Ok, it sounds as though your difficulties are associated with using the interface rather than the device. <Smile>. In other words, if you were to purchase an iPad, it seems as though your problem will be exactly the same since you've not gotten the hang of executing gestures. <Smile>.
When executing a swipe, try this... Take your left thumb and fold the knuckle down. Now take your right index finger and use the padded side of your finger tip to swipe from left to right--from your knuckle to the tip of your finger nail. Try increasing the speed so that you smoothly touch your thumb then slide past your nail quickly and without stopping to leave your finger on the thumb at all as the goal is to swipe across your thumb and never rest your index finger on it. Be mindful of the sensation on your thumb, it should be one of feeling your index finger sliding across in a straight line. Notice that you will only have about a half inch or so of room to swipe across your thumb. After practicing this swiping motion on your thumb, open your iDevice to the home screen and repeat the left to right swiping motion. Try to swipe on the surface for a distance of about half an inch (the distance of your knuckle to your fingertip). Move through all your apps from left to right then reverse the swiping to move from your last app to your first one--you will of course now be moving your finger from right to left. The goal in swiping through all your apps is one of consistency in movement. Also try to be mindful of the position of your iDevice in that if you hold it at a weird angle then swipe, it might register as a vertical swipe rather than a horizontal swipe. In other words, at first try to be very mindful of the angle of your iDevice and the angle of your swipe and eventually it will become habit and you will be able to focus more on what you're doing than what is going wrong with your swiping. <Smile>. If it helps, I've also read other listers state that they think of swiping as using your fingertip to flick a smudge off of your computer screen, or flick a bug off of one's skin. <Smile>. HTH Joseph the free tech guy! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Krister Ekstrom" <kris...@kristersplace.com> To: <viphone@googlegroups.com> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2014 9:01 AM Subject: Re: This might seem like a strange question about ipad mini vs iphone Hi, But how about my question on navigating? Is the Mini easier to navigate on than the Air or the other bigger pads? The problem i had was that i couldn't swipe because i didn't manage to swipe in a streight line so other commands got issued instead. Anyone think this sounds familiar? /Krister > 28 jul 2014 kl. 17:35 skrev Scott Duck <l...@csdconsulting.biz>: > > Hi Feliciano, > I understand why you might say that but I respectfully disagree. I am > completely blind and I have both a iPhone and a iPad. There are > definitely > situations where the ability to display more information on the screen at > one time is beneficial, even for a Voice Over user. I especially find > this > to be true in the reading apps, like iBooks, Kindle, and Voice Dream. I > also like being able to fit longer lines and more lines on the screen when > working in notes or a text editor. A iPad certainly isn't for everyone > but > it isn't quite as simple as saying "a iPad isn't beneficial for a > completely > blind person using Voice Over". > Thanks, > Scott Duck > > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf > Of Feliciano G > Sent: Monday, July 28, 2014 6:59 AM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: This might seem like a strange question about ipad mini vs > iphone > > And iPad isn't really beneficial for totally blind person that uses > voiceover. Especially if that individual has an iPhone. The larger screen > on > an iPad just makes things more complicated than using an iPhone or iTouch. > Clients always ask me this question. I always tell them an iPhone is the > way > to go if you are totally blind as the larger screen makes things > difficult. > > Regards, Feliciano > > Www.twitter.com/theblindman12v > > > Sent from the Super-iPhone > >> On Jul 28, 2014, at 4:09 AM, "Ben Mustill-Rose" <b...@benmr.com> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> The sad truth is that I hardly use my iPad at all. NB: this won't >> change when the next iPad is announced unless they shrink it down to >> the size of an iPhone which isn't going to happen for reasons that are >> hopefully obvious. >> >> I find browsing the internet to be more pleasurable on an iPad than it >> is on an iPhone as I'm into feeling the layout of pages, but I still >> use a computer for this sort of thing by default. 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