[Blindtlk] Looking for accessible book

Chris Nusbaum cnusbaumnfb at gmail.com
Tue Jan 13 12:33:49 UTC 2015 

Perhaps this has already been suggested, but "Getting Started with the iPhone" from National Braille Press is a wonderful guide for new blind iPhone users. I'm not sure of the price, but it's available both in hardcopy Braille and electron format (BRF, I believe.)

Chris Nusbaum

> On Jan 13, 2015, at 4:51 AM, Ericka Short via blindtlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Do have editing questions. Please contact me off-line.
> 
> Ericka
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Jan 12, 2015, at 5:16 PM, Kendra Schafer <redwing731 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Get VIA from the App Store. It's an awesome app that lists different apps for blind people as well as people with blindness and other disabilities. Sorry!!! I can't help out with the book. I learned how to use an iPhone through training that the Oregon Commission for the Blind gave me. Luckly, I devices that are flat screen are uniform. If you learn how to use an iPhone on an iPhone 5s, then you'll know how to use an iPhone 6. I started on an iPhone 4s and it was my phone until last fall, shortly after IOS 8 came out. I switched to an iPhone 5 because with the latest update of the day, I could not use my old iPhone nearly the same any more. My iPhone 5 is my phone and my old iPhone 4s that I started with is now a small slow iPad or a slow but fancy iPod touch. I watched the last football game of the Ravens on my iPhone 4s and texted a friend who is also another Ravens fan updates on my iPhone 5. Since I don't have an iPod or an iPad, this is one way to make the most of an old dins sore I device. Both have the latest updates. 
>> Kendra 
>> 
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>> On Jan 12, 2015, at 12:20 PM, Ericka Short via blindtlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I am sure the book I am looking for is on book share. I am looking for a iPhone for dummies guide for the visually impaired. I have an iPhone 5s and can minimally work the sling. Want to get the best bang for the buck. Anyone help? I know there's a book about voiceover. Is there one that explains the most popular apps like one drive and others? Smart phones are a new world to me. I have helpers but one can only be annoying so long. Others hell lives too :-)
>>> 
>>> Thanks for any help.
>>> 
>>> Ericka
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>> 
>>>> On Jan 12, 2015, at 9:33 AM, Peter Donahue via blindtlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Good morning everyone,
>>>> 
>>>> I can't say much more than what others have said. All of my dental visits with my guide dogs have been trouble-free. In 2012 I needed to have 5 teeth extracted requiring conscious sedation. Because I would be anesthetized for the procedure the dentist requested that someone accompany me for this visit. This is standard procedure for any patient undergoing a procedure requiring anesthetization so it's not a blindness thing. Since I would not be in a position to manage Johnny during the procedure I asked Mary to stay with him until I woke up and was able to manage him myself. We took cabs too and from the dentist's office again something highly recommended for patients requiring anesthesia for their procedure. This was the only dental visit when I needed to arranged to have Johnny supervised while my teeth were being extracted.
>>>> 
>>>> I had a single tooth extraction in 2008. For this procedure the dentist used novocane and I was fully conscious for the procedure. Johnny remained with me during the procedure and all went well. Hope this helps.
>>>> 
>>>> Peter Donahue
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sherry Gomes via blindtlk" <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
>>>> To: "'Christopher-Mark Gilland'" <clgilland07 at gmail.com>; "'Blind Talk Mailing List'" <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
>>>> Sent: Monday, January 12, 2015 8:10 AM
>>>> Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Guide dogs and the Dentist
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> I haven't had a problem so far with my current dentist. The room is big
>>>>> enough for her to lie near the chair, and the dentist and the assistant have
>>>>> encouraged it. If that changed, I'd leave her home. I don't want her to get
>>>>> stepped on or to be in the way and cause problems by being in the way.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Sherry
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: blindtlk [mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of
>>>>> Christopher-Mark Gilland via blindtlk
>>>>> Sent: Monday, January 12, 2015 6:59 AM
>>>>> To: blindtlk at nfbnet.org
>>>>> Subject: [Blindtlk] Guide dogs and the Dentist
>>>>> 
>>>>> Guys,
>>>>> 
>>>>> This may seem like a somewhat off-the-wall question, but I got to thinking
>>>>> this morning...  Tomorrow, I have a dental appointment.  Now, I myself am a
>>>>> cane user, and don't have a dog.  Never have.  I'd love to get one one of
>>>>> these days, but that's another topic entirely.  LOL!  Anyway, as most of you
>>>>> 
>>>>> probably know, a dentist office in general would be fine for a service
>>>>> animal, like a guide dog, but once they call you back for your appointment,
>>>>> most of you probably know that for one thing, those rooms are pretty small
>>>>> as is.  Now, of corse, if you're at a place like I was as a kid where there
>>>>> is no privacy, and you're out in the bare butt openning with all other
>>>>> children, then that's another story, but again, that's a topic for another
>>>>> day.  But generally speaking, most of the time, 95 percent the time, those
>>>>> rooms are going to be not only quite little, but quite narrow as well.
>>>>> Then, you put the dental chair in there, plus the cart with the tray of tool
>>>>> 
>>>>> instruments, plus usually a desk with a computer, then you take the dentist
>>>>> and his/her assistant dental
>>>>> hygienist, it's going to get super super crouded!  This said, you can't
>>>>> exactly put the dog under the chair, as for one, the chair moves, which if
>>>>> not careful could hurt the dog, 2, if you're getting novicayne, and are
>>>>> anything like me, you're gonna yelp pretty loud when they stick ya, which of
>>>>> 
>>>>> corse would alarm the dog... Good? Fido, nice? Fido... LOL!  Just kidding.
>>>>> But seriously, my point being, where the heck do you all  stash the dog when
>>>>> 
>>>>> in the back room?  OK, if it was a regular family physician appointment,
>>>>> then yeah, ok, that wouldn't be an issue.  Just lie the dog down out of your
>>>>> 
>>>>> way and the doctor's way, as most examining rooms are big enough to do that,
>>>>> 
>>>>> but not so much a dentistry room.  Do you all just leave the dog out in the
>>>>> waiting room?  Surely, if you're going by yourself, you don't do that. Uh,
>>>>> skeuze me, sir?  uh, like, I'm blind and am going back in the back, will you
>>>>> 
>>>>> watch ma dog?  Um... Yeah... me thinks not.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> So, what do you all normally do?  I know there are certain times you just
>>>>> can't! take the dog, much as you'd probably like to.  Is this one of those
>>>>> times?
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Chris.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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