Re: do not update messenger above V100!!!

Robert Doc Wright Sat, 21 Jan 2017 03:06:05 -0800

have you tried using the "search" field to find who you want quickly?

----- Original Message -----From: "Kevin Wassmer" <[email protected]>

To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, January 20, 2017 1:37 PM
Subject: Re: do not update messenger above V100!!!



Hello folks. I don't post much on this list. But I aggree with Stacy.
This app is not as accessable as the other versons of Messenger. It
works ok. But not that great. For example, I was trying to messege a
friend who I haven't writen to in a while. I kept flicking to the
right on the screen. It kept getting me gack to the begining of the
people I messaged. In fact, I belive once I flicked on to the last
person who I messaged. The app braught me back to the top. what I had
to do is go to the tabs at the bottem. Then I had to flick to the left
and I was able to find others I have messaged in recent times. it does
work with Voice-over. But not like it has in the past.

On 1/20/17, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote:

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 ofiOS10 which is 10.2. Maybe a few others who use Facebook Messengers can sayifthey are having problems since for me I would say it is 100% accessibleand

easy to use.

Regards,
Sieghard

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of Davy Cuppens
Sent: Friday, January 20, 2017 10:54 AM
To: [email protected]
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 userandshe told me the app did not have a problem at all and even she had toadmit

my message buttons were nolonger labeled.
Which iphone do you use?

Regards
Davy
From: Ioana Gandrabur<mailto:[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, January 20, 2017 7:01 PM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: Re: do not update messenger above V100!!!

I have had a similar problem for a few versions now but it appears thatit's

not present for all voiceover users.

Thanks to Help I received on the list I learned how to find the sendbutton

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
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> 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 thelatest

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
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> 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 orwhere

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” whichis

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 singlemessage,

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 myfinger

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 Emojikeyboardshows and the icon now says “Text, selected” and I can double tap on thatto

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” andifI double tap it it goes back to “Emoji, selected” but the keyboard stayson

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 tapand

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: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Davy Cuppens
Sent: Friday, January 20, 2017 6:55 AM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
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 buttonsandtabs are nolonger labeled. this has been the case for update 100.1 aswell,

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 considerationforMessenger usage, please make the latest update before v100.1 backavailable

on the Apple appstore.
Regards
Davy
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