Apple Hardware and Compatible Accessories

I currently have Beltone hearing aids and find that their app is not fully accessible. Since I will probably be getting new hearing aids, which brand has the most accessible app?

I am a new hearing aid user, and all my interface with media is through the bluetooth connectivity to the hearing aids. My problem is tha the quality of the sounc is so poor that my listening experience with an audio book is severley degraded, let alone music.

Is anyone else having these problems, and does anyone have suggestions.

My hearing aids are Jabra Pro from Costco.

If you’re buying new hearing aids check out the Costco branded (Kirkland) hearing aids that perform same as the latest Phonak devices and cost a third of what you will pay at a private audiology practice. The difference the private practices’ business model is to bundle their charge for future services along with the cost of the hearing aids. At Costco the services are free as are the warranties, tests, etc. They charge only for the hearing aids. I paid $1400 for a pair of KS10 aids after returning my brand new Phonaks (which cost over$4K) because of the cost difference.

Hello friends,
I use the Resound hearing aids which pair with my iPhone. Enter bluetooth speaker (Amazon Echo for the moment) and I have issues. The iPhone pairs fine with the Echo and VO get routed to it. I change the Audio destination to the Default and it gets routed to the iPhone's speakers and not my hearing aids. To my chagrin, I cannot route it back to the Echo. It looks like the 'Audio destination' rotor item is still faulty or I am missing something in settings somewhere.

Hi. I realise that there are Made For IPhone Hearing Aids out there, however, in the United Kingdom, we have the option of obtaining hearing aids via our National Health Service. I wonder if anyone on here is based in the UK and successfully using NHS hearing aids with IOS and Voiceover? If so, can you advise what I need to request from my audiologist, when configuring the hearing aids, to enable me to pair them with my IPhone? Many Thanks.

Hello all,
I’m looking for a solution that can help me hear the instructor clearly over the loud music when I train in the pool. Do I need to purchase a microphone and waterproof headset, or can the IPhone or Apple Watch be used as microphone, and send the instructor’s voice to a bluetooth headphone?
Thank you so much for any feedback.
Fran

Hi. I need to know if there is any device that I can use to connect a Hims E-Bot CCTV to my iPad (5th Gen or any other iPad) using the e-Bot's USB cable. We currently use the wireless connection but it lags and is making my son very frustrated. The USB is much more reliable but only works with our computer (desktop unit) but this is problematic cause he can't write while using the computer connected to the E-bot at the same time. The iPad works fine when we use a stand placed right in front of the E-bot but the lag is putting him off working with it. Please help me! Thanks!

Hi all,

I am looking for a headset with a microphone, that the microphone can be muted from the headphone itself, without having to look for the audio mute button in applications, such as skype.
Any ideas?

Thank you in advance.

Hi, I’m using a brydge keyboard with my ipad air 4, but in order to use the shortcuts that came with ipados 15, all guides mention a key called globe, which serves as the shortcut main key combined with the rest of the keys in order to perform actions.
The thing is that there is no such key as long as I and my sighted partners know in this keyboard and there for I can’t use the shortcuts of this operative system.

It seems like it must be the left botton corner key of each keyboard, but in this one, there is a siri shortcut key instead of the globe one.

Hi everyone,
I hope you are all doing well.
I apologize for my translation.
I have a question.
I am bilaterally totally blind.
In my latest audiograms, a decrease in my hearing has been noted, so I have been prescribed hearing aids.
I have also noticed that I hear less in places like a university classroom with few people, with soft-spoken women's voices. Even my wife has to repeat things to me several times.
When we are at a restaurant, I need her to be next to me, not in front of me as is expected.

Hello everyone. I am writing for my friend who is not able to. She had a stroke two years ago and is hospital bed bound. We purchased an iPad for her to get her reconnected with friends and family but we are having a difficult time finding a case, and gooseneck (has to be over 36") that will hold the iPad. We are also trying to find a case that has some security since she's in a facility and not at home.
I know this is a forum for those with vision challenges but I am hoping to find some help anywhere. It is very difficult to find information on line.

greetings. I recently got my hands on a logitech k480 keyboard and am having an issue with keyboard shortcuts. I do not know how correctly they are activated and in what order. there are control and shift buttons on the keyboard, but I'm not sure if they function correctly. help me please resolve this issue.

hi. can anyone please how to set up and how to use a bt keyboard that links to my ipad? many thanks

I have a big jam box from Jawbone. I just bought it a few days ago and I want to connected to my computer to update it. I also connected to my iPhone and downloaded the app. Which by the way is not too accessible. Anyway does someone have to Updating the Software, How Sassapaw the Website Is, or Anything Else about Using the big jam box. How accessible is the website, and how accessible is the little updater that you have to download.

Hi folks,
I'm admitting temporary defeat. I need some help.

Before I got my Refreshabraille, I read people's complaints about the usb plug. I thought to myself, "Ah, it can't be that bad. I never have trouble plugging things in."
Well, it is that bad.

I'm using the cable I received with the unit. The end looks like my old android usb/power cable.

Hi,
I don't know what caused this to stop working for me. That doesn't matter, so I want to press function keys on my bluetooth keyboard and avoid using the FN key. Here is what I have tried.

I went into System references > Keyboard and I can see that the checkbox is checked that allows the function keys to work like I want, but I found out that this is not for my bluetooth keyboard. I checked this by trying both keyboard's function keys after turning the checkbox off.

I just received a new Mac Mini, which I'll be using without a monitor, but I'm thus far unable even to start VoiceOver. I've got an external keyboard plugged in, but when I hold down the Command key and hit F5, I get just that tap sound that lets me know something is wrong.
I feel like I'm missing something obvious, but can't figure it out. Help, please.
And thanks.
Howard

I am trying to type on a Bluetooth keybord on my ipod running ios 5 1 1 unfortunately the keybord types in some apps, but, does not type in others, it just gives me the voiceover error sound that you get when you are at the end of a page or screen. any help you could provide would be much apriceated. David Hiltonnot sure if my last message got through I will try poasting in one of the options in the combobox

I don’t know what’s wrong with my charger and iPad battery, so now it’s asking me to unlock the iPad to use the usb device before I can charge up. It won’t let me charge up in any outlet but my mom’s in her room. I’m using the original lightning cable and brick charger. I have a iPad 6gin 2018 model with the latest version of iOS 15. Is it my iPad battery? The charger or something else? It started acting up a day’s ago. Is there anyway that I can fix this possible bug in settings? I don’t use any usb devices or my new NLS Braille eReader display.

I have several devices that has those beautiful lightswhen they charge but the thing is that I cannot see them which makes it so that I don't know when they are charging and many of them has colored lights on that I cannot see. Is there a way for me to know those beautiful little lights?