Re: Apple's AssistiveTouch Helps the Disabled Use a Smartphone - NYTimes.com

2011-11-17 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi again. I also forgot to mention something, and I haven't tried it, so I don't know how useful it might be. At the Apple Corps of Dallas meeting (which is a group of sighted Apple users), one of men there had a device designed for sighted folks who can't stand to mess up their pretty iPhones a

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2011-11-17 Thread Gigi
Hi Sarah. I would like to encourage you about your using an iPhone if you want one. This is because I have an acquaintance who is totally blind and has lost just about all his fingers, or at parts of them due to diabetes. In his particular case, the only thing he has trouble with is doing a thre

RE: Apple's AssistiveTouch Helps the Disabled Use a Smartphone - NYTimes.com

2011-11-16 Thread Sarah May
Hi: I am one that is blind and also have some dexterity issues with my fingers that made it impossible for me to use an I-Phone. When Siri came out I thought that would solve all my problems. Well, when I went to my local Apple store to try her out for a test run, she couldn't access voice

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2011-11-15 Thread Teresa Cochran
Does it work with VO, or does VO become disabled with it? Teresa "Man is matter's ability to contemplate itself."--Albert Einstein On Nov 15, 2011, at 2:50 PM, Chad King wrote: > I've played with it a little. Seems that I had trouble opening some apps when > it was enabled. > I would double ta

Re: Apple's AssistiveTouch Helps the Disabled Use a Smartphone - NYTimes.com

2011-11-15 Thread Chad King
I've played with it a little. Seems that I had trouble opening some apps when it was enabled. I would double tap on the app, but the app didn't open for some reason. I'll have to play with it a bit more. Sent from my MBP On Nov 15, 2011, at 4:38 PM, Red.Falcon wrote: > Hi all! > Well some of yo