Hi Richard, I have an IPod touch,, third generation with ios4 software.
3rd and fourth gen IPods, and IPhones as well as all IPads, are out of the 
box, fitted to all use a blue tooth keyboard.  All you gotta do is turn 
bluetooth on, turn the keyboard of your choice on, and pair the devices, and 
you're "in like flin."  [Although probably farther in than flin was, as they 
didn't have blue teeth/except in very cold countries when he was around.]
Apple makes a keyboard about 9inches or so long,/never felt one, but that's 
how it's described,  which sells for around 69$s, there are several other 
manufacturers who make similar units, some of which have a little "docking 
slot,/(again, which I've never felt, but as I understand it,) on them, so 
you can mount the IPod or IPhone sort of vertically on the back of the 
board, as the keyboard sits in front of you. Additionally, there are several 
"thumbs keyboards,/much smaller but qwwerty keyboards nonetheless, these are 
around the size of the IPod or IPhone, and they sell for from 29$s up./I 
have one of the lil ones, and it helps, although I plan to buy one of the 
Apple or similar, "bigger units soon.
Never have used an IPad, although I've played a little, with one belonging 
to a friend.  The touch screen takes some getting used to, but with a 
bluetooth keyboard, you can pretty much fly, about as fast as you normally 
do on a standard keyboard,
and the cheap to free Apps,/OCR, Money identifyers, GPS, Book readers, 
Internet radio and recording apps, not to mention skype, draggon dictate and 
many many more, all cheap to free, with the right out of the box off the 
shelf screen reader, its' technology that can be daunting, but IMHO, well 
worth the daunt.  I'm sixty-eight, and have grown up with windows and jaws 
and all, but things can get pretty prohibitave pretty fast, in some of these 
venues.
There are a couple of accessible IPhone/IPod lists, with some spillage over 
onto IPads included. I can send you forwards of the latest examples of both 
the yahoo group and the google group.

Icanworkthisthing.com has some good helps for the pods phones, and i think 
pads as well, a group in Austrailia has done some good teachings, as have 
blindcooltech and several of the apple folks. and there are other sources. 
If I can help, please let me know. Danny.
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From: "Richard Fiorello" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 5:59 PM
Subject: off topic i-pad


> Hi;
> Can anyone suggest a good source for i-pod info and set up info?  I have
> been looking at "notetakers" and the price seems more than a bit high
> for what they do.  I did listen to some I-pod info and it seemed that
> although it could be used it looked like an uphill climb.  I will be
> continue to use windows on a very regular basis and I'm also wondering
> if this might add to my problems.  I have a hard time getting past that
> touch screen and a plug in keyboard makes things to bulky.
> Any exciting links appreciated.
> -- 
> richard