this has never happened to  me before

On 5/8/12, Neil Barnfather - TalkNav <[email protected]> wrote:
> even if you clear the app switcher regularly, do you power cycle daily, I
> mean turn it off and back on again?
>
> I also would suggest turning down the speech rate temporarily.
>
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> On 8 May 2012, at 16:46, Danielle McCullough wrote:
>
> I never leave things in the app switcher anyway, so I think that that out.
> I'll live with it, but maybe they'll fix it, lol.
>
> Danielle
>
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> On 8 May 2012, at 04:05 PM, Neil Barnfather - TalkNav <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Danielle,
>>
>> It would be my strong guess that it is a mixed issue primarily relating to
>> screen reader synth speed, available processor at the time, RAM, apps
>> running at the time etc.
>>
>> one thing to try, and I appreciate that you'll not want to do this for
>> long, but, humour me, try for 48 hours doing the below and seeing if the
>> issue resolves.
>>
>> A: speech rate no more than 60%,
>> clear your app switcher twice daily, with one of these clearings occurring
>> in the evening, immediately followed by a power cycle.
>>
>> It is my belief that the issue will go away, I'd be interested to see.
>>
>> if it does, keep clearing the apps, and power cycling once a day after one
>> of the app switcher clear outs, and slowly increase the speech rate, and I
>> mean slowly, say 65% and upwards in 5% increments.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Neil Barnfather
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>> On 8 May 2012, at 13:24, Danielle McCullough wrote:
>>
>> Eric, I never said it was new, just irritating. Neil, I'm too impatient
>> not to use it under a hundred percent. Strangely, I never experienced this
>> before the 5.01 update. Funny how some people have it and some don't.
>>
>> Danielle
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Neil Barnfather - TalkNav"
>> <[email protected]>
>> To: <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2012 11:53 AM
>> Subject: Re: iOS 5.1.1 is out
>>
>>
>>> Eric,
>>>
>>> Do you have your synth speed set to very fast, or quite slow, I believe
>>> the default is about 30% or perhaps 40% but not faster.
>>>
>>> I keep mine around 50% but never higher.
>>>
>>> I also clear the switcher daily and restart.
>>>
>>> in your posting you give no reference to if you clear the switcher and
>>> restart your iOS device daily.
>>>
>>> do you do both of these things and what rate do you have VO set to?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Neil Barnfather
>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>> On 8 May 2012, at 11:48, Eric SS wrote:
>>>
>>> I am amazed and confounded that so many who have been here for so long
>>> and
>>> speak as though they have such great knowledge act as though this is an
>>> unheard of experience that is brand new and only happening with a very
>>> few.
>>>
>>> This has been going on since IOS5. I know I have discussed it at length
>>> and
>>> probably too much. Apple has never acknowledged the issue, although they
>>> did
>>> once ask for clarification of what situations caused it.
>>>
>>> Trust me, I am a very heavy user and fairly knowledgeable and the issue
>>> is
>>> real and is not limited just to a few new occurrences on this list. I
>>> have
>>> tested it under all situations I can come up with on a 4S and old ITouch,
>>> with both quality voices and even alternate accents. I have restored both
>>> devices on several occasions; complete restores and not merely from
>>> backup.
>>> I have methodically added applications to the devices to find if maybe
>>> one
>>> is causing the problem. None of these has revealed anything but
>>> randomness.
>>>
>>> The only thing I can see that is more apt to trigger a lockup is quickly
>>> scanning elements. I have found if I stop speech or wait until it has
>>> finished speaking, I can reduce the occurrences, but even this does not
>>> eliminate them. Recovery seems an inexact science, as well. Eighty
>>> seconds
>>> seems to be the magic time to allow it to right itself, but I count to 40
>>> and then touch the screen to prevent it going dem or to sleep, and then
>>> wait
>>> another 40 counts. It may not be exactly 80 seconds, but a count of 80
>>> seems
>>> to be about right. Otherwise, you can restart the phone with multiple
>>> presses of the power button, but that will start you back at the home
>>> screen. I read a lot in Safari, and it is maddening to have to find your
>>> place in the middle of the New York Times once or twice per issue. Hence,
>>> nursing the device to recover on its own is best.
>>>
>>> I have had this locking up in nearly every application from those I have
>>> purchased to native apps. Again, it seems to be most consistent when
>>> skimming from element to element. They do not have to be paragraph length
>>> clips, but may be dates in the calendar app.
>>>
>>> I have presented all of this to Apple on many occasions and have begged
>>> their assistance or at least some acknowledgement of the issue. As I
>>> said,
>>> beyond requesting more information one time, I have never even been given
>>> so
>>> much as a thank you for your inquiry.
>>>
>>> The only reasons I can think some don't seem to be having this issue ever
>>> is
>>> like they used to say with Windows: If you have not crashed, you are not
>>> using your computer enough. Well, there could be some Fan Children
>>> refusal
>>> to believe anything could ever be amiss with one of the annointed's
>>> blessings, too,.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
>>> Behalf
>>> Of Daniel Miller
>>> Sent: Monday, May 07, 2012 5:21 PM
>>> To: [email protected]
>>> Subject: RE: iOS 5.1.1 is out
>>>
>>> Um, what speech locking up are you talking about? I don't have that
>>> issue.
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
>>> Behalf
>>> Of James Mannion
>>> Sent: Monday, May 07, 2012 4:15 PM
>>> To: [email protected]
>>> Subject: Re: iOS 5.1.1 is out
>>>
>>> It doesn't really sound like this release addressed much. I would not be
>>> surprised if there are few or no fixes for anything accessibility.
>>> They may have made a quick fix for the app launching on unlock since
>>> people
>>> made such a huge deal out of that small avoidable not really a problem
>>> issue, but I wish they would fix the speech locking up over that one. It
>>> is
>>> really strange though that they put out this release to fix what appear
>>> to
>>> be such minor issues and they let huge issues hang out there for 6 or 9
>>> months until some planned release and at least claim to have addressed
>>> them.
>>> Purely speculation here of course on all of this, but I am betting there
>>> was
>>> some change in this release that Apple has some motivation to make and it
>>> is
>>> not written anywhere.
>>> Something like a jailbreak whole patched or something.
>>>
>>> On 5/7/12, Veronica Elsea <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Anyone know if 5.1.1 addresses the blue tooth issue that prevented the
>>>> Braille Sense OnHand from working properly with the phone? Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> Veronica
>>>>
>>>> At 01:07 PM 5/7/2012, you wrote:
>>>>> Another issue not addressed, apparently, is in the calendar. When you
>>>>> select all day as an option, it Kicks you completely out of the
>>>>> calendar still.
>>>>>
>>>>> It does not give me hope that they have addressed the speech locking
>>>>> up issue, either. We can only hope!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Telephone: (614) 522-9725
>>>>> Skype: sseric57
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On May 7, 2012, at 3:59 PM, Scott Howell <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Well it may be a little early to tell if this issue has been
>>>>> addressed, but I am not seeing the issue where occasionally the phone
>>>>> app would launch when I unlocked the screen. So, this may be one item
>>>>> not addressed in the release notes. I guess only time will tell.
>>>>>
>>>>> On May 7, 2012, at 3:11 PM, Cristobal wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I downloaded it this time with no issues. The one bug I was glad to
>>>>>> see addressed and I always encountered was that purchase prompt
>>>>>> error
>>>>> every time
>>>>>> I downloaded an app about how x number of items were unable to be
>>>>>> downloaded. Other than that, I didn't notice anything on the list
>>>>>> of fixes that I had trouble with. I guess I'll keep an eye out per
>>>>>> say for any accessibility improvements/fixes.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
>>>>>> Behalf Of Woody Anna Dresner
>>>>>> Sent: Monday, May 07, 2012 11:54 AM
>>>>>> To: [email protected]
>>>>>> Subject: Re: iOS 5.1.1 is out
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Jenifer and all,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Just because accessibility isn't mentioned in the summary of the
>>>>>> update doesn't necessarily mean no accessibility improvements will
>>>>>> be
>>> included.
>>>>>> There may not be any, but there have certainly been times in the
>>>>>> past where there were some, but they weren't mentioned in the
>>>>>> update What's New summary.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best,
>>>>>> Anna
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On May 7, 2012, at 1:48 PM, Jenifer Gilley wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Nothing accessibility.  A few bugs that were addressed in photo
>>>>>>> stream,
>>>>>> airplay, and two more things I can't remember, but nothing that has
>>>>>> to do with accessibility.  I'm updating now though just because.
>>>>>>> Jenifer Gilley
>>>>>>> email
>>>>>>> [email protected]
>>>>>>> MSN:
>>>>>>> [email protected]
>>>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>>>> From: Cristobal
>>>>>>> To: [email protected]
>>>>>>> Sent: Monday, May 07, 2012 1:53 PM
>>>>>>> Subject: iOS 5.1.1 is out
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It appears that iOS 5.1.1 is out for iPhones, Touches and iPads
>>>>>>> for those
>>>>>> who wish to give it a try. I remember running into some issues that
>>>>>> didn't prevent me from updating to 5.1 on my phone, but did crash
>>>>>> it the
>>>>> first time
>>>>>> I tried downloading it. Gizmodo only mentions a few bug fixes so I
>>>>>> don't know if there's anything accessibility related. Perhaps
>>>>>> others can dig up the information.
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