I have not seen the link on every word for a while now. Have you tried dictionary.com app? That is only an English dictionary, but works great for me. Not to mention the built in dictionary. Richard
Reality is the leading cause of stress for those who are in touch with it. Jane Wagner, from In Search of Intelligent Life in the Universe Sent from my iPhone 5S > On Dec 26, 2014, at 6:15 AM, Dean Martineau <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks, Andrew. I guess I should have specified that I'm looking for > dictionaries on the iPhone. Sighted users look up words effortlessly on > mono- or multi-lingual dictionaries, and I thus far haven't seen a way to do > it. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Andrew Lamanche > Sent: Friday, December 26, 2014 2:34 AM > To: VIPhone > Subject: Re: anybody found an effective dictionary > > I use a dictionary called Ultralingua for which you can buy any number of > available modules. I, too, found that when moving around the definition html > area, most words would be reported by voiceover as "clickable". This was so > annoying. What I did then to deal with the situation was to go to voiceover > utility with vo+f8, and in activities I created a new activity limited to > Ultralingua only that tells voiceover not to say "clickable". This is how I > solved the problem. > > Hope this helps. > > Andrew >> On 26 Dec 2014, at 06:46, Dean Martineau <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I haven't looked into this for a while, but when I did, I found that it was >> cumbersome at best to use foreign-language dictionaries, because every word >> in every definition was a hyperlink. Does anybody know of a dictionary, >> either multi-lingual or monolingual, that is not set up this way, so that >> one can read the definitions efficiently? >> >> -- >> The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. >> All new members to the this list are moderated by default. 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