NLS BARD Support: Getting Help with BARD Mobile

Dear List Members,

 

The full BARD Mobile user guide is available from within the application. To read it, open the Bookshelf tab. After the book categories such as Audio Books or Braille books, depending if you use an Android or iOS device, you’ll find Help. Double-tap Help and you'll find one item called User Guide.

 

The user guide is displayed as a web page. The table of contents is at the top, and each item is an in-page link, meaning that if you select it, you will be taken directly to the text for that item. Each table of contents entry is also a heading, so you can skim through the guide by changing the rotor to Headings and flicking down with one finger.

 

Standard VoiceOver reading commands work just fine. To have VoiceOver read from the current position, swipe down with two fingers. To pause and resume the speech, do a two-finger single tap.

 

When you're finished reading Help, select the Help back button in the upper left corner of the screen, and then select the “Bookshelf: Select Category” back button.

 

If you have Internet access when you read the user guide, BARD Mobile will load the most recent version of the guide from the NLS website. If you don't, BARD Mobile will load the version that was current when your version of BARD Mobile was created. So over time, there may be discrepancies between the online and offline versions.

 

It's a good idea for everyone to read the user guide, but if you plan to read braille books, it's particularly important that you read Section 7 of the iOS user guide, as it tells you how to configure your braille display and provides keystrokes that will make it easy to read and navigate braille books and magazines.

 

Quick tutorial videos are also available on YouTube and cover a variety of topics such as how to navigate books and how to manage your downloads using BARD Mobile on either platform.

 

BARD Mobile How-To Series for iOS

BARD Mobile How-To Series for Android  

 

We hope you'll find the user guide and how-to series videos helpful as you learn to use BARD Mobile.

 

Sincerely,