I would email [email protected] about this. I'm still on ios7 until my apps I use daily get updates which they slowly are. On Sep 30, 2014, at 6:32 AM, Martin G. McCormick <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. 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