Hey Ezzie, One other helpful hint I would pass along is to check out the "Voice Over Practice Gestures" in the settings menu. It takes you to a screen that will tell you what action corresponds to a givengesture; if you flick your finger to the left, for instance, it will say "Flick left. Moves to the previous item." You can try tapping and rotating and pinching etc., and it will let you know what that action does and help you to understand how the phone is interpreting your gestures -- it will give you a good sense of the screen's responsiveness. To get there you need to go to settings on your home screen; reach it by either moving your finger around the screen until you find "settings" or flicking your finger to the right or left until you find it. Then, do a quick one finger double tap to open settings; from there go to "general" by flicking or moving your finger; double tap on general and then find accessibility and double tap again. from accessibility find "voice Over" and double tap again on that. Here you'll find the other options you can set for your personal preference, such as voice rate etc, and also the practice gesture option. When you've finished practicing gestures, the done button is in the upper right hand corner. In addition to the podcasts from Vision Australia, which are short and really helpful, and the AppleVis website, it's also helpful to remember that you can search the archive of this list, if you have a question on a given topic. Sometimes it's a little overwhelming to search the list, since it is so active, but it's worth a try since probably someone has wondered about the same thing before. All the best,
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ezzie Ez Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 2:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Introduction Thanks a lot, Lisa! Please send any other hints on getting started (if you can), seeing as this will be my first iPhone. Thanks, Ezzie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lisa Larges" <[email protected] To: <[email protected] Date sent: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 18:04:14 -0500 Subject: RE: Introduction Hi ezzie, When you get your phone, what you are going to do to get voice over started is to hit the "home button" 3 times quickly. The home button is a round button inset on the screen itself; it's the only button on the actual screen. Clicking the button 3 times quickly will start voice over talking. This is called the "triple click home" and is different from tapping on the screen itself. Hope that's clarifying! -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ezzie Ez Sent: Monday, September 17, 2012 2:14 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Introduction Thank you for the warm welcome! I expect to get my new phone in October. So do you just tripple tap anywhere on the screen and VO will begin to speak? How many fingers are required to tap? Thanks in advance! Ezzie ----- Original Message ----- From: Gerardo Corripio <[email protected] To: [email protected] Date sent: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 12:10:59 -0500 Subject: Re: Introduction Greetings! and welcome to the Ihponeland! I've had mine for almost 2 months, thus would like to give you some tips and resources I found useful. First of all go to http://www.visionaustralia.org/atpodcasts/ where you'll find especially the Iphone/Ipod tutorials which are great! They gave me clarification on little details and also got me to explore and not be afraid to learn things on my own. Afterwards I'd recommend the Apple Vis site which also has great info! It's address is http://applevis.com Now as for activating VoiceOver, usually if the phone is right out of the box and not set up yet, do a triple click home button; if not, as I did, ask the store implyees to activate VoiceOver for you by going to Settings; General; Accessibility and click on VoiceOver and the phone should start talking! Siri is used more as an extra feature but diesn'doesn't replace VoiceOver. Hope this helps and again welcome to the list! You'll learn a lot! Gerardo El 15/09/2012 06:44 p.m., Ezzie Ez escribió: hereello everyone, My name is Ezzie Bueno and I am a college student majoring in music education. I've been using a Macbook Pro for almost two years now. Now that my upgrade is here, I've decided to take the plunge and get myself in gear with the all-new iPhone 5! I'm totally blind and have never used a Touwh Screen in my life. How did you get started using the iPhone? What tips do you have for me as far as getting VO turned on, using SIRI, and getting started in general? Also, which apps do you all recommend once I get comfortable with the iPhone itself? Thank you, Ezzie -- 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. -- 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. -- 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. -- 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. -- 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.
