Please find below a copy of my email to Apple Accessibility and their reply. They've asked for further reports. I thought others on this list might be interested in helping test this and are probably better at it than me. So thanks in advance to anyone who is able to test this and give better feedback to Apple Accessibility.
Begin forwarded message: From: Nicholas Parsons <[email protected]> Subject: VoiceOver and Siri in iOS7 Date: 8 October 2013 9:29:17 PM AEDT To: "Apple Accessibility" <[email protected]> Dear Accessibility Team, Thank you once again for your great continuing work with accessibility. As a VoiceOver user, I really appreciate it. I'm writing to report two issues with VoiceOver and Siri in iOS7. 1. Siri sometimes does not finish her sentence before asking for a response. I'm not sure this has anything to do with VoiceOver, but it seems likely. Sometimes Siri will make as if to say something in response to me, but will then be cut off by the beep indicating it's my turn to respond. I suppose a sighted person could still respond as they could see what Siri said written on the screen, but as a VoiceOver user I have no idea what Siri said or how I am to respond. 2. Difficulty navigating to content in Siri interface. VoiceOver has difficulty navigating to some content in the Siri interface. For example, when Siri brings up a list of web search results. If one flicks left and right, VoiceOver is only able to navigate between the listen and help buttons. I find a two finger flick up will start VoiceOver reading the entire screen and this will include the search results. However, if trying to navigate between these results or read them more carefully, VoiceOver sometimes jumps back to the listen or help buttons and gets stuck there again. Thanks and kind regards, Nic Hi, Nic. Thanks for taking the time to write to Apple with your observations of iOS 7, including any for which you may have received a canned "we know about that one" sort of response. (Even then, your report is added to the investigation.) In these observations of Siri, we go two directions: 1) If Siri isn't always finishing sentences before asking for a response, try reproducing the problem with VoiceOver temporarily turned off. (If you have VO set to the triple-click function, you can turn it back on easily as soon as you learn whether the bad behavior presists with VO off.) We doubt this is related to VoiceOver, but if you determine that it only occurs when VoiceOver is engaged, please send step-by-step instructions as to how we may reproduce the problem, as it is not a behavior we have yet seen. 2) The navigation problem when Siri returns a list that you should be able to navigate was not one we could reproduce, but because we've heard such a complaint before, we sent your report along to the appropriate team for investigation. Unfortunately, we cannot comment on when the matter might be addressed. So, the second item of business is addressed, but action on the first depends on whether or not you can encounter a reproducible example that works fine when VoiceOver isn't engaged. If you should discover such an example, please reply with details. Otherwise -- that would be if Siri sometimes doesn't finish talking before signaling for a response even when VO is not engaged -- the report should go to http://www.apple.com/feedback. Choose iPhone as the product, since Siri doesn't have a category to itself. Thanks for your help. Regards Apple Accessibility -- 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.
