Re: Problems with Voice Dream Reader on an iPhone 6

2015-02-17 Thread Mike Busboom
gt; > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Feb 11, 2015, at 3:27 PM, Mike Busboom wrote: >> >> Hello everyone, >> >> I am having a rather unusual problem with Voice Dream Reader on my >> recently-purchased iPhone 6. The iPhone is running the latest iOS software

Re: Navigating through long message threads in WhatsApp

2013-02-22 Thread Mike Busboom
--------- > From: "Mike Busboom" > Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 9:38 AM > To: > Subject: Re: Navigating through long message threads in WhatsApp > >> Hello Blake, >> >> Thanks for your suggestion about the four-finger tap at the bottom of the

Pairing BrailleNote Apex and iPhone 4S

2013-02-25 Thread Mike Busboom
Hi. I have been able to successfully pair my iPhone 4S and my Mac Book, but thus far, I have been unable to pair my 4S with my BrailleNote Apex. My Apex is currently running Keynote version 9.10, build 1031. If all goes according to plan, I will be upgrading the Apex to something more recent

Re: Pairing BrailleNote Apex and iPhone 4S

2013-02-27 Thread Mike Busboom
as will the 4S, though 9.2 does make it possible to enter > commands like space-e or space-o without keysoft interpreting them. If you > have questions or still cannot get things working after listening to the > recording, let me know. > On Feb 25, 2013, at 4:46 PM, Mike Busboom wrot

Re: Pairing BrailleNote Apex and iPhone 4S

2013-02-28 Thread Mike Busboom
nual assuming you have 9.1 or later, but I don't know what would happen > with corded commands. I have never used a qt device so cannot say for sure > whqat can and cannot happen, which is why I say to call Humanware. Sorry I > can't help more. > > Sent from my iPhone &g

Continuous read with Read2Go app

2013-04-08 Thread Mike Busboom
Hello. I read a lot of material using the Read2Go App from Bookshare on my iPhone 4S. Although I like the app a lot, I find myself annoyed by something that may be a bug, or just a problem with my technique. I prefer listening to Bookshare content using the VoiceOver voice, not the TTS that c

Re: Continuous read with Read2Go app

2013-04-08 Thread Mike Busboom
ictation software. Please excuse spelling errors. > > On Apr 8, 2013, at 1:20 PM, Mike Busboom wrote: > >> Hello. >> >> I read a lot of material using the Read2Go App from Bookshare on my iPhone >> 4S. Although I like the app a lot, I find myself annoyed by som

Re: Continuous read with Read2Go app

2013-04-09 Thread Mike Busboom
,2013, at 12:18 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: > Hi Mike, > > You can also switch it to Read By Page under settings. If you have a braille > display this works well, because you can just use the page forward command. > Best, > Donna Apr 8, 2013, at 12:20 PM, Mike Busboom wrote: >

Re: Continuous read with Read2Go app

2013-04-10 Thread Mike Busboom
ite - Text to Speech (free) by Voice Dream LLC > https://itunes.apple.com/app/voice-dream-reader-lite-text/id563971853?mt=8 > > Take a look at the app entry and the podcast at the AppleVis.com site: > • The App description entry URL is: > http://www.applevis.com/apps/ios/education/v

Re: Continuous read with Read2Go app

2013-04-27 Thread Mike Busboom
http://www.applevis.com/apps/ios/education/voice-dream-reader-text-speech > • The AppleVis podcast entry is: > http://www.applevis.com/podcast/episodes/walk-through-voice-dream-text-speech > > HTH. Cheers, > > Esther > > On 9 Apr 2013, at 00:45, Mike Busboom wro

Re: Kindle now accessible on IOS with Voiceover.

2013-05-03 Thread Mike Busboom
Hello Anne, Though this may not be the best solution, couldn't you just hit the mute switch on your iPhone to get rid of the page-turning sound? I do this with Blio and iBooks, and it works quite well. Best, Mike On 3,May,2013, at 8:01 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: > iBooks is even worse if

Where can I find the Kindle App Gestures Guide

2013-05-23 Thread Mike Busboom
Hi. I know that there is a free Kindle book available that describes how to use the Kindle app on the iPhone for reading books. Unfortunately, the book is not available in the Austrian store. While I was able to locate it in the American store, I was unable to purchase it from there. Does an

Audible, New Victor Reader Stream and the Mac?

2013-05-23 Thread Mike Busboom
Hello everyone, For many years, I have enjoyed listening to Audible content on my Victor reader Stream. Downloading books from the Audible site has never been a problem and I don't anticipate that it ever will be. An area where I am having problems, however, is that of downloading the activat

Re: Audible, New Victor Reader Stream and the Mac?

2013-05-23 Thread Mike Busboom
e Constantly Barefooted Ray > Still a very proud and happy Mac and Iphone user! > > On May 23, 2013, at 9:59 AM, Mike Busboom wrote: > >> Hello everyone, >> >> For many years, I have enjoyed listening to Audible content on my Victor >> reader Stream. Downloadin

Assisting an App developer with accessibility issues

2013-05-24 Thread Mike Busboom
Hi, I have encountered an app that, I believe, would be very useful to blind iPhone and iPad users who work in multilingual environments. When I notified the app developer that the buttons in his app weren't accessibly labelled, he said: " I'm very sorry to hear that the buttons are not labele

Bibliographically citing material when using eBook readers

2013-05-28 Thread Mike Busboom
Hello everyone, Like many people on this list, I have truly enjoyed increasing accessibility to books through places like Bookshare, Nook, Amazon/Kindle, Blio and iBooks from Apple. I am wondering if there is a way, in any of the aforementioned platforms to gain accurate information about prin

Re: Bibliographically citing material when using eBook readers

2013-05-29 Thread Mike Busboom
er respects for this kind of use, so it's really > sad there's no way to provide a proper pinpoint reference. > > Nic > > On 28/05/2013, at 10:56 PM, Mike Busboom wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > Like many people on this list, I have truly enjoyed increasin

iOS VoiceOver Manual - Where did it go?

2013-05-31 Thread Mike Busboom
This is sort of embarrassing, especially since I have been an iPhone user for over a year. I wanted to look something up in the VoiceOVER manual, but when I launched Safari and tried to find the link, it was no longer there. I have no conscious recollection of erasing the manual or, should I s

Re: iOS VoiceOver Manual - Where did it go?

2013-06-01 Thread Mike Busboom
s. > > > > HTH. Cheers, > > > > Esther > > > > On May 31, 5:53 am, Tim Kilburn wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> Do a search on "iphone users guide". It will be there as the first item > >> in your results. You c

Twitterrific and Twitter Etiquette

2013-06-02 Thread Mike Busboom
Hi. I recently downloaded Twitterrific but have yet to create a Twitter account. While I have read some articles on Twitter etiquette, I have yet to come across a step-by-step guide for basically hitting the ground running. Is there such a guide? If there is, could someone point me to it?

Re: Twitterrific and Twitter Etiquette

2013-06-03 Thread Mike Busboom
hone client. It will be an > eBook available via various sources including the iBooks Store. > Jonathan Mosen > Mosen Consulting > Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training > http://Mosen.org > > On 3/06/2013, at 5:20 AM, Mike Busboom wrote: > >> Hi. >&

iPhone accommodations for low-vision users?

2013-06-05 Thread Mike Busboom
Hi, all, I was just asked if I would explain to a person in the process of losing his vision how he might be able to use the iPhone. Since I am totally blind, I can't really judge how well the iPhone works for low-vision users. I know that there is a Zoom function and that the font size can b

Re: Fleksy

2012-08-24 Thread Mike Busboom
Hello everyone, Donna sort of brings up a point that would interest me. How do you actually enter a word within Fleksy that isn't in its dictionary? Is there a way to force the App to let you enter a word in the "usual way?" Although I write lots of stuff on my iPhone in English, I sometimes

Reading and editing files on an iPhone 6

2016-06-04 Thread Mike Busboom
Hi everyone, I have a lot of files in my Dropbox account which I regularly read an edit on my MacBook. However, I don’t always have my MacBook with me and would like to make minor changes to files using my iPhone. I have the DropBox app for the iPhone and I can open files with it. However, i

Re: Reading and editing files on an iPhone 6

2016-06-08 Thread Mike Busboom
for your iPhone > > And it is very very accessible. > > > > -Original Message- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mike Busboom > Sent: Sunday, 5 June 2016 3:20 AM > To: 'Adrian Leong' v

Some questions about BlindSquare

2016-07-04 Thread Mike Busboom
Greetings, On occasion, I use BlindSquare and really like it. However, I am thinking that I could get more use from the app if I dug more thoroughly into understanding all of its features. I have two questions that may have been answered in the manual, though I don’t remember seeing them addr

Re: Some questions about BlindSquare

2016-07-06 Thread Mike Busboom
pain, sense I > haven’t physically logged in in ages, and only want to use that feature once > in a blue moon when I want to use the look around feature. >> On Jul 4, 2016, at 8:12 AM, Mike Busboom wrote: >> >> Greetings, >> >> On occasion, I use BlindSquare and

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