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Do you have a visual impairment and are interested in learning more about technology and adaptive software? Have you received a device, like an iPhone or iPad and wish to learn how to use it? Wondering how the latest devices like Aira or apps actual work?
Blind Vet Tech Quick Guides, News, and Reviews will provide you with simple to understand and follow along information for the average end user. Blind Vet Tech originally started with a group of blinded Veterans sharing information and has expanded to assisting all of our peers living with sight loss through this regular podcast series.
Blind Vet Tech Quick Guides, News, and Reviews will provide you with simple to understand and follow along information for the average end user. Blind Vet Tech originally started with a group of blinded Veterans sharing information and has expanded to assisting all of our peers living with sight loss through this regular podcast series.
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In this Blind Vet Tech Quick Guides and Tutorials podcast, we demonstrate how to resolve an potentially scary situation when a pop up informs you your device is infected. This pop up sounds extremely official and asks you to contact Apple Support with a toll free number. First, your device is not infected. Secondly, this … Continue reading "Removing the Threatening Pop Up Stating Your Device Is Infected"
In this Blind Vet Tech Quick Guides and Tutorials podcast, we demonstrate how to select and format text with a few swipes and gestures within Voice Over’s Rotor. It matters not if you are selecting text from a webpage and pasting it into a note, email, or text message, the Voice Over Rotor simplifies and … Continue reading "Voice Over Rotor’s Text Selection and Editing Options"
In this Blind Vet Tech Quick Guides and Tutorials podcast, we demonstrate how to download Netflix movies and TV shows to your iPhone and iPad. Netflix consumers have been wishing for this feature for a number of years, especially after Amazon Prime released a similar feature for its video selection at release. Completing this task … Continue reading "Downloading Netflix Movies and TV Shows to your iOS Device"
In this Blind Vet Tech Quick Guides and Tutorials podcast, we demonstrate Siri’s commands associated with the iOS App Store. These commands are limited to searching for a specific app, apps by a developer, or apps within a genre. Below you will find example command phrases for Siri. Siri, search for (insert app name here) … Continue reading "Siri and the iOS App Store"
In this Blind Vet Tech Quick Guides and Tutorials podcast, we explore the iOS App Store. The App Store is how we turn an iPhone or iPad into the best mobile accessibility tool in our arsenal of independent living tools. The phrase, “there is an app for that,” originated because of the App Store’s existence. … Continue reading "Navigating the iOS App Store"
In this Blind Vet Tech Quick Guides and Tutorials podcast, we demonstrate how to add a pause (aka comma) or wait (aka semicolon) to a phone number in Contacts. Any smart phone may preform a similar trick where a comma or semicolon means pause or wait while dialing a number from your contacts list. Here … Continue reading "Adding a Pause or Wait to a Phone Number in Contacts"
In this Blind Vet Tech Quick Guides and Tutorials podcast, we explore Siri’s Settings and teach you some fun Siri commands for practicing speaking to Siri. Siri is one of the most powerful digital assistants, controlling anything from enabling Voice Over to starting a Skype call. In order to do this, you need to ensure … Continue reading "Siri’s Settings and Basic Commands"
In this Blind Vet Tech Quick Guides and Tutorials podcast, we demonstrate how to update your iPhone or iPad to the latest software update. Periodically Apple publishes updates to address known software and security issues, new features, or behind the scenes updates to improve performance. Knowing when these arrive and how to install them is … Continue reading "How to Update to the Latest iOS Updates"
In this Blind Vet Tech Quick Guides and Tutorials podcast, we describe how to arrange apps on your iPhone and iPad with Voice Over. Two methods exist as of iOS 10. The first involves preforming a one finger double tap and hold to activate app movement. The second is to swipe up or down until … Continue reading "Arranging Apps with Voice Over on iOS"
In this Blind Vet Tech Quick Guides and Tutorials podcast, we describe how to activate a Voice Over mode allowing you to practice basic gestures. Secondly, we review the basic one, two, three, and four finger Voice Over gestures. If you are new to Voice Over, this is a great podcast to keep on hand … Continue reading "Basic Voice Over Gestures"
In this Blind Vet Tech Quick Guides and Tutorials podcast, we explore the Facebook iOS app with Voice Over. Facebook is a wonderful method to stay connected to family, friends, groups, and organizations you like, and the Facebook app is the easiest way for the blind to do this. This podcast demonstrates how to use … Continue reading "Reviewing the Facebook iOS App"
In this Blind Vet Tech Quick Guides and Tutorials podcast, we review the different iOS settings for Facebook. Facebook is embedded within each iPhone and iPad, so knowing where and the purpose of the settings will ensure you are sharing and receiving from Facebook that which you desire. There are two main pieces to this … Continue reading "Facebook’S Settings on iOS"
In this Blind Vet Tech Quick Guides and Tutorials podcast, we describe how to activate and use the Voice Over Rotor. The Voice Over Rotor is a cross between a contextual menu and traditional screen reader keyboard shortcut gesture. This task requires one to preform the following actions: Open the Settings App and navigate to … Continue reading "The Voice Over Rotor"
In this Blind Vet Tech Quick Guides and Tutorials podcast, we will review some of the Siri commands allowing your to control your reminders. In this podcast, you will need to complete the following: Create a New Reminder Remind me to take out the garbage tomorrow at 0800 Remind me to close the door when … Continue reading "Manage Reminders with Siri"
In this Blind Vet Tech Quick Guides and Tutorials podcast, we will demonstrate how to create a new reminder in the default Apple Reminders app for your iPhone and iPad. In this podcast, you will need to complete the following: Open the Reminders App Navigate to Add in the upper right corner of the screen … Continue reading "Creating a New Reminder"
In this Blind Vet Tech Quick Guides and Tutorials podcast, we will provide an overview of the iOS default Reminders app and how to optimize its settings. This focuses on navigating through this app with Voice Over. Subsequent podcasts will review how to create reminders. In this podcast, you will need to complete the following: … Continue reading "Apple iOS Reminders Overview"
In this Blind Vet Tech Quick Guides and Tutorials podcast, we we review the latest feature Facebook added to its iOS app, Facebook’s photo recognition AI. This effort is part of Facebook’ commitment to accessibility, and instead of ruling out a method for inputing alt text as part of the photo upload process, a new … Continue reading "Facebook Photo recognition AI"
In this Blind Vet Tech Quick Guides and Tutorials podcast, we examine the different reset options on your iPhone or iPad. Resetting your iOS device is more than just restoring the device to factory defaults, but can assist in resolving some common issues, like bluetooth connectivity problems to battery draining due to background location features. … Continue reading "Resetting an iPhone or iPad"
In this Blind Vet Tech Quick Guides and Tutorials podcast, we demonstrate how to setup or restore a iPhone or iPad. Many of these steps become second nature the longer you have an iOS device, as you often have to do many of these steps after updating the iOS software. The process is rather straight … Continue reading "Setting Up or Restoring Your iPhone"
In this Blind Vet Tech Quick Guides and Tutorials podcast, we will explore how to backup an iPhone or iPad using iCloud. By default, Apple provides all Apple iTunes and iCloud users enough space to backup your iOS device to iCloud. This ensures you can restore or setup a new device without connecting to a … Continue reading "Backing Up an iPhone with iCloud"
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