[mac4theblind] Re: New member, urgent help with iPad Voiceover and screen on/off switch needed

  • From: Sam Negron <samuel_negron@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2013 18:24:51 -0500

If you decide to get a Mac some day, you can use that same gesture on your 
touchpad to turn on the screen curtain, too. That's definitely a super cool 
feature of Mac OS X.
On Oct 4, 2013, at 5:06 PM, David Hilbert Poehlman <poehlman1@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:

> tap three times with three fingers on the screen
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> On Oct 4, 2013, at 5:08 PM, MJ hWilliamstap <matthewjwilliams101@xxxxxxxxxx> 
> wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> new member from the UK, so please be gentle with me. *smile*
> A friend very kindly let me play with his iPad with Voiceover switched on.  
> unfortunately, I managed to turn off the screen with Voiceover still on. So, 
> here we are with a sighted person who can't use his iPad because the screen 
> is blacked out, and I, a blind person who hasn't a clue how to use voiceover. 
>  not an ideal combination, I know.
> Anyway, I was wondering if any of you knew how to turn on the screen on the 
> iPad.
> Any help would be most gratefully received.  This is a ratherembarrassing 
> situation for me and I am as you'll appreciate very anxious to find a 
> solution sooner rather than later.
> 
> Many thanks,
> Matt
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