An alternative would be something like the Plantronics Voyager Legend. It will announce the incoming caller assuming during setup you authorized the Legend to access your contacts. When a call comes in, the Legend announces the callers name. After the name is announced, the Legend offers you two choices. Answer or Ignore? Just say your choice. If you say ignore, the Legend will send the call to voice mail. If you say answer, the Legend puts the caller through. Your iPhone never leaves your pocket. The range is around 30 feet. Anything going through the Legend such as listening to an NLS Talking Book with the Bard app lets you leave your phone in the house if you like and you can be sitting outside enjoying the beautiful fall weather. Amazon usually puts the Legend on special from time to time. The regular price is a hundred bucks. I got mine on special for sixty nine dollars and free shipping. It's worth every dime of it. If your arm is carrying a bag or two of groceries and your dog guide or cane is in the other hand, you'll appreciate the ability to answer phone calls hands free. There are other users of the Legend on the list who can add to this with their own experiences.
Regards, Alan Go Chicago Bears in 2014! Teenagers; Tired of being harassed by your stupid parents? Act now!!!!! Move out. Get a job. Pay your bills wile you still know everything. Please click on: HTTP://WWW.home.earthlink.net/~alanandsuzanne/ There, you'll find free files of my arrangements and performances played on the Yamaha Tyros 1 keyboard. The albums in Technics format formerly on my website are still available upon request. Thanks for listening! ----- Original Message ----- From: Rick Alfaro To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2014 12:14 PM Subject: RE: (found acceptable solution, I think!) Re: Number of notifications still being announced in locked screen Ansering the phone isn't an issue at all if you use the 2 finger double tap to do it as it works anywhere on the screen. It's the same gesture you would use to play/pause audio but also works for answering the phone when a call is coming in. What you do miss however is the caller id info since the speech is off. In my case, not an issue because I use a BT device that provides the caller id on it's own. Best regards, Rick Alfaro From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Cheryl Homiak Sent: Tuesday, September 2, 2014 12:59 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: (found acceptable solution, I think!) Re: Number of notifications still being announced in locked screen That makes sense, but does that make it harder to answer the phone quickly since you either have to turn speech on to know where you are or double-tap "blindly" (pun intended!)? -- Cheryl I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper thrown in the trash! Then God gave me a new heart and life: His joy for my despairing tears! And now, every day: "This I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness." (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV) On Sep 2, 2014, at 11:28 AM, Rick Alfaro <[email protected]> wrote: Cheryl, I have a similar annoyance with notifications on the lock screen. My solution for this is to do a 3 finger double tap to turn speech off and leave it that way until I want to see what new alerts are there. I simply hit the home button, and do another 3 finger double tap to turn speech back on and then do what I want on the lock screen then turn speech back off. Using this method, you still hear the notification sound when one comes in but no speech. Not sure if this works for you but just another suggestion. Best regards, Rick Alfaro From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Cheryl Homiak Sent: Monday, September 1, 2014 3:42 PM To: [email protected] Subject: (found acceptable solution, I think!) Re: Number of notifications still being announced in locked screen I finally just decided to turn "manual" on for Do Not Disturb, at least when I am working with a braille display. I am allowing all calls and messages through however. This seems to have stopped the announcements of how many notifications I have but I still see how many there are and can access all of them as soon as I press the power button to go into the unlock screen. If I find I am missing anything important I will then reconsider other strategies. of course when running around the house or elsewhere and not using a braille display I can just turn manual off. -- Cheryl I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper thrown in the trash! Then God gave me a new heart and life: His joy for my despairing tears! And now, every day: "This I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness." (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV) On Sep 1, 2014, at 1:46 PM, Cheryl Homiak <[email protected]> wrote: Thank you very much; I hear and appreciate what you are saying. But I do not want to have to access the notification center. The only thing I want is for the number of notifications to stop being announced. I have many notifications and I am not going to go through and put each one of them on to not show in locked screen when all I want is for the phone to stop announcing the number of notifications I have. But I appreciate your efforts to help with this. -- Cheryl I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper thrown in the trash! Then God gave me a new heart and life: His joy for my despairing tears! And now, every day: "This I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness." (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV) On Sep 1, 2014, at 1:25 PM, Donna <[email protected]> wrote: By turning off "show on lock screen" but keeping on Access Notification Center from the lock screen should accomplish what you want. This is how I have my settings and No alerts are announced from the lock screen unless I open Notification Center. I am using an iPhone 5 with the latest IOS. Donna On Sep 1, 2014, at 2:06 PM, Cheryl Homiak <[email protected]> wrote: I think you don't understand me, Donna. I want them to show on locked screen; I want to access them on the locked screen. I just do not want to have the number of notifications announced periodically, I think this happens each time one is added. I am not hearing the information about each notification; I am just hearing an update as to how many notifications I have. -- Cheryl I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper thrown in the trash! Then God gave me a new heart and life: His joy for my despairing tears! And now, every day: "This I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness." (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV) On Sep 1, 2014, at 1:01 PM, Donna <[email protected]> wrote: Have you just tried going to Notification Center and turning off Show on lock screen" for each app?? Leaving on all other alerts. Donna On Sep 1, 2014, at 1:40 PM, Cheryl Homiak <[email protected]> wrote: Thanks. I do not want to remove any of my notifications; I just don't want them spoken in the locked screen. I only want to hear about them when I press the power button to unlock the phone. That is what the voiceover option should do. -- Cheryl I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper thrown in the trash! Then God gave me a new heart and life: His joy for my despairing tears! And now, every day: "This I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness." (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV) On Sep 1, 2014, at 10:54 AM, Donna <[email protected]> wrote: Hi Cheryl "I chose in settings not to have notifications spoken in lock screen." You didn't say that you turned off speak notifications in accessibility. So being both notification center and accessibility are both found under settings, this is one reason that I was confused. Secondly, if you havent taken all of the apps that you do not want notification alerts out of showing up in notification center, even though you have turned off speak notifications off in accessibility, notifications will still be spoken. So remove all necessary apps from the notification center by tapping on the app while in notification center and select to turn off sounds and the alert being shown on the lock screen. One would think that by turning off "speak notifications in lock screen," in accessibility, this would override any thing in notification center. Guess this is a bug of sorts. Donna On Sep 1, 2014, at 10:13 AM, Cheryl Homiak <[email protected]> wrote: I am not quite sure what I said that confused you. I said nothing about going into notification center and that isn't what I did. I went into General > accessibility > Voiceover > show notifications in locked screen and turned it off. Shawn has it almost right; it doesn't announce the number of notifications when I am about to unlock the screen; it just periodically announces how many notifications I have and then after a few seconds says "screen locked". I don't know if it is doing this at intervals or whenever a new notification comes in or what is the trigger but it is very annoying and it is happening across all devices that I have set not to show notifications in locked screen. I hope this makes it clear. -- Cheryl I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper thrown in the trash! Then God gave me a new heart and life: His joy for my despairing tears! And now, every day: "This I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness." (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV) On Sep 1, 2014, at 7:11 AM, Donna <[email protected]> wrote: I read the message to mean that she went into the notification center and the apps that she didn't want announced she turned off the sound and selected that notifications not be shown on the lock screen. If I'm incorrect, hopefully she will post so. Donna On Sep 1, 2014, at 5:33 AM, Shawn Krasniuk <[email protected]> wrote: Hi Donna. Not to sound rude, but if you read her message properly, that's what she did and Voiceover still insists reading the number of notifications when on the lock screen when she is about to unlock it. Is this right Cheryl? Shawn Sent From My White MacBook On Sep 1, 2014, at 2:27 AM, Donna <[email protected]> wrote: Hi Try going to Settings, General, Accessibility, Voiceover and turn off speak notifications. Donna On Sep 1, 2014, at 1:18 AM, Cheryl Homiak <[email protected]> wrote: In order to be able to have my Braille Edge paired with several devices while keeping my Edge but losing contact with one device whenever another unlocked to announce notifications, I chose in settings not to have notifications spoken in locked screen. But while the noffifications themselves are not now announced in my locked screen, my i-devices frequently come into the unlock screen in order to announce how many notifications I have. If this was not so annoying, it would be extremely funny! But if you don't want your notifications being announced, in many cases this also means you don't want the fact that you have notifications announced either! Without turning off all notifications, is there a way to stop this? Is there a setting that actually will not speak anything about notifications in the locked screen? I do realize that "do not disturb" would be an option, but then I'd have to have "do not disturb" turned on pretty much all the time. Thanks for any suggestions. -- Cheryl I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper thrown in the trash! Then God gave me a new heart and life: His joy for my despairing tears! And now, every day: "This I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness." (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV) -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. 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