I am on public beta 3, and I am noticing that like in iOS 15, VoiceOver still seems to get stuck on some webpage elements when reading an article. For example, I was reading through a bulleted list in an article, and it got stuck on the bullet element. I had to scroll the page to get it to continue. The problem is I can’t get it to happen consistently. Has someone come up with a site where this happens all the time? Asking this before I submit feedback. Thanks,
Mike.
By Mikey, 10 August, 2022
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Similar problem in Apple News articles
I have notice similar problems when reading some articles in the Apple News app. If I perform a two finger swipe down to read an entire article from the top, Voiceover will get erratic when it comes to an embedded video, especially a video in a Tweet. When Voiceover reaches that point, reading often immediately moves focus to the beginning of the article and starts reading over again.
When this happens I need to stop speech reading and manually flick past the embedded video in order to continue reading the article.
--Pete
My experience
This issue feels like it has been around forever.
My experience suggests that there are some types of page content that routinely trigger the behavior. Embedded tweets is the most common for me, with embedded videos probably a distant second.
No test sites immediately come to mind. Possibly HuffPost, as they like to fill articles with embedded tweets.
I'll watch out for some test sites and report back with any good ones.
Usually images
Hello,
for me, this bug is most often triggered by images. For example, if you can find a page with 5 or 10 images next to each other, and you try swiping right across all of them, VO will get stuck like that at some point.
This however doesn't mean that is the only way to reproduce this bug, on the contrary, it happens at times even with just one image, but that is completely random, and even when it happens, and you scroll to fix it, then come back to that exact image which caused the bug, it is highly likely that this bug won't happen again, hence why I said that a set of images is the best way to reproduce more constantly.
Feedback submitte
I’m submitted FB10645227. You can reference this if you encounter this also.