[Nfbc-info] FW: cof FW: [Mosen Consulting Announcement] If you're concerned about the actions rotor in the iOS Mail app, please take action

[Lauren Merryfield]

Hi,
Since I upgraded to iOs 11, I have found it annoying that when I am typing a message or email, VoiceOver keeps saying something about "check the rotor for spelling " and when it says that, I can't hear it say the letters I am typing. So I've disabled hints for now, but there were some hints I liked having. 

I would rather the rotor stay in the background and allow me to position it the way I want to, when I want to, not for it to get pushy and annoying. Thanks,
Lauren

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From: Evelyn [mailto:mixed.up at cox.net]
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Subject: FW: cof FW: [Mosen Consulting Announcement] If you're concerned about the actions rotor in the iOS Mail app, please take action

 

I haven't yet upgraded to IOS 11, and maybe it's just as well.  If any of you have, and if you are now having trouble with the roter in mail you may be interested in reading this.

Evelyn

 

During the iOS beta process, many testers discovered that the actions rotor in the iOS 11 Mail app was behaving inconsistently compared with other apps.
Based on my email box over the last couple of weeks, many of our customers have discovered it too, and it has caused a lot of confusion and wasted time.

A recent iOS 11.1 beta makes it clear that this is not a bug. It's a new, and inconsistent, way of working in mail that at this point, Apple intends sticking with in iOS 11.1. I have blogged about this issue, and why it is important. You can read that blog post here.
<http://mosen.org/cupertino-we-have-a-design-problem/> 

If you, like me and many of our customers, want the actions rotor to behave in mail as it does in other apps, could you please take the time to do two things before it's too late.

First, write a respectful message to accessibility at apple.com asking that the actions rotor work as it used to do in Mail and as it still does in other apps, so you know for sure when you're going to open an email and when you're going to delete it. Remember, the people receiving your message didn't make this decision. They're on the front line and will simply be passing it on.

Second, if you could forward this message to anyone you think is being or may be affected by Apple's decision, and share the blog post via social media, that would be much appreciated.

Perhaps we are not too late to get this change reversed in time for iOS 11.1.

Hopefully, you were able to read this message and not delete it.

Thank you so much for your help.

 

Jonathan Mosen

Mosen Consulting

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