Hi Peter and Ahmed, I found that when someone sent a mail attachment .pps file to me, Preview on my iPhone or iPad would display this, and I was able to read the text content with VoiceOver, including parts that were written in a different language than English. If you have a later model iPad, including the iPad Mini, or an iPhone 4S or iPhone 5, you should be able to use a dock to VGA output connector of the appropriate sort (older 30-pin to VGA or new lightning to VGA), and everything should mirror. There's no audio sent through the connector, but the screen contents will show up, and by default mirroring of apps is enabled, so unless a developer blocks this function, it will be supported. (On the original iPad, mirroring is only supported if a developer writes in support, and the lower memory resources for that device make it difficult to keep up well.) On the iPhone 4, 4th generation iPod Touch, and first generation iPad, video out from your camera roll, or from Keynote presentations are supported through this connector, but not general app mirroring, and I don't think Preview from the mail app would be mirrored from these models through the VGA adapter. For the earlier usage, this was only designed to show photos, iWork presentations, and a few apps like YouTube through video out.
In principle, any app that lets you display and navigate PowerPoint files could let you display the output to VGA out with the adapter. You might even try Voice Dream Reader. I've only tried the VGA out to standard projectors with an iPad, since my upgrade to an iPhone 5 is recent, and I don't have the lightning adapters for this. I'd run presentations from my MacBook Air, instead, with standard VGA connector. The other way to handle this would be to try using AirPlay capabilities if you wanted audio to available as well. If there's a device like an AppleTV, that can project to the device or monitor you use for your display, and you use AirPlay capable speakers, or an AirPort Express unit on your network that is capable of relaying AirPlay sound and plugging in regular speakers, you can set this up. VoiceOver's speech won't be relayed through AirPlay. There's an Apple Keynote Remote app that lets you control PowerPoint or KeyNote presentations on your iOS devices or on your computer. It hasn't been updated in 2 years, and I haven't tried it in a long time. I think it sort of worked with VoiceOver at the time, but was semi-clunky. You were supposed to hold the device in landscape mode, and you got access to both the current and next slide content on the two sides of the screen. But I think the only thing VoiceoVer read at the time was the slide number. I only ever tried it out for controlling Keynote on my Mac. There may be a post in the macvisionaries list Mail Archives about this. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Mar 22, 3:55 am, Peter Durieux <peter.durieux1...@gmail.com> wrote: > hi, > > from what i've heard, keynote can be the trick. > if you only want to view the presentation, preview can also be a solution. > > hth > > With kind regards, > > -Peter Durieux > > Op 22-mrt.-2013 om 13:49 heeft "Ahmed Khater" <aakhater....@gmail.com> het > volgende geschreven: > > > > > > > > > Hello list, > > > I am searching for a free PowerPoint presentation viewer app which enables > > me just to puch slides back and forward in a slide show, or full screen > > mode. It's not important for me at all to be able even to read the slide > > contents, as I'll rely on my braille display to read whatever slide I want. > > Does any of you have information on such an app? I an in an urgent need > > of it for my work as a university teacher. It also helps me in my > > consultation services position when I deliver lectures and presentations on > > accessibility of assistive tools for people with visual disability. > > > Thank you for your expected help. > > > Best Regards > > > Ahmed Khater > > > aakha...@gmail.com > > > It's always hope that gives meaning to life -- 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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 Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
