Hi Kari and Jennifer, There seems to be a focus issue with the ViA app if you let it read through to the end of the descriptive document. Try removing the app from the app switcher, then relaunch it. When it starts up again, flick to the recommended apps, search, etc. and double tap to launch. What's happening is that once you do your read all through the description of why the app was created, all the options for recommended apps, search, etc. are scrolled off the top of the visible screen. Apparently when the options are not on the visible portion of the screen, you can't flick back to them and double tap to activate the controls. But if you relaunch the app and just flick to the controls or use your finger to run vertically up and down the visible part of the screen you can activate any of the controls. I think I first tried a three-finger flick down to scroll back to these options at the top of the page and couldn't do it, but you might try that first. The other way to handle this is to do a triple-click home to turn VoiceOver off, and then flick a finger vertically down the center of the screen, then click on again. Once I did that, the scrolling gestures worked for me, and as long as you stay in the section with the options to review the apps, you can navigate.
I loaded the app on my iPad before I read your posts, because I was working on it when the original message came in. On the iPad, the larger screen real estate means that options for navigating to reviews are still on the visible page along with the text explanation section, although the problem still exists there. I simply didn't finish reading the section crediting partners, etc. before I flicked back to recommended apps. Had I done so, that option would have been just off the top of the visible portion of the screen, and I would not have been able to flick back to it and double tap to access it. Also, if I had been using the iPad in landscape mode and read to the end of the page, none of the options to view the recommended apps, search apps, recently added apps, etc. would have been in the visible area and available to me. I found this out when I tried checking the app again after your posts, and then I tried loading the app onto my iPhone. With the app loads on the iPhone, the same content occupies 4 pages if you can scroll back -- which I think I initially could not. So none of the viewing options would be available here. And I did try a double tap and hold to pull down the page, but that didn't worked, either. On the iPad version I think I got a message like "Content pull down" but could not actually move to the top. However, once you toggle VoiceOver off and scroll by flicking a finger up on the screen with standard gestures, you're able to perform the three-finger scrolling gestures with VoiceOver. I'm cc'ing a copy of this to the original poster of the app. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Jul 22, 2012, at 2:48 AM, johns.kary wrote: > I've had exactly the same problem. > Shame as this looks like a grate idea. > > Kari. On 22/07/2012, at 7:43 PM, Jenifer Gilley wrote: > >> Hi, I just tried this ap. While it is a great concept, I can't get any info >> from it. I tried going to the recommended aps, the search, and nothing >> happened. No additional info came up for me at all. It's like the ap was >> stuck. Anyone else experiencing this? >> Jenifer Gilley >> email >> [email protected] >> MSN: >> [email protected] >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ryan Honey" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2012 12:34 AM >> Subject: ViA app aggregates apps for VI users and teachers >> >> >> I've been following this group for a while but this is my first post. I work >> for Braille Institute and we've just released ViA, a free app that >> aggregates and categorizes apps that are useful to VI uses and educators. >> I'd like to invite this community to use it and provide feedback. There is >> one issue with Voice Over that comes up when it reads an apps star rating >> that we are fixing. Otherwise, it is fully accessible, including pinch zoom >> capability on any page for low vision users Any suggestions are welcome and >> I encourage you to use the built in accessibility rating system to share >> your knowledge of apps that are useful to you. Let me know if we can make >> this app better. Thanks. >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
