I have seen that happen before. My guess is that it has something to do with how that particular app is coded. I’m not familiar with Voiceover’s internals, but I imagine it works like other screen readers in that it stores the bitmap of the item you are labeling. If for some reason the app does not construct the button in the same way every time, VO can’t identify it. The state of the control, i.e. selected or not) may also affect the ability of VO to detect it and you may just need to explore a bit more to figure out what’s happening. I forget the app where I ran into this now but I finally gave up on it because nothing I did made the labels stick. Unfortunately the best answer may be to find another app that works better with VO, but it’s a good idea to get in touch with the developer if you can and see if they will fix it. If they properly label the buttons in the first place then you don’t have to mess with it.
> On Jun 21, 2016, at 5:32 PM, David Griffith <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have an app on my new iPhone SE running iOS 9 which has unlabelled > buttons. > > > I have tried to re-label these buttons using the Voiceover two finger > double tap and hold gesture. > > At first re-labelling the buttons appears to work fine after I have entered > the new label text and then hit the save or done buttons in the custom label > dialogue. However then if I close the app and re-open it all my custom > button lables have disappeared. > > > Obviously I want Voiceover to remember my newly labelled buttons as I do not > want to re-enter them every time I open the app. > > Does anybody know what I may be doing wrong? > > > David Griffith > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara > Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
