This is correct. The four-finger tap also moves you to
the bottom of your present window.
The Control-up arrow moves you to the top where the Cancel
button is
In IOS8, however, I am about convinced there is
something seriously wrong with the appstore update program. I
fought with it on Monday evening until I had to break off and go
to bed. After a night's rest, I fired it up again and carefully
went over the touch screen with a fine-toothed comb, as a manner
of speech.
The window of interest is most of the screen with a
boundary all around it. Above the top past the blank space are
the iPad status bars and below the rectangle of focus is nothing
down to the Home button.
The Cancel button is no problem to find and is near the upper
left-hand portion of the focus window along with the current
page number. I promise you that nowhere in that window is either
the Next Page or the Agree button. If using a keyboard, you hear
those buttons announced and my wife confirms that you can see
them and she even tapped Agree. Voiceover says nothing and no
part of the iPad screen responds with Agree.
If I use the 4-finger tap, Voiceover does say Agree but
gives a little clunk as it does when you've touched something
that won't work. Even after the 4-finger tap, no part of the
screen says Agree or next page.
I decided to do what I will call a rolling 4-finger tap.
It's the kind of thing one might have done in Junior high school
to aggravate a teacher where you tap your 4 fingers one at a time
in very quick succession to give a ripping sound as in tttap.
I almost fell out of my chair. There on the screen were
those fields and they announce themselves like they should if
you tap once above them. I Tapped Agree and to my amazement, it
finally gave an alert message that I had agreed and after
tapping OK, it went back in to the app store and is letting me
update things.
Here is something else I have always noticed in IOS and
voiceover. If you do use a keyboard, you can arrow around in the
area of focus but not the entire screen. If you touch someother
area of focus, you can now move all around that part of the
screen with the arrows. I think there is a key sequence to jump
between different windows but it escapes me.
I do know I ran 1 finger over every millimeter of the
margin field and only found the status bars at the top and the
big text rectangle full of legalese with it's Cancel and no
other useful buttons.
Is that rolling 4-finger tap anything that anybody knows
about?
This happens to be the app store legal agreement but I
am sure this is the output of some standard web display program
Apple uses for zillions of applications.
I almost forgot that I tried the 2-finger slide up to
read the whole window and it also failed to see any buttons but
Cancel. The 3-finger swipe up tries to read you the next screen
but just says "Page 2 of 1" and is the bottom of the home page
in my case. Three fingers down says "Page 1 of 1" and is the
first part of Home.
Sorry for the length of this posting but I am sure I am
not the only one to have hit this wall. Had I not used the
keyboard at all, I wouldn't have been able to page back and
forth through the document and that rolling tap I did was more
out of frustration than out of technical knowledge.
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