[NFBCS] does anyone know what is wrong with my phone?

Thu Dec 8 17:37:12 UTC 2022

A couple of things you might want to try:
1.  Take off your phone case and clean both the case and the phone.
Even a little debris can cause an issue.
2. Try it without the case to see if pressure from the case is making
the touch screen wig out

Wendy

On 12/8/22, Sabra Ewing via NFBCS <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> it does have to do with computer science because people do ask technology
> questions here, and because people in the computer science field would be
> more likely to know about the programming and everything that is going on
> with Apple.
>
> Plus, Samantha, coming on could be a programming thing. Everything was fine
> until I contacted Apple Accessibility because the pronunciation dictionary
> stopped working when iOS updated. He had me erase the phonetic alphabet of
> my name, and then said to redo it. But then, when I try to dictate a
> replacement, it was not using the phonetic alphabet like it should. Then he
> told me to switch to a different voice like that, would do anything, but I
> did. It did nothing, but ever since I did that, Samantha now comes on
> occasionally. I can't get rid of her. Then he had me download a phonetic
> alphabet keyboard. I asked him how that was going to work since neither of
> us are linguists, and we do not know the sound of each phonetic
> character.'would not answer and told me to just do it, and of course I was
> right, and it didn't do anything and he had me uninstall it.
>
> If they don't fix it soon I guess I will have to find another program that
> can listen to you speak and then type in the phonetic alphabet and then copy
> and paste that. But the whole point of this is that everything was fine, and
> then, after talking to Apple Accessibility, this whole Samantha thing
> started. I had been talking to them for a long time about the proximity
> sensor thing, which they don't care about, but now it's partially fixed,
> because if you lock the screen it stays.
>
> And it has to do with Nfb as well because they are closely tied with Apple
> and accessibility. Actually, the only reason Apple is accessible in the
> first place is because the Nfb filed a lawsuit. i'm actually surprised how
> they got that to work because generally the ADA says that a service has to
> be accessible, but not a product, which is why no one is required to make
> accessible appliances and other things. If this gets any worse, maybe
> someone should write a resolution to get Apple to stop building new things
> until they have fixed what they already have, at least where VoiceOver is
> concerned.
>
> Sabra Ewing
>
>> On Dec 7, 2022, at 7:03 PM, tyler Littlefield via NFBCS <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Not really sure why malware would do this.
>>
>> I would say it sounds like the screen is having issues. When I got mine
>> replaced they didn't properly calibrate it and it wasn't responding to
>> gestures. I would try a restore, then take it into an apple store as the
>> last option.
>>
>>
>> Also not really sure how this is nfbcs related.
>>
>>
>>> On 12/7/2022 7:19 PM, kevin SiscoKevin via NFBCS wrote:
>>> Perhaps a reset of the phone is in order?  Sounds almost like malware
>>> behavior but I seriously don't think that's it.  This is a strange one.
>>>
>>> Kevin
>>>
>>> My software store:
>>>
>>> https://ko-fi.com/kjsisco56927
>>>
>>>> On 12/7/2022 4:00 PM, Sabra Ewing via NFBCS wrote:
>>>> latest iOS, iPhone 11.
>>>>
>>>> The screen is not working correctly with voiceover. when I flick left
>>>> and right, it sometimes does it and sometimes it goes up and down. If
>>>> I'm in a place with a keyboard, it might type the letters when I'm
>>>> trying to do a gesture. For example, it types letters when I'm trying to
>>>> control the router.
>>>>
>>>> I have used the iPhone for a long time and it is not my gestures. I
>>>> forgot the name of the setting, and I can't look it up right now because
>>>> of my nonworking screen, but I have the setting on where you slide to
>>>> the correct letter and lift your finger to type it, but it is not doing
>>>> that. It keeps typing every letter as I slide my finger over it.
>>>>
>>>> Is there anything I can do? If this is a bug, they can't take years to
>>>> fix this. Calling Apple Accessibility is not going to work because they
>>>> keep you on there for hours and treat you like a paid user tester when
>>>> you are not. they do everything possible to not report something as a
>>>> bug.
>>>>
>>>> I'm hoping it's not a bug and some sort of setting or something will fix
>>>> it. And then I really need to get Samantha off of here, but I can't find
>>>> a way to delete her. I have Alex, but sometimes she speaks  randomly. I
>>>> want this smart punctuation with dictation turned off. I will dictate my
>>>> punctuation marks where they need to go.
>>>>
>>>> I can't even type in my pass code because of this typing thing. I can't
>>>> read anything either. When I double tap to dictate it sometimes does,
>>>> sometimes tries to play music or audio, and sometimes does both. Except
>>>> it is not working at times either so it says speech on or speech off, or
>>>> whatever, and then it activates help at times as well, which is supposed
>>>> to be with four fingers.
>>>>
>>>> I'm really sick of this. Each new iOS keeps getting worse and worse and
>>>> worse. They don't seem to care that much about keeping accessibility
>>>> up-to-date either.
>>>>
>>>> Sabra Ewing
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