[Trainer-Talk] Some things to consider before you upgrade to iOS 13.0

[Marci Duty]

Dear Scott, 
Thank you for addressing this list with your concerns. I
understand that iOS 13.1 is going to be released on 9/30. Do
we know if any of these braille challenges are fixed in
iOS13.1? 

Respectfully, 

Marci Duty
Email: marci.smiles at gmail.com
Phone: (214) 732-5788
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Subject: [Trainer-Talk] Some things to consider before you
upgrade to iOS 13.0

Hello.
As many of you know, iOS 13.0 will be released on Thursday,
September 19. There are many bugs that I and other
colleagues have documented that blind, low vision, and
deaf-blind users may wish to know about prior to upgrading.
As a braille user, I will not be upgrading my main device to
13.0 due to major issues with text input. For example, When
composing an email or note using a braille display keyboard,
after 5 or 6 sentences, braille stops responding to input.
This also applies to editing an already composed email or
note. When typing using a braille display, text shortcuts do
not work unless you write them in eight-dot mode. The
workaround for this issue is to press space with dots 2-3-6
to toggle braille input to this mode, type the text
shortcut, and then press space with 2-3-6 again to get back
to your preferred braille code.
Although this problem is not new in iOS 13, using an
external keyboard to move through text fields by paragraph
or to select text by paragraph has become even more
inconsistent. In most text editors, this functionality is
now effectively broken completely.
For those using Either Classic or Smart Invert with their
iOS devices, neither will behave reliably. Specifically, our
testing indicates that anybody seeking to use a combination
of display settings that results in light text on a dark
background is likely to find that their device's display
will spontaneously and randomly switch between light on dark
and dark on light during normal use.
Those are the most serious issues identified, but not the
only ones.
For a complete list, please see
https://www.applevis.com/blog/accessibility-bugs-introduced-
and-resolved-ios-13-blind-and-low-vision-users


FYI,
Scott

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