Hi All I live in the U.S I am using an iPhone 7, running IOS 10.2 & have the latest update to Facebook messenger. The only button that is not labeled is the 3rd button across the bottom when the app is first launched; otherwise everything is labeled & easy to use.
Donna > > I wonder if it has to do with the language although I know Ioana is also > using English. I use an iPhone 6S Plus with the latest public release of iOS > 10 which is 10.2. Maybe a few others who use Facebook Messengers can say if > they are having problems since for me I would say it is 100% accessible and > easy to use. > > Regards, > Sieghard > > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of > Davy Cuppens > Sent: Friday, January 20, 2017 10:54 AM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: do not update messenger above V100!!! > > Hi Ioana > > Thanx to inform me that I am not alone. > I had made an mp3 record for a very clever visually impaired iphone user and > she told me the app did not have a problem at all and even she had to admit > my message buttons were nolonger labeled. > Which iphone do you use? > > Regards > Davy > From: Ioana Gandrabur > Sent: Friday, January 20, 2017 7:01 PM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: do not update messenger above V100!!! > > I have had a similar problem for a few versions now but it appears that it's > not present for all voiceover users. > Thanks to Help I received on the list I learned how to find the send button > and that suits my needs for now. I did send them a report also bought we will > see what happens. > > Best, > > Ioana > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jan 20, 2017, at 12:58 PM, Jenifer Barr <claudas...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi. > I have the update before the latest "one and have had no problem either. I > mentioned this because Davy's email said that this update... (not the latest > one) also had accessibility problems. > Davy, what IOS version are you using? Maybe that has something to do with > what you are experiencing? > Jen > > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jan 20, 2017, at 12:29 PM, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote: > > Hi Davy, > > I updated to whatever the latest update was yesterday and have no issues. Can > you be more specific wit some examples where you have problems or where > things are not labelled? > I noticed that the third of out the 5 tabs at the bottom is not labelled, for > me it says from left to right: > Home, Calls, Tab 3 of 5, Groups, People > When I double tap on where Voiceover says “Tab 3 of 5” Voiceover says “Tap to > take photo or video” and I get a screen with a Close button at the top left, > then a button to turn the flash on, a button to “Flip Camera” which is > followed by Voiceover saying “Backfacing Camera” and then I have buttons > labelled “Stickers”, “Draw”, “Text” and a “Previous” and “Next” button. > If I go to the “Home” tab I see all my conversations, I have a “Settings” > button at the top left, a search field in the middle and a “New Conversation” > button at the top right. > My conversations are announced as to whether they are “Unread” if they are > new and Voiceover says “Actions available” which tells me there are rotor > options which are Activate (default), Mute, Delete and More. > More gives me a pop-up menu with Block, Mark as Spam, Archive, Mark as Unread > (or mark as read if it’s unread) and Cancel. > If I double tap to open a conversation I get a “Home, back” button at the top > left, the name of the person in the middle followed by when they were last > active and at the top right are “Audio Call” and “Video Call”. > I am just looking at a message where somebody just sent me a single message, > it is read out perfectly with time and all and if I swipe right Voiceover > says “Type in message… text field is editing”. > Underneath this is a row of items I can find by touching/dragging my finger > or I can swipe right and all are announced: > Emoji, Camera, Photos, Stickers, Gifs, Voice, Games, More and Like. > As soon as I start typing something th “Like” button at the far right changes > to a “Send” button. > The only oddity is that the far left item, Emoji, says “Selected” even though > the regular keyboard is up. If I double tap on it the Emoji keyboard shows > and the icon now says “Text, selected” and I can double tap on that to go > back to the regular keyboard or there is also a “Toggle Text input” button at > the very bottom left of the Emoji keyboard. If I use this to change back to > the regular keyboard the top left item now says “Text” and if I double tap it > it goes back to “Emoji, selected” but the keyboard stays on text until I tap > this again. Like I said, this is just a bit inconsistent, but everything else > for me seems to be perfectly accessible. > If I want to send a voice recording instead of a text message I can tap on > “Voice” and the entire button part of the screen above the home button but > all the way across becomes a big “Record” button. You have to double tap and > hold this just as in Whats App messenger and after you let go anything you > record is automatically sent. > Tap on “Text” at the far left of that row of icons to get out of voice > recording mode and bring the on-screen keyboard back. > > Regards, > Sieghard > > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of > Davy Cuppens > Sent: Friday, January 20, 2017 6:55 AM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: do not update messenger above V100!!! > > Hi folks > > Since messenger 100.1 the app has become dramatically less accessible. > > This is the report I sent to facebook this afternoon. So don’t update the app! > > The latest update of Messenger 101.0 is very unaccessible, most buttons and > tabs are nolonger labeled. this has been the case for update 100.1 as well, > despite numerous messages sent by the blind community Facebook refused to > restore accessibility. Now this issue will be sent over by me to numerous > newspapers and all forums of the blind community saying that facebook is > reluctant to solve these accessibility issues since update 100.1. > If facebook is nolonger willing to take accessibility into consideration for > Messenger usage, please make the latest update before v100.1 back available > on the Apple appstore. > Regards > Davy > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - > you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - 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