Category: accessible Devices
Hello all. Sooo, I finally broke down and got an Ipad Pro. As a low vision user, I honestly can't recommend it enough. Makes every single magnification/vision device I've owned feel ... really, really redundant.
Anyway, I really want to start using it to work seriously on my writing. I've used Pages and Word, along with spending waaay too much on Voice DreamWriter, after hearing how amazing it was. I'm used to PC editing, where I can navigate by paragraph, sentence, word and line with JAWS/NVDA. I find there is functionality to do this on IOS as long as you're using a Bluetooth keyboard. The problem is, it's a bit unreliable. In both pages and Word, reading by paragraph is spotty at best. It often jumps me around unreliably, or skips over entire paragraphs. I've heard Scrivner is accessible on the Mac, but haven't heard if it is on IOS. THen there's Voice Dream Writer; an interesting concept, bu'u'u'u'uuut... it doesn't IMPORT word files, and forces me to use markup to get any formatting done. Don't mind the latter, but the former is a deal-breaker. WIsh I'd realized that before I bought it.... SO, rambling now over, does anyone have any good apps I could look at, or tips and tricks to navigate using apps I've already mentioned reliably? Thanks very much.
use quick nav, and if you have a keyboard, it will rock your world. I wrote all of my papers on pages.
Use quick nav how? I can only use the router to read by lines, words, characters and headings. If I need to scroll through paragraphs though it can be really slow to read by lines. Otherwise yes, that would work great. Unless I'm doing something wrong?
as a creative told me when I was trying to decide on an MacBook Air or a iPad
Pro, the fact is that, the laptops still make better devices for word processing.
Yes, they really, really do. I love my ipad for a great many things, but writing is unfortunately not one of them. Too bad, too because it's so ridiculously portable.