Hi Mary, I think it was landscape that was the problem. Once I changed that all is working beautifully.
I asked my sighted husband about the right and left buttons and he said they are arrows pointing right andleft probably for use with the landscape orientation, so now I just ignore them. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. Kimber On 6/24/12, Mary Otten <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Kimber, > Are you using huff post on an iPad or iPhone/iPod? And are you seeing these > buttons that are not labeled when you first open the app, prior to selecting > an edition? I don't recall seeing unlabeled buttons when I first started > using this app. But now when I open the app, I certainly am not seeing any. > I get At the top left, it says The Huffington Post, and top right is a > button that says editions. Across the bottom are 5 tabs, front page, > sections, search, favorites and settings. Front page is selected by default, > and stories are in a list. You can flick or scroll through stories. The only > thing I remember changing in the settings was that I turned off landscape > mode. Also in settings, there is one for autohide nav bar, which is off, but > I don't think I changed that. Perhaps this nav bar is what is causing your > problem? > > I have not experienced the problem scrolling, although generally in an > article, I use the two finger flick down and read continuously once I find > the start of the article. That is often on the second page, as there may be > images or other unwanted stuff on the first page of an article. Also, > occasionally, you will run in to a slide show, and those don't work well. > But regular articles, the vast majority of items that I've run across, are > completely accessible here on my iPhone 4S. Once an article is open, across > the top, I get the back button, the section from which the article was > taken, e.g. politics, then a left and a right button. I don't know what > those buttons do. Then there is the text, and after that, another row of > buttons, iPhone share, which brings up a screen full of options that let you > do things like tweet, email, facebook etc, the article you're reading. After > the iPhone share from left to right are comment, star, text zoom in and text > zoom out. I assume the star is some sort of favorites thing, although I have > not used it. The share feature is really handy. Then on the very bottom left > corner I get a number, such as 9,379 image. Again, not sure what that is, > but it has never interfered with my ability to read articles by two finger > flicking down once I've found the start of text which is generally on the > second screen of an article. > > Mary > Mary Otten > [email protected] > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > -- Kimberly -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
