RE: Helping my Sighted Mom with her iPhone
Apps are icons for sighted people, but the text is still there also. For example, the Phone app is a small picture of a telephone, but it still says "Phone". -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Rob Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2015 7:14 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Helping my Sighted Mom with her iPhone I heard this recently on a podcast somewhere. In many cases when VoiceOver is not on, the icon to open an app etc is just an image or picture. There is no text. If you want to show a sighted person what app or button you are ready to press, you might want to go into the settings for VoiceOver and turn on "Large Cursor". In iOS 8.4, this is the last item in the VoiceOver settings. The podcast said that when "Large Cursor" is on, a line Is drawn around the icon image. Rob -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Dani Pagador Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2015 5:16 PM To: iPhone for visually impaired Subject: Helping my Sighted Mom with her iPhone Hi, Everyone. I'm trying to help my sighted mom with her iPhone. I have an iPod Touch and only use it to keep track of messages, do limited testing, and e-mail. I have several questions and am hoping someone can clue me in. 1) What is the sighted equivalent for VO gestures? Is there a quick list I can refer to? 2) My sister, who has an iPhone as well but lives in CA, sends info to me via e-mail. I see my Mom's phone number listed in the "To" field as well, but when I ask her whether she saw the message, she says no, I didn't get anything. Where do I look on her phone to help her find what my sister sent? It doesn't show up in the iMessage app, and her Mail account isn't set up. Ideas? (Mom and I are both in HI.) Thanks, as Always, Dani -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
RE: Helping my Sighted Mom with her iPhone
I heard this recently on a podcast somewhere. In many cases when VoiceOver is not on, the icon to open an app etc is just an image or picture. There is no text. If you want to show a sighted person what app or button you are ready to press, you might want to go into the settings for VoiceOver and turn on "Large Cursor". In iOS 8.4, this is the last item in the VoiceOver settings. The podcast said that when "Large Cursor" is on, a line Is drawn around the icon image. Rob -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Dani Pagador Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2015 5:16 PM To: iPhone for visually impaired Subject: Helping my Sighted Mom with her iPhone Hi, Everyone. I'm trying to help my sighted mom with her iPhone. I have an iPod Touch and only use it to keep track of messages, do limited testing, and e-mail. I have several questions and am hoping someone can clue me in. 1) What is the sighted equivalent for VO gestures? Is there a quick list I can refer to? 2) My sister, who has an iPhone as well but lives in CA, sends info to me via e-mail. I see my Mom's phone number listed in the "To" field as well, but when I ask her whether she saw the message, she says no, I didn't get anything. Where do I look on her phone to help her find what my sister sent? It doesn't show up in the iMessage app, and her Mail account isn't set up. Ideas? (Mom and I are both in HI.) Thanks, as Always, Dani -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Helping my Sighted Mom with her iPhone
Hi Dani, There really isn't a sighted equivalent to Voiceover gestures. If you are fully sighted, you use the Siri feature to dictate text or to ask questions and then you visually read the responses on the screen.The Voiceover is usually never activated. I would suggest that you show your mother how you use the Iphone with voiceover and have her look at the screen while you are using it so that she can visually see what you are doing. With respect to the Mail app, it is easy to set up if she already has another email account. If she doesn't have email, it might be a good idea to set up the Mail app if this is how your sister is sending her messages. I don't think that the mail app will accept email messages if there is no email address designated for the mail app on her Iphone. Hope this helps a little. Regards, Michelle Bernstein On Tuesday, December 29, 2015 at 5:15:39 PM UTC-5, Dani Pagador wrote: > Hi, Everyone. > I'm trying to help my sighted mom with her iPhone. I have an iPod > Touch and only use it to keep track of messages, do limited testing, > and e-mail. > > I have several questions and am hoping someone can clue me in. > > 1) What is the sighted equivalent for VO gestures? Is there a quick > list I can refer to? > > 2) My sister, who has an iPhone as well but lives in CA, sends info to > me via e-mail. I see my Mom's phone number listed in the "To" field as > well, but when I ask her whether she saw the message, she says no, I > didn't get anything. Where do I look on her phone to help her find > what my sister sent? It doesn't show up in the iMessage app, and her > Mail account isn't set up. Ideas? (Mom and I are both in HI.) > > Thanks, as Always, > Dani > -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
