For what it's worth, my wife is sighted, and she is disappointed by this chapter behavior as well.
Brett C. On Sep 28, 2013, at 1:10 PM, Nicholas Parsons <[email protected]> wrote: > HI Jürgen, > You're right, I'm sorry. Before sending you that last email I saw the track > list button but didn't press it. > Later that night I was reading an audiobook and tried using it, but it only > showed me the audio files, not the chapters/tracks. In my case it was a book > from audible which was in two parts (that is, two files) which were each > divided into chapters. After tapping the title, I could see the two > parts/files. Annoyingly, VoiceOver read out the length of each file before > the name, which is a change (and a bad one) since iOS6. > Once I started playing one of these files I could use the next and previous > buttons to skip through chapters/tracks. However, tapping the track list > button merely brought up the two parts/files, not the chapters. > More annoyingly still, the time scrubber thing now shows the time for the > entire file, not just the chapter. This is another change since iOS6. In iOS6 > it would just show the time for the current track, now it has the time for > the whole file. As the time for the whole file is longer, so the increments > it skips are larger when you flick up or down. So for me, I could skip > forward and back by 15-30 seconds using the buttons either side of the > play/pause button, or skip forward/back by one hour blocks with the scrubber. > This discrepancy made it really difficult to find my place in the book. > I think this is worth writing to Apple accessibility about and explaining the > affect this has on VoiceOver users. I presume it's fine for sighted people as > they can probably just touch the scrubber at the point they wish to be, > whereas VoiceOver users have to flick up and down by set increments. > This is really disappointing as one of the reasons I loved my iPod and iPhone > was the awesome way in which Apple handled the playing of audiobooks. > Best, > Nic > > -- > 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 http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- 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 http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
