[il-talk] New Metra, CTA, Pace Ventra App
Gregory Rosenberg
gregg at ricis.com
Fri Nov 20 20:48:17 UTC 2015
Patti,
It appears when you choose “Nearby Stops” it only lets you choose to mark a train line or bus route as a favorite. We should probably add that to our enhancement requests or post feedback to the app developer. It certainly would be nice to make a train line, translation, and frequently used travel times as favorites regardless of whether you choose “Nearby Stops” or “Route Tracker”.
You can save a train station or bus route through “Nearby Stops”, but not the specific detailed time / schedule information. Which may be useful for those that use a line or route exclusively and use many different stops on that line or route.
I would personally change the label to “Nearby Train Stations & Bus Stops”. The label “Nearby Stops” may confuse some train riders. All I am suggesting is that they use their labels consistently in the app.
Many of the final route / stop screens require you to click an “X” in the upper right of the scree to close it. This is not an big issue for those with at least some vision; it however, is an inconsistent use of back / close buttons. I am sure the reason they did this was to support the peek and poke features on iOS 9.x for the new iPhone "6S" and "6S Plus” with the pressure sensitive screens. So likely those with light perception through total blindness will likely have to get used to the “X” to close the detailed route / stop screen that pops up once you drill down to that level.
> On 2015Nov 20, at 14:28, pattischang at gmail.com wrote:
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> Thank you very much. I was trying it with nearby stuff and it wasn't working. You do have to go to tracker and then pull up your stops that way.
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> On Nov 20, 2015, at 1:53 PM, Gregory Rosenberg <gregg at ricis.com <mailto:gregg at ricis.com>> wrote:
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> Patti,
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> Choose “Transit Tracker” Then choose “CTA Busses” or “Pace Busses". Select your bus route, route direction, and bus stop. Then you need to click the little heart heart icon which has an audio label of “Save as Favorite”. It is located about maybe 20% down from the right corner of you mobile device. They made the button very wide and reasonably tall so it should be very easy to fine.
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> Next time you go back to “Transit Tracker” you will see a new menu item appear called “My Favorites”.
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>> On 2015Nov 20, at 13:07, pattischang--- via il-talk <il-talk at nfbnet.org <mailto:il-talk at nfbnet.org>> wrote:
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>> Has anyone figured out how to add a bus stop to your favorites list utilizing voiceover?
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>> Live the life you want. Every day we raise the expectations of blind people in the National Federation of the Blind.
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>> Patti S. Gregory-Chang
>> NFBI Treasurer
>> NFB Scholarship Comm. Chair
>> Sent from my iPhone
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>> On Nov 19, 2015, at 10:23 AM, Zachary N. Griego-Dreicer via il-talk <il-talk at nfbnet.org <mailto:il-talk at nfbnet.org>> wrote:
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>> I have used it to, to track One of the Metra trains and one of the l trains so far. It works great, it even told me that one of the trains I checked Was 6 minutes down and where it was delayed at!!!
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>> Sent from my iPhone 6 Using VoiceOver
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>>> On Nov 19, 2015, at 08:57, Leslie Hamric via il-talk <il-talk at nfbnet.org <mailto:il-talk at nfbnet.org>> wrote:
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>>> I have also used this new app and I can confirm that it works extremely well with voiceover.
>>> Leslie
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>>> Sent from my iPhone
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>>>> On Nov 19, 2015, at 6:38 AM, Gregory D. Rosenberg via il-talk <il-talk at nfbnet.org <mailto:il-talk at nfbnet.org>> wrote:
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>>>> Good morning everyone,
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>>>> I assume Steve is on this list. I don't have his email address. Jemal can you please send me his email address and pass this on to others that would benefit from this app.
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>>>> This morning we have a new Ventra App for Metra, CTA, Pace.
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>>>> It seems to work extremely well with Voice Over on my iPhone 6 Plus. It is available for Android as well. If I have time I will test it later today or over the weekend.
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>>>> https://appsto.re/us/i3o87.i <https://appsto.re/us/i3o87.i>
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Steve Maraboli
The National Federation of the Blind knows that blindness is not the characteristic that defines you or your future. Every day we raise the expectations of blind people, because low expectations create obstacles between blind people and our dreams. You can have the life you want; blindness is not what holds you back.
Please text the word BLIND to 85944 to donate $10 to the NFB Imagination Fund via your phone bill.
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