Hello Paulette. Welcome to the list. A good place to get started would be visiting the Apple this website, found at www.applevis.com.
There, You can find a wealth of information. Good luck. Regards, Anita also known as "Gadget Girl". Sent via my Apple gadget. Apple, Take a bite, Express yourself! On Sep 23, 2013, at 2:05 AM, "Paulette Vickery" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > My name is Paulette Vickery. I just joined this group last night. I am using > an Iphone 4 S and IOS 7, which I downloaded yesterday. I have been happily > married for 40 years, have 6 grown children and 11 grand children. I am a > psychotherapist in private practice and I am getting started in the voice > over industry. I also do quite a bit of baby sitting. I enjoy cooking, > reading, knitting, crocheting, safety pin beading and basket making. > > I enjoy my phone, but I know that I should be able to do so much more than I > am presently doing with my Iphone. I often get frustrated, because there > seems to be nowhere I can ask even the simplest of Iphone questions. I am > glad that I learned about this list from asking people on other lists to > suggest a list I could join where I could ask such questions. > > So, here goes. I purchased the 2 booklets available from the National Braille > Press, full of good apps for the blind to download. I downloaded many of > them, but have never used them because I can’t find anywhere that shows me > how to use the app. It’s like it is generally assumed that I should know how > to use it, because I downloaded the app. Well we all know what happens when > we assume, and I am ready for that to change, at least as far as I am > concerned. Smile. > > Here are a few of the problems I am having. I can’t remember the app names > right now, I can check them in the morning. But one of the apps I downloaded > was called, Cards, I believe. With it, I am supposed to be able to send > E-cards whenever I please, but I have no idea how to do it. I also > downloaded, Loose It, an app called, Work out, I think, remind me, and Stem > Stumper, which I can’t even access. I am so frustrated because I have no idea > how to use these or many other apps. > > Now, to be fair, I also downloaded, Pandora and Dave Ramsey, both of which I > can use pretty well. > > And about IOS 7. The first I new about it was yesterday when something popped > up in the middle of my screen yesterday morning, during a really good Toby > Keith song I was listening to on Pandora. I was asked if I wanted to update > my Iphone by getting the app. Since a few others on other lists had mentioned > that IOS 7 was a good thing, and since nowhere could I find anything on the > screen that said that I had a choice of downloading the app later, I decided > to just go ahead and download it, so that I could give a thumbs up to the > Toby Keith song. To make a long story short, after I agreed to be a good girl > and not do anything bad to the Apple company, I was told that it was > downloading, then that my phone was rebooting or something similar. Then > Voice Over went silent. I waited and nothing happened. I called the > accessibility arm of Apple Care and finally they told me that I had to go to > a near by Sprint store and they could get it up and running for me. My > husband was annoyed because I downloaded it in the first place when it was so > hot off the shelf, so to speak, but he tried to get it to work. He said that > the screen said I needed to connect to Itune s. That didn’t work either. We > went to the Sprint store and they couldn’t fix it. By this time I was wishing > that I had never heard of IOS updates and I had learned to my great surprise > that I was willing to bring my day to a screeching halt until I got my phone > useable again! The Sprint people said that we should go to the Apple store. > Finally, someone at Apple was able to get IOS 7 working with my phone. Then, > after all that, I discovered that Siri had a cold and sounded simply awful! I > called Apple accessibility again last evening and between a very helpful and > patient gentleman and my husband, who helped when the Apple man was flumixed > because occationally I didn’t understand what he was talking about and my > phone just wouldn’t do what he said that it should. But finally I was able to > get hooked up with wifi and begin downloading, or expanding or whatever, > something called the enhanced voice for Voice Over. He said that it might > take several hours to download, well whatever I was downloading, so I should > leave my Iphone hooked up to WIFI over night. I certainly hope the voice > sounds better in the morning. > > So, could someone please tell me in short sentences, how I can learn about > and use apps, find some good games that don’t take a lot of brain power to > pass the time while waiting for a ride, andhow I can send a message easily. I > absolutely hate hunt and peck typing, which is what I have to do on that > little screen. > > I know this has been an unusually long post, but it was my first one and I > wanted to give you a real feel for my situation. I am so glad that I learned > about this list, at last I have a group of blind people who use Iphones to > help me with my questions. Thanks so much in advance for any and all > assistance you are able to give. > > Paulette > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > > Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. > > Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > > Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing > [email protected]. > > Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing > [email protected]. > > More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting > 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 [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. 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