Hi all,
Please find below my notes about topics discussed in our first iOS teleconference. Discussion about how we like to use our phones If willing to accept a learning curve and starting from scratch with a new operating system, it’s possible to do practically most every day tasks accomplished with a computer using iOS devices. Examples are: Listening to favorite cds, books from CNIB or bookshare or many other commercial reading sources, internet radio. Surfing the web, reading Emails writing mails and text messages,Taking notes using an external keyboard or writing on the iOS device using Braille input or taking audio recording memos. Blindness specific aids such as OCR, reading pdf files, planning routes and getting orientation info similar with tracker, light detector etc. Social advantage of using devices that everyone else uses. Further, the interface we use is similar enough to relate and receive and give help with operating iOS devices to sighted users. Difficulties when starting out with iOS Orientation without buttons, learning the physical layout of the screen. Performing gestures efficiently. Text input and keypad use. Areas where current cisg members using iOS want to expand in future meetings MBraille and other Braille input options on the iphone. Surfing the web efficiently with safari. Using BlindSquare, a gps app with lots of features. Making phone calls efficiently dealing with extension and keying in options once the call is in progress such as voicemail passwords. Exploring skype on the iPhone. Potentially looking at emailing with iphone? Please add any topics here you’d like addressed in our next meetings. Where do we go from here? Leo works with Apple store for workshop in May. Goal is to give anyone considering apple devices a hands-on overview of what they can expect and provide follow-up options to learn more about them. Meeting for current iOS users where we can teach and explore hands on topics presented in previous item in this agenda. Date for meetings to be is yet decided upon. Here is where I had to sign off. Please add anything I might have missed. It was a pleasure to chat and exchange with those who were on the call and I am looking forward to future meetings. All the best, Ioana Sent from my iPhone -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. 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. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. --- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
