[Diabetes-talk] diabetes apps on the iphone
Mike Freeman
k7uij at panix.com
Sat Apr 16 01:51:06 UTC 2011
Hi, Joyce.
Do you remember if any of the diabetes apps talked about were accessible
using VoiceOver? I've looked at the reviews of several iPhone glucose
monitoring/logging apps but none have said much about accessibility and
since I was content to keep my readings on my BrailleSense and then on the
iPhone using Elements which is a text editor that edits files in one's
Dropbox folder, I never bothered to investigate further. I've looked at the
dLife iPHone app and the videos are accessible but many of the other
functions are not.
Mike
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From: diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org
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Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 3:53 PM
To: diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org
Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] diabetes apps on the iphone
The NFB Krafters Division last Sunday had a chat on the I Phone. We had
several folks that have been using the I Phone for up to and past 2 years
answering questions.
A lot of information exchanged. We plan on doing another chat in May on
the I Phone.
We ended up our chat with a list of best used Aps and they did talk briefly
about the aps for diabetics.
Joyce Kane
_www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.krafterskorner.org/)
Blindhands at AOL.com
In a message dated 4/15/2011 4:07:14 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
k7uij at panix.com writes:
Julie:
Congrats on lowering your A1C. You're not there yet (A1C under 7 or 6.5)
but you're well on the way. Your doctor is correct: any appreciable
decrease in A1C lowers your risk of a heart attack or other diabetic
complications.
I strongly urge you to start keeping that file on your PacMate again; how
else can you spot trends in your readings? I realize this takes discipline
and upon a lack of discipline many a diabetes ship has foundered. But you
can do it.
As for the iPhone, there's a definite learning curve. You won't be a whiz
in a day. But I assure you it's quite possible. Get Anna Dresner's and
Dean Martineau's book "Getting Started with the iPhone" from National
Braille Press. It tells you everything you'll need to know to strip the
mystery
from i-devices. I don't regret getting my iPhone.
Mike Freeman
sent from my iPhone
On Apr 15, 2011, at 12:38, "Julie Kline" <julie.kline at rochester.rr.com>
wrote:
> I'd be curious to hear back from someone about whether these apps are
> accessible. I've been kicking around the idea of whether or not to buy
an
> i-Phone, but I find the whole concept of the flat screen and doing the
> gestures intimidating. Anyway, for a while, I used a file I created in
my
> pacmate and wrote down my sugar readings and what I ate in that file,
but to
> be honest I haven't been very good about keeping up with it. On a good
note
> though, my A1c went down from 8.6 to 7.9. It didn't seem like much to
me,
> but my doctor said that even just that little could reduce my chance of a
> heart attack by 10%.
> Have a good weekend.
> Julie
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org
> [mailto:diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Mike Freeman
> Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 11:44 PM
> To: 'Diabetes Talk for the Blind'
> Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] diabetes apps on the iphone
>
> I haven't tried any of them. I just use the Elements Dropbox editor and
> create a flat file with my readings on my iPhone which is, of course,
synced
> to my computer.
>
> Mike
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org
> [mailto:diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jude DaShiell
> Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 2:41 AM
> To: aiphone at yahoogroups.com
> Cc: diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [Diabetes-talk] diabetes apps on the iphone
>
> Are any of those apps accessible for VoiceOver and useful enough to be
worth
> the download and the space taken up on our iphones?
>
>
>
>
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