Focus is placed at the top of any list. Using the three finger swipe up is faster than using a one finger swipe right to go through the list.
When writing emails, If it's a reply, the message edit box is highlighted, so even though cancel button is announced, just start typing (the onscreen keyboard is on the bottom of the screen like always when in an edit field) and the focus will immediately jump to where it is supposed to be. The same is true for new messages (focus jumps to the to field. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: [email protected] Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone On 22/09/2012, at 23:31, Kirsten Edmondson <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, there is a general focus problem with VO and iOS six and a few apps. > It's one of the bugs I intend to report. I noticed it in email too, and also > in Twitter and particularly with edit fields. I thought at first with > twitter, it was Twitter itself, but after you've been in and read a tweet or > an article or reply to something, it puts you back at the top of your tweets, > very annoying if you read your timeline backwards as I do. Also when you are > wanting to go in to an edit field, although it says editing, the focus seems > to be on the cancel button, so if you are dictating it is fine, you can press > dictate and it will work, but if you want to type, you have to swipe to make > sure you're in the edit box. When swiping sometimes, it will move to the > status bar rather than swiping through. Additionally, it seems to jump, so > when you are editing what you have written, it will put new things not where > you wanted them to go: this is extremely irritating!(Though I have only > noticed this last problem in twitter, when I am trying to select someone to > mention, it moves, it doesn't seem to happen when editing a message in mail, > so perhaps this is just a Twitter problem only). If anyone can reproduce this > in particular, that would be good. > In messages, it seems to be putting you on the messages tab at the start of > the app rather than near the message you want to read. > > > Kirsten > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 22 Sep 2012, at 12:06, "Gary O'Donoghue" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I think I have noticed a not issue with the VO focus in email lis since >> updating to IOS 6. in 5.1, once you had read an email, activating the "back" >> button would close the open msg and return VO focus to that message in the >> list of mails. Im now seeing that when you close a message by activating the >> "back" button, the VO focus is at the top of the list of messages, even if >> the message you closed was some way down. This means you have to swipe right >> werepossibly numerous times) to get back to where you were inthe list in >> order then to continue reading down your list of mails. Can anyone confirm >> this? >> Gary >> >> Gary O'Donoghue >> BBC Political Correspondent >> Mob: 07802 232212 >> tel: 0207 9736057 >> >> -- >> 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. > > -- > 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. > > -- 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.
