Peter,
I have spoken with the Accessibility team a bit. Here is some
background. The Accessibility team as we know it currently is actually
like a tier 2 support level. These are the guys who have to know
everything. One thing nneded to be suggested to Apple is that they need
to hire blind people as accessibility experts this would help move
tickets up? I actually asked about blind people being on the
accessibility team and there are none so here is our time to stomp our
feet so to speak and get blind people jobs as well as get people in the
Accessibility department who uses these features every day. You may
give feedback at:
www.apple.com/feedback
On 3/21/13 7:18, Peter Durieux wrote:
Dear,
First of all, congrats with all the accessibility work Apple has done
over the last few years.
With this email I'd like to ask 2 really needed features on Ios
related to VoiceOver.
It should be nice that those will be passed along the responsible
departments.
The features that I request are already implemented on Osx, so it
shouldn't be a deal breaker to get those also work in Ios.
Across the world, people usage more languages on a daily basis.
Therefore wouldn't it be great to have more then one high quality voice.
For example, I'm using Siri a lot to do some daily tasks. But
reviewing a webpage or reading a book, I'll use my native language
(Dutch).
Unless I jailbreak my device, I'm not able to get the dutch high
quality voice.
I'm not a fan of jailbreaking my device, I really relay on it.
The second feature I would like to suggest is that we can make some
profiles like we know on Mountain Lion. When I read content in an
other language, I need to slow down the speech rate.
On Osx I've created some activity "read to me in English slow", so I
can switch easily.
From what I've heard of other blind ios users, they also want such a
feature be implemented.
On a side note, since the introduction of the nuance voices on Osx,
there is a text-to-speech bug in some language for reading email
addresses, url's and file with the file extension.
This bug was also in ios4 and get fixed in ios5.
Either in the upgrade from Lion to Mountain lion, the bug is still there.
This is also reported to [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]> several times.
We all hoping to see a fix in an upcoming update.
Thanks in advance,
Kind regards,
-Peter Durieux
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