Hi Nic and Bread, thanks for your replies. I'm glad you could duplicate this behaviour which is annoying to me as well. And I agree it's worth a report to Apple which I will do now. All the best Jürgen
Am 28.09.2013 um 21:46 schrieb Brett C. <[email protected]>: > 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. -- 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.
