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Looking for a blind friendly app for scheduling / keeping up with appointments for iOS (self.Blind)
submitted by zomgperry
Hey all. I am looking for something for iOS to help me keep track of appointments and schedules. I am not crazy about the default calendar app on my iPhone, but I will learn to use it if there’s nothing better out there. I am hoping to go back to school in the near future and I want to get a leg up on keeping a schedule and time management now, while I don’t have much else to do. Thanks in advance!
napoleon88 2 points 1y ago
counterintuitively, Microsoft ToDo is worth a look. Also syncs with the PC
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LilacRose32 2 points 1y ago
Google calendar is reasonable and missing some of the more annoying bits of the apple one
TechnicalPragmatist 1 points 1y ago
The ios callendar works wonderfully. When I use to run my pretty busy typology channel I would have at least one to 3 interviews every day. I certainly couldn’t keep it all in my head oh, no! So came in callendar. And it works quite well. It’s actually a great callendar app unless you want really complex type features.
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zomgperry [OP] 2 points 1y ago
I think its mostly going from using them sighted to using them blind. I’m still adjusting to voiceover.
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retrolental_morose 1 points 1y ago
honestly, the default calendar is your best bet.
* It integrates with other parts of the OS, such as Siri.
* You can tap on dates and times in communications to practically add themselves.
* you can subscribe to, or download, events from other people or organisations.
* It has a very accessible layout and interface, when you get the hang of it.
I find The event view with list mode active the most efficient for looking at my agenda. The list button is toward the very top of the screen, beneath the clock, between the back button and search option. here, each day with an event on is a heading,and each event a single flick. The today button in the bottom left of the screen returns me to now, and the back button in the top-left corner (or a scrub gesture) returns me to day view.
day view is great. The month is laid-out like a traditional wall calendar; Mondays are down the left side of the screen, Sundays along the right edge. With that knowledge you can find any other day of the week pretty effectively by touch alone, no need to keep swiping about.
a 3-finger flick up or down moves you forward or back a month here. A 3-finger single tap announces the earliest onscreen date.
backing out of day puts you in the list of months: given that you can move to the next or previous month from the day view, I use this infrequently. the 3-finger up and down moves by year here.
You need to press today the same number of times you backed out, so from month view it moves you to today,and from today to the event view.
it's a brilliantly simple system when you get the hang of it. Events can have multiple alerts, including travel time. Calendars can be shared with both other people and other apps (ours are tied-in to Windows, Alexa and other family members). There's an inbox view for change notifications and invitation requests, and you can add and modify events verbally through siri or on almost any other platform or device.
* It integrates with other parts of the OS, such as Siri.
* You can tap on dates and times in communications to practically add themselves.
* you can subscribe to, or download, events from other people or organisations.
* It has a very accessible layout and interface, when you get the hang of it.
I find The event view with list mode active the most efficient for looking at my agenda. The list button is toward the very top of the screen, beneath the clock, between the back button and search option. here, each day with an event on is a heading,and each event a single flick. The today button in the bottom left of the screen returns me to now, and the back button in the top-left corner (or a scrub gesture) returns me to day view.
day view is great. The month is laid-out like a traditional wall calendar; Mondays are down the left side of the screen, Sundays along the right edge. With that knowledge you can find any other day of the week pretty effectively by touch alone, no need to keep swiping about.
a 3-finger flick up or down moves you forward or back a month here. A 3-finger single tap announces the earliest onscreen date.
backing out of day puts you in the list of months: given that you can move to the next or previous month from the day view, I use this infrequently. the 3-finger up and down moves by year here.
You need to press today the same number of times you backed out, so from month view it moves you to today,and from today to the event view.
it's a brilliantly simple system when you get the hang of it. Events can have multiple alerts, including travel time. Calendars can be shared with both other people and other apps (ours are tied-in to Windows, Alexa and other family members). There's an inbox view for change notifications and invitation requests, and you can add and modify events verbally through siri or on almost any other platform or device.
zomgperry [OP] 1 points 1y ago
This is very helpful. I think I just need to play around with it more.
retrolental_morose 1 points 1y ago
the default event view shows you slots within a day, in I think 30 minute increments? It's very unintuitive as a VoiceOver user, even if it is a sort of standard for visual calendaring. That list mode I mentioned earlier really makes the difference.
it also really helped me to add a custom VoiceOver gesture to move to the next and previous heading; it's less rotor work and it comes up a lot both in the web and of course in my diary.
I also use it to silly levels; I have a work calendar, a shared family one, a personal one, then the extra subscriptions for things like sports teams, my daughter's school, book releases, theatre performances and such. So there's a lot in there.
it also really helped me to add a custom VoiceOver gesture to move to the next and previous heading; it's less rotor work and it comes up a lot both in the web and of course in my diary.
I also use it to silly levels; I have a work calendar, a shared family one, a personal one, then the extra subscriptions for things like sports teams, my daughter's school, book releases, theatre performances and such. So there's a lot in there.
swimmingdaisy 1 points 1y ago
Siri works pretty well with the default calendar but im sure you can get it to work with others. Do you use siri to input your schedule or are you opening the app by other means? I know you can link your apple calendars with amazon alexa app and edit your schedule on either your smart speakers or your ios device.
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