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How a Fallen iPhone X Resulted in my Falling Back in Love a Little with the iPhone 7

Blog Post by Dave Nason on Wednesday, July 11, 2018
… dubbed “Schrödinger's iPhone”, it's fate as yet unknown. With some trepidation I picked up the phone, and was … contrast the two devices, the edge to edge display, new gestures and Face ID versus the bezels around the edge and … like the edge to edge nature of it. It's so easy as a VoiceOver user to find the status bar or the bottom row of …

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 …

Syntellia offering Fleksy to developers for integration into third-party applications

Blog Post by Amir Soleimani on Tuesday, June 26, 2012
… fantastic app and a decision is made to integrate it in VoiceOver for use in all apps when VoiceOver is enabled. That way, Fleksy could become visible …

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 …

Basic Terminology for Apple Accessibility

Guide by mehgcap on Wednesday, November 9, 2011
… operating system is the software you use when you interact with a computer. Windows, macOS, Linux, iPadOS, and other … known as OS X) * Apple Vision Pro runs visionOS ###What is VoiceOver? VoiceOver is the screen reader that comes on all … user can do. It lets people use special touch screen gestures or keyboard commands to get things done, and it …

A major problem I am having with gestures on 4 different iOS devices

Forum Topic by Jessica Brown on Monday, March 16, 2015
… Hi. I am having a problem with 4 different iOS devices and I am wondering if anyone can … double tap and speech will go off forcing me to turn VoiceOver off and back on to get speech back on because once … the devices again. The problem went away for a bit and my gestures worked correctly. So then I decided to leave the …

iOS 17 and iPadOS 17 Accessibility Report: VoiceOver, Braille, and Low Vision Issues and Improvements

Blog Post by AppleVis on Friday, September 15, 2023
… 2023. This post contains a summary of new bugs impacting VoiceOver, Braille support, and low vision features that we … that they may not reflect your own opinion or use case. With our small team, it's impossible to test every device, … gs/ios/intermittent-failure-voiceover-double-tap-triple-tap-gestures) When attempting to double-tap an actionable …

I cannot read the detailed description of the APP in the AppStore

Forum Topic by Carter Wu on Friday, December 6, 2024
… been experiencing a particularly strange issue when using VoiceOver on the App Store. I’m not exactly sure when this … However, something unusual occurs—when I try to interact with this section using VO Shift and the cursor, VoiceOver … I can use FN plus the up/down arrow keys or touchpad gestures to scroll through the content, and the corresponding …

iPhone Mirroring and WiFi

Forum Topic by PaulMartz on Thursday, December 5, 2024
… I discovered the home gesture is Command+1, for example. VoiceOver, music, audiobooks, etc., all worked as expected. … the physical side button, but as I continued to interact with the phone on my Mac, the issue persisted, with VoiceOver periodically announcing the time. I'd be …

Using Feeddler RSS in IOS 7 has become very frustrating for Voiceover users

Forum Topic by charadani on Tuesday, September 24, 2013
… all: I’d like to tell you about a problem that I’m having with Feeddler RSS (the free version), and a FeedHQ account on … 7. The thing is that, every forty seconds more or less, VoiceOver plays a sound indicating that the screen has been … free version at least. Has anybody tried the pro version with iOS 7? … Hello, Lets try this; I don't know if it will …

Peculiar behaviour with voiceover and web spots in Mountain Lion

Forum Topic by Skyhook on Sunday, August 26, 2012
… to Mountain Lion I've noticed some strange behaviour with voiceover and webspots. When I create a new web spot, I can't … This did not happen before upgrading. It also happens with the keyboard command and the gesture which I set for the …

having my dictation read back to me automatically only happens 50% of the time

Forum Topic by SSWFTW on Thursday, July 27, 2023
… it sometimes works and sometimes does not. I can toggle voiceover on and off and this problem happens just as much. …

outlook changed over last update?

Forum Topic by KE7ZUM on Thursday, June 4, 2020
… When using outlook on iOs the delete and actions along with calendar section and search disappears when selecting multiple messages. #steps 1. Launch voiceover 2. Launch outlook 3. Triple tap or do a pass … gesture to select one message. 4. Select another message with a double tap or a split tap. 5. Repeat until you have …

Problems with ipad2 and app store

Forum Topic by E88 on Tuesday, January 24, 2012
… Hi all. Recently been experiencing problems with my iPad and the app store. I can brows it fine, but … iPod touch amd it works properly on that. I've checked the VoiceOver settings but everything seems fine. The gestures work fine on everything but the app store. Has …

Thank you for the help with Voiceover, JP

Forum Topic by Shelley on Wednesday, October 9, 2019
… I just wanted to say thanks for the tip on how to activate Voiceover. I should have known that the power button was the … most of the time went yesterday; trying to learn the new gestures. I couldn't find the original forum topic so I made … shortly after I commented. Some posts were lost. Good luck with your 11. Other than a few unfortunate bugs... I love …

Enabling Look and ask with Meta AI on Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses

Forum Topic by kevinchao89 on Tuesday, December 19, 2023
… the "Look and Ask" feature in a podcast a friend shared with me yesterday. I got a pair of Ray-Ban Meta smart Glasses … Look and Tell. This part is on iOS app and has to do with VoiceOver and it's about getting the feature enabled. Has … to the "look and ask" preview / beta. I tried the same gestures as you did Kevin and they didn't work. I had my wife …

A bit of iPhone strangeness and how to fix it if it happens to you

Forum Topic by Toonhead on Friday, March 4, 2016
… I thought I'd relate a bit of weirdness that happened with my iPhone last night, and wanted to know if anyone else … to my surprise that I suddenly landed in the status bar, with all the information like time, Wi-Fi signal strength, … thought maybe it was just a bit of a fluke so I turned off VoiceOver, turned it back on, and tried again. Same deal. Ok, …

Apple Details Accessibility Features of New Apple TV

Blog Post by AppleVis on Wednesday, September 9, 2015
… the new Apple TV will include both VoiceOver and Zoom, as well as a number of other standard … one can navigate the tvOS interface using already-familiar gestures--including taps, flicks, and the rotor. To enable … what it would have been like to run the set up process with VoiceOver. This would give us a feel for what it would …

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