Category: accessible Devices
Hi, I've got an ipad that I've had for quite a while now! I would like to use it more but can't seem to be able to do anything with it except by accident or chance. I also have a keyboard for it but only a few of the keys on it seem to work. I'm sure I could change this in the Ipad settings but since I'm not getting very far with the touch screen I don't know where to go from here. even though I have the voice over software installed on it. So any tips on using the touch screen or getting the keyboard working properly I would really really appreciate it! thanks!
private message me if you wish with any direct questions you may have. From the home screen, an easy way to begin is to flatten your finger on the screen, and swipe from left to right this will allow you to navigate through the options on the iPad. It is a wonderful device.
what do you want to do with it?
I second the post above which states to swipe from left-right in order to move through the functions on the ipad. If you want to open up an icon double tap it with one finger, and again, swipe along the screen to see options etc. if you want to come back out of the app you're in hit the home key and you'll go back to the front screen. anything else..?
Thank you both so much for those tips. To be honest I just wanted to be able to do anything with it! but I'm getting a bit more used to the gestures now so it has become much easier to navigate. Thank you!
I will also say this:
What helped me was to just put my fingers on the iPod like reading Braille and slide or trace around - your home screen is basically a grid - and once you learn where most things are it gets easier. For example: The back button is usually top left. Done or send, or 'do it' is usually top right. 'Go' is usually bottom right if you've got the keyboard up. Also on any program, your options often run across the bottom as a row of buttons you can feel-ish from the left to right, the Voiceover will read it out as you move across one. Text and other elements are generally in the middle, while the heading part is about a third of the way from the top, below the buttons going back and Save / Done / whatever. This is all general, of course, but it's like Windows or anything else: you learn some of the concepts as to where things are you'll be fine exploring. I found once I had a picture in my mind as to what was where, things got easier.
Just keep messing with it: that's exactly what I did when I was on vacation from work over Christmas. If you flick I seem to find it easy to lose your place, like you don't know where you're at, but maybe I'm not doing it right. If you trace with your finger, you can hold your finger there and tap somewhere else with another finger to activate.
If you use the Facebook app, you'll definitely have to flick even though it flicks past the screen, as it's near impossible to trace, but for basic stuff, just learning where stuff is, you'll get an image if you feel along it with your fingers like looking at a Braille diagram. Not to say you'll feel anything, it's weird to explain, obviously it's all flat, but just the combination of your movements and the VoiceOver will give you that.
if you want to go back put two fingers together and make a z on the screne. two finger double tap pauses and plays the music or movies.
Bumping topic back up
i'm considering to get an iPad. is it turue that a new iPad is comming out? i played with my brother's iPad.
i find typing with 2 hands is a lot easier on an iPad than just 1 hand.
Should i wait for the new iPad comming out in february or should i ask dad to get me one?
What do you think?
I'm definitely getting a keyboard for it just for extended typing if i do want to take notes on it for school. that's all i'll be using it fore anyway.
all the main work will be on my laptop which i'm currently using for school but plan to use that as my desktop computer and as backup too
I think you should wait for the New Ipad. I've heard that it may have a quad-core processor, as well as running an OS similar to OSX. I'm not sure if this info is accurate though. I've just heard rumors.
Matthew
I'll probably get a keyboard for the IPad as well for those instances where I might do extended typing. Not that I have an IPad yet but I may get one at some point.