I cannot reproduce your problem. I am using a RefreshaBraille Bluetooth keyboard to type my email, and I do all my email from my iPhone. I do all my navigation commands on the display of my iPhone.
David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: [email protected] Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone On 23/03/2013, at 11:44, "Neal Ewers" <[email protected]> wrote: > David, I normally do what you suggest and have often been able to work > around tasks this way. The email subject field, however, seems to be a > different animal. If I fill in the address field, I then can tap on the > screen to open the subject field,. However, I'm not really in the subject > field. I am in the address field. Even when I try using my finger to swipe > left and back to the field again as was suggested earlier, I still end up in > the address field. > > I'm not going to spend too much more list time on this. I'll just chalk it > up to a keyboard oddity. > > Thanks for people's help. > > Neal > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of David Chittenden > Sent: Friday, March 22, 2013 5:29 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Problems filling in the subject in email messages > > Ok, now I understand what is going on. > > iOS devices have always been designed for direct input from the > touch-screen. Keyboard access was added later. When a field is activated > directly on the screen, it always activates editing properly. When a field > is activated using a Bluetooth keyboard, it occasionally does not activate. > > This occasional problem with opening fields for editing using a Bluetooth > device also occurs with Braille displays. > > The solution is quite simple. Do as sighted people, even those who use a > physical keyboard do, activate edit fields on the touch-screen directly. In > other words, work with your device rather than against it. > > David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA > Email: [email protected] > Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 > Sent from my iPhone > > On 23/03/2013, at 6:50, "Neal Ewers" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Lisa, thanks for this. I thought I could trick Apple. What an absurd >> thing to try to do. I thought I could simply fill in the subject field >> first and go back to the address field and fill it in. Well that >> worked, or so I thought, But when I got back to the subject, I could >> not go any further. The message field would not appear. I had to click >> once inside the subject field and then get out of that field and then >> the message field appeared. How strange. I am using the Apple blue >> tooth keyboard if that makes a difference. >> >> Bottom line, it works, but the question is, would there be an easier way? >> >> Thanks. >> >> Neal >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >> Behalf Of Lisa belville >> Sent: Friday, March 22, 2013 12:20 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: Problems filling in the subject in email messages >> >> Ah, Neil, I encountered this phenomenon for the first time this >> morning. I had to remove everything from the to field, then edit the >> subject field, come back and reenter the to address and it worked. >> before that, I kept double-checking to be sure that yes, I was indeed >> editing the subject field, but the subject kept showing up next to the >> text in the to field for some reason. >> >> I've sent several Emails on my phone and this was a new occurrence, so >> not sure what's going on. At least there's a relatively low-tech > solution. >> >> >> >> Lisa >> The 2 most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and Bull-Crap >> Lisa Belville [email protected] >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Neal Ewers" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Friday, March 22, 2013 10:35 AM >> Subject: Problems filling in the subject in email messages >> >> >>> Hi all, I am definitely missing something basic here. When I send an >>> email, I can find the address field and enter the address. I then >>> find the subject field and double tap to enter text. However, when I >>> enter it, it is placed at the end of the email address in the >>> address," field. I remember having this problem when I used my >>> iTouch, so it's definitely Neal and not the iPhone. 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