t;
>> Did you see the issue where an incoming call triggers VO to speak through
>> the speakerphone even with a headset connected?
>>
>> The fact is that I am not asking for an improvement here, but something
>> that
>> should have been there at the firs
I agree and although I don't think there is generally anything wrong
with possible customizing options and settings, I think it is a bit
much to put this forth as some huge issue of any sort. There are
absolutely options to us the controls available to eliminate this
speaking if it is such a concer
r when the I phone headset was plugged in. However,
>>> I'd like the choice of having the announcement muted especially if you
>>> were in an important meeting as others have stated.
>>>
>>> Kawal.
>>> On 3 Mar 2013, at 23:41, James Mannion wrote:
&g
Personal preferences it sounds like. Some of us wouldn't find it a big
deal to mute VO when locking the phone in a situation where it could
ring where we were so concerned about someone knowing who is calling.
As was mentioned, I don't think many of us really share this concern.
Personally I don't
Maybe try turning down the volume when not in use so it will not
announce it to any extent that anyone would be able to hear it that
you don't want to hear it? Maybe do the 3 finger double tap to mute
speech when not in use and then just quickly unmute it with the same
command when you want to hear
t; In recent weeks I have been contacted by a couple of journalists who
>>> report on and
>>> care about accessibility issues. One of them told me he's blind. I
>>> completely understand
>>> why the vision-impaired are concerned when they hear about a lawsuit
&
of its retaliatory actions
against Apple."
On 2/24/13, James Mannion wrote:
> So incredibly ridiculous too. Block the sale of a product under the
> excuse that a comman is entered in the same way and then add to it the
> fact that it does not even control something that is equal
s now one of Hannah's toys, and she loves to pretend
> to call her Granddad, and check her messages lol.
> On Feb 24, 2013, at 8:47 PM, James Mannion wrote:
>
>> I agree that I will not ever support Samsung either because of this.
>> Nice how they do not really do anything
I agree that I will not ever support Samsung either because of this.
Nice how they do not really do anything that indicates any real
interest in helping us to better use their products, but they are
willing to cash us in as a sacrifice to attack the competition. This
childish corrupt law suit stuff
gt; Apple's mistakes but at the same time, I think they still have quality
> products and accessibility is still good and I feel that it has not slipped
> or gone backwards.
>
> On Feb 17, 2013, at 8:51 PM, James Mannion wrote:
>
>> I agree that it is in large part perceptio
Right and would be handy accept for how likely is one to know a word
or specific time stamp of a message they have not yet read?
On 2/18/13, Ricardo Walker wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was just about to suggest the same. haha. I would also like to suggest
> using the item chooser. For example, if you kno
I agree that it is in large part perception and what one is telling
themselves. It is easy if one is not careful to overstate the problems
as to how they shape the entire picture and to overstate how great
things were in the past (grass is always greener). It is easy to take
the problems and create
Sometimes the trick is that after you have adjusted the push settings
for an app, even if you turn them off and on again for that app, then
put the phone in airplain mode for at least 30 seconds then turn off
airplane mode. In theory rebooting would have to be doing the same
thing, but maybe not. T
In the case where voiceover remains at the louder distorted volume
after a call is ended, I have had this happen a few times over the
past few months. I think something just fails to initialize back to
where it is suppose to be after the call in those cases. If you are
able to make another call to
I am considering getting one of these. Do you have to have a screen
connected to it at any point to do the setup? I don't think so, but
wanted to be sure. I do not have anything compatible that I could hook
it up to for video. I would only be hooking it up to audio for now. I
think I have heard tha
tion, but how many use cases and scenarios are
> there to implement for handling all the incorrect HTML? An infinite
> number of monkeys and typewriters might be able to do that but most
> companies have finite budgets, even Apple.
>
> CB
>
> On 11/24/12 2:57 PM, James Mannion wrote:
I would say if the screen reader can "fix" bad code and make it work
the way it should have, please do it! There are more than plenty of
instances where you will never get the developer to fix it or even
begin to care. If you do then there are advantages to that, but who
knows how many weeks, month
Well I guess if she is going to follow the suggestion of changing the
language via te IPad mini, she is going to have to either be able to
understand Spanish or have sighted assistance. I think that was the
reason for the question of how to do it from the mac. Because the mac
is presumably still sp
The backup on your computer should preserve the data and kind of what
you might think of as the shell of how your apps were configured on
your screens and or in folders and such. The apps will be put back on
from the synchrnize process and what came from the backup should
preserve and restore the d
I'm not sure what is being complained abouthere. The "tiny" area on
the screen to flick up or down is no problem to find if one is willing
t think for one minute or at least take some advice if not of how to
get to it. Tough the bottom left icon, the bottom left tab on the
screen and do one flick l
What was the resolution? Did they replace it?
On 10/15/12, Chris Bruinenberg wrote:
> Hi all.
> Just got back from best buy.
> Macbook air works great now.
> As quiet as can be, I'm very impressed with the machine.
> Thanks for your suggestions.
>
> --
> You received this message because you are
Maybe just to eliminate a possibility, set an alarm or a timer and
then turn voiceover off with the tripple click home if you have that
set before the alarm sounds and see if it sounds normally? If it does,
the resulting work around might be to turn voiceover off before you go
to sleep and then tur
I think it is because speaker phone needs to have voiceover speaking
more loudly through it than when not on a call, the opposite of people
having concerns about it not speaking loud enough. I think it can just
be a matter that it, in some cases, might not be perfectly on time in
adjusting back. I
don't u have to use the roder feature to paste in the text?
> On 8/18/2012 9:36 PM, James Mannion wrote:
>> I completely agree. This app is fantastic for being able to type in to
>> the IPhone. I truely don't think the people that see the copy and
>> paste into somethin
I completely agree. This app is fantastic for being able to type in to
the IPhone. I truely don't think the people that see the copy and
paste into something as a deal breaker truely have not given it a
chance. It really does not take more than a few seconds to do that. It
takes longer to complain
And when the accessible web browsing experience on the mac at least
matches windows, I'll buy it. busy busy busy, can't handel large
amounts of text, ignores this and that on the page, the entire web
thing was why I gave up on the mac thing and sold my mac mini. To do
the web on the mac you have to
Cool. If there is anything else you can ever also tell us, I look
forward to reading those messages as much as this one.
On 6/24/12, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote:
> Gigi,
>
> I can't really say much about if this happens now, seeing I'm a dev on I O S
> 6, so thus am on N D A, but I can! legall
Last I heard on this from a post some time ago it the updater, at
least on the Windows side, is java based and someone had success
although still had to randomly press things at times and hope for the
best with java access bridge. It sounds like at best it is not an
accessible ride!
On 6/9/12, Sar
Does this developer understand what it means to be voiceover
compatible? I ask because it sounds like she might mean what we mean
or she might be referring to the app being self voicing. Her wording
leaves me wondering a little.
On 5/17/12, Sarai Bucciarelli wrote:
> Hi:
> If anyone is interested
I believe there was a considerable amount of talk on it or should I
say about it on applevis.com. I know many people use it on the IPhone.
On 5/15/12, Krysti .Power wrote:
> What is zello if you don't mine me asking
> On 2012-05-15 5:06 PM, "Mike Busboom" wrote:
>
>> Hello to all of you,
>>
>> H
me about this, but I don't think it's as many
>>>>>> as VoiceOver.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>> Gigi
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Eugenia Firth
>
Hi Mark,
I envy you acquiring the braille display especially. I really wish I
were incorrect, but I know I am not missing anything or out of date in
my understanding that the price of braille displays are just
rediculously out of sight in price about 3 to 4 times over and then
some. Still being a c
It sounds like maybe you don't have it set for voice guidance? I don't
know. I haven't really used it since the version 2 mess. I hear it is
mostly back and a respectable solution again. I downloaded the most
recent update, but haven't used it.
On 3/24/12, Jenny Keller wrote:
> I tried to use nav
Which is why this stupid nonsense will probably rob us of access in
the name of their closed minded greed until the old members of the
gild all die and we get minds in there with open minds to a moddern
world perspective. The good part is there excessive greed will put
them under extra stress which
One way to avoid it if it really bothers you is to slide to unlock
instead of double tapping to unlock.
On 3/20/12, Lewis Alexander wrote:
> this is not a deliberate action. this is a software flaw and confirmed. what
> is actually happening is a "considered tap" so that as soon as you unlock,
>
Although there is no harm in wanting something to be completely
optional and available for someone to use, I am definitely not sold on
it until it is out and proven that it really is at all something I
like using. I don't think it makes a lot of sense either to be making
a push for something to be
I see your point about hoping to incorporate it as a keyboard option
similar to a language keyboard. Braille is kind of a "language". I
agree that making it an additional option and not taking anything away
is an extremely important point to stress. Is the stand alone app
available in the US yet? I
I wonder where that announcement was or is and it would really be nice
if it appeared in a logical place, like as a post on the site. It's
quite unfortunate if it is no longer going to be supported, and I
realize noone has any obligation to do anything with it, but it really
would be nice if someth
I have never heard of or experienced this change. Taking it away from
my ear has been the way to put it in speaker mode, even after SIRI
arrived. Apple care doesn't even know how speaker phone works?
Sometimes I really truely just don't get it. Their in store people
know nothing half the time, thei
eadphones?
>
> Ricardo Walker
> rwalker...@gmail.com
> Twitter & Skype: rwalker296
> www.mobileaccess.org
>
> On Nov 17, 2011, at 10:41 PM, James Mannion wrote:
>
>> I have had the problem with the screen going quiet while in a call for
>> quite some time. See
I have had the problem with the screen going quiet while in a call for
quite some time. Seems to just take some time or touching around and
swiping or locking and unlocking again to get it back. I think it
comes back after some time and not sure if any of the fiddling around
has any impact or not.
I did an update directly to the phone with an IPhone 4 and a 4s and
they both went fine with voiceover on. I suspect in your case it was
an error just like what has and will likely still happen in some cases
when doing it on ITunes. Likely what this tells us is that the over
the air update process
I am also disappointed that they had to go and take that out. Why
couldn't they leave well enough alone? A way around it is to go into
reply and then select forward to get the message you want to copy into
an edit field and then you can select all on that editable field. That
is not IMO an excuse f
I have been using dragon dictate on the iphone for quite some time
now. I do most of my lengthy "typing" with it. You have to work around
it's transcription limitations though. I don't agree with that it
won't let you say things it decides that you should not. It will not
let you use a curse word o
Yes, but if they are collecting the information, obviously they have
intentions for it. They may be implementing their intent in steps.
This honestly really ticks me off. Apple needs to be slammed with a
law suit and lose big if they are doing this secretly. Think about it.
Collecting this informat
I think the IPad 2 is probably faster due in part to the faster
processor than in the IPhone 4 and my guess is we will see that
processor in the IPhone 5??
On 3/12/11, Cheree wrote:
> Cheree Heppe here:
>
> If it were me, I'd get the IPad 2 plus the 15 inch MacBook pro. Both are
> portable and y
r at least rogers in Canada bought
>> them from the US.
>>
>> No wonder signal, overall network speed suck here, though I'm not getting
>> any dropped calls.
>>
>> I must say though, I can't wait to move to the us and go on vz. From what
>> my partne
I really think it is because mobile networks are not able yet to
handel people putting unlimited demands for data access on them. Any
network has its upper limits and mobile networks are still less able
to handel demand than land line networks. If they put limits that
serve a purpose, but are not o
The link worked fine for me as well. I hope the IPhone does well on
Verizon and that Verizon makes more of an atempt to be customer
oriented than AT&T ever has. AT&T sees no reason to make their network
what it should be if they can have a customer based trapped and can
screw them instead of making
Wow, that is great to hear that it does pass the accessibility test at
least. I hope they will see fit to add spoken instructions while in a
walking route. Simply beeping to tell you when to turn seems generally
not user friendly all the way around and if they can have it speak
instructions for a d
It makes one not want to purchase a Nokia product just because they,
or in this case employees clearly representing them in their actions,
choose to act like such assholes. When you wage war against others in
your same market, it is because you are not willing to make your
product sell itself. If y
I wonder what is causing problems wit deleting books in the audible
app? It sounds like you only have one book in there when you try to
delete it, or do you have a lot of them? I wonder if deleting has
become a probem in the latest version? I have deleted books out of
previous versions just fine.
Yes I have noticed it too. Maybe it's because 4.2 is so damn full of
bugs that something working right would be out of place.
On 11/28/10, Chris Westbrook wrote:
> Has anyone else noticed that Safari doesn't always give the little bleep
> sound when a page is loaded? any clue why this is?
>
> --
I am aware, as many are, that there are wide spread reports all over
the internet of contacts disappearing problems on the IPhone in 4.x. I
do not know in exactly what situations it happens, but in my opinion
it is completely unaceptable that they are going to make something
that claims to be a dam
If there is a problem with something as important as something with
the wifi working correctly then I hope they delay til they fix it. I
can't stand buggy crap pushed out the door. Why do people just have to
have something not solidified released anyway? Then you have to wait
til the next release t
So I think is most cases it has more range than you are going to ever
feel constrained by.
On 10/30/10, David McLean wrote:
> Supposedly 30 feet. Not sure if that is actually a fact since I haven't
> tried more than a few feet but that's what the doc says.
> On Oct 30, 2010, at 8:28 PM, Chenelle
I checked it out in the store and thought it was super cool. Am sort
of tempted to buy one, but can't really justify it yet. Sure the
IPhone can do everything the nano can and more, but for just using the
nano for things you would not have to worry about breaking anything.
You virtually would nto h
Have you investigated if you go to your music folder in windows, not
sure if you are using windows xp or windows 7 or something else. Under
vista based systems like win 7, if you type music in the windows start
menu search box it should bring up your music library. Under there
should be an itunes f
I hope it is ok to post a message on this list to get a message out to
people and I will handel further correspondence offline. Please send
me email at mannion...@gmail.com if interested or with further
questions. I have a mac mini purchased in June of 2009 that was the
2008 model. At that time it
While I have much respect for both companies, I am glad I do not have
to depend on the Mac for my access, especially web browsing needs.
It-is-not-up-to-windows side standards by a long shot yet and the
windows side needs an overhall. I hear GW is working on that and I am
glad. I think a lot of peo
And I, as I am completely sure are others, getting absolutely sick and
tired of FS wasting ours and government dollars with a product that is
overpriced so they can engage in such dishonest behavior, buying up
patents on every stupid characteristic so they can plant them as land
mines and then tryi
If you turned on quicknav, then you have snow leopard. That is a new
feature. It was not in leopard.
Jim
On 9/8/09, Les Kriegler wrote:
>
> I powered up my Mac and did some experimenting. Lots of trial and error,
> but overall, the system seems very responsive. I thought I was going to
> h
I was just having that problem too. Because I am new to the mac I
don't relaly have any real contacts saved in my mac. I say that
because I had some in there to test synchronizing. After I took those
out and synchronize it has not given me that message and problem. I
have not tried again tryin
Hi,
I have some questions about how to copy or move files to different
playlists in ITunes on the mac. My current way after downloading them
from other sources other sources than the ITunes store of course is to
use command o to bring in the file. Then it is in the music folder.
When I use the v
Another option, not necessarily better or worse, but works though is
that the end call button can be activated by double tapping even with
one finger anywhere along the bottom of the screen. Actually that
option may not be as good as the others because you have to be in the
right area for that to
ose download linked file from the menu.
> On Jul 23, 2009, at 8:15 PM, James Mannion wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi,
>> Is there a way to configure things so that when you click on a link on
>> a page such as blindcooltech.com or serotalk.com as examples that have
>> links tha
I thought it might be useful to mention that if you are on a site and
you open up the voiceover utility and then go to the web settings, if
you switch modes it will switch the mode on the web site you are
currently on when you switch back to the safari window. For now that
is the best for a "swit
Hi,
Is there a way to configure things so that when you click on a link on
a page such as blindcooltech.com or serotalk.com as examples that have
links that are http://www and have an mp3 file at the end of the link
so that it will download the mp3 instead of just launching into
quicktime or whate
I am experiencing this too, but Alex's response was extremely useful
and at least just makes it more of an annoyance since the work around
is to stop interacting with the toolbar which it puts you in
interacting with for some reason and then go to the html content. It
is definitely a bug, but as
Yes you do actually turn it off or also turn it off from the settings
page on the main screen. I can't remember the path to get to it, but
I did turn it off there and not in ITunes. My opinion was it got in
the way when learning, although I think I may turn it back on later.
Jim
On 7/19/09, w
For anyone it may help, I want to share my experience on the typing
aspect of the IPhone which have gotten really good over a short time.
At first you have to trust what dozens of others have said although it
won't seem like your experience at the time. Hang in there though
because it gets really
However, if you are composing a message and you go back into messagaes
and in to that message, your keyboard will still be there and the text
in the edit field you had put in before you left it by hitting the
home button will still be there. My understanding is that in most
situations it can not
Hi,
I have a question that I admit I may be able to figure out with some
time and experimentation, but maybe some of you already know. What
type of logic, interms of where things are located on a page, does
groups mode use to organize the page? Meaning does it take some sort
of inconsistent appr
-finger double tap: Answer or end a call. Play or pause
> (iPod, YouTube, Voice Memos, Photos). Take a picture (Camera). Start
> or pause recording (Camera, Voice Memos).
> *
>
>Three-finger double tap: Mute or unmute VoiceOver.
> *
>
>Three-finge
Hi,
I can comment on one of your questions. You are not the only one to
have trouble with the find function in safari and I too at first
thought that it was limited to what is visible on the current screen
which is extremely limiting. Through experimenting I found that on
some pages it is, such
Hello everyone,
I would post this on the VIPhones list, but I ahve not yet been
approved as a member and I see there is discussion of it here as well.
I just purchased one yesterday and am very hopeful for it to be able
to become my primary device as a phone and portable internet access
device wi
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