That thing with the speech cutting off,and being choppy at faster rates, happens on my iPod touch I have here, if I speed it up enough. For example, it'll say serc, instead of search, and things like that. On May 8, 2010, at 9:47 PM, Bryan Smart wrote:
> OK, those of you with iPads, check this out. > > I've noticed how swiping just doesn't work sometimes on my iPad. I thought, > hey, maybe it's me. It wasn't like this on my iPhone, though. I thought, > maybe the screen is just not as good. Turns out, though, VoiceOver just isn't > as good. I finally have a way to consistently show this crud. Wish that I > could come up with good repros for the other problems, though. > > Anyway, here is a good example of swiping not working. > > Go in to settings. Double-tap Wi-Fi. > > Now, on the right side, double-tap the on/off switch on the right side of the > screen. > > Now, try just once to swipe. Nothing will happen. If you try again, you'll be > swiping just fine. Return to the switch, though. > > Double-tap to toggle it. Swipe once. Nothing will happen. > > Double-tap to toggle it again. Swipe once, again. Nothing will happen. > > The thing is, each time you toggle any switch, not just this once, swiping > doesn't work the first time that you try. Not only with switches, this > happens with radio button type controls where you select one in a group. > > Exploring further, I discovered that, for most things you do, the first > attempt to swipe doesn't work. In Safari, when a new page loads, the first > time I swipe never results in focus moving. In settings, when I double-tap a > button on the left to show another category of settings, the first swipe > never moves the focus. This isn't the case in absolutely every place on the > iPad (the home screen isn't like this), but it is very prevalent, and I can > make it happen over and over again. I'm only mentioning these apps because > these are the ones that everyone else has to try the repro. > > Between this, and the deal with the screen not refreshing to VoiceOver, I'm > starting to understand why it seemed like the interface wasn't responding > like I'm used to with the iPhone and the MBP track pad. I feel like I'm > fumbling a lot trying to get things to work, rather than being able to follow > consistent patterns to get to where I want to be. Now that I know what's > happening, I should have better luck, I guess. Like, every time I press a > button, I have to make a fake swipe before I start to swipe for real. > > Today, while reading a web page, I also had the speech totally die. I would > still hear the VoiceOver navigation sounds as I moved around, but no speech. > Fortunately, I can always use the triple-tap home key approach to cycle > VoiceOver off and on, but, as I was doing so, I couldn't help thinking of how > constantly having to reload a screen reader is supposed to be par for the > course in the Windows world. I couldn't help but angrily think how it seems > that Apple has finally brought that feature to the iPad, also. I suppose it's > to their credit that I don't expect this on OSX and the iPhone, but I really > like not having an unstable screen reader. I can't say that I've never had to > toggle VO on OSX, but that is pretty rare. I've had to do that quite a little > bit on the iPad to work out various problems. The speech, in general, seems > like its been tweaked for the iPad. Maybe that's why it chops off the ends of > some words when running at full speed. > > Oh, and don't forget the bug with the speaker constantly running, draining > your battery while you sleep. > > What's the deal? Was this thing rushed? Is the iPad running some hacked > intermediate version of VoiceOver? As I said in my other thread, I've already > setup a return for the iPad. I'll be sending it back on Tuesday. We barely > have 14 days to kick the tires on it before the return period is up. I'm not > really happy about how things have gone so far. > > I'm also really surprised that, so far, I seem to be the only one that has > found iPad VO bugs. These haven't been hard to find. Maybe others have, and > just haven't said so, or I haven't noticed their reports. Still, I've had > mine for just over a week. Other people have had the iPad for a month. > Blindness orgs have reviewed it. Has just no one else noticed any of these? > Maybe, like me, you just feel that the user interface doesn't respond > correctly, and don't know why/can't give a repro. > > Supposedly, the only updates that will be available are new OS versions. The > next one is supposed to come out in the fall. Thought the first one will be > free, versions after that will cost. > Bryan > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. 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