiceOver is running. I was only able to get

RE: Apple watch and sleep focus

2024-01-03 Thread Sieghard Weitzel
Yes, I received another message from Apple Accessibility yesterday where this was also explained. I assume this was sent on to a higher level because the first response I received simply stated what the support article said which is a 1-finger double tap for hours and minutes and a 1-finger

RE: Rotor action default in iOS 17.3 beta

2024-01-03 Thread Richard Turner
Right, because for you that setting is on. For some odd reason, mine was off. Once I turned it on, all works as expected. Richard, USA “Grandma always told us, “Be careful when you pray for patience. God stores it on the other side of Hell and you will have to go through Hell to

Re: Rotor action default in iOS 17.3 beta

2024-01-03 Thread Jennie Facer
When I open the Mail app, I am on actions.Jenn Jenn and KumiOn Jan 2, 2024, at 7:44 PM, Sieghard Weitzel wrote: Hmm, good point, I had not yet noticed this, but you are correct, in iOS 17.3 Beta (not sure if this was already like that in iOS 17.2, you now have the following options when

Re: Rotor action default in iOS 17.3 beta

2024-01-03 Thread matthew dyer
I think I remember seeing this in 17.2. I can’t remember,ber if it was headings though. This at least seems to be the case in an open message. In the message list, this seems to be set to actions. Matthew > On Jan 2, 2024, at 4:16 PM, Richard Turner > wrote: > > This is likely the

RE: Question: Trying to Remember the name of an iOS App that Allowed Off-Road Navigation for the Blind and Low Vision

2024-01-03 Thread dlmlaochi
I would use Voice Vista for at least part of the strategy, and set a beacon at your front door. I think BlindSquare has a similar capability, perhaps many gps apps for the blind do. -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Barbara Stahl Sent: Tuesday, January

Apple watch and sleep focus

2024-01-03 Thread 'Angie Nutt' via VIPhone
Hi all, I got a reply from Apple accessibility and actually, three taps is correct as you have to tap it once to wake it up. Hope that clarifies it; it’s not a bug. All the best Angie -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or