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Zello Walkie Talkie - How Hard It Is for VoiceOver Users to Press The PTT Button

Posted on Friday, November 20, 2015 by tunmi13

Zello Walkie Talkie is accessible with VoiceOver and all buttons are clearly labeled, but changing the setting of the PTT button might be something you want to do in case you hate double tapping and holding on the screen for so long.

STEPS
1
Double tap the Menu button.

2
Double tap Settings.

3
Double tap Push to Talk button.

4
Choose an option:
* press and hold
* toggle (meaning double tap on the screen to talk and double…

17 comments : last update or comment 5 years 10 months ago

A Blind Legend - Scene 17

Posted on Wednesday, November 18, 2015 by tunmi13

HEADPHONES REQUIRED. :)

Your daughter has took a poisoned arrow from Scene 15. She cannot tell you or lead you to places. You only have a man.

The man leads you to the forest, saying that he can't go with you any further and gives you instructions to follow the song and that it will guide you to a demon's lair. More information about the demon from the man is from Scene 16.

When the man leaves follow the wind so that it's in the center of your head. If it…

1 comments : last update or comment 5 years 10 months ago

A Blind Legend - Scene 27

Posted on Sunday, November 15, 2015 by tunmi13

In this guide, I'll be explaining the king's strategies and how to defeat him accordingly. This guide has been updated, since the last modification was February of 2017, and since then, a Blind Legend has done some things.

This scene is now considered separate, it is no longer part of scene 26.
You start out at the door to the hall. Blake in his rage, slams the door open, and everyone halts in their celebratory activities.
Your wife calls out to you, and you…

8 comments : last update or comment 5 years 10 months ago

How to slow down the double-tap speed on iOS and iPadOS

Posted on Tuesday, November 3, 2015 by James AVC

I’ve been waiting for the option to slow down the speed of double-tapping when using VoiceOver for quite some time and now with iOS 9.1 it is here!

Several of my clients struggle with the speed at which they previously had to single finger double-tap the screen to activate buttons, open apps, open links etc, not to mention two finger double-tapping to answer or end calls coming in on their iPhones. I’m really pleased that Apple has made this option available as I think it will make…

0 comments : last update or comment 2 years 2 months ago

Double Tap the Status Bar to Scroll to the Top

Posted on Wednesday, October 28, 2015 by Darrell Hilliker

In some iOS apps, with VoiceOver enabled, tapping the top of the screen with four fingers does not move to the top of lists. In these situations, it seems necessary to repeatedly flick to the left until the first item has been reached. Examples of this behavior can be found in Apple's new iOS 9 News app and the Voice Mail section of the built-in Phone app.

VoiceOver tells us the solution may be found in the status bar at the top of the screen. Follow these steps in an app that does…

4 comments : last update or comment 5 years 10 months ago

Look Ma, No Wires! How to Transfer Files to and from your iOS Device using Wi-Fi

Posted on Monday, October 19, 2015 by Niall Gallagher

Introduction

This guide will focus on completing the task of transferring a file via Wi-Fi from your Mac or PC to your iOS device, from one iOS device to another, and vice versa. The actions which can be carried out with the transferred file will also be discussed.

It should be noted, the file transfer methods covered in this guide are based on Wi-Fi, and do not consider other methods which are available such as Bluetooth. Additionally, there are other applications which…

0 comments : last update or comment 5 years 10 months ago

The VoiceOver User's Guide to 3D Touch on the iPhone 6S

Posted on Sunday, September 27, 2015 by Scott Davert

What is 3D Touch, Anyway?

  3D Touch is arguably one of the biggest features of the new iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus models. Before we get in to specifics about how it works with VoiceOver, I thought it would be helpful to go directly to Apple's 3D Touch webpage to get an overview of exactly what 3D Touch is:  

iPhone 6s introduces an entirely new way to interact with your phone. For the frst…

25 comments : last update or comment 5 years 10 months ago

A VoiceOver User's Guide to Xcode

Posted on Sunday, September 20, 2015 by mehgcap

Intro

Xcode is the application development program made by Apple, available free in the App Store. It's used to make apps for iOS, OS X, Apple TV, and Apple Watch, in Swift or Objective-C, and can be used for C and C++ development as well. It is a powerful, intuitive piece of software… if you can see it. Voiceover users have a harder time of things in some ways. That's not to say that Xcode isn't usable--it…

20 comments : last update or comment 5 years 10 months ago

Moving Pics Off An iPHONE to Windows in iOS8

Posted on Wednesday, August 12, 2015 by Deborah Armstrong

I had a problem moving pics off my iPHONE to my PC, which I solved. Am posting here so it might help others.

For purposes of keyword searching, see also
photos, pictures, copy, delete, transfer, import

We were on vacation and my hubby wanted to use my iPHONE as a camera.

When we got back to the hotel, I plugged the phone in to my Windows netbook but the Portable Device, iPHONE internal storage folder was empty. Normally under "computer" in Windows,…

1 comments : last update or comment 5 years 10 months ago

A Guide to Using Audio Hijack with VoiceOver

Posted on Saturday, August 8, 2015 by mehgcap

What Is Audio Hijack?

Audio Hijack is an app that lets you capture audio from your Mac. You can apply effects, mix things together, monitor your mix, and record it all to a wide range of different file formats. It's the easiest way to capture audio from a microphone, your whole system, one application, or a combination of any of the above. You can record to files, and you choose how many; if you want one track per sound source, you can do that, or you can have everything go to a…

5 comments : last update or comment 4 years ago

Intro to iOS Accessibility for Blind and Low Vision Users

Posted on Wednesday, July 15, 2015 by Michael Hansen

Apple’s iOS devices (iPhone, iPad, iPod, and Watch) come with accessibility features built-in. The purpose of this document is to give the blind or low vision user a concise introduction to the accessibility features offered on iOS devices.

VoiceOver

An Introduction to VoiceOver

  • VoiceOver is a "screen reader"; it reads text aloud on the screen.
  • To enable VoiceOver, go to Settings> General> Accessibility> VoiceOver.
  • You can also…
0 comments : last update or comment 5 years 10 months ago

Visualizing the Home Screen through VoiceOver, for first timers

Posted on Tuesday, May 19, 2015 by Ajay

After unlocking your device, you would be taken to the home screen. Let’s see how does it look like.

The Home Screen is divided into four sections, namely, the status bar, the application grid, the Page adjustment and the doc. All these sections have same width and placed one over another

Like the Lock Screen, the topmost section is the status bar, here you can find the time and status of various modules and background processes of your device as described in the in earlier…

0 comments : last update or comment 5 years 10 months ago

How to quickly send an audio message on iOS

Posted on Sunday, December 14, 2014 by Musicruz

Before writing this guide, I had searched the Applevis site about this topic. According to the threads I have read, some people are having difficulties making this feature work.

This guide will not make your raise to record feature work consistently because to tell you guys honestly, that feature is a hit and miss, more often the latter. So without further ado, here are the steps.

Note: This tip only works on the Messages app, so if you are trying to do this on the quick…

1 comments : last update or comment 2 months ago

Playing Audio Games on the Mac Without Using Windows

Posted on Monday, December 1, 2014 by mehgcap

Intro

Are you a Mac user, and a fan of audio games? Does it make you angry that there are only a few audio games for the Mac, and that you need Windows just to kill some zombies or play cards? Do you not have access to Windows, and find yourself suffering from game withdrawal? Well, my friends, I have great news: your suffering may be at an end! That's right, I'v been playing my favorite audio game, Swamp for a week now, and I've…

46 comments : last update or comment 3 years 4 months ago

Setting up text message forwarding in iOS 8.1 or later

Posted on Tuesday, October 21, 2014 by Unregistered User

Hi all
I am here to proudly bring you instructions on how to set up text message forwarding under iOS 8.1 and later.
First, you must have an iPhone 4s or later running at least iOS 8.1. Second, you must have any iPad or iPod Touch, also running at least iOS 8.1. If you plan to enable your mac for text message forwarding, it must be running OS X Yosemite or later.
Now that's out the way let's get started.
1. On your iPhone, go to settings, double tap messages…

6 comments : last update or comment 4 years ago

A Work-Around for Using the Big JamBox with the iPhone and a PC at the same time

Posted on Monday, October 13, 2014 by Don Barrett

I just purchased a big Jambox and for the most part, I love it. The speaker phone is awesome and almost makes the $269 price from Amazon worth it, but one thing was just driving me crazy.

When I plugged the JamBox into my Mac running Windows under BootCamp, the computer took priority over the Bluetooth connection between the speaker and the iPhone, and VoiceOver on the iPhone stopped talking through JamBox.
In fact, the iPhone stopped talking at all, since the PC-JamBox…

1 comments : last update or comment 5 years 10 months ago

A Guide to Braille Screen Input on iOS and iPadOS

Posted on Wednesday, September 17, 2014 by mehgcap

Intro

iOS and iPadOS come with a feature that lets you type in braille right on the touch screen. It’s called Braille Screen Input, or BSI for short. It supports all the same codes and languages that work with supported braille displays. BSI can do several useful things:

  • You can type braille in your preferred language and code, right on the touch screen
  • you can search for and open apps from the home screen just by typing part of their name
  • you can…
64 comments : last update or comment 8 months 1 week ago

A Guide To Interactive Notifications in iOs

Posted on Wednesday, September 17, 2014 by mehgcap

What Are They?

In iOs eight, Apple introduced a feature called Interactive Notifications. This feature allows users to interact with notifications without leaving the app they are currently using. For example, you could respond to a text message without leaving Mail, Safari, or whatever app you're using at the moment you receive the text, or trash an email without ever opening the Mail app.

How Do I Use Them?

The officially documented way of doing this is through…

12 comments : last update or comment 5 years 10 months ago

Playing Chess on the Mac

Posted on Sunday, September 7, 2014 by mehgcap

Intro

Not everyone knows that all Macs come with a full-featured chess game. Even fewer know that this game is completely accessible, and can even pull some nice tricks to make the experience better for the visually impaired. Below, I will explain the different ways to move around the board, make moves, get help, and set up the game to speak hints and moves. Please note that you do not need to know how to play chess to read this article. In fact, once you know how to use the app,…

8 comments : last update or comment 5 years 10 months ago

VoiceOver Portable Preferences++

Posted on Sunday, July 27, 2014 by Chris Norman

For a while now, VoiceOver portable preferences has bugged me, because it's so outdated. Today I decided to tackle the problem once and for all.

Aims:
What I wanted was a way to take my preferences with me wherever I go. I have 2 macs, one at my house, and one at the place I volunteer, which sort of doubles as a demo machine. So I wanted to be able to make awesome things happen at home, then have the changes reflected when I went to another mac, without the really serious…

10 comments : last update or comment 3 years 2 months ago

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