[Electronics-talk] Learning the IPod Touch

[Christopher Chaltain]

iBooks is free. You should be able to find it in the featured section of 
the App Store. If I remember correctly, when you open the App Store for 
the first time, you should be told about iBooks and some other free apss 
from Apple. The IOS 7 User'g guide is also free from the Store in iBooks.

I did find an HTML version of the IOS 7 User's guide for the iPhone. 
Accessibility is indeed there in the list at the top. It's almost the 
last item though, right below Podcasts and above topics like iPhone and 
Business, International Keyboards and Safety Concerns.

On 10/26/2013 01:28 PM, Tracy Carcione wrote:
> Thanks Chris.
> I don't think I have ibooks, so I was using Safari, and I don't see
> accessibility in the table of contents.  But perhaps I need to scroll.
> My friend showed me how to set typing, at least in notes, so maybe now
> it will work.
> I'll check out applevis, too.
> Tracy
>
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>> How are you bringing up the user's guide? Are you using Safari, iBooks
>> or what? since upgrading my iPhone 4S to IOS 7, I don't have a user's
>> guide on it. I just went into iBooks and downloaded the IOS 7 user's
>> guide, and I was able to get to the VoiceOver section by double
>> tapping the Contents and then Accessibility. voiceOver was one of the
>> links on that page.
>>
>> Another good source on how to use IOS 7 are the podcasts found on
>> AppleVis.com or other sites like How to be Blind and the books from
>> Jonathan Mosen and The National Braille Press. The viphone mailing
>> list on Google Groups is also a good source of information, although
>> it's a pretty high traffic mailing list.
>>
>> Sounds like you want to use touch typing. To use touch typing, you
>> need to double tap inside an edit box and then use the roter to get to
>> the typing option. Now flick up or down to toggle between touch typing
>> and standard typing. You just need to make this change once, and it'll
>> be persistent.
>>
>> Before you switch to touch typing, you can double tap on a letter or
>> split tap on it. To double tap, once you hear the letter you want,
>> just lift your finger and then double tap quickly anywhere on the
>> screen. To split tap, once you hear the letter you want, leave your
>> finger on the screen and then tap the screen somewhere else with
>> another finger.
>>
>> If you're talking about Settings -> General -> Accessibility ->
>> VoiceOver On -> VoiceOver Practice then I think you can just practice
>> with VoiceOver gestures. I think the typing refers to practicing with
>> hand writing. If you want to practice typing, I'd suggest just using
>> the Notes app.
>>
>> On 10/26/2013 08:10 AM, Tracy Carcione wrote:
>>> I just upgraded my new ipod Touch to IOS 7.
>>> When I was running IOS 6, I was able to open the User Guide, and the
>>> first thing said "VoiceOver users click here".  Now, in IOS 7, I can't
>>> find anything about VoiceOver in the User Guide.
>>> How can I learn to operate this thing?
>>>
>>> A friend was trying to help me type on the Touch.  I thought I was
>>> supposed to run my finger over the on-screen keyboard until I found the
>>> letter I wanted, then pick up my finger, but I wasn't getting the
>>> results I expected. All kinds of letters were being put in the edit box,
>>> and not usually the ones I wanted.
>>> I could look it up in the User Guide, if I could type in the search box.
>>> Irony.
>>>
>>> In VO Practice, it says I can practice typing, but I can't figure out
>>> how to bring up the keyboard to make that happen.
>>> Help!
>>> Tracy
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