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In this Blind Vet Tech Quick Guides and Tutorials podcast, we demonstrate how you may harness the power of Siri, your digital assistant to manage your calendars. This task requires one to preform the following actions: Use Siri by pressing and holding the home button or use “Hey Siri.” Create new appointments Create a new … Continue reading Manage your Calendar with Siri

In this Blind Vet Tech Quick Guides and Tutorials podcast, we provide an overview of the Calendar’s app Apple prepackages on all iPhones and iPads. Calendar possesses many different capabilities from displaying today’s date on your home screen to being able to handle multiple calendars for syncing across all of your devices. This task requires one to preform the following actions:

* Locate the Calendars app on your home screen to hear today’s date.

* View your calendar in list or grid mode by selecting the List button in the top center of the screen

* Use the back button in the upper left corner to view your calendar by day, month, or year.

* Switch between days in list mode with Heading navigation in Voice Over’s Rotor

* Navigate to different calendar events for a given day with Events from the Voice Over Rotor menu.

We hope you enjoy this tutorial reviewing the default Calendars app on your iPhone and iPad.

In this Blind Vet Tech Quick Guides and Tutorials podcast, we demonstrate how you may harness the power of Siri, your digital assistant to manage your calendars. This task requires one to preform the following actions:

* Use Siri by pressing and holding the home button or use “Hey Siri.”

* Create new appointments

* Create a new appointment

* Add a new meeting

* Modify existing appointments

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* Modify my appointment at 1500

* Change tomorrows meeting at 1000

* Delete Appointments

* Delete my appointment at 1200

* Cancel my 1700 meeting

In this Blind Vet Tech Quick Guides and Tutorials podcast, we demonstrate how to open an app using the Braille Screen Input located in the Voice Over’s Rotor screen. You will have to be on the Home Screen to complete this action and have enabled Braille Screen Input from the Voice Over Rotor’s setting. Review … Continue reading Using Voice Over Braille Screen Input to Open Apps

In this Blind Vet Tech Quick Guides and Tutorials podcast, we demonstrate how to open an app using the Braille Screen Input located in the Voice Over’s Rotor screen. You will have to be on the Home Screen to complete this action and have enabled Braille Screen Input from the Voice Over Rotor’s setting. Review this podcast to enable Braille Screen Input from the Voice Over Rotor settings screen. This task requires one to preform the following actions:

* While on your home screen with Voice Over activated, preform the Rotor gesture to bring up Braille Screen Input.

* Start typing the first letter)s) of the app you wish to open.

* A one finger swipe up or down moves you up and down the list, while a two finger swipe right opens the app.

We hope you enjoy this tutorial on searching for and opening apps on your iPhone and iPad with the Braille Screen Input located in the Voice Over Rotor while on your home screen.

In this Blind Vet Tech Quick Guides and Tutorials podcast, we review how to React to a Facebook for iOS post with Voice Over. No longer are you limited to liking a post you love, hate, or find funny. Voice Over users possess two methods to preforming this action. This task requires one to preform the following actions:

* Open up Facebook for iOS and find a post in your News Feed or main page of a group

* Preform a two finger double tap to bring up a contextual menu related to the post

* Tap on React located below the Like button to select your desired response.

Second Method

* When viewing a post after selecting it from the News Feed, group page, or your notifications, find the Like button beneath the post.

* Double tap and hold on the Like button to bring up the React button.

* If you already reacted to the post, the Like button is replaced with the reaction and double tapping on it removes your reaction similarly to the previous Unlike option.

We hope you enjoy this tutorial on how to enhance your Facebook for iOS experience by using the React feature.

In this Blind Vet Tech Quick Guides and Tutorials podcast, we describe how to activate Braille Screen Input through the Voice Over Rotor. The Braille Screen Input is a great alternative to the standard onscreen keyboard and very similar to M-Braille. This task requires one to preform the following actions:

* Open the Settings App and navigate to General, Accessibility, and Voice Over. Asking Siri to “open Voice Over Settings” will accomplish this as well.

* Navigate to Rotor, below Braille )which is for Braille displays).

* Find Braille Screen Input at the bottom of the Rotor’s list and tap to select it

We hope you enjoy this tutorial on how to activate the Braille Screen Input on your iPhone and iPad. A subsequent podcast will explore how to use the Braille Screen Input to navigate your home screen and input text.

In this Blind Vet Tech Quick Guides and Tutorials podcast, we describe how to set up “Hey Siri” on your iPhone iPad. This feature allows you to prompt Siri without the need to press any buttons. Depending on your iPhone’s or iPad’s version, this feature will either require you to have the device plugged into a power source or available at all times. I have found this feature enjoyable, when working on my computer and I just have to ask Siri to place a call or create a reminder. This task requires one to preform the following actions:

* Navigate to the Settings App, and into General and Siri options. Alternatively, you can use the Siri commend, “Siri open your Settings” or “open Siri settings.”

* Enable Hey Siri,” which brings up a series of steps to complete.

* Upon completion use Hey Siri.

We hope you enjoy this tutorial on setting up Hey Siri on your iPhone or iPad.

In this Blind Vet Tech Quick Guides and Tutorials podcast, Keith from Retro Radio Podcast demonstrates how to move files around on your iPhone and iPad through Sharing options. Many apps, like the Voice Memos, Dropbox, iCloud Drive, and numerous other apps possesses a Share option. In this podcast we will examine how to do this by moving an audio recording from the Voice Memos app from Apple into Google Drive. By knowing how to transfer or move files between apps and cloud storage services, you can transfer items between your devices or computers without the need to pair or physically connect these items. I personally use this method to upload articles into Voice Dream Reader from Dropbox to saving attachments from Mail into the appropriate Dropbox folder without the need to fuss with a computer. This task requires one to preform the following actions:

* Navigate to and open your Voice Memos app or other app which contains a file you wish to move.

* Select the file and find the Share button. The location varies between apps.

* Tap on the Share button and select the method you wish to share or cloud service, like Dropbox or Google Drive, you wish to move the file.

* This action will bring up either the app or a menu where you will select the final location to save the file.

* Save the action with the done, upload, or similar button.

We hope you enjoy this tutorial on moving or transferring files on your iPhone and iPad into a cloud storage service or other app.

In this Blind Vet Tech Quick Guides and Tutorials podcast, we describe how to navigate the contacts list on your iPhone and iPad. We explain the different options available to scroll through the list from headings to the table index.

list and other options. This task requires one to preform the following actions:

* Navigate to the Contacts app on your iPhone or iPad.

* Use the Voice Over Heading option to swipe through the alphabet with a one finger swiping up or down gesture.

* Navigate to the Table Index located after the search box to also swipe up and down through the alphabetical contacts list.

* Tap in the Search text field to quickly find a contact by a letter, name, or other options.

We hope you enjoy this tutorial on navigating your contacts list in the stock iPhone and iPad Contacts app.