[Njtechdiv] Fwd: Alert to AccessNote Users

[James Hulme]

To all of the entire NABS membership list, the NFB of NJ Technology
Division, New Jersey Association of Blind Students and Parents of Blind
Children of New Jersey:

This important message is to all Apple iOS 7.1 Users Please be sure to read
the entire details as there are some issues dealing with iOS 7.1 and
VoiceOver. I do not own or have any Apple products and I would just like to
share this message with everybody who does have Apple products. I just
thought I would share this helpful technology insight message. I am always
doing something to help the blind succeed when it comes to issues with
technology for the blind.


Source: American Foundation of the Blind AccessWorld Magazine (monthly).

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Jimmy Hulme
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Member of the New Jersey Association of Blind Students and the National
Association of Blind Students since 2007.
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Please stay tuned for a future blog posts from now until April 30, 2014
about the CSUN 2014 International Technology Conference for Persons with
Disabilities from 03/17/2014-03/22/2014.





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From: AccessWorld <accessworld at afb.net>
Date: Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 10:48 AM
Subject: Alert to AccessNote Users
To: AFB Subscriber <afbweb at afb.net>


   AFB American Foundation
for the Blind <http://www.afb.org>   TM
Expanding possibilities for people with vision loss

 Alert to AccessNote Users:

iOS 7.1 is experiencing an issue that affects all VoiceOver users who are
using a Bluetooth QWERTY keyboard.

Apple is aware of the issue, and is presumably working on a bug fix. The
problem stems from using the control key. After pressing the control key,
it acts as if the control key is "sticking," and all subsequent keyboard
actions act as if the control key is being held down. This has a
significantly detrimental effect on all iOS apps, but particularly impacts
AccessNote users. If you are experiencing bizarre behavior when taking
notes in AccessNote using iOS 7.1, then it is likely caused by this bug.
Unfortunately there is nothing that we can do about this as developers, and
we will have to wait for a bug fix from Apple. So for now, try to avoid
using the control key by itself, and if you do experience strange behavior
it can typically be fixed by pressing VO + left or right to change the
focus, then back to what you were doing. This bug only affects QWERTY
keyboards, and we have experienced no effects when using braille keyboards.

AppleVis has some excellent resources. They have a podcast and another
article suggesting some workarounds:

Podcast:
http://www.applevis.com/podcast/episodes/quick-tip-workaround-bluetooth-keyboard-problem-introduced-ios-71

Article:
http://www.applevis.com/forum/ios-ios-app-discussion/avoiding-bt-keyboard-issues-ios-71

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