Adding a New Contact iOS 8
iFocus Program
Tips on Using the
Vision Accessibility Features in iOS:
Adding a New Contact iOS 8
Presented by
Douglas Walker
The Hadley School for the Blind presents iFocus: Tips
on Using the Vision Accessibility Features in iOS. In
today's installment, we'll look at adding a new contact.
Douglas Walker
Hello, my name is Douglas Walker and I am an
instructor of Assistive Technology here at the Hadley
School for the Blind. Today we will be looking at
adding a new contact, and we'll be using the iPhone
6Plus for today's demonstration. All right, our iDevice
is a great tool for being able to keep us connected to
family, friends and of course our work colleagues as
well. And the ability to create a contact is one of the
tools that makes staying in touch so much easier.
Now today we are only going to add a couple of
attributes when we first create our new contact.
However, we'll talk a little bit about some of the other
types of elements that can be added to a contact as
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well. So let's go ahead and jump right into our
contacts app to see how to add a new contact. Okay,
our contacts app of course is right here on our
desktop. So let's go ahead and just flick right to it.
iPhone Audio
Contacts. Double tap to open.
Douglas Walker
And we'll just go ahead and single-finger double tap to
open it.
iPhone Audio
Contacts. All contacts groups button.
Douglas Walker
All right. When our contacts first opens, we are
typically placed on a button in the top left-hand corner
of our screen. Now this button, if we were two singlefinger double tap on this, would take us back to a list
of different folders that we have contacts in. However,
we’re exactly where we need to be. And to begin
adding a new content, we'll need to head to our add
button on this screen. So we'll find it just by rightflicking through our screen here. So let's go ahead
and flick to the right.
iPhone Audio
All contacts heading.
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Douglas Walker
Now the first thing we encounter is our contacts
heading up here at the top center of the screen, just
right beneath our time under the status bar there. So
let's go ahead and flick to our next item here. We'll
just right-flick.
iPhone Audio
Add button.
Douglas Walker
All right. And here we are on the top right-hand corner
of our screen and this is where we actually find our
add button. Now this is exactly where we want to be
to begin adding a new contact, so all we need to do is
just single-finger double tap to activate this button and
begin adding our new contacts. So we'll just singlefinger double tap.
iPhone Audio
New contact cancel button.
Douglas Walker
All right. So a new page has opened up here and it
gives us the ability to begin adding attributes for our
new contact. Now we've been placed on a cancel
button in the top left-hand corner of our screen here.
Now we could activate this cancel button of course if
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we decide that we didn’t need to add a new contact.
However, we’ll just begin just flicking to the right to
move through our screen and look at how to add
information to our new contact here. So we'll just start
by flicking to the right and so we'll right-flick.
iPhone Audio
New contact heading.
Douglas Walker
There’s our heading of course in the top center of our
screen here. So let's just right-flick again. So we’ll
right-flick.
iPhone Audio
Done button.
Douglas Walker
Okay, so here's our done button in the top right-hand
corner of our screen. Now we'll come back and
activate this button once we have finished adding
some of our information for our contact here. So let's
just continue to right-flick to add our attributes here.
So we'll just right-flick.
iPhone Audio
First text field. Double tap to add it.
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Douglas Walker
Okay, here we are on our first name edit field. Now
we're going to pretend that we have a new colleague
here at Hadley and we are going to just to name her
Jane Smith. I know, that’s really original right.
Anyway, we'll add her first name here but first we’ll
need to single-finger double tap to enter the first
name edit field here and that's going to bring up our
keyboard for editing so we'll just need to single-finger
double tap anywhere on the screen here, so I'll just
single-finger double tap.
iPhone Audio
Text field is editing. Word mode first.
Douglas Walker
All right. And now we've been presented with a
QWERTY keyboard at the bottom of our screen here
for entering text so we'll just type our first name. So
we'll type Jane here.
iPhone Audio
Capital J-A-N--E.
Douglas Walker
And there you go. Now we'll need to touch back in our
edit field up here to be able to continue through our
edit field. Otherwise, if we start right-flicking from
where we are right now, we'll simply just begin moving
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through or flicking through our keyboard. So let's try to
touch near our first-name edit field here. So we'll just
go touch our first edit field.
iPhone Audio
New contact heading. First text field is editing. Word
mode Jane.
Douglas Walker
I sort of slid my finger down there and there we see
that Jane is in our edit field there. All right, so now we
can just start right-flicking again to move through our
other attributes here. So we'll just right-flick from here
and we'll right-flick.
iPhone Audio
Clear text button.
Douglas Walker
All right. So here's a clear text button that we could
activate if we decide that we want to delete what
we've just typed in this and we wanted to begin again.
However, we’re happy with Jane here so we'll just
continue to right-flick, so we'll just right-flick.
iPhone Audio
Last text field. Double tap to edit.
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Douglas Walker
Okay, and here we are in our text field for our last
name. So we'll need to single-finger double tap to
enter this text field. So we'll just do that, we'll singlefinger double tap.
iPhone Audio
Insertion point at end.
Douglas Walker
All right, so now we can just type Smith right here. So
I'll go ahead and type Smith.
iPhone Audio
Capital S-M-I-T-H.
Douglas Walker
And there is her last name. Now remember that we'll
need to go back up and touch in our last name edit
field up here to be able to continue through this
screen. So we'll do that. We'll just a touch in our last
name edit field up here.
iPhone Audio
Last text field is editing. Word mode Smith.
Douglas Walker
All right. And there's Smith, so we'll just right-flick from
here again. So we'll just flick to the right.
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iPhone Audio
Clear text button.
Douglas Walker
Here we have another one of those clear text buttons
to delete the text for our last name. However, we're
going to just leave ours as it is and we’ll just right-flick
again. So let's go ahead and right-flick.
iPhone Audio
Company text field. Double tap to edit.
Douglas Walker
Okay, so here we have an edit field for adding the
name of our company. Since Jane Smith, we’re
pretending works for Hadley; we’ll just simply add the
word Hadley here. However, this is really handy if we
aren’t adding a contact or a name of a person but
we're adding it for a company like a restaurant or
maybe a grocery store or something like that. So let's
just go ahead and just single-finger double tap to
enter into this edit field here. So we'll just single-finger
double tap.
iPhone Audio
Insertion point at end.
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Douglas Walker
Now we'll just type the word Hadley. So we'll type
Hadley here.
iPhone Audio
Capital H-A-D-L-E-Y.
Douglas Walker
Okay. So let's go back again and touch back in this
company edit field up here and we'll just touch here.
iPhone Audio
Company text field is editing. Word mode Hadley.
Douglas Walker
Okay, and we’ll just right-flick again from here. So
we'll just right-flick.
iPhone Audio
Clear text button.
Douglas Walker
And here we have another clear text button for
clearing our company edit field if we wish. However,
we're happy with our edit field there so we'll just keep
on right-flicking from here. So let's right-flick.
iPhone Audio
Add photo button. Image.
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Douglas Walker
Okay, this is kind of neat. This is an ad photo button.
It's kind of cool that we have the ability to add a photo
for our contact. However, we're not going to do that
today. Remember, we're just going to do a simple
video and we're just going to try to keep things simple
here. But that's kind of a cool feature there. So let's
go ahead and just right-flick from here. We'll rightflick.
iPhone Audio
Insert add to phone button.
Douglas Walker
Now we're placed on an insert add to phone button
here which is kind of strange. We need to activate this
button if we wanted to add a second phone number.
However, as soon as we add our first phone number,
we’ll automatically be given a new edit field for a
second phone number. So we just need to right-flick
past this from here, so we just skip this first one. We'll
right-flick here. So let's go ahead and right-flick.
iPhone Audio
Add phone. Swipe up or down to select a custom
action then double tap to activate.
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Douglas Walker
Okay. Here we are on our add phone button. This is
the one we want to use to actually add the phone
here. So we'll just single-finger double tap to activate
it then. So I'm going to go ahead and single-finger
double tap.
iPhone Audio
Text field is editing. Word mode phone.
Douglas Walker
All right. So now we've been placed in a text field for
entering our phone number for our new contact here.
Now at the bottom of our screen, we no longer have
the standard QWERTY keyboard but are now given a
standard telephone numeric keyboard or keypad
down here for entering our new number. So we'll just
type Jane Smith’s Hadley number here. Let's go
ahead and just type Hadley’s main number here. We'll
type Hadley's main number. So let's go.
iPhone Audio
8-4-7-4-4-6-8-1-1-1
Douglas Walker
All right. Now that we've entered our number, of
course we'll need to go up again and touch in that
numbers edit field. Hopefully I can easily find it here,
so let's go up and touch there again.
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iPhone Audio
Text field is editing. Word mode. 847-446-8111.
Douglas Walker
And we got lucky and there it is. However, if we didn't
find it right away, we could always flick left or right
through our attributes list here until we find it. All right,
so now that we've entered our new phone number, we
have a label button for this phone that has appeared
just to the left of this phone number here. Now this
label button, it gives us the ability to name the type of
number this is for our contact, whether it's a home
number or work number or some other type of label
that we want to put there. So how about we just leftflick to it and then we'll talk a little bit more about how
it works. So we'll just left-flick to get to it.
iPhone Audio
Home button. Activate to choose type.
Douglas Walker
Okay, and voiceover just announced that we can
activate it to choose type. So when the single-finger
double tap on this button, we'll be presented with a list
of label choices for our new phone number. Let's just
activate this to see how it works. We'll just a singlefinger double tap anywhere on the screen here. So I'll
just single-finger double tap.
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iPhone Audio
Label cancel button.
Douglas Walker
All right. Now we've been presented with our label list
here and we can use this for choosing the type of
label that we want for our new number. So we'll just
right-flick this through the screen to select our new
neighbor. When this page first opened, we are placed
on a cancel button at the top left corner of our screen.
Of course we would activate this button if we decided
that we just wanted to exit out of this screen.
However, we’ll just start right-flicking to explore this
screen. So let's just right-flick from here. So we'll
right-flick.
iPhone Audio
Label heading.
Douglas Walker
And of course there we have our label heading right
at the top center part of our screen. Let’s just continue
to right-flick through this screen. All right, so we'll
right-flick.
iPhone Audio
Edit button.
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Douglas Walker
And here we have an edit button in the top right-hand
corner of our screen here. Now we can activate this if
you want to edit any of these custom labels in here
that we can create in this list here. However, we're
just going to right-flick until we find our work label
since this is a work number. All right. Let's just rightflick until we find work. So we'll start flicking to the
right.
iPhone Audio
Selected home. Swipe up or down to select a custom
action, then double tap to activate.
Douglas Walker
All right, so there's our home and I think our work one
is only the second one here. So we just flick to the
right.
iPhone Audio
Work. Swipe up or down to select a custom action,
then double tap to activate.
Douglas Walker
And there it is. Work is only the second label on a list
here. Now to select it, we can just single-finger double
tap here. So let's go ahead and just single-finger
double tap to select this.
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iPhone Audio
Text field is editing. Word mode 847-446-8111.
Douglas Walker
Okay. Now our list page of course closed and we've
been placed right back in our new phone number,
right in our new contact page here. And our phone
number looks great. There are just so many more
attributes through this list that we could add for
contacts, and these are things like an email address.
We could add a home or maybe a work address for
this contact. We could add like a website's URL. So
we could Hadley URL for this Hadley employee here
or could you even add this contact’s birth date.
So there are just so many things here in this list. Now
to add them, of course we would just continue to rightflick through this list and add them. But for the sake of
time, we’re just going to keep things simple and stop
right here. Now remember we always have the ability
to come back to our contact and add more attributes
later. So let's go ahead and save the information that
we’ve created so far today. To save this contact, we
need to go back to our done button in the top righthand corner of our screen. So we'll just touch in the
top right hand corner of our screen here.
iPhone Audio
Done button.
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Douglas Walker
And there it is. All we need to do now to add this
contact is just single-finger double tap. So we'll go
ahead and single-finger double tap.
iPhone Audio
All contacts back button.
Douglas Walker
All right. And we now have our new contact with all of
our contact information that we've added so far. Of
course, we've only added like a phone number but we
have all that listed here before us for Jane Smith.
You know, it really is nice to have so many attributes
that can be added for a contact. And you know it
would be nice to have the time today to cover them
all. But hopefully just knowing that they’re there and
seeing how easy it is just to right-flick through and
add them, that'll help to make adding a contact just a
little bit easier for you. Again, my name is Douglas
Walker and I am an instructor of Assistive Technology
here at the Hadley School for the Blind. Take care
and I'll see you next time.
For more from the iFocus series, including many other
topics of interest to individuals with vision loss, visit
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the Seminars at Hadley page on the Hadley School
for the Blind website at www.Hadley.edu.
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