[Electronics-talk] iOS 8 Problems

Sun Nov 9 20:40:03 UTC 2014

Now I seem to understand the issue: bugs in this new audio-ducking function 
implementation might be causing most of the problems with VO!
The other day, I had to close VO to be able to use Siri; VO didn't stop 
talking when I pressed the home button to use Siri and Siri didn't read the 
messages while VO was on.
Also, it might cause the delay for VO to talk again when unlocking the 
screen while listening to internet radio, too.
Sometimes I have the sounds of VO, but the voice goes away for a while.
Almost all, if not all, bugs I found seem to be related with VO.

Another thing I would like to advise everyone is to connect your iPhone to 
your pc soon after upgrading to IOS 8, because you will have to authorize 
the connection, not only from iTunes, but also from your iPhone. On your 
iPhone, you will only have to tap the "accept" button, but you won't be able 
to do so alone if you can't see and VO stops talking. This happened to me 
some weeks ago and it's really annoying. You need to accept the connection 
only once: it doesn't ask to authorize the connection when you connect it to 
the same pc again. So it's better to authorize it as soon as possible, while 
you can use VO, just in case. I had to authorize my iPhone to connect with 
my pc, even though I had connected it to the same pc before, when it was 
running IOS 6. I don't know what happens in case you upgrade from IOS 7 to 
IOS 8, but it's better to avoid the risk.

HTH
George

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christopher Chaltain via Electronics-talk" 
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To: "cheez" <cheez at cox.net>; "Discussion of accessible electronics and 
appliances" <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>; "Christine Szostak" 
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Sent: Monday, November 10, 2014 1:43 AM
Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] iOS 8 Problems

> You can add audio ducking to your roter by selecting it from the list at 
> Settings -> General -> Accessibility -> VoiceOver -> Roter. As Christine 
> says, when you enable this then your music and other audio will be quieted 
> a bit so you can better hear VoiceOver. I think this is the default in 
> IOS, so this option will let you turn it off if you don't like the default 
> audio ducking.
>
> On 11/09/2014 10:31 AM, cheez via Electronics-talk wrote:
>> 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
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>>
>>> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> 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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