Re: iPad in portrait or landscape

2022-01-09 Thread Matthew Janusauskas
Landscape orientation on an iPad allows for a nearly full-size onscreen keyboard. It’s also more conducive to running two apps side by side at the same time. > On Jan 7, 2022, at 5:22 AM, Dean Martineau wrote: > > I have acquired an iPad, mostly for learning it so as to be able to instruct

Re: iPad in portrait or landscape

2022-01-07 Thread Deb Cook Lewis
I'd agree with tom's comments. My low vision students have generally liked the landscape mode. But as a VO user, i've never seen any advantage for it. The one exception might be in any browser, I like the way it lays things out in landscape mode for the browser. but otherwise, I see no real

Re: iPad in portrait or landscape

2022-01-07 Thread Thom Spittle
I Dean, The only observations I have are more with your students more than you. If your student is low vision, they may like the larger size of youtube videos when in landscape mode. Otherwise, the only difference I see is that the keyboard has larger keys in landscape mode, which some user

iPad in portrait or landscape

2022-01-07 Thread Dean Martineau
I have acquired an iPad, mostly for learning it so as to be able to instruct others. With the iPhone I've always preferred locking orientation to portrait, and haven't found a reason to use landscape. I'm open to other viewpoints on orientation preferences and advantages for the iPhone, but I'm