[Blindtlk] iPhone keypad question.

[Judy Jones]

I remember now reading about that earlier last week; if I remember 
correctly, are the pauses denoted by commas?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com>
To: "'Blind Talk Mailing List'" <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2012 12:23 PM
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] iPhone keypad question.


> Judy:
>
> As far as I am aware, your only option is to use earbuds, assuming you 
> wish
> to actively enter the information at the time you make the call. However,
> you *can* set up a contact that will dial the bank's phone number, pause,
> enter the account number etc. and, again assuming you do much the same 
> thing
> each time, you can enter the keystrokes with appropriate pauses to get
> account balances etc. automatically. Then you can just dial that contact 
> and
> let it do its thing while you hold the phone up to your ear. That's what I
> do when calling my local Wallgreen's pharmacy to reorder drugs.
>
> Personallly, I don't care who hears what! I'm not sufficiently rich for
> anyone's ears to prick up at my account balances.
>
> Mike
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Judy Jones
> Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2012 11:12 AM
> To: Blind Talk Mailing List
> Subject: [Blindtlk] iPhone keypad question.
>
> Well . . . I bit the bullet and got the iPhone with my upgrade.  I do have 
> a
> question I haven't found an answer for.
>
> If using the iPhone, say, to call the bank, when wanting to input account
> numbers, I find the keypad to be hidden, unless I hold the phone away from
> my ear to activate the speaker.  However, then is not private.  Is my only
> other choice the ear bud for audio privacy, or is there a way to get the
> keypad to stay active while the phone is close to the ear?
>
> Judy
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