[Blindtlk] Hold Up, Wait A Minute!

[Cindy Ray]

She was wondering about without a keyboard. I have been way more successful
using the tablet [Del is what it is[ with a keyboard than without the
keyboard. In fact, mostly I haven't been able to use it at all without one.
Cindy



-----Original Message-----
From: blindtlk [mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Judy Jones
via blindtlk
Sent: Sunday, February 1, 2015 12:43 PM
To: Ericka Short; Blind Talk Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Hold Up, Wait A Minute!

Yes, and people are using the various Android tablets quite successfully.

Judy


-----Original Message-----
From: Ericka Short via blindtlk
Sent: Sunday, February 1, 2015 9:13 AM
To: Cindy Ray ; Blind Talk Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Hold Up, Wait A Minute!

Don't know anything about tablets, but T-Mobile set up the speech on my
phones i've used.

Ericka
Sent from my iPhone

> On Feb 1, 2015, at 6:13 AM, Cindy Ray via blindtlk 
> <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
> wrote:
>
> With the iPad and iPhone you can set up pretty much everything 
> yourself so long as you get VoiceOver turned on; then you can use the 
> triple click shortcut to turn it on or off. The other tablets you can 
> load JAWS on. The one I got is not very easily used without a keyboard 
> so I don't. It works more like a PC and can connect to our network; 
> the iPad doesn't connect to our network. Of course it does connect to 
> the wifi, but our home network it cannot connect to so I can't get 
> stuff off the hard drive. I am not sure how to do it and maybe there 
> is a way, but I had to have someone set up my Tablet--load JAWS onto 
> it. It is more like using the computer and I like it for many reasons, 
> but I can't get my braille device to work with it. The braille device 
> works quite nicely with my iPad and iPhone. I think with the phones 
> that are not Apple, they have a third party talking program on them, 
> but I think that probably they will put that on there for you at the 
> store where you get it.
> Cindy
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindtlk [mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Julie J.
> via blindtlk
> Sent: Sunday, February 1, 2015 5:57 AM
> To: Danielle Antoine; Blind Talk Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Hold Up, Wait A Minute!
>
> I don't know about other tablets, but with the iPad you can buy one 
> that is wifi only or one that can connect to a cellular signal.  You 
> cannot change or add this later.  You also have to purchase the iPad 
> with the wireless provider you intend to use, if you intend to use a 
> wireless plan with it.
> If you purchase an iPad with the ability to connect to a cellular 
> signal, you don't have to buy a plan at that time.  You can add it later.
>
> When I purchased my iPad I had the salesperson at the store turn on 
> Voice Over for me.  I knew nothing about the product then, just that 
> Voice Over came with it.  He had never heard of Voice Over, so I told 
> him to look in settings and he figured it out from there.  He also set 
> up my Apple ID and whatnot for me.  They do this for all the 
> customers.  I didn't ask, but I don't see any reason why you couldn't 
> do this on your own if you wanted to.
>
> HTH
> Julie
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Danielle Antoine via blindtlk
> Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2015 12:18 AM
> To: blindtech ; Blind Talk Mailing List
> Subject: [Blindtlk] Hold Up, Wait A Minute!
>
> About those other tablets like the Acer and Microsoft ones all not on 
> Apple, when you load JAWS on them do they work the same? I mean where 
> u can use them without the keyboard?
>
> When you get one Apple device, what all do you have to do to get it up 
> and running? Like with the phone I'd have to buy a talk plan? What 
> about the iPad and such? How does that work getting one from Wally 
> World or Sam's club?
>
> Danielle
>
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