Hello Martin, You didn’t have to upgrade. Your choice. Why not wait for a few weeks and see how the people who have non-production devices test the new releases.
Gena On 28 Sep 2014, at 18:32, Martin G. McCormick <[email protected]> wrote: > I got my iPad Back. Am I sorry about all those nasty > things I said about Apple? > Not in the least because this is big business at it's > worst. > Okay. Enough whining and griping from me. Here is the > fix. It was aimed at iPhone users, but it does work on the iPad > just fine. > As in most software bugs, things aren't what they appear > to be. The Caps-lock works correctly but the reporting of it's > status is what is broken. I will condense what little I have > learned so far. > From: Sarah k Alawami <[email protected]> > She reported that turning quicknav on helps. You do that > by pressing the Left-arrow and Right-arrow keys simultaneously. > The system reports that quicknav is on. This gives you your > arrows back but I would call this "teaser mode" because you > can't yet click on/select any of the fields that are > tantalizingly now reported as you arrow back and forth. > Also, another bug in IOS8 is that voiceover crashes when > one is using the arrow keys plus probably a few other things. > The system goes silent briefly and you here "Voiceover on" and > find that you are now back at the start of the list of available > links to arrow through. This is annoying but if you arrow > through things a little more slowly, it seems to crash less > often. Time to go down another rabbit hole. > One of the google searches I did turned up the following > set of instructions on applevis. Follow these carefully. The > following words are not mine but lifted from the email being > referenced. > Quoting: > > AppleVis > If your Bluetooth keyboard doesn't work with VoiceOver except just a > few functions in iOS 8.0, try the following steps to resolve the issue. > Once the problem disappears, it doesn't appear again unless you change > the iPhone language in Settings, General, Language & Region. To make > the problem disappear from your iPhone, follow these steps: > > 1. If you use just one software keyboard, temporarily add an arbitrary > one in Settings, General, Keyboard, Keyboards, Add New Keyboard. > 2. Open the Notes app. > 3. Create a new note. > 4. Press the left arrow key and the right arrow key simultaneously to > turn off the quick navigation option. > 5. Hold down the command key and press the space key several times to > cycle through the list of software keyboards. > 6. Press the left arrow key and the right arrow key simultaneously to > turn on the quick navigation option. > 7. Now your Bluetooth keyboard should work fine except other iOS bugs. > 8. You may delete the software keyboard temporarily added at Settings, > General, Keyboard, Keyboards. > > This is a copy of the email sent to RiVO customers to resolve the issue > (http://goo.gl/GiBvWy) since it should also resolve the problem for > other Bluetooth keyboards as well. > > End of quote > > This is Martin speaking now. After activating notes from > the touch screen, I selected compose and did as the instructions > said. I had selected a Spanish keyboard as the software keyboard so I typed > Command+Space and heard Espaniole then English and then > Espaniole again as there were now two software keyboards. > I left it on English. You then just get out of notes and > the BT KB now works as well as it did in IOS6. > > The IOS8 accessibility stack was simply not ready for > prime time. While I do not have any inside knowledge of how the > OS works, it appears that various parts of the system are not > speaking to each other during installation and setup. If your > are using an English or Russian or Chinese locale, all important > modules such as the keyboard translator should understand which > character sets to use without the end user having to essentially > initialize them. In unix, we call this the environment and make > use of environmental variables and it generally works > beautifully. IOS is not unix but the concept is an old and > tested one. We are using XYZ language so everything that deals > with text and fonts knows this and behaves accordingly unless > specifically told otherwise. > I hope this helps somebody. Knowledge is worth a lot > more when it is concentrated in one place. Treasure hunts are > fun and challenging but sometimes, we just want stuff to work. > > Martin > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > [email protected] > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at > the list's public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> > > As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we always strive to ensure that the > Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. > However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. 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