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Not Getting Picture Details in Photos App

Forum Topic by That Blind Canuck on Tuesday, January 30, 2018
… on either the thumbnail or after I would open a picture, VoiceOver would give me details, such as whether the picture … since iOS 11.2.5, when I do this, I get nothing, just hear VoiceOver say that the picture is number X of X (well for me … taken. ironically, the same feature works perfectly with many third party apps. and of course apple has known …

adjusting VoiceOver volume on Apple Watch

Forum Topic by Alicia Krage on Sunday, November 24, 2024
… voice on my watch from Alex to Eloquence, and changed the VoiceOver volume in the settings. Since doing this, the … screen. I switched it back to Alex in case it was an issue with the eloquence voice, and it still doesn't work. Anyone … Got this from an email that people were having issues with it and I check to see if my was off, it was this is why …

Screen editing mode question

Forum Topic by rachel on Friday, October 6, 2017
… drag and drop. I’ve tried the double-tap and hold gesture with varying amounts of pressure, the tone does sound but there is no feedback from Voiceover confirming i am in screen edit mode. This is the … … Hi. By any chance have you enabled Zoom as well as VoiceOver? In iOS11 this function doesn't work when both are …

Help needed with choosing between 38mm and 42mm Apple Watch

Forum Topic by Karok on Tuesday, November 10, 2015
… to use? i am totally blind so would be solely reliant on voiceover. can the small screen on a 38 MM make it difficult to use the watch just using gestures to find complications, do swipes etc? i liked the 42 … some Apps like Remote can be a little fiddly. Battery life with the 42mm has more than met my expectations. My wrist is …

A recording app for iPhone that would allow me to

Forum Topic by Gerardo on Wednesday, December 13, 2017
… characteristics An app that when notifications come in, voiceover won't speak, thus it won't come out in the recording. An app that would have some sort of gestures to start/pause and stop recording, thus when doing … tried: Between "Just Press Record" and "Simplemic", but with Simplemic Voiceover comes out speaking when …

Has anybody tried using their iPhone as a Mac trackpad?

Forum Topic by Khomus on Thursday, December 5, 2024
… and apparently you can. I thought it might be fun to mess with the trackpad commander if it works, because I'm still … work, and just whether or not it can function with the Mac Voiceover trackpad gestures, yeah I know there aren't commanders anymore in 15. …

Several accessibility bugs with latest version of YouTube

Forum Topic by Justin_B on Sunday, March 11, 2018
… With the most recent version of the YouTube iOS app, I am … minimize the video player when I am done watching a video. VoiceOver announces the button to minimize the player but … voiceover reads aloud the title of each video twice, along with a bunch of other information that isn’t helpful. It …

May 29 Sonos app bugs with VoiceOver

Forum Topic by Prateek Dujari. on Thursday, May 30, 2024
… Note Please add bugs with the May 29 update you have experienced firsthand to this … pause music from any Sonos app screen is still broken with VoiceOver Four . The now playing screen still does not … screen and go through more T edious inefficient swipes and gestures to locate this information near the bottom o f the …

How do you adjust steppers?

Forum Topic by Khomus on Saturday, November 23, 2024
… Hi all. So I was in Voiceover Utility, and thought I'd adjust the pitch range, … range area. Googling just turns up stuff about track pad gestures, I don't have a track pad. How in the world do you … voice 0 Sentence Pause stepper, you want to interact with it, and then do vo-up/down to adjust it. Voiceover won't …

Attention iOS Beta testers: FlickType and iOS 17

Forum Topic by Tony on Sunday, July 16, 2023
… Watch Keyboard no longer works. When I touch the area, all gestures cease to function. There's no swiping, double … rotor, etc. I have to touch elsewhere on the screen to get Voiceover talking again. Turning off direct touch for …

One on One Voiceover Training through Apple

Forum Topic by Kelsey Nicolay on Sunday, June 17, 2018
… wrkshps, bt ufotuately, the times don’t always work with my scheDule. I have a few things I would like some hands-on help with, one of them being the two finger scrub gesture. … ever tried to ake a genius bar resrvatÿion for help with Voiceover. If so, what was your experience like, both in …

Recommend a VO-compatible app to read pdf and MS Word

Forum Topic by cw34 on Sunday, November 15, 2015
… Hi, All, I am a heavy VoiceOver user on iPad running iOS 9. I used to use Adobe Acrobat Reader to read pdf files. It was quite good with VoiceOver. But last week, I was stupid enough to update … Reader is no longer compatible with VO. No mater what gestures I tried, VO just doesn't read the texts any more. …

Excel, VO and iOS on the iPhone

Forum Topic by Ben on Monday, January 30, 2023
… using the iOS version of Microsoft Excel on my iPhone with VoiceOver. I have a good understanding of Excel on a PC using … difficulty in maneuvering from cell to cell with swipe gestures. I can only go so far across a row and then I go to …

BARD App Not Working

Forum Topic by Lisa L on Monday, July 11, 2022
… most recent update, 1.4.8, I have had multiple problems with the BARD app; the flick gestures on the picker lists don't work, button in the player … not rendered well. it's as if there's a problem with how VoiceOver is reading the code? I've tried everything, …

Some problems with accessibility shortcuts

Forum Topic by Enes Deniz on Tuesday, July 25, 2023
… inevitably gets listed as an option if you also have VoiceOver assigned to the accessibility shortcut. So using … multiple options and a dialog prompting you to pick one with VoiceOver turned off. So I am thinking of requesting … because it might be someone sighted and unfamiliar with VoiceOver activating the accessibility shortcut. I also …

What do we like about iOS 14?

Forum Topic by Yvonnezed on Thursday, September 24, 2020
… OS 14? Accessibility features? Mainstream features? Apps with new features? Has anything changed the way you use your … Shortcuts from Spotlight or, and this is even better, Voiceover gestures. Now it really works to assign a gesture and have it …

VO Silent treatment when calls end

Forum Topic by DurDevil on Wednesday, November 10, 2021
… Has anyone else had Voiceover become unresponsive after ending a phone call? … having to do that is not always ideal in some situations. With it being intermittent and me only having the one device … called Apple about this very thing and it's a known issue with an on going ticket. I don't have that ticket number but …

Can't get Alex back on iOS

Forum Topic by Exodia on Wednesday, July 28, 2021
… I have tried restarting, changing the voices of both VoiceOver and spoken content but now, I can't get Alex back … content voices. My iPad is a six generation iPad Pro with the capacity of 32 gigs. When I select it, it doesn't do … some space. But now It shows up, but I can't do anything with it. I can get Fred at Victoria, but not Alex. If there …

Switch access with VoiceOver on iOS

Forum Topic by Mark Upton on Thursday, May 19, 2016
… Hello all, I have a client I'm working with who has no sight and is slowly losing the use of her … BUT I've never come across anyone using switch access with voiceover. Is there anyone out there with experience of this? … a few conflicting elements as voiceover uses some complex gestures that a switch couldn't do. Even if we could get it …

Difficulty navigating Pages with VoiceOver

Forum Topic by ComsMom on Wednesday, September 2, 2015
… I have a student who has been independently using an iPad with VoiceOver to complete classroom assignments in the Pages app. … persist whether using the Bluetooth keyboard or on screen gestures.The rotor is also not responding appropriatey, such …

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