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iFocus 12: Tips for Using the Vision Accessibility

Seminars@Hadley

iFocus 12: Tips for Using the Vision Accessibility Features in iOS

Presented by Douglas Walker

Moderated by Larry Muffett

February 3, 2016

Larry MuffettWelcome to Seminars@Hadley. My name is Larry Muffett. I’m a member of Hadley seminars team and I also work in curricular affairs. Today’s seminar is iFocus 12: Tips on using the Vision Accessibility features in IOS. Our presenter today is Hadley’s technology expert Douglas Walker. Douglas is the originator of the iFocus series, the creator of the videos on Hadley’s YouTube channel and is a veteran Hadley instructor. Today Hadley is going to share his almost venn-like knowledge of iDevices and then particular tips for using the vision accessibility

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features in iOS. So now let me welcome Douglas and we’ll get them running. Welcome Douglas.

Douglas WalkerIt is so great to be back for our 12th quarterly iFocus seminar. And today we are going to take a look at some of the great things that were added with iOS 9. As well as some cool features that we can find in the new iPhone 6S and 6S Plus. Now iOS 9 was mainly all about making the operating system a lot more stable. And not a lot of new features were added. However, there are a couple of really great changes that have been added to our notes app and we have been given an all-new news app, which is really fantastic. And it really is something that I use every day.

All right, we’re actually going to begin today’s seminar by talking about a couple of new features that were added to the new iPhone 6S and the iPhone 6S Plus. And these are our new 3D touch features. Okay, so we’ll actually have two segments in today’s seminar. In our first segment today we will discuss 3D touch. And then we’ll take a break for some questions and in our second segment we will discuss our new news app and some of the new features that have been added to our notes app. So how about we go ahead and jump right in?



All right, so today we’ll be looking at a totally new way of interacting with our iPhone and this is our new 3D touch gesture. Now this gesture of course is only going to be available if we have an iPhone 6S or iPhone 6S Plus. And we will also need to be running iOS 9 or newer.

All right. Apple has always been really great at making every aspect of iOS successful, and 3D touch is no exception to this. Now we’re all familiar with gestures like flicking left and right, single-finger double tapping and even using a rotor gesture. Well, now we have what Apple calls 3D touch. And we have a couple of new gestures that we will be using to activate 3D touch on our devices desktop.

All right, so first of all how about we talk a little about exactly what 3D touch will do for us and then we’ll take a look at the gestures that we’ll use to activate it? All right, so force touch is actually the magic behind 3D touch. And force touch allows us to press down on our iPhone screen to activate our 3D touch feature. Now if we’re on our desktop and we are touching one of the apps or one of the app’s icons on our screen all we need to do is just press down firmly on our screen to activate 3D touch.



Okay, it does seem a little bit awkward at first to be pressing down on our iPhone screen. However, when we press down firmly on our screen we will launch or activate what Apple likes to call a quick-actions menu. And this will be for the app that we happen to be touching. Now this is sort of like right-clicking a mouse, if you’re maybe a visual user or maybe pressing the application screen on a PC to open a context menu, or you know, if you are a Mac user it is like pressing VO, shift and M. Again, pressing firmly on our screen will bring up our quick actions menu that is specific to just the app that we’re touching.

And then we can just right and left-flick to this quick actions menu to find some really great shortcuts for our app. Now as we know there is always more than one way to perform most any action on any device. And the one that we just discussed means that we actually have to be touching the apps icon that we want to interact with before we actually can perform our force touch.

Now if you’re like me and you interact with your iPhone by flicking left and right to move between the apps on our desktop then it’s your lucky day, because Apple has created a gesture for us as well. And this is our double-tap, hold and press gesture. And this will launch our same quick-actions menu.



Now the really cool thing is that we will be given both auditory and tactile clues that will help to let us know exactly what is happening on our screen. So how about we take a look at exactly how all this works? All right, we have our iPhone 6S Plus, or I do right here in front of me. And our 3D touch feature is pretty much limited to our Apple apps for now. That is until third party developers really begin to take advantage of it. Now we have our phone app in the bottom left corner of our screen here, so how about we begin with it?

First, we will just touch our phone app to bring focus to it. Now once we touch our phone app we aren’t going to lift our finger or move our finger off it. So, how about we just touch our phone app and we’ll just touch it here. Okay, remember we’re going to leave our finger on our phone app and not move it. Now we heard VoiceOver announce single-finger double tap, and of course we could do this to activate or open it.

However, today is all about checking out our 3D touch features. So now we will just firmly press on our screen, so let’s just press here. So we’ll press. All right, great. Our quick-actions menu has opened and now we can just lift our finger from our screen.And now we heard quite kind of – you may have heard it; it’s a little pop audio queue and I felt a little



single vibration to help us know that our quick-actions menu has opened. Now if we happen to press on the app that doesn’t support 3D touch we’ll hear a couple of tones and we will feel a couple of vibrations instead of just one. And of course we won’t have any type of quick actions menu open up for us.

However, what we have here is perfect because our quick-actions menu for our phone app has opened. And now we can simply just write or left-flick to this quick-actions menu here. So let’s go ahead and right-flick through this and see what we have here. So we’ll just right-flick.

Okay, so what we have here is in our quick-actions menu. It usually lists the three most recent people that we’ve called here. So that’s what we have and there’s my daughter there, so I’ll just keep right-flicking through this. We’ll right-flick again. And there is another daughter of mine, so we’ll just right-flick again and see what we have. That’s the second of the third. And there is my third contact or person that I’ve called most recently here. And that’s my wife, so we’ll flick through the right again. And we have the ability to create a new contact from here too.

And we’ll right-flick one more time. And you heard that bump, well that’s our end of list audio queue. So,



we know for sure that we have reached the end of our quick-actions menu here. All right, we aren’t going to activate any of these items here, because we’re going to take a look at our second gesture for launching our quick-actions menu. However, if I were to flick through this list and single-finger double tap on any of these people that were – that’s listed in this list it would automatically open my phone app and we could call them right from there, which is pretty great.

All right, so how about we head back to our desktop and look at our second action or second way of launching our quick-actions menu here. So we’ll head back to the desktop here. Now to close our phone app’s quick-actions menu we can either press our home button in the bottom center of our screen here or we could just perform our scrub gestures. So how about we just press our home button for now and we’ll just press the home button here.

Okay, so our quick-actions menu has closed and we have been placed right back on our desktop screen here. Now we mentioned earlier that we can also activate our quick-actions menu as we’re flicking through our apps. So how about we check out this gesture on how this works. We’ll just touch our calendar app in the top-left corner of our screen here. So I’ll go ahead and touch our calendar app here.



All right and here is our calendar app. Now we could perform our double-tap holding gesture to activate our calendar app’s quick-actions menu, but how about we just right-flick a couple of times here. And we’ll just right-flick, so we’ll go ahead and right-flick. And let us go ahead and right-flick again. Okay, here we are on our clock app. Now to activate our 3D touch feature by using our double-tap and hold gesture – we’re going to do that. And we’re going to do that so we can check out our quick-actions menu for our clock app here.

So to do this we’ll just single-finger double-tap and hold and we will press down firmly on our screen. Now, we could perform this gesture anywhere on our screen and we don’t have to physically be touching the icon of our clock app to do this. Okay, remember there our quick-actions menu will open and we will be placed right in it depending upon of course where we’re touching on our screen. So let’s go ahead and give it a try. We will just double-tap, hold and then press.

Now remember we won’t lift our finger after our second tap and then we’ll just firmly press again. So here we go. Let’s do it. We keep getting the time here. So we’ll double-tap, hold and press. All right, we heard our tone or I did and I felt the vibration here



and our clock’s quick-actions menu has open. Now we just so happen to be touching near the center of our screen. And since our clock app is at the top of our screen chances are we then placed it at the end and I think I was actually touching the bottom of this menu that popped up, so I think and actually place this in the bottom of it, at the bottom for our quick-actions menu here.

So since we’re at the bottom of it, how about we just left-flick to check it out? And I’m going to just touch here, because I know that – There’s our timer at that bottom of that list and we can actually single-finger double-tap and just start our timer from here. So that’s kind of cool. So let’s just left-flick up the rest of this list. I’ll left-flick. Okay, so we could start our stopwatch right from this quick-actions menu. I’ll left-flick again. Or we could create a new alarm right from our quick-actions menu. I’ll left-flick again. And we’ve been placed right back on our clock app here or icon.

I’ll flick one more time. All right. And then we heard the top of list audio key there. Now, this is something that I’ve already found myself using a lot, because I actually use my timer as my sleep timer for my music app. So if we were to right-flick back to it we can just activate it and open up our timer here. So let’s go ahead and right-flick to that and right-flicking back



again. And there is my timer there. So all we need to do is just single-finger double-tap to open it.

Now when we activate our timer here our clock app will open and we will be placed right in our timer tab and our timer will actually be counting down with the last time that we set. So how about we just single-finger double-tap here? So we’ll just single-finger double-tap. Okay and there you go. Here we are in our timer tab and it is counting down from 30 minutes, which is the last time that I had set here. And so that is pretty great.

All right, so with our new 3D touch gestures we have a couple of totally new features that take full advantage of 3D touch. And these are our new peek and pop gestures. So how about we jump right in and see exactly how peek and pop works here?

Again, peek and pop are only going to be available if you have an iPhone 6S, a 6S Plus or newer. And remember we’ll also need to be running iOS9 or newer. Now peek and pop are features that actually work within different apps. And peek and pop allows us to get previews of content within different apps, such as mail and photos and messages.Now, we’re going to be using our mail app to see exactly how we can take advantage of peek and pop.



Okay, if we’re within our mail app and we are touching one of the messages within our inbox, all we need to do is just press down firmly on our screen to activate 3D touch. And now when we do this we will be given a preview of our mail message.

Okay, this is actually referred to as our peek gesture because we’re just giving a little peek at our message. Now as we mentioned earlier it does seem a bit awkward at first to be pressing down on our iPhone screen. However, when we press down firmly on our screen we’ll launch or activate this preview for – And of course it’s only going to be for the mail message that we’re actually touching at the moment.

Now we’ll also have some action features that will be available to us. And if you aren’t yet sure how to use action features, well it’s your lucky day because we have an iFocus video called Using the E-mail Action Features. It does a pretty good job of explaining what our action features are and exactly how they work. So we’ll talk about how to get to our iFocus videos a little bit later in today’s seminar.

Okay, again pressing firmly on our screen will allow us to peek in or preview our mail message. Of course, this is just as we said for the message that we’re currently touching. And then if we just slide our



finger to the bottom-right corner or to the right side of our screen we can find some really great action features for our app or a preview. Now as we mentioned earlier there is always more than one way to perform most actions on any device. And the one that we just discussed means that we actually have to be physically touching the mail message in which we want to see our preview, you know, this is before we perform our force touch.

Now if you interact with your iPhone by flicking left and right, of course this is to move between the items in your inbox or between the items on your screen then we will be using the double-tap and hold and press gesture that we used earlier when we discussed the 3D touch on our desktop. And our double-tap hold and press gesture will also activate our peek feature as well.

Now the really cool thing is that we’ll be given again both audio and tactile clues that will help to let us know what is happening on our screen. Now all of this might sound a bit confusing, but it will all begin to make sense once we really see it in action here. So, how about we take a look at exactly how all this works?



All right, so we still have our iPhone right here in front of us and how about we move to a message within our mail app to check out how all this works? But our clock app is still open here, so let’s just tap our home button here to close it and we’ll just tap. There. And we’ll just flick to our mail app here, so we’ll get to our mail. Okay, and of course we will just single-finger double-tap to open our mail here. So we will just single-finger double-tap.

Okay, so here I am in actually my folders list here. So I’m going to go ahead and jump right to my iCloud now, mailbox right to our inbox here. Okay, so here I am in my inbox here. And we have just a couple of mail messages here in my inbox. So what I’m going to do is just right-flick to the first message in my list here, and so we’ll just right-flick. There’s our search field there. So let’s right-flick again until we get to this mail message here. And we’ll pause our speech with a two-finger single-tap there.

All right, so here we are on our new message from broadway.com. And it is currently unread. Now, how about we look at our first method for performing our peek gesture here? And this means that we’ll first need to touch our mail message and then we’ll just firmly press on our message to perform our peek



gesture. And we’ll end up with our preview pane of our message.

Now once we perform our peek gesture we will need to leave our finger on our screen, because if we lift our finger our preview will actually close and will be placed right back in our mail inbox here. Now once we have performed our peek gesture and our preview has opened we can then just slide or drag our finger down our screen to check out our preview and we can see what this e-mail message actually says. Or, remember if we slide our finger to the right or to the bottom-right corner in our preview we will find our action features.

Now once we have found our action features we can then lift our finger from our screen and then we can flick through our preview actions here. Okay, I know that this sounds like a lot and it is. However, we’ll just take it step-by-step and it will all make sense very soon. All right, so let’s take a look at how our peek gesture works here. So we will just touch the message that we want to peek into and we will just touch it here. So let’s go touch it.

And we still have that way out here. Okay. No. Okay, here we go. And now to peek into the message for our preview we will just press firmly on



our screen and we’ll just press here, so we’ll go ahead and press. All right. Okay, so we’ve performed our peek gesture. Now we don’t have to keep pressing firmly to keep our preview active. However, we do have to continue to keep our finger on our screen, because remember if we lift our finger our preview will actually close and we’ll be placed right back in our inbox.

Now, if you want to see the preview of our message we can then just slide or drag our finger down our screen to check it out, and you hear that little bumping sound because my finger is moving just a little bit in kind of open area in the screen here. So how about we just slowly drag our finger down our screen here and we’ll just slide down here.

Okay, so I believe we get the idea here. Now if it’s a long e-mail we aren’t going to be able to see it all, because we are just getting, remember a preview of the e-mail here. Okay, remember we still have our finger on our screen and we have some action features available to us. So as we mentioned earlier find our action features only need to do, we just slide our finger to the right edge or just to the bottom-right corner of the screen until we hear VoiceOver announce preview actions available.



Now once we hear VoiceOver announce that action features are available, of course then we can lift our finger. And then we will be able to interact with our action features. So how about we try it? We will just slide or drag our finger over to the right-hand side or to the bottom edge of our screen here. So let’s go ahead and do that.

Okay and we heard VoiceOver announce preview actions available and now thank goodness, we can finally lift our finger from our screen. So now we can just flick up and down to interact with our action features. So how about we do just that? We will just flick down to cycle through this action features here. So we’ll do that. We just flick down.

Okay, now this is going to give us additional preview actions. And I’m going to go ahead and flick on through this, because we’re going to come back to this and sort of go through this as well. So I’m going to flick down again, and this is going to give us additional preview actions if I were to double-tap on our screen here. So I’ll flick down.

Okay, so this would actually – if I double-tap on our screen, market is read here. And we’ll flick down again. And you guessed it, if I double-tap anywhere on our screen here this e-mail will be sent right to our



trash. So you see how these are actions that we can do and these allow us to do different things with our message here. So let’s check out another action here.

And that’s the default action. So if I were to single-finger double-tap it’s going to activate this item and actually launch it here. And I believe if I flick one more time and we’ll do that, we get back to our show preview actions here. Now if we were to single-finger double-tap to show our other preview actions here we will have, like I said a context menu appear and we can right-flick through it to check out some additional preview actions. So how about we do just that? We just single-finger double-tap to launch our additional preview actions here. So I’ll single-finger double-tap.

Great. So our context menu at the bottom of our screen has opened and we have been placed on our reply button in the top of this list here. And of course if you want to reply to this e-mail all we need to do is just single-finger double-tap to activate and reply, which is pretty great.

All right, so how about we just right-flick through the rest of our context menu here just to see what other concept actions we can perform here? So we’ll go ahead and right-flick. All right, so if we were to



activate this we could forward this to somebody else, which is pretty great. So we’ll right-flick again, and we can then mark this, we can mark it read or mark it unread right here. So I’ll flick to the right again.

Okay, so I can be notified. If I were to activate this any other context that were associated with this e-mail I’ll get a notification if there are any of the replies or any – Of course this is a junk mail so probably not going to happen, but that’s a pretty cool feature. I’ll go ahead and right-flick one more time here. And I can single-finger double-tap and actually move this message. All right, so I’ll flick one more time. All right, and we heard that move message again and a little bump sound, which is our end of list audio queue there. So we know that we have reached the end of this context menu.

Okay, so we don’t want to perform any of these actions right now. And if we want to exit our context menu here we will need to just perform our scrub gesture. Now to perform our scrub gesture we will just place two fingers on our screen and sort of just scrub them back and forth. It’s almost like writing the print letter Z on our screen here. Now we’ll need to have our fingers separated just a little bit, otherwise our device will see our fingers, just this one big finger, right? And we don’t want that. So let’s go ahead and



scrub this all the way here or close our context menu here. So let’s just go ahead and just scrub here. So we’ll scrub. And we’ll stop that right there.

All right. So great. Our context menu has closed. Actually, our preview has closed as well and we have been placed right back in our mail inbox folder here, which is pretty great. Okay, like we mentioned earlier there are actually two ways that we can activate our peek gesture, and if you flick through your screen like I do then this next gesture really is the one for you. So how about we right-flick back to our mail message? Or I think we’re actually in it. But we can check to see how we can use our second peek gesture here. So we’ll just right-flick and I think we’re actually almost on this first message, so we’ll go ahead and right-flick. Here it is, Broadway. And we’ll perform our two-finger single-tap to pause it right there.

Okay, so here we are back on that first mail message again, and I flicked to it. And only now to perform our peek gesture instead of just pushing down on it we will single-finger double-tap, hold and then press firmly down on our screen. Now the key is of course to hold on our second tab. Otherwise, if we just single-finger double-tap we will of course just open



this mail message, and you don’t want that. So how about we go ahead and give it a try here?

We’ll just single-finger double tap, hold and then we’ll just press firmly down on our screen. So how about we do it? We’ll just double-tap, hold and press. All right, so great. Here we are back in our preview. And just like before we are able to slide our finger around our screen if we like to check out our preview here.

Or we can then, of course slide our finger to the bottom right to find our preview action features. Now remember we still haven’t lifted our finger from our screen. And don’t forget if we lift our finger from our screen our preview screen will close and we don’t want that. So this brings us to actually our next gesture. And this is our pop gesture. Now our pop gesture gives us the ability to pop the rest of the way into our message or rather open our message once we peeked into it, because maybe after previewing our message we have decided that we want to open it.

So all we need to do to activate our pop gesture is to just press firmly on our screen again. All right, so that sounds pretty simple, right? And it is. So let’s give it a try. We will just press firmly again to pop right into this e-mail message. And we’ll just press. And pause



it there. All right. And we heard a couple of tones that let us know that our e-mail message opened, and now we can just lift our finger from our screen and we can just right and left-flick through our message just like we typically would. And so that is pretty great.

You know when new gestures are added to our device it can be a bit intimidating at first, especially when they have us interacting with our device in a whole new way. However, our peek and pop gestures are a couple that I ensure that we’ll find ourselves using all the time.

All right, so that pretty much covers our 3D touch feature. So how about we open things up for a few questions now? So I’ll go ahead and hand the microphone back over.

Larry MuffettAll right. One thing I wanted to announce before we got started today, I was – we missed in mentioning that portions of today’s seminar are pre-recorded. Douglas and I are both here live. Douglas is here live to answer questions and for me to run the board, but portions of this presentation are pre-recorded just for makes it easier and does a little bit for quality control. So just wanted to let people know about that.



Douglas, one question before I turn this the microphone here. Jessica says, “I’m unable to access preview actions. How do I do it?”

Douglas WalkerYeah. Remember Jessica. This is new. This force touch and 3D touch stuff is all new with the iPhone 6S and the iPhone 6S Plus. And it seems to me that I remember you’re using an iPad, so it’s not going to be available yet on your iPad. And I sort of batted around whether I should really be covering this, because it is so limited to the newest phone. However, we try to be cutting-edge here at Hadley.

And so, what’s going to happen is this 3D touch feature is soon going to be available in all devices, I mean. So from here on out you’re going to find it in your iPads and then your iPhones. So it’s kind of cool to know that this is here and to know that Apple still really, really is, you know, all about accessibility. Because I was wondering how in the world are they going to make 3D touch where you push in on your phone, are they going to be able to make this accessible?

And so I was so excited to find that they still are very, very committed to accessibility and that they’re willing to go beyond and really make these new gestures



accessible and available to us in the blindness community as well. So that’s why we’re doing it today, because it’s just going to be a part of how we work with the iPhone in the future. So unfortunately, we’re limited to the 6S and the 6S Plus with this gesture.

Larry MuffettJessica says, “I have an iPhone 6S Plus.”

Douglas WalkerWell Jessica, you had me locked out there. Yeah, it seems like you’re trying to get control of the microphone. Then I have no clue why it wouldn’t be working for you. So, you know, I gave out the Apple support number earlier, so you may want to give them a call. It sounds like you’re having some issues with your devices today.

Larry MuffettAll right, I’m going to release the microphone here for our first question and answer period. So if you have a question for Douglas please get in line and you will get a tone from the control key when indicates you have control of the microphone, so make sure and ask your question. And after you’ve asked your question make sure and release the control key. So, questions.



Douglas WalkerIt’s very quiet out there Larry. So I know somebody must have a question. Come on.

Larry MuffettMaggie says, “Is this whole presentation about iPhone 6? Because I’m using an S, or a 5 and not getting much out of this. Thinking about signing off.” I think you did sort of already touch on that.

Douglas WalkerYeah. And I can understand why you’d want to, but no. I wouldn’t do that to you guys. The whole second half, actually it’s a longer second half. I think it runs – it’s going to run about 40, close to 45 minutes. We’re covering all the new features in the notes app and the new news app. So everyone should be able to have that as long as you have the iOS 9 or iOS 9.1, which we currently have now. So no worries, no worries. Just the first part of today’s seminar. So stick around please. Don’t go anywhere.

Larry MuffettI know we’ve got to have some questions out there for Douglas. If we don’t get some here in a minute, we’re going to go ahead and start the second segment. So questions anyone? Lori, that number is 877-204-3930.



Douglas WalkerYou know, and I tend to give out that VoiceOver support number in every one of my seminars, because guys they can be such a valuable resource there. They understand the VoiceOver needs that we have when dealing with our phone and how it’s different from, you know, how somebody in the sighted world might be doing with their phone. So it’s great to have that VoiceOver support number. And, you know, it is up in the text chat area as well. So if you missed it, you can check it out there.

Larry MuffettI’m going to ask one more time for questions and if not we’ll going to go ahead and get started for the next section. Sort of a question; Phil wants to know does that support number work for Canada also?

Douglas WalkerWell, I don’t know. But you know I’d give it a shot. I think it is and a toll free number. So give it a try. It can’t hurt.

Larry MuffettWe’ve got a shy group today Douglas, so why don’t we just go ahead and run the second section and see if we have some questions out for that one.



Douglas WalkerAll right. I feel like we’re going to be running through this next segment, because there is just so much to cover with these next two topics. And in this segment we’re going to be looking at a couple great features that were added with iOS 9. And first, we’ll be looking at some features that were added to the notes app, as well as the all-new news app, which is a fantastic app.

Like I said, this is going to be a lot to cover, so let’s go ahead and jump right in. Okay, we’ll begin by checking out with the new features that were added to our notes app. Now, this is an app that’s built right into all of our iDevices. However, it’s going to appear just a little differently if we’re using our iPad, but fear not we’re going to have all the same functionality that we would on our iPhone.

Now the notes app is a really good, very simple word processor and it is a great go-to app for taking notes maybe in a meeting, for making a grocery list, or just jotting down a quick reminder. You know it really does have a super simple interface and has some really, really useful ways of sharing our notes with others. Okay, so let’s go ahead and check it out.

All right, our notes app is right here on our desktop. So we will begin by just flicking to it here. So we’ll just



flick to it. Now we’ll just need a single-finger double-tap to launch it here and we’ll just single-finger double-tap. Okay, so when our notes app opens we are placed in one of two places. If we happen to have been in a note or editing a note the last time the notes app was open, we are placed right back in that previous note for editing.

However, if our previous note was completed then we’ll be placed in a back button in the top left corner of our notes list screen. And, of course this is a screen with all of our created notes here, which is exactly where we are right now. All right, so what we’re going to do now is just briefly explore the screen to see what our notes list screen looks like.

Again, we’re on a back button in the very top corner of our screen. And if we were to activate this back button it would open our folders list where we can actually create folders. Now we won’t have time to explore folders list today. However, it really is great that we can create folders for keeping all of our notes all organized. So how about we just right-flick through these notes list screen to see what this all looks like here? And so we’ll just right-flick from here. So a right-flick.



Okay, so here we find our notes list heading in the top center of our screen. So we’ll just right-flick from here. Right-flick. Okay, so here we find an edit button in the top right-hand corner of our screen. And if we were to single-finger double-tap to activate it we would be given options for moving or deleting our notes. All right, it’s pretty cool so let’s just right-flick again. And we’ll right-flick.

Great. So here we find our search field. Now it’s very easy to quickly end up with a ton of notes in our notes list. So it’s great that we have a way to quickly be able to search for a note instead of having to just flick through all of our notes. If we were to single-finger double-tap in this edit field we would be given a keyboard at the bottom of our screen where we could type in and search through all of our created notes. And so that’s pretty great. However, we don’t have a ton of notes here. So we’ll just continue right-flicking to the right to explore this list here. So let’s just right-flick here.

Okay, so now this is the first note in our list and what we heard was a note description along with the date that the note was created or worked on. And that’s exactly what we’re going to hear for each of our notes as we continue to flick to the right through this list. So



let’s go ahead and just right-flick again to see what we have.

Now it’s also important to know that the note description is actually the first line of our note. And we’ll want it to be something specific to the note so that it will remind us of exactly what our note is about. And, well this make a little more sense in just a minute when we actually create a new note.

Okay, so we have several more notes in our list here. And we could continue to just right-flick through them. However, we only have a couple more buttons on our notes screen. And actually we could just touch in the bottom left corner of our screen to quickly find the first of these notes, our buttons here. So let’s go ahead and just touch in the bottom left corner of our screen here, and we’ll just touch.

All right, so we’re able to add attachments to our notes, such as photos or videos from our camera roll. We’re able to add maps or even a sketch for a drawing that we’ve created. And activating our attachment browser button will give us a list of all of our attachments that we have added to any of our notes. And we’ll make them easy to find that way. So that’s pretty great. Okay, so let’s go ahead and right-flick from here and we’ll right-flick.



Okay. And here VoiceOver told us exactly how many notes we have in our list and we’re at the bottom center of our screen here. So 21 is a lot of notes, we’ll just right-flick one more time here and that we’ll find our new note button in the bottom-right corner. So we’ll just right-flick.

Okay, so here we are on our new note button. Like I said it’s in the bottom right-hand corner of our screen. So to begin a new note we will just need to single-finger double-tap. So how about we go ahead and just single-finger double-tap to start a new note here. So we’ll do that, just double-tap.

Okay, so we’ve actually been placed in our edit field where we can actually begin typing. However, we’re going to go ahead and just explore our screen to find our new features that had been added. Now in the top-left corner of our screen we’re going to find our note back button. So, let’s just go ahead and touch this back button here. So we’ll just touch.

Okay, so activating this of course is going to take us back to our notes list. Now let’s begin by just right-flicking through the screen. So we’ll just right-flick from here. Okay, so here we find a new share button. And if we were to activate our share button we would be given several options for sharing our current note.



We could e-mail it, we could send it by text message, we could copy our text or we could even print it from here. You know, we even have the option to open our note within another app. It really is great that we’re now given so many new ways for sharing our note.

However, we heard VoiceOver announce that this button is currently done, and this is because we don’t yet have any context within our note. So how about we just continue to right-flick and see some of our other new features here. So we’ll just go ahead and right-flick.

Okay, so here is the top-right corner of our screen, we have a done button up here. And now when we finished checking out our other notes new features we’ll actually come back here and activate this done button. Now once we activate this done button we will have some additional new tools that we will explore here as well. So how about we continue for now to just right-flick? And so we’ll right-flick.

Okay, so here it is. We have the date and time that this note is created. And you know it really is nice to have our note time-stamped for future reference. Now if we flick to the right again we’ll be placed right back in our edit field where we can actually begin



typing our notes. So let’s go ahead and right-flick to this edit field here, and we’ll right-flick.

Okay, so we’re back in our edit field and we could begin our new note here. However, let’s just continue to right-flick to find our new features. So let’s just right-flick. Okay. Right and we’re going to do that. So here’s our new toolbar, but now our show toolbar button is actually at the bottom right-hand corner of our edit field, sort of in the middle right-hand side of our screen, and it’s in the top right-hand corner of our keyboard. And if we activate our show toolbar button we will have some really great new editing tools. And they’re going to be lined up horizontally across the top edge of our keyboard.

So how about we activate this show toolbar button here so that our tools will all be visible to us, and we’ll just single-finger double-tap here. All right, our show toolbar button has now turned into a hide toolbar button if you wanted to hide it. And now a list of four really new useful tools are now available for us to use. And as we mentioned these are lined up horizontally just across the top edge of our keyboard here.

Remember our hide toolbar button is at the top right-hand corner of our keyboard here. So to move through this new toolbar we will actually just need



double left-flick. So let’s just left-flick and see what we have. We’ll go ahead and left-flick.

Great. So here we have our sketch button and activating this button will give us the tools for creating or drawing a sketch and the sketch will then be added to our note. And believe it or not, our sketch feature is something that is actually totally accessible when using VoiceOver. However, we aren’t going to have the time to explore this – I mean, with VoiceOver today, so we’ll continue just to left-flick through our tools to see what else we have. So let’s go ahead and left-flick.

Okay, so here is our add photos button and of course activating this it’s going to bring up a dialogue box that will give us the option for adding a photo to our note here. And we can either choose a picture from our photo library or we can choose to open our camera and actually take a photo from right there that’s going to be added to our note. So that is pretty great.

All right, so let’s left-flick a couple more times to check out our other new features here. And we’ll go ahead and left-flick. Okay, so this is a really cool new feature. Now activating our text style presets button will give us a dialogue box that allows us to choose



between several different types of style such as a title maybe or maybe you want to add a heading or even a bulleted or maybe a numbered list. And these more advanced editing tools are actually something that’s really been missing from this app in the past.

So it’s really nice that we have the ability to add styles. This is actually something that I use a lot. Okay, so we have one more new item in this toolbar. So let’s just left-flick again. So we’ll left-flick. Okay, so here we have our checklist button. And we would select this button if we wanted to begin creating a list with checkboxes that can actually be checked off as we complete them. And to me that’s super cool.

Okay, so if we left-flick one more time we will be placed right back in our edit field for composing a new note. So, let’s go ahead and left-flick here. We’ll just left-flick. Okay, so here we are in our edit field and now we aren’t going to be creating a new note today. So instead of editing here, let’s just touch our done button in the top right-hand corner of our screen. So we’ll touch this done button up here, and we’ll single-finger double-tap to activate this done button. So we’ll just double-tap.

Okay, now we have some really useful new options available to use at the bottom of our screen. Now we



could just keep flicking to the right to find these options. However, we can just touch in the bottom left-hand corner of our screen to locate the first of these new options. So let’s do just that. We’ll just touch in the bottom left-hand corner of our screen.

Okay, so now instead of our keyboard down here we have our delete button because we’ve activated that done button. And you probably guessed we could just single-finger double-tap here if you want to delete our new note here. And, of course if we activate our delete button we’re represented with a confirmation delete button to make sure that we really do want to delete this note. And we could also just right-flick to a cancel button if we decide we don’t want to delete it there.

Okay, so we have a couple of more really great new options here. So let’s just continue to right-flick. And we’ll just right-flick. Okay, so here’s our photos button. Now just like the photos button that we saw earlier in our toolbar if we activate this button we will have the ability to insert a photo or a video from our camera roll or we’re given the option to take a photo or a video right on the spot that could be inserted right into our note. I tell you it really is great that we have the option to add media from here right into our note.



Okay, so we also saw this next option in our toolbar and this is the ability to add a sketch or a drawing to our notes. So let’s just right-flick again to check it out. So we’ll just right-flick. Okay, great. This is our sketch button again. And like we said earlier everything in the sketch feature is totally accessible when using VoiceOver. And hey, you never know we might just have a feature iFocus video that demonstrates how to use the sketch feature. However, we’ll just right-flick one more time for now. So we’ll go ahead and right-flick.

Okay, so here – Sorry about that. Here, we have our new note button again. And we can activate this if we want to begin a brand new note. All right, so that pretty much covers our note interface and all of the new features that have been added to our notes app. I tell you, the notes app is such a great accessible note-taking app. And it really is just such an easy app to navigate. And I tell you it’s been given some really great new features that make it super easy to edit, as well as share our notes.

Okay, so this brings us to our last topic for today’s seminar. And this could almost be its own seminar. And this is the new news app. Right. Yup. You know I really do love to keep up with the latest news. And there are some really great news apps out there.



However, most of them require some type of accessibility work around, because they’re not always totally accessible. And this is why we’re so excited that Apple has decided to have a news app, because Apple has been very committed to making all of their native apps totally accessible for us, and the news app really is no exception to this. So how about we jump right in and check it out?

Okay, so the news app is on our desktop here. But first, I need to close our notes app here. So we’ll just tap our home button here. All right, and we will just flick to our news app here. So we’ll just flick. All right, and we will just single-finger double-tap to open our news app here.

Okay, so we’ve been placed in our For You tab here. And we could begin just by right-flicking to our content or articles here. However, how about we first begin by just talking a little about the setup process? Now, the first time that we open our news app we are presented with a welcome screen, and we are told that the more we read the more personalized our news app will become.

Now Apple has already included content from the New York Times, CNN, ESPN, The Atlantic and I think Slate by default here. And then we’re asked to



pick at least three more sources in which we would like to subscribe. And it’s easy to just right-flick through our choices and just single-finger double-tap on to pick the publications or content that we want to add.

Now when we finish with our selection news then asks if we would like to have content from the news app e-mailed to us. Now I chose to decline this because I already get tons of e-mails, as well as junk e-mails in my inbox and I had rather just go to the news app itself to check out my news.

Okay, so after we finish our setup process we are then taken right into our news app and were placed in our For You tab, which is exactly where we are right now. All right, our For You tab actually includes content or articles from all of the sources we chose during our setup process. And like we said we could just right-flick through this to move through all of our content or all of our articles that are listed here. Now if we aren’t yet familiar with how tabs work; tabs are like buttons and they are typically located along the bottom edge of our screen.

Now activating any of our tabs will open up a whole new screen in which we can interact. Now our news app actually has five tabs in it. So how about we



quickly just flick through these tabs to see how all of these works. And then we’ll take a look at how we can add additional publications. We’ll look at how to maybe remove an unwanted publication and then we’ll come back here to our For You tab to check out how to access or how to read our articles.

Of course, we’re in our For You tab right now and we could find our For You tab in the bottom-left corner of our screen. So how about we go ahead and just touch there so that we can just right-flick through the rest of our tabs? And we’ll just touch the bottom-left corner of our screen.

Great. And of course VoiceOver announced that our For You tab is currently selected. Again, this is where we’ll find the content for all of our favorite publications. And we’ll come back here in just a bit to check out how to navigate through all of our articles or what Apple likes to call stories. But for now, let’s just continue to right-flick through these tabs here. So we’ll just right-flick.

Okay, here is our favorites tab. And if we were to activate this tab we would be presented with a list of all of our favorite publications. And we’re actually going to take a look at how to add and remove publications in just a bit. But this is where we will find



all of them. And we’ll come back here later and check out exactly how to edit our favorites. So let’s just right-flick from here and we’ll right-flick.

Okay, so here’s our explore tab and you probably already guessed, this is where we will come to explore and discover additional publications that we can add to our favorites tab. And again, we’ll come back here in just a minute for a little exploration. But for now, we’ll just go ahead and right-flick. So we’ll right-flick.

Okay, so here we have our search tab. And this is where we can come to perform a search if we already know the name of a new source or a publication that we want to add to our favorites. So that’s pretty great as well. Okay, so we’re almost at the end of our tabs. So we will just right-flick one more time. And we’ll just right-flick.

Okay, so here we find our save tab. Now we actually have the ability to save individual articles and we’ll find all of our saved articles right here in our saved tab, so that we can read them later or whenever we have the time. All right, so there you go. We have reached the end of our tabs here.



Okay, so how about we move back to or explore tab and see just how easy it is to add additional publications as a favorite. So we’ll just left-flick a couple of times and we’ll left-flick back to our explore tab. There’s our search tab. We’ll left-flick again. Okay, so here is our explore tab. So we will just single-finger double-tap to activate and we’ll single-finger double-tap.

Okay, so we are still on our explore tab and you heard a little noise there, that little blip sound to let us know that it’s open. And our explore screen interface is now available to us. So how about we just orient our self to the top of our screen so that we can explore our explore tab. And we’ll do this by just right-flicking through it. Now we have our explore heading in the top center of our screen. And it’s just below the time in our status bar. So how about we just touch our explore heading? And we’ll just touch this heading here.

Great. So here’s our heading. So we know for sure that we’re on our explore screen for one and now we can just begin by just right-flicking through our screen to find some new favorite publications here. Now it’s important to know that our suggested publications here on our explore screen are based on the publications that we have already added to our



favorites, as well as some of the articles that we maybe have saved for later reading.

Now our explore screen is actually divided into three sections; we have our suggested channels or publication section at the top of our screen here, and we have a suggested topics section across the middle part of our screen and we have a section that allows us to browse maybe by categories, and this of course is near the bottom part of our screen.

Now we will encounter headings for each one of these sections as we move through our screen. Let’s just begin by right-flicking to see how our sections are laid out. And so we’ll just right-flick from here. We’ll right-flick.

Okay, so here is our suggested channels heading. And only three at a time are currently visible on our screen. However, we typically have between 15 or 20 suggestions that have been suggested for us. Now it really is a bit awkward at how we have to move through our suggestions when we’re using VoiceOver. And we’ll check out how we have to do this as we progress or as we continue to explore our content here. So let’s just keep right-flicking for now. So we’ll just right-flick.



Great. Double-tap it first. Okay, so here is our first suggestion here and it’s The Guardian. And VoiceOver announced that we could double-tap to view all of the stories in this channel, and we’re also told that we have some actions that are available to us.

Okay, it’s kind of nice that we have the ability to activate this channel and check out its content before we actually add it as a favorite. However, we’re going to look at how to add it as a favorite by using our actions here. Now our actions – moving through our actions is really simple. All we need to do is just of course flick up or down on our screen to cycle through any actions that we have. So we’ll just flick down our screen and see how this looks. So we’ll just flick down.

Okay, and we heard VoiceOver announce that we can add The Guardian to our favorites. And to do this, of course all we need to do is just single-finger double-tap. Now if we decide that we don’t want to add this publication we can just flick down to choose our default action. So, let’s take a look at how that’s done. We’ll just flick down.

Okay, and VoiceOver announced activate app item and we were also told of course that this is our default



action. So we know that if we were to single-finger double-tap here that this publication would open and we would be given a preview of all of its content or stories, which is pretty great.

Okay, so let’s not add this publication right now. Let’s just continue to right-flick to see how we move through the rest of our suggestions here. And so we’ll just right-flick here, so let’s go ahead and right-flick. We’ll right-flick again. Business insider. Okay, now if we right-flick one more time we will be placed on an adjustable bar. And we’ll need to interact with this adjustable bar to move to our next three publication choices.

I know, it’s kind of a strange way to do it, but anyway, we’ll just right-flick to check it out and we’ll go ahead and right-flick. Okay, here we are on our adjustable bar and we heard VoiceOver announce that we could swipe up or down to adjust the value. So we would just swipe or flick up the screen to move to our next three publication choices. And so we’ll just flick up.

Great. And we heard VoiceOver announce that we’re on page two of nine. So we know that our next three choices are now available to us. Now, this is where it gets kind of strange to find our fourth publication here. We need to just touch below our suggested channels



heading, which is close to the top-left corner of our screen here. So we’ll just touch.

Just below that suggested user settings. Yeah. It would be nice if Apple would just change this and allow us to just right-flick through all of our suggested publications without having to interact with that adjustable bar there. But it is what it is, right? So all right.

How about we add our time of publication to our favorites here? And we’ll do this by using our actions. So we would just flick down. So go ahead and flick down. Great, and we heard VoiceOver announce add time to favorites, so all we need to do is just single-finger double-tap. So we’ll do just that, we’ll single-finger double-tap.

Okay, and VoiceOver announced that time has been added to our favorites. So we know that we will now find that publication under our favorites tab. And of course, the stories and the articles from time will also be available in our For You tab, which is pretty great.

Okay, so the rest of our explore screen works very similar to how we move through our suggested channels. So you’ll kind of want to move through the screen and explore it on your own, but for now how



about we move to our favorites tab to make sure that our time publication has been added?

And we’ll also look at how to remove publications from our favorites tab as well. So we’ll orient ourselves to our tabs by simply just touching in the bottom-left corner of screen. So we’ll just touch.

Okay, so here is our For You tab. So we know that we just right-flick one time to get back to our favorites tab. So we’ll just right-flick. Okay, so here is our favorites tab, so we will just single-finger double tap to activate or open it here. So we’ll just single-finger double-tap.

Great. Our favorites tab is now selected and we have a list of all of our favorite publications. So how about we orient our self to our favorites screen by touching our favorite heading in the top-center of our screen here? And of course, we always find this heading just below our time in our status bar. So we’ll just touch our favorites heading here.

All right, so here is our favorites heading. And now we could just right-flick through our screen to see a list of our favorite publications. So how about we just right-flick here? So we’ll just right-flick. Okay, so here is our edit button and it’s in the top right-hand



corner of our screen here. Now, activating our edit button will give us the ability to delete any of our unwanted publications here. So that’s pretty cool, but let’s just continue to right-flick here to make sure that our time publication has been added to our favorites list here. So we’ll just right-flick.

Okay, we’ll just continue to right-flick. We’ll right-flick again and we’ll right-flick again and we’ll right-flick one more time. Okay. Okay, this is super because here we have our time publication. Okay, and now if we want to open it and read its contents, of course just like the VoiceOver announced all we would do is single-finger double-tap here. So that is pretty great.

Okay, so let’s quickly take a look at just how easy it is to remove one of our publications from our favorites list. And to do this we’ll just need to activate that edit button in the top right-hand corner of our screen here. So we’ll just touch our edit button here. And there it is, so we will just single-finger double-tap to activate it here.

Great. Our edit button has now turned into a done button. And we will need to come of course back here and activate it once we are done editing our favorites list here.



Okay, let’s say that we have decided that we really don’t want time to be in our favorites list after all. Well, now that we’re in edit more we’ll just need to right-flick to time in order to remove it from our list here. So we’ll just right-flick to time here. So we’re just going to flick until we get to it.

Okay, so here we are on time and all we need to do now to remove it is to just single-finger double-tap. So let’s do that. Let’s just single-finger double-tap here. Great. And we heard VoiceOver announce remove time from favorites. So we know that it has been removed. So that is pretty great.

I don’t want to delete anymore right now, but that was pretty easy, right? And since we’re finished editing we will need to find our done button in the top-right corner of our screen here. So we’ll just go ahead and touch there, and we’ll go ahead and just single-finger double-tap to activate it.

It has turned back into an edit button now, but that’s just how easy it is to add and remove content or publications to our news app. So let’s go ahead and take a look at just one more thing. Let’s head back to our For You tab and check out how to move through our stories or our articles here. Now we know that our For You tab is in the bottom-left corner of our screen.



So we will just touch in the bottom-left corner of our screen here. So we’ll just touch.

Okay, so here we are. So we will just single-finger double-tap to activate it here. We’ll just double-tap. Great. Our For You tab is now selected, so how about we just touch our For You heading just below the time in our status bar here? And so we’ll just touch.

And there it is. And we were told that we had new stories here, which is pretty nice. So to make sure those new stories are loaded, we found that we just need to single-finger double-tap our For You heading here. So we’ll just single-finger double-tap. Okay, now that our new stories have all loaded, how about we just right-flick off from here? We’ll check them out here, and we’ll just right-flick. And we may have to pause on this. So we’ll right-flick here, and right-flick, then we right-flick, and then we right-flick, and one more.

Okay, let’s pause right there. And I paused that with just it does two-finger single-tap there. All right, so this looks like an interesting story; a lot of negative stuff here after the Paris bombings of course. And, you know, as we flick through our list we’re given some really great information that we’re told the title



of each story, we’re told the name of the story’s publication and we are told how long ago the publication was added to our news app. Of course we read just a bit of it before we hear all that.

You know we’re also told that we have some custom actions and we know that with custom actions that we can just flick up or down to cycle or move through all those. So how about we check out these actions real quick. We will just flick down to cycle through all these. And so we’ll just flick.

Okay, so I can actually share the story, whether it’s through e-mail or if I want to text message it to someone. So it’s really nice; we have the share options right here. So we’ll flick down again to hear another action. Now remember our save tab in the bottom right-hand corner of our screen? If I were to single-finger double-tap on this it would save it to a list there so that we could access it later on. This is really cool. So I’ll go ahead and flick down again.

I’m can like this. So we all know how we can like things on Facebook or Twitter, but here we are; we can like this story right here. And we can mute this channel. So if you don’t want this to show up any longer in this list, we might want to mute stories like



this for this channel from our For You list here. So I’ll flick down again.

Okay, so here is our default action, which is our activate items. So how about we just perform this default action and actually jump right into this story here? So we’ll go ahead and just single-finger double-tap to activate it.

Great. Our article has open and we’ve been placed on heading at the top of the page. Now we could just either right-flick to move through this or we could just perform our two-finger flick down continuous read gesture to begin reading our full story here. So how about we do just that? We will just flick down our screen with two fingers and we will just flick down here.

Okay, and we just performed our two-finger single-tap to pause VoiceOver there. And that is pretty great. Now it’s important to know that we are going to have some tools available to us. And these tools are located across the bottom edge of our screen here. Now these are the exact same tools that we were given as custom actions in the previous list when we are, you know, in all those list of stories there.



However, it’s kind of nice to have them here as well because we might just decide that we maybe want to share or save this article once we’ve actually read it. So it’s nice to have these options here as well.

Okay, to exit this article or any article that we may have opened, we’ll find a back button in the top-left corner of our screen. Or you know we could simply perform our scrub gesture again. So how about we just touch our back button in the top-left corner of our screen here? And now we just single-finger double-tap to close this or to move back to our For You articles list here. So we’ll just single-finger double-tap.

Great. And here we are back in our For You screen. You know the news app really is a terrific app for keeping up with all of our latest news. And it really is something that I find myself using all throughout the day.

All right, I know that we covered and gone over a bit here. So how about we open things up for a few questions? So we’ll go ahead and hand the microphone back over.

Larry Muffett



Okay, Douglas we’ve got a few questions in the textbox. Jocelyn says, “To confirm this notes app, is it downloaded or just the one on the phone already?”

Douglas WalkerYeah. The notes app, this is the one that comes pre-installed. This is from Apple. And so this is going to be the notes app that is built into your operating system here. So there are some other good really great notes apps out there. Access Note is a really good notes app. And the Voice Dream Writer is also a really good notes app as well, but this app, you know, like I said earlier Apple is really committed to accessibility. So this app is very accessible and it works well across all of our Apple products. So that’s why we’re focusing on it today.

Larry MuffettAnother question; Marvin wants to know when sharing notes, can videos and photos be sent by e-mail?

Douglas WalkerYes. You can send these notes that or have embedded video and audio and also a sketch and the photos as well, but do keep in mind that you’re using data when you do this if you use your iPhone. It also depends upon, now when we get the video it’s another monster within itself, because videos do take



up a lot of space, and so you are limited to shorter videos, you know, for e-mailing and texting and stuff like that. But you have all the media that we mentioned today can be sent within the note. It’s going to work better if you’re sending it to somebody that’s using an Apple product. But yeah, I send stuff from my iPhone that has embedded photos and videos and everything right to my work e-mail all the time, and it works great.

Larry MuffettGreta wants to know, she says, “At some time would Doug tell us how to print from iPads? I have a wireless printer, but problems with printing.”

Douglas WalkerI have a love-hate relationship with my wireless printer as well. You have to make sure that you have a printer that’s capable of doing – having air print technology. And you can actually get a list of these under the accessories. If you go on to the Apple website and you click on your Mac link there or your iPad link there you can follow the accessories link and find some really, really great printers that are going to work well.

And you can be careful because you can range from – There is Epson printers and HP printers seem to be



the printer of choice for Apple right now. Hewlett Packard and Epson, but check there first if you’re, you know, if you’re doing that. But remember it has to be a printer that is capable of doing air print from an iPhone or an iDevice before you can actually print from it.

Larry MuffettAnother question; [inaudible 01:24:01] says, “I want to start using the dictate function in notes. Is there a YouTube video to help me with that?”

Douglas WalkerYes. Actually we do have an iFocus video using the dictation feature. And probably should go ahead and mention that. I’ve been talking about the videos and we have close to 50 videos up right now both on YouTube and our Hadley website. You know I covered a lot today. Each one of these topics are going to be covered in a separate video. I can go into much more detail with the videos.

However, we try to keep the videos between 15 and 30 minutes each to keep them from getting too long for you. But if you want to try to go to YouTube and access that you can go right to our YouTube channel at youtube.com/hadleyschool and hopefully Larry will stick that in our text chat box up there.



Or I’m telling you if you’re using a screen reader it’s much easier to navigate through our Hadley website to get to those. So you’ll want to go to our Hadley website, and you can either go just to our home page and click on the videos at Hadley link, which will take you to all of our videos that are on our website. Or you can go directly to them by going to hadley.edu/instructionalvideos.asp.

And you can find all of our videos there. And yes, we have one on the using dictation feature all the way from getting started, the beginning VoiceOver gestures. So go check those out.

Larry MuffettMaggie has a question. She says, “I did not hear anything about subscription fees in the news app for example for Time Magazine.”

Douglas WalkerRight. And there’s not going to be a subscription right now for this. I keep holding my breath waiting. And you know the news app I don’t think it’s yet available in Canada. It’s available in US. It’s coming to Canada very soon. If it’s not already there, they already be there. I haven’t checked recently, but with the initial release it wasn’t available in Canada.



No subscriptions right now. These are videos – I mean, these are stories that are typically placed within their online publications, so a lot of those are just out there for people to get. However, this is just much more accessible rather than trying to go to their websites and trying to read their articles. It’s much, much more accessible just to go to the news app and be able to quickly get them and flick through them there. So no subscriptions yet.

Larry MuffettI’m going to release the microphone so we’ve got time for a few questions here before we start wrapping up. So go ahead and get in-line and ask your questions of Douglas.

All right, we seem to be having some issues with some people locking up the control of the microphone, so I’m going to – While I have control here I’m going to start wrapping this up, and I want to let people know that this seminar like all of our seminars will be archived on our website and available for your use anytime around the clock.

Also, each Hadley seminar is now made available to podcast, which you can download to your computer or mobile device. If today’s seminar has you interested in this or related technology topics, please check out



the seminar archives, Hadley’s YouTube channel as we talked about and Hadley’s course list.

Douglas and I both thank you for your participation. Your questions were outstanding and added to the value of the seminar. Hadley values your feedback. Please let us know what you thought about today’s seminar and please give us suggestions for future topics. One way you can do that is by dropping us an e-mail through [email protected]. That’s [email protected]

So I’m going to try, attempt to turn the microphone back over to Douglas one last time for any closing comments he might have. Douglas.

Douglas WalkerNow Larry, I feel so bad that people are having such a difficulty accessing the microphone today, because I’d love to sit around and answer some questions for your guys. So hopefully we can get this issue worked out, you know, and maybe in the next iFocus we can have many more questions answered, because I love, love that part of our seminar.

But I like to thank you all for being here. I appreciate you guys. And I noticed on the list so many of you have been to former iFocus seminars and I appreciate


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you guys coming back. If this is your first time, I really, really appreciate you as well and hope you come back again soon. And don’t forget go check out our videos at Hadley link on the Hadley website. So hopefully you can dig through all those videos and really find something that can help you out there. So take care and I’ll see you next time.

Larry MuffettThank you, Douglas. Another outstanding iFocus presentation. And I also want to personally thank everyone for being a part of this today, for taking the time to be with us. Again, it’s unfortunate we had some situations there where we sort of clogging up and the microphone was getting locked out, so hopefully we can – as Douglas said we can clear that up and have a few more questions at the end next time. So again, thank you very much for being a part of this today and goodbye for now.

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