I'm going to try explaining this the best that I can. If an audio demo is
necessary for better understanding, just let me know, and I'll make one.
I should add that I did test on the IPhone and do not have this issue. I
also should add that I have restored my IPad which had no baring.
It seems that in this version on the IPad of I O S, each folder is arranged
in a 3 by 3 grid. This mweans there are 3 icons going virtically, by 3
going horizontally. So, in my Utilities folder, there are 23 apps all
total. This means about 5 pages to that one folder.
On the first page, the first 3 icons on the first row, going horizontally
are contacts, Clock, then notes. Stick with me here. I know this is really
confusing. I can't imagine if you can't physically see what I'm talking
about, let alone, if you can.
So, the second row of that first page starts with Camera. No need for me to
continue. I can now present you this concept.
The first icon of the first row on the second page is News Stand. So, back
on page 1, again, the top row, just to recap, is: contacts, Clock, then
Notes. What is happening is, once on Notes, if I then flick again to the
right one time, it, should! key word, should! wrap to the first icon on row
two of that first page, which is Camera, right?
Wrong! What it's actually! doing is, it's moving the Voiceover focus to the
first icon on the next page's same row. So, in other words, the first icon
of the second page, on the first row, is News Stand. Therefore, If I'm on
the first row flicking right icon by icon on the first page, I hear
Contacts, Clock, Notes, then one more flick, I hear News Stand. Then! if I
flick again, I hear the little directional click telling me I jumped down to
the next row, and I then hear Camera, which is correct. That indeed is! the
first icon on the first page, second row. I don't remember the next two
icons of the second row first page, and my IPad's not in front of me to
look, but I do know, that the first icon of the second row on the second
page of that folder is Safari, in my case. So I get to Camera on row 2,
page 1. I flick right, another app. I flick right, the final app of that
row. I flick right again... Boom, you guessed it! Safari! It's almost
like it thinks it should be a 3 by 4 grid, not a 3 by 3. It's like it
thinks there should be 4 icons horizontally per page, as aposed to what it
really! is, which is 3 by 3. If I double tap on one of the icons not on the
page, like when it goes into la la land, say on page one, if I double tap on
Safari, the folder crashes/closes, and returns me to the home screen.
Before anyone asks, no, this definitely is not a developer seed. I'd not be
discussing it, if it was. I'm no fool. LOL! This is 7.0.6. I'm speaking
the update that just came out the other day. It's also kind a weird, as
after the 3rd icon on whatever row, if I flick right again, the little box
that indicates the Voiceover cursor kind of moves off the window with the
page's icons kind of offset a bit to the left of the first most icon of the
next row. In all actuality, nothing is visually there. It's just black
blank screen area real estate. Again, I reidderate that this is not
happenning on the latest update with my IPhone 5S. I'm only seeing it on my
IPad 4th Gen 16GB White AT&T.
I must say that this is extremely bizarre! You'd think restoring would fix
things, but it didn't, and no. I did not restore from a backlup when I did.
I set it up as a brand new device, then redownloaded the apps, and
rearranged them manually. Yeah, pain in the kneck, I know, but I was at my
wits end. I can't faddum this at all!
I did let Apple know about this by calling their Accessibility line. the
guy is going to call me back on Saturday when he gets in the office. He's
also going to meanwhile try getting a test IPad to see if he can reproduce
the issue. He said if nothing else, he'd try on his IPad 2, tonight when he
got home. He said the IPad was in his car, and they won't allow him to
leave the building while he's on shift. He also said either way, he'd
submit this up to engineering. He's just about as perplexed as I am, if not
more so!
Chris.
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