Hi Jonathan, Yes, I've tried that. It requires one hand leaving the display to navigate. This is well and good for headings or forms, but it's impractical and labor intensive on a line by line basis.
I probably wouldn't feel this way if I were using the new Focus. Or if Apple let the users map their own keys, this would be a nonissue. But neither of these scenarios are true for me. So, if I want to continue to use my phone efficiently, I have to downgrade. Cheryl Sent from my iPhone On Sep 19, 2012, at 6:18 PM, "Jonathan Mosen" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Cheryl, could you not set the rotor to verticle navigation? > > Jonathan > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Cheryl Lenartiene > Sent: Thursday, 20 September 2012 10:09 a.m. > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Focus 40 blue in ios 6. > > Hi Jonathan, > > Thanksfor this. The key assignments were very helpful. I'm not saying the > new key assignments won't work for everyone. I'm just saying that they don't > work for me. I am literally unable to move up and down by line and have to > pan left and right by display width to navigate. When I need to scroll > through something quickly, this is not a practical way to do it. So, for me, > it really is unusable. I'm not flying off the handle, I'm not being > irrational; I'm not even afraid of something new. It really, truly doesn't > work for me because of the way VoiceOver behaves. > > Cheryl > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jonathan Mosen > Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2012 5:57 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: Focus 40 blue in ios 6. > > Apple has changed the key assignments for the Focus products in iOS6. The > best thing to do until an FSCast comes out on this, is to press K-cord to > invoke keyboard help, then press the keys to understand what they now do. > > People can of course offer feedback to Apple on the new assignments, but to > say it's unusable is I think a bit of a stretch. It's just different. Some > people will find it better, others not, but it is still very much useable. > > Here's a summary that may assist. > > Router Row Double tap the selected item. > Status Router Row Toggle expanded status description. > Left Nav Rocker/Whiz-wheel Up Move to previous item using rotor setting. > Left Nav Rocker/Whiz wheel Down Move to next item using rotor setting. > Left Mode Button/press whiz wheel Select item under your finger. > Right Nav Rocker/whiz wheel Up Move to previous item. > Right Nav Rocker/whiz wheel Down Move to next item. > Right Mode Button/press whiz wheel Select item under your finger. > Left Panning Pan braille to the left. > Right Panning Pan braille to the right. > Left Selector Activates a Back button if present. > Right Selector Start/Stop Toggle > Left Rocker Up Scroll up one page. > Left Rocker Down Scroll down one page. > Right Rocker Up Scroll left one page. > Right Rocker Down Scroll right one page. > > Jonathan > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Cheryl Lenartiene > Sent: Thursday, 20 September 2012 9:44 a.m. > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Focus 40 blue in ios 6. > > Hi, > > I don't like the new key assignments for the Focus 40 Blue in iOS6 either. I > have the Classic, and I don't like having to use the Whiz Wheels to pan by > line, because the rocker bars now swipe instead. VoiceOver jumps all over > the place when I try to navigate using Whiz Wheels on my iPhone 4. If I move > up or down one click, VoiceOver focus will jump back and forth over a span > of four or five lines, and after a few seconds, may eventually land where it > is supposed to. > > Although I can appreciate the thought and hard work that went into this > update, the unintended consequences, for me at least, are that Braille is > virtually unuseable on my phone. At the very least, it's not practical. So, > I plan to downgrade back to iOS5.1.1, if I can figure out where to get it. > > Cheryl > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Annie Skov Nielsen > Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2012 4:20 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Focus 40 blue in ios 6. > > Hi. > > You can not change whiz wheels behaviour in IOS as far as I know. > > Best regards Annie. > > Best regards Annie. > > > Den Sep 19, 2012 kl. 10:10 PM skrev Scott Davert <[email protected]>: > >> Hi Anney. >> Have you made sure that your wizwheels didn't get changed by accident? >> You know that if you press streight down on them, this will toggle how >> they navigate, right? I used a focus 40 blue with wizwheels in an >> earlier beta version, and did not have this issue. >> >> Scott >> >> On 9/19/12, Annie Skov Nielsen <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hi. >>> It is not possible anymore to go to the next line with your left hand >>> in IOS 6. Apple has changed the behaviours of the wheels in focus 40 >>> blue, and in the new version the bottuns, so that you will now go to >>> the next item chosen in the router whith the wheel in the left side. >>> >>> it is a major problem for us who are reading with the wright hand and >>> like to go to the next display with the left hand. Now you will have >>> to read and go to the next line with your wright hand, it will waste >>> much time when reading. >>> >>> Has anybody a work around. >>> >>> Best regards Annie. >>> >>> -- >>> 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. > > -- > 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. 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