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2013-02-20-iFocus

Seminars@Hadley

iFocus: A New Quarterly SeriesFocusing on Tips and Training

for iDevice Users

Presented by Amy SalmonDouglas Walker

Moderated by Dawn Turco

February 20, 2013

Dawn TurcoWelcome to today’s Seminar@Hadely; I’m Dawn Turco and I will be moderating today’s session; it’s entitled iFocus. iFocus is a new series of seminars focusing on tips and training for iDevice users. For those of you who are regularly in our seminars you know that we do technology seminars all the time, and it occurred to us that we are regularly doing them on iDevices. So in an effort to be sure that we work this very popular topic into our calendar for the year, we definitely are slotting these iFocus seminars throughout the year.

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And we have our regular presenters and iDevice users extraordinaire, Douglas Walker and Amy Salmon are with us today, and they will be covering they say four topics. And I know these two; I’ll be surprised if they can keep it to that. So without further ado, let me open up the mic and our presenters will get us underway. Welcome everyone.

Amy SalmonHi everyone, it’s Amy Salmon. Thank you for joining us today for the first in our quarterly iFocus series. First I want to welcome all of my past and current students that I see on the participants list. I’m glad to see you and look forward to your questions when it’s time. We’re going to start out with Douglas Walker on his training for the iDevices.

Douglas WalkerI am so excited about this seminar and the whole iFocus series of seminars that we’re going to be having every, it’s going to be a quarterly seminar, but Dawn is right. In today’s seminar the topics we’re covering, hopefully we can get through them because there’s so much packed into just these four things that we’re going to try to cover today. We’re going to start off with talking about keyboarding on the iPad and the iPhone, all of the “i” devices you keyboard exactly the same way.


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Then we’re going to move into [Siri], and then Amy’s going to take over after that and talk about adding contacts to the address book. And later on, she’ll be talking about being able to download from the app store. So the keyboarding really needed to come first because you’ll be using that in the later topics for today. So we’ll get going on keyboarding.

So when the iPhone first came out, the iPhone 3S I was blown away just like everybody else. That a person that was blind can actually type on a piece of glass; this was just mind boggling to me. And I couldn’t wait to get my hands on it because I’m a blind user as well, and so I was just all intrigued about how this was going to happen and I thought “No way.” Well I have been using it long enough to be able to really get my speed up on the keyboard. And so hopefully, for those new users out there, I can give you some tricks that might help you around the learning curve, because believe me, there is a true learning curve for learning how to use the keyboard on here.

It’s always a great, the great place to start for me when I’m showing a new user how to use it is the search page of the iPad. And that’s a great place to go because it’s a safe place to go. You’re not texting


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anybody or not emailing anybody. It’s a way to search your whole iDevice. So I’m using the iPad right now, but you do this the same way with the iPad and everything else. So if you just tap the “home” button, it takes you to the search page on the iPad, and I will do that right now.

Alright, and you heard it say “search,” and it’s putting you right into an edit field, which is great because I’m right there and I can start learning how to type and experimenting and playing around. Now, in the search field I can search my entire iDevice. I mean it searches music, emails, everything on here. If I wanted to search for an app, to launch the app, that would be great. So this is a great safe place to start working on how to search. On the iPad, your iDevice there are two different typing modes – the default mode is standard typing and then we have touch typing.

So I’m going to start with the default mode and sort of show you guys standard typing, because that’s the way it’s going to come set up. And then I’m going to show you how to get to touch typing, which for me is a much faster way of typing on an iDevice. But we’ll start with the standard typing. So here I am in an edit field on the search page of my iPhone. We got there


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by tapping the “home” button. And I’m ready to start typing.

So we have the edit field at the very top and it’s very similar to Google, if you’ve ever used Google and you start typing in, you start getting search results that start popping down. And it’s going to start telling you that you have search results popping down, so you have to kind of bear through listening to that. But I’m going to just start by placing my finger on the screen and that’s the list, that’s the empty list that’s going to start popping up with the search results.

I’m going to drag my finger towards the bottom of the screen and eventually I will hit the “QWERTY” keyboard. And it’s just a standard keyboard. I’m going to pull my finger down and move my finger to the left and drop down a little bit and starting to move my finger to the right. So you can see, I haven’t lifted my finger, there’s the phonetic, which is really great because you know how the M and the N sound very similar? Well it gives you the phonetic if you don’t move your finger off that letter, so that you know exactly the one you have. So I’m going to slide to the right…alright, so you know you’re on M because it said Mike.


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And V and B can always be an issue, it’s Bravo for B, so you know for sure you’re on the B. Okay so I’m going to lift my finger and nothing is going to happen. Now, if I wanted to input that character into the edit field I could double tap anywhere on the screen, just like activating a button, or any other link, just like you would any button or link on the iDevice, and that would input it right into that edit field.

But there’s another way, when using the standard typing mode, to input the letters as well. It’s a little bit faster, so I’m going to show you how to do that, and it’s called “split tap” using a split tap. It’s the same as double tapping, alright. So I’m going to touch the screen again on the keyboard, I’m going to find the B again; it said Bravo. And I have not lifted that finger; I’m still on the B. And if I wanted to, I could use another finger, the finger next to that index finger that I have on the B, to do the second tap.

So I’m going to do that by putting another finger – now remember, I have not lifted that first finger – I’m going to tap with the second finger and you hear the higher pitched “Capital B”; you know that that letter B has been placed within the edit field now at the top of the screen. Alright, so that’s how to do a split tap and that’s how to use touch type. And then your search results start popping down and it looks at the music


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first; I have a lot of stuff that starts with a B in my music, but it’s going to search the entire device – your email, your music, everything on there.

I know that on the top right hand corner of, when I’m using the iPhone is my delete button, so I can put my finger on the screen again and drag it up to that delete button…there it is. Now I can lift my finger and double tap or again, I can do the split tap since I haven’t lifted my finger I can tap with another finger and create that second tap. But I’ll just lift my finger and double tap to show you that you can use the double tap method as well. And it just deleted that capital B that was placed within the edit field, so you see how that works.

And that’s the standard mode, and it’s sort of cumbersome because you have to double tap to place every letter within the edit field, or whatever field you’re in. If you’re in a Word document or a Pages document or in your notes document that can kind of be cumbersome after a while, but that used to be the only method you had. Well there’s a newer method with later releases of the operating system that’s called Touch Typing. To get to touch typing you have to have a keyboard visible.


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So this is a great place to go to your search area in your iPad or your search page, to access the keyboard first of all, and then you start using the rotor gesture. Alright, the rotor gesture kind of gets some getting used to, and the way that I try to describe this to people is if you place two fingers at the same time on your device, on the glass part of your device, your iPhone or iPad, and you start rotating those fingers in either a clockwise or a counter-clockwise motion, you start moving through different elements.

So headings, links, things you’re familiar with seeing and being able to navigate by, those are elements. So we’re looking for “typing mode” as one of those elements, and I liken it to screwing it on or off a medicine cap or a coke bottle top; you know screwing that on or off, it’s that same motion. So you just place two fingers on your screen and start moving those, and I’m going to move in a clockwise position now. So I place these fingers on there and start moving. Now I’m going to stop when I get to “typing mode” because that’s what I want to change.

And I’m having to lift my finger so I can go back and sort of get on through the list – there’s typing mode, okay I’m stopped. And I was rotating my fingers in a clockwise position and going through those different elements. Now visually you’d see a little dial on the


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screen, it’s almost like turning a knob or turning a dial, and it shows you those different elements. So now that I’m on “typing mode” I can flick up or down to choose the type of keyboard that I want to use. So I’m going to flick down, there’s my touch typing keyboard.

Alright, so now I can go into touch typing mode. If I wanted to get back to the other keyboard I just flick down again – there’s my standard typing. So I can choose between the two different types. I prefer touch typing and I’ll show you why. I’m going to flick down again. Alright, now I’m going to do the same thing – I’m going to place my finger on the keyboard and start dragging around. When I find the letter that I want, I’m going to lift my finger and you’re going to hear that higher pitched sound of the letter; you’ll know that it’s been placed within the edit field up there.

So that’s how you place the letter within the edit field, it’s simply just by lifting your finger, and it’s a little faster. So I’m going to type the word Beatles in here, because I’m going to look through my Beatles, we’re going to find some Beatles to listen to. So I put my finger on the keyboard – there’s the B, I have not lifted my finger yet, when I do it places the B within the edit field.


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And now I’m going to type the rest of the word Beatles, so let’s go get the E. and you keep hearing it say “Top search results” because it wants to tell me what the top results are just like Google does whenever you’re typing something in an edit field. Alright, and now to see those search results I can place my finger towards the top of the screen and sort of start dragging my finger down the screen. And they’re going to be listed in alphabetical order, so I’m going to start dragging down here.

So I’m going to back to “All You Need is Love” and then, now that I’ve picked something that I’ve searched for, I’m going to double tap and I’m going to launch that. Alright, we’ll stop that, but that’s how easy it is to do touch typing. And you see how much faster it can be because you’re dragging your finger around the keyboard. And I’m going to tell you, you get much faster because muscle memory is great, your muscle memory starts kicking in and you really do get a lot faster. At first it’s going to seem very cumbersome, but you really do start moving along after a while.

So that’s a safe place to go and to practice your keyboarding, is within the search. And remember, let me get out of the music, we can always get to that


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search page by just tapping your “home” button. And there I am back in that search field. And then you can tap your home button to get back to your home screen or back to your regular screen there. And there I am. Alright, so that in a nutshell is touch typing on the, I used an iPad, but it’s going to work the same on all your iDevices. You’ll need that later on when Amy starts showing you how to put contacts and stuff in.

Alright, we’re going to move right into Siri. Now Siri, I love Siri and this is, we actually get more questions about Siri it seems than anything else. And Siri can be a lot of fun, but I’m going to tell you, when you’re doing a seminar with Siri, Siri can also be a scray thing. Because you never know what Siri is going to say and Amy and I have had conversations about the things that Siri can say, which we’re not going to talk about right now.

But Apple calls Siri your personal assistant. And you know, it really is in so many ways. It’s really a great thing because you can do so many things with Siri, it’s just amazing. So let’s get on into Siri. Just like just about anything on the computer, you can activate or launch Siri in several different ways. Now the most common way that people activate Siri is by just


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holding down the home button; the button on the bottom of the glass on your iPhone or your iPad.

And you’ll hear a “beep beep” and then you will just tell Siri what you want or give Siri the command that you’re wanting. And then when you pause for a couple of seconds you’ll hear another set of tones and then Siri will go searching for the information across the cellular network. Sometimes it can take a while depending on your cellular quality that you’re hooked up to, so you may have to wait a couple of seconds. But that’s one way to do it, and that’s probably the most common way to do it.

Now I am a huge fan of the Apple earbuds, especially the new ones that feel so much better in your ears. They come with your iPhone. Those Apple earbuds are so great because they have an inline microphone. There’s a place where there’s a mic on the cable itself or the cord itself and you can press and hold that and it will activate Siri that way as well. So that’s a great way to launch it, especially if you need some privacy when you’re talking with Siri, your personal assistant.

Another way to launch Siri is the raise to speak method. And you can turn this on under the Siri, the settings, the Siri settings under your settings menu. And for an iPhone it’s great because you simply just


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lift the phone to your ear and you’ll hear that “beep beep”; you can tell Siri what you want and Siri will talk right there in the ear piece, right into your ear. So it’s kind of a private way to have a conversation with Siri as well.

So there are three or four different ways to get to Siri. I’m going to launch Siri today by simply just holding down the hold button and launching Siri. And this usually takes a couple of times, if I haven’t used Siri in a while, but I’m just going to simply say “What can you do for me” to find out what Siri can do for us. So I’m going to hold down the home button – “What can you do for me.”

And I let that go to the end of that list for a reason, because you guys need to know how much Siri can do for you. And every time I listen to that list I start thinking you know, I need to start using this feature or that feature or having it do this for me and that for me, because there’s so much that can be utilized just using Siri, and it’s just holding that home button.

Now it is important to know that once you’ve activated Siri, Siri is still running. So you have like a black screen up there with the information that was just provided by Siri. And at the bottom of the screen there you have a listen button, and that’s where it is.


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Now that’s mainly for I guess a sighted user that’s not using voice over that can touch that listen button and it would automatically launch Siri again. I mean if you wanted to you could double tap and activate that again, or you could go back through the routine of holding down the hold button.

But there is really a gesture that’s built in, once you have voice over, I mean excuse me, once you have Siri up and running; there’s a voice over gesture to relaunch it, which you’re going to want it running and active and I’ll show you why in just a couple of minutes. So Siri is already up and running, so there is a two finger double tap, so you just kind of spread your fingers apart just a little bit and you tap twice on the surface, on the glass anywhere and it launches Siri again. And that’s the voice over gesture that can reactivate.

So let me show you how that works, we’ll talk about the weather Dawn; we’re going to talk about the weather in Chicago and this is for Dawn. So I’m going to double tap with two fingers – “What’s the weather in Chicago.” Ugh, alright. So I can see why she’s not wanting to hear about guess where, Miami Florida. So let’s talk about Miami – “What’s the weather in Miami, Florida.” Oh to be in Miami.


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Alright, so that’s a great way of checking; you can ask about Hong Kong, anywhere in the world. And remember, Siri is already running now and we can close Siri by just tapping that home button just like we would closing the application. So I’d just tap the home button and Siri would go away and then we could hold it down to reactivate. But since it’s already up and running, we’ll just continue that two finger double tap and find out about the time. So let’s talk about the time now, so I’ll double tap with two fingers – “What time is it in Chicago.”

Alright, and it’s repeating itself because voice over is reading the information that comes up on this little black screen, because everything is just black in the background now with that, remember that little listen button at the bottom of the screen. But I’ve been using the two finger double tap. So this is really a valuable tool to me because I have students all over the world, but if I didn’t want to wake somebody up, because I’m in Central Time right, I don’t necessarily want to wake somebody up in Los Angeles. So let’s see what the time is in Los Angeles.

Two finger double tap – “What time is it in Los Angeles California.” Alright, and it is repeating itself because it’s reading what’s on the screen there. Alright, so that’s a really cool feature, it’s just the time


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thing. And you know, you need to pick one or two things at a time and just practice with those things, because we’re about to get into some gestures that you’re going to need to use several gestures along the way.

Let’s talk about calling, making phone calls. I’m using the iPad right now so I can’t call from it, but if I was using my iPhone I would use the exact same gestures. And I could double tap with two fingers and say “Call” and then say someone’s name that’s in my contact list and it would automatically launch the phone and call that person. Or if I had raise to speak, remember I could just lift it to my ear and just tell who I want to call and there it would go. If the person is not in my contact list I can just state the phone number and it will call that phone number. So calling is really great to be able to do, but I’m going to jump past calling and we’re going to go into text messaging. So sending a text – alright, and this is where it’s going to involve using the gesture three or four times. So I’m going to text myself, and that’s a great thing that you can do if your name is in your contacts, you can practice just be text; sending yourself a text. So I’m going to do that.

I’m going to double tap with two fingers and say “Text Douglas Walker.” So it’s prompted me to say what I


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want to say, so I double tap with two fingers, I can have a second to think. I can tap twice with two fingers again – “I’m just testing Siri.” Alright and there are two buttons now, a cancel and a send button, but I can just double tap with two fingers; I can say “cancel,” I can say “send” or I could say “Change it” and change that text message or I could even say “read it” and it would read me that message again. So I’m going to say “send it”; so I’ll double tap with two fingers – “Send it.”

Alright, so remember I never stopped using Siri. It’s always been on my screen running since I first launched it. Remember to close it you can just tap the home button one time. There are so many things; this is just to get you to scratch the surface people, but there are so many things. You can say “Remind me at 2:00 tomorrow to do so and so” and a reminder will pop up. You can say “Note that I need to buy some bread and milk” and it will put a note in your notes folder and you can pull that up when you’re at the grocery store.

So you need to go down through that list, just say “What can you do for me” and remind yourself of all the wonderful things that Siri can do for you. And again, it’s just a fantastic tool and you can just start with the simple stuff and work your way up. Alright,


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so I’m going to go ahead and open up the room for questions about text typing and Siri for just a couple of minutes here.

Dawn TurcoHi Douglas, this is Dawn; I grabbed the mic right away. I just wanted to get a text message from Theresa in, and it was back when you were talking about the touch typing, and she wants to know if it stays touch typing after you’ve selected it or do you have to select it each time.

Douglas WalkerYeah, whatever you choose from the rotor it’s going to stay as that default until you change it again. So, and you don’t have to go through that whole process of going back into the rotor and everything, and that’s great. And I leave mine on touch typing. I can understand for somebody with maybe motor issues, why you would want to use the standard typing, so that you could select the letter and take your time and you could double tap the screen and input the letter. So it’s fantastic that it’s there, but touch typing is just a lot faster.

Dawn TurcoDawn again, one more text before we open up the mic. We had a question from Arthur who said that


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double tapping with two fingers started musician, not starting Siri; is this a setting he needs to change.

Douglas WalkerNo, it’s not a setting he needs to change. Remember that when you find a letter that you want, if you’re doing the split tap, you keep that one finger on the screen. I assume you’re talking about split tap; you keep that one finger on the screen and then you tap while holding that finger down, you never lift it, you tap with the other finger. Yeah, if you tap two fingers it’s going to launch your music player in the background. And remember, once you have Siri up and running, you can then use that two finger double tap, but you have to have Siri up and going first. So activate it by holding down that home button.

Amy SalmonWell if there are no other questions – Dawn, do you have any other texts that you want to read off before we get started?

CallerI have a question. If you put the phone up to your ear and you want to use Siri, is always going to give you the double beep before you start to talk?


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Douglas WalkerYes, remember that you have to turn that on under the Siri settings, and then when you hold your phone up to your ear you’re going to get that double beep and then you start talking. And if you pause your speech, you’re going to hear that second double beep before Siri gives you the information that you’ve requested. So yes, you’ll hold it up to your ear and you’ll hear “beep beep,” and then you can do your talking, ask your question or make your comment to Siri. And then when you wait, you’re going to get your answer. So it should activate it if you have that raise to speak feature turned on under your Siri settings.

CallerCan you access Siri when you’re away from a WiFi source? So you have to have an internet access?

CallerI’ve held my finger down sometimes too long when I’m on top of a key; it goes to an accented character or something like that, which causes me problems. I was wondering is there a way to turn that off so I don’t get the accented characters or not?

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Yeah I know what you’re talking about. You’re probably going to – if you hold our finger in one position you have accents that pop up along the top edge of the screen. Unfortunately that delay is what causes those to pop up like that and you’re going to get those. So you’re going to have to move a little quicker. And it may be that you want to use the standard typing mode if you’re doing that, because I don’t think those are going to pop up as fast using that mode.

CallerUsing the iPhone, I’m using a 4S phone and I’m not sure if you brought this up or not, I had to step away for a second. Using the accessibility voice over, using the phone, if you triple tap you lose your accessibility mode where if you double tap when the phone rings. Is it better to use three fingers instead of turning voice over off by tapping three times on the home key; use three fingers, double tap two times, turn voice off. Then you don’t have to hear your voice over talking while you’re on the phone or doing other things on the device. And then when the phone rings you can, your accessibility is still on by double tapping with three fingers that is better to do it that way then triple tap with the home button and you would lose your accessibility.


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Douglas WalkerOkay, just to talk about the difference and then we need to move onto Amy because she needs some time to cover the things that she’s talking about. If you triple click the home button it’s going to turn voice over completely off. If you triple tap with three fingers, that’s just going to mute the speech. Now the reason that you would want to do that is if you’re using a refreshable braille device and you wanted to simply just read the braille and not have to hear the speech at the same time.

So if you wanted to turn off voice over to keep from hearing it – now if you’re on a phone conversation you can lock the lock screen to mute it so that it won’t keep saying the name of the person that’s calling; I know what you’re talking about. I think we had – and I hope that answers that question, but we had a quick question earlier that slipped past me about being away from a WiFi network.

If you’re away from a WiFi you’re going to have to have the cellular network enabled on the device, or a device that’s capable of going across the cellular network, which is going to cost you, so you have to subscribe to that. So anyway, we need to move on because we’re limited in time today. I tell ya, I could


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talk Siri all day long. So thanks guys and I’m going to hand it over to Amy.

Amy SalmonThanks Doug. And to complete the answer about Siri, if you’re away from your WiFi and you are using your three or four G network, I will warn you that Siri is incredibly slow and not quite as responsive as if you were to have it near a WiFi or accessing it through a WiFi. Also, if you’re using a Bluetooth ear piece with your iPhone or your iPad, if you have one of the – I know for a fact that Plantronics ear piece does this – is you can actually push and hold the button on the Bluetooth ear piece to activate Siri, just like Doug was saying you can do with the earbuds that come with the iPhone.

So, I’m going to move on and I’m going to go block the microphone, so give me one second. Now I am going to first talk about adding a contact to your contacts list, whether it’s on your iPhone or your iPad. And it seems pretty basic, but I think we need to cover it just so you guys understand how to do it. So I am using an iPhone 4S for my demonstrations today, and to access your contacts you can either go to the contacts app that’s a native app on your device or you can go through phones, through your phone app. And I’m going to choose to go through contacts.


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So I’m going to double tap my contacts; that puts me in my list of contacts. In the upper right corner of your contact screen is an “add” button. And I’m going to double tap to open that, and it immediately puts me in a new contact. Now I am going to right click to get to the first field, which is the first name. And double tap to go into edit, and I am going to make a new contact for Freedom Scientific; how ironic is that. Actually I’m going to make it for a person I know at Freedom Scientific.

Okay, I am using a Bluetooth keyboard, but you could do the same thing with your on screen keyboard. Then you tab or tap to the next field; your last name. Now, one thing that’s interesting here is if you’re using your Bluetooth keyboard or on screen keyboard and you make a mistake, you have the option to backspace, but you also, using that router that Douglas just showed you, you can actually using the edit command in the typing router. And so we’re going to see about getting to that.

Okay, I’m in edit, and then I’m going to – I’m going to actually flick up and that would select everything; click down and I can paste or select all. So those are your options under edit, so that’s just a nice feature in that router command that Douglas was showing you with


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the typing that I don’t think a lot of people even know is there; that’s something you should know about. So we’re going to go back to our last name and I put in Clark for the last name.

So now I’m going to right flick or tab to go to the next field. After each text edit field in a context, you have the option to clear the text. And you just double tap on that button if you want to clear it and type a different name, or maybe you really were off on your keyboard and typed in some Greek name in there that you can’t read. So you can always just clear it by double tapping; I’m going to go to company and type in the company name here.

Okay, now again you can tab or right flick to get to the next field. Here you’ve got what they call a mobile button and what that does is if you double tap on the mobile button, what you’re actually going to get are choices here, so a new screen pops up and you get choices of do you want to label this mobile; if they’re an iPhone user do you want to label it iPhone; do you want to label it their home phone number or their work phone number, main, home fax, work fax, other fax, pager, and then you have the option for other.

So since I don’t have a mobile phone number for my contact, I’m going to actually go up and double tap on


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“work” to select “work.” Okay, so when we go back to that field, it now gives me an edit box to enter in the work phone number for this contact. So I’m going to enter in the 800 number. Okay, and then I’m going to go back and look at my number and make sure I entered it correctly. Hang on…

Okay so I’ve got the phone number for my contact in now. If I right flick or tab I get to see the other fields that I can put in for this contact. I could put a phone number in here, if I double tapped on mobile I would get that list of possible phone options, so I could do mobile, home, work, work fax, home fax, pager and other. So again, just changing the label is all I’m doing there, and then the edit to enter in the actual phone number for that one.

Then you have the house phone number, actually this is your email, so you could put in a person’s home email address. You can select the ringtone. So if you want to change the ringtone for this particular contact, you can do that. And again, you simply double tap on ringtone; you’ll get put into your list of ringtones. So we’ll do that. So here’s a list of my ringtones. That seems appropriate. So I picked the JAWS theme for the Freedom Scientific contact.


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Okay, so that’s been picked now. We’re going to save that ringtone by tapping those saved buttons in the upper right hand corner. And if you go back and look at ringtone now, it’s the JAWS ringtone. Once you’ve made all your entries here you go to the upper right corner of the contacts field to “Done” and double tap. And now that contact is listed in your contacts list. And there’s my contact; I’m just right flicking to look over the fields.

That’s how you insert a new contact and add a contact from the contacts list. Now, another way you can add a contact is to actually go to your recent call log. So if somebody’s called your phone recently and you want to go ahead and just add them as a contact, you can do that. So I’m going to go to the app switcher by double tapping, and I’m going to flick to phone and double tap to open it; just a quicker way then going back to my home screen.

Down at the bottom of your phone app the second from the left is “recent,” so I’m going to go to “recent.” Double select to make sure it’s open. I put a phone number in here earlier today for the seminar. If you flick right from that phone number you get more info. Double tap on that and you get a new screen. And on that new screen you get the following options: the phone number, where it came from, when you


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received the call, you have the option to call that person back, Facetime them, send them a text message or create a new contact.

If I double tap on “Create a new contact” it automatically puts me back into my contacts, into a new contact and I have the option then to go through and enter that person’s name, so I’m going to put – I know who this call came from so I’m going to go ahead and put their name in, and their last name, and their company. Okay, well right now it’s telling me that that’s a mobile, and it’s really not a mobile phone; this is actually a landline phone number. So I’m going to back to my label there to the mobile button. And I’m going to double tap to change that label.

Okay, and now I’m going to either take my finger and move down the screen from top to bottom or flick right and I’m going to double tap on work. So now, I’ve got that person in my contacts and I can go to the upper right hand corner to “done” and double tap to accept it. That is how you add contacts, and it’s really quite simple. And I actually use the recent call log quite a bit to add contacts because it’s just a lot faster than creating a whole new contact.

Another way that you can have contacts uploaded is to sync your iDevice to the iCloud and have it sync to


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your Outlook on your computer. And if you want to know more about that, then I’m going to recommend you listen to the seminar we did last May on Cloud Computing and iCloud, because we talk about how to set up your iCloud and how to get it to sync to your device.

The next thing we’re going to cover is the app store. So again, I’m going to go to my app switcher and I’m going to right flick and double tap to open. Okay, now that I’m in my app store we’re going to see, it’s a standard app. Down at the bottom you’ve got the following choices: featured, charts, genius, search, updates. Now I’ll be perfectly honest, the only ones I ever use in the app store is the search and the updates.

Updates, if we go into updates and double tap, you’re going to find that any apps that you’ve downloaded on your device that have updates are going to be listed here. And there’s an update to Digitize. I have the option now to update that and I can read all about what’s new in the new version, and I can choose to update it. In the upper right corner of the update screen in the apps store is an “update all” button. So when I first came in this morning to get my phone ready for today’s seminar, I went to the app store, went to update and ooh, I had 26 updates.


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I didn’t want to manually go through and look at every single update, so I just went ahead and updated all, and you can do that or you can go through and look at each individual app and see do you really want to update it. Maybe there’s a fee for updating it, maybe you don’t want to pay that fee; that’s your option and you have that option to do that. We’re going to now look at search, so go back down to the bottom of the app store, and just move your finger over to “search,” double tap to open it, okay.

Up at the top of the search part of the app store is a search field in the upper left corner of the app store screen. Double tap to edit the search field, and then type in whatever app you think you’re looking for. So, for the purposes of today’s demonstration I’m going to actually look up a new app that I have yet to download on this device, and it’s the American Foundation for the Blind’s access notes.

Okay. All I did was type it in and press enter, or you can double tap on the search button. It’s going to pull up the app that most closely replicates that search, so let’s see what we found first. So again, going up to the top left corner, that’s my search field. Directly to the right of the search filed is a clear text button, so if you want to do a new search, you double tap that and


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it clears it out and gives you a cursor in your edit box to type in a new search.

If you come down from the top left, it tells me this is a productivity app, and there’s (inaudible) who manufactured or put out the app, produced it, the cost of the app – and you heard it say “button” there. Now if this app was free it would have said “free button” and you could then double tap. If you want to read more about the app you just two finger slide down to read about the app or you can right flick to read about the app. 4 ½ star rating, the screenshots I just flick over.

I’m going to go back to the button – I’m going to actually purchase this app because I wanted to get in on this device anyway. So I’m going to double tap to that. It puts you on a new screen in the app store, and I recommend that you start in the upper left corner and just right click or swipe down. I’m just right flicking through the app right now. There’s a button that says “Buy app” and I’m going to double tap to purchase it. It’s going to prompt me for my Apple ID and password, and it places me in the password edit field, do I’m going to go ahead and enter my Apple ID password, and it puts me right back in the app screen.


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What’s actually happening right now is that app is being installed on my device. So if I press the home button I’m going to get out of the app store – I guess iTunes is a little overloaded right now. It’s unable to process my purchase at this time. But what is happening is, actually what would happen is that the app would actually show up and it’s going to show up on the last page of your home screen. So if you are like me and you have seven pages of your home screen, you’re going to have to three finger swipe to the - I always get this wrong – you have to three finger swipe left to move to the last page.

Okay, and what it would do is it’s going to place that app at the end of this page. And right now it hasn’t downloaded it so it’s not doing it, but what it would do if it did was you could flick to that app and it would have a little – visually it’s actually kind of spinning and it’s voice over announces “downloading” or “installing.” And then once it’s installed it just looks like a regular [tablet] device. So that is how you use the app store, search for an app, purchase it, download it and then you can open it on your device. So I’m going to give the microphone back and see if we have any questions.


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Dawn TurcoAmy, you mentioned, as you were doing this that you would right click – what kind of gesture is that, what do you mean right click.

Amy SalmonWhat I was saying is “right flick,” and that’s flick the finger right. So you’re taking your finger, and you can use your pointer finger or your index finger, whichever finger is more comfortable for you, and just flick it like you’re flicking off the screen to the right.

Dawn TurcoAmy, I have a text message from Barbara and she’s asking if special labels are needed to use the Digitize App?

Amy SalmonNo, special labels are not needed and the Digitized App actually works very easily. I always like to tell humorous stories in my seminars. My daughter is selling Girl Scout cookies and I was having a craving for Thin Mints, and I knew there was a whole box of them in the garage. So I grabbed my iPhone, turned Digitized on, went out there and scanned until I found the box that said Thin Mints; worked really well by the way, I found the box. So Digitize works just fine, you don’t need to do any special labeling.


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VickiHi, this is Vicki. I have a question. If you push your home button and you say “call such and such a person” and it calls the wrong one, how do you quickly get it cancelled before the phone starts ringing?

Amy SalmonYou can just double tap very quickly to end the call, and that will end the call.

Dawn Turco…questions, we’re short on time today, we’re almost on the hour.

CallerOh hi Amy, I would ask a question. This may reflect to what Douglas was saying because I never got in. I wanted to find out when you’re doing text, whether it’s with Siri or whether it’s with iMessage; what is the best effective way to delete something if you don’t like it? Sometimes I think it’s deleted but it still adds on to the new message and sends the previous message plus the new message. And you mentioned something “raised to ear,” does that work with an iTouch or is that just an iPhone accessibility component.


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Amy SalmonI can answer the first part; I’ll let Douglas answer the part about Siri. If you are say sending a text message, and whether you’re using Siri or you’re using the dictate feature now available in iOS 6 and later, and you’re verbally giving the email of the text message and there’s an error and you go “Well, I need to fix that.” Use that router that was demonstrated at the beginning of the seminar, and you want to turn that router until you hear it say “words.” And once it’s on “words” then you know you’re in that editing mode and you can flick up and down to move through that text message or email, whatever you had inputed by word.

And then once you get to the word that you wanted to replace, you can press the delete key and delete it. You want to be at the end of the word to delete it, so you want to flick up or down until you get to the end of the word and then just press the delete key, type in the new word and go on. If you need to do some more editing or if you’re finished you can just choose to send it then.

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Yeah I want to clarify something. A router is a device that shares a WiFi signal like in your WiFi network. I think what you’re talking about is the rotor.

Amy SalmonI get that – tomato, tomahto – everybody pronounces it a little differently. I will try my best to pronounce it correctly.

Douglas WalkerAnd please forgive me for my Southern accent if I happen to say, to mispronounce something as well. But to clarify the use of the raise to speak, I’m assuming that the one for the iPod is similar to the iPad and that is only going to be accessible through the iPhone since you raise it to your ear to make phone calls anyway. So I’m assuming that that’s going to be similar and only be available on the iPhone.

I also wanted to make people aware of a video that’s out there. We’re sort of experimenting here at Hadley with videos, to add a different component to what we do. And so if you want, you can download or you can go directly to YouTube on your computer, or you can download the YouTube app. You can practice what Amy has taught you to do and go and get that out of the app store and download the YouTube app.


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And if you type in the search field “Hadley iPad voiceover” you’re going to have the first experimental video from Hadley that’s going to pop up, and it’s going to have the very beginning gestures that talk about flicking and those very simple beginning gestures to use. So anyway we put that out hopefully with more to come in the future, but that’s just an experimental thing, so go check that out on YouTube.

CallerAmy, I take it that you can’t use Siri to input contacts. I’ve got about 103 contacts to put in my phone.

Amy SalmonSiri cannot be used to do contacts. I’ve tried actually and she will say “That is a feature I cannot do,” so unfortunately no. But what you can do is go to add a contact, so go to contacts, you double tap on that add button, you make sure your focus is in say the first name edit box, and if you don’t want to have (inaudible) you can just on the on screen keyboard, down right to the left of the space bar is the dictate button. Double tap that and say “John,” and then with two fingers tap once on the screen and that will turn dictation off, and it will type “John” for you. And then you can move to the next field and use the dictate again, if you don’t want to type every single one in.


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Dawn TurcoI have the microphone again and I do apologize to anyone who didn’t get their question in, this is Dawn, but we are just over the hour. I would like to thank everyone for their questions, both on the microphone and text; they were wonderful as were Amy and Douglas. This is the conclusion of our first iFocus Quarterly. We had lots of folks in the room today and I hope to see you and more back next time. I think we’re going to May next time and we would love some feedback. Not just about today’s seminar, but we would like it particularly about the iFocus, and if you have ideas of what you would like covered in future seminars please go ahead and send those in to us.

We have a feedback email address that you’re welcome to use. It’s [email protected] and we will monitor that and send the questions on to Douglas and Amy. Otherwise if you hang in there just a few more minutes, we’ll launch the survey and you can get your ideas and suggestions to us at the comment section at the bottom of the short survey, so please hang in there if you’re able.

I’d like to thank Amy and Douglas for a wonderful seminar. I was sitting here and learning quite a bit and actually added a photo to my mother-in-laws cell


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phone number, so I’m good. And I will give the microphone back to Amy and Douglas for a farewell and then we will launch our seminar. Thank you for attending today, bye-bye from Dawn.


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Amy SalmonWell I just want to thank everyone for participating in our first ever iFocus seminar. I hope that you will be back in May for the next one, and I do encourage you to take Dawn’s advice. If you have specific topics that you’d like us to cover in the next iFocus seminar, please send them to [email protected] so that we can incorporate them, if not in the May seminar, in the August seminar. So thank you all for being here.

Douglas WalkerOh no, where did the time go, I tell ya. That’s what I keep seeing pop up in the text area and I feel the same way. I feel like we could talk Apple products, just simply because of the accessibility, we could talk it all day long. And I want to thank everybody for being here for the first iFocus Quarterly seminar, and I especially want to thank my students that are in the room. I appreciate you guys being here, you’re support is just fantastic and thank you so much. So I hope to see you next time, take care.

Dawn TurcoAnd it’s Dawn, one last thing I want to mention. If you want to revisit today’s seminar, the recording will be posted on the Hadley website on the past seminars page. So just follow the links to past seminars. We’ll get this recording up probably in about two days, and


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you can relisten to it or recommend it to others, and there’s about 200 other recordings of previous seminars you can visit as well. So you are welcome always to go to our past seminars page and you can do that basically 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Thank you again all, goodbye.


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