[Electronics-talk] iOS 8 Problems

cheez cheez at cox.net
Sun Nov 9 16:31:33 UTC 2014


Okay.  I'll be sure to watch out for it when I put music on my phone.
Vince

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christine Szostak via Electronics-talk" <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
To: "Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances" 
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Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2014 9:26 AM
Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] iOS 8 Problems


> HI,
>  It is a new setting that was introduced in IOS 8.0 that I believe is 
> specific to VO and can be added to the rotor. It allows you to decide 
> whether the sounds playing (e.g., music, audio...) should be quieted down 
> when the VO voice is speaking so that you can better hear that speech. It 
> does not properly work if you  change it so it does not duck the audio in 
> KNFBReader, at least in my experience and I think there are still some 
> other bugs with it.
> Have a nice rest of the day!
> Chris
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "cheez via Electronics-talk" <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
> To: "Mohaned Sayegh" <mohaneds at gmail.com>; "Discussion of accessible 
> electronics and appliances" <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2014 11:18 AM
> Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] iOS 8 Problems
>
>
>> Mohaned:
>> What is audio-ducking and where do you find it?
>> I've never heard of this, nor have I seen it on my iPhone 5 S.
>> Vince
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Mohaned Sayegh via Electronics-talk" <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> To: "Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances" 
>> <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2014 6:14 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] iOS 8 Problems
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>>
>>> Okay, did you try turning off audio-ducking?
>>>
>>> -----Original Message----- 
>>> From: Nicole Torcolini via Electronics-talk
>>> Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2014 8:05 PM
>>> To: 'Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances'
>>> Subject: [Electronics-talk] iOS 8 Problems
>>>
>>> I recently updated my iPhone 5 to iOS 8, and I am having some 
>>> accessibility
>>> problems. The first one may have been present before, but I just did not
>>> know. It seems to be possible to change the volume of the ringer and 
>>> alerts
>>> and of the VoiceOver speech using the buttons, but it does not seem to 
>>> be
>>> possible to change the volume of the VoiceOver sounds with the buttons. 
>>> The
>>> next problem is that emails keep temporarily disappearing. I will be on 
>>> an
>>> unread message in a thread and swipe right to a read message. When I 
>>> swipe
>>> left, the unread message is going. Pressing home and then reopening mail
>>> makes the message come back and stay. I disabled the swipe left and 
>>> swipe
>>> right actions in settings for emails, but that did not help. Another
>>> VoiceOver related issue is that, sometimes, VoiceOver is not reading the
>>> on/off state of a toggle button. Restarting the iPhone fixes it. 
>>> Finally,
>>> the money reader does not seem to work with iOS 8. It was finicky with 
>>> 7,
>>> but seems to not work at all with 8. Has anyone else experienced these
>>> issues or know anything about them?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Nicole
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