Okay, didn’t mean to go technical on you smiles!  Was just wondering if it was 
some new braille code that was coming out in the near future.

 

From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Richard 
Turner
Sent: Monday, September 20, 2021 12:12 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [AppleVis Newsletter] The Accessibility Bugs Introduced and 
Resolved in iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 for Blind and Low Vision Users

 

That was probably not the perfect use of the word protocol, but in the sense I 
used it it means a set of rules governing the exchange of data between devices. 
 In the dictionary, that is the 4th meaning.

 

IN any case, it is the procedure used to exchange data in this case, between an 
iPhone and a braille display over a USB cable.

 

HTH,

 

 

 

 

 

Richard

“Reality is the leading cause of stress for those who are in touch with it.” – 
Jane Wagner

 

My Web site:  <https://www.turner42.com> https://www.turner42.com

 

 

From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>  
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > On Behalf Of 
kitty hevener
Sent: Monday, September 20, 2021 9:00 AM
To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> 
Subject: RE: [AppleVis Newsletter] The Accessibility Bugs Introduced and 
Resolved in iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 for Blind and Low Vision Users

 

Richard, forgive my ignorance, but what is HID protocal?  

 

From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>  
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > On Behalf Of 
Richard Turner
Sent: Monday, September 20, 2021 9:56 AM
To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> 
Subject: RE: [AppleVis Newsletter] The Accessibility Bugs Introduced and 
Resolved in iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 for Blind and Low Vision Users

 

I don’t use any of the features under the Serious bugs.

 

Under Moderate bugs:

*       It is not possible to edit existing alarms in the native Clock app when 
VoiceOver is enabled. 
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  For now, the simplest workaround is to use the VoiceOver rotor’s Action menu 
to delete the alarm, and then recreate it with the desired configuration.

** or use Siri to change or create a new alarm.

 

That is all that will interfere with my use of the phone and since the new 
phone comes with iOS 15 already, I’ll update my existing phone and keep 
updating when they fix the issues listed.

 

However, I can see where this is an update a lot of people will want to sit out 
for now.

Especially this new use of USB braille displays with the HID Braille protocol; 
which will be a problem for deaf-blind users.

I only learned this was beginning to be possible when Scott Davert mentioned it 
on the Braille Device Users list.

 

Later,

 

 

 

Richard

“Reality is the leading cause of stress for those who are in touch with it.” – 
Jane Wagner

 

My Web site:  
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 https://www.turner42.com

 

 

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<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > On Behalf Of 
Rafal Marzec
Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2021 4:47 PM
To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> 
Subject: Fwd: [AppleVis Newsletter] The Accessibility Bugs Introduced and 
Resolved in iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 for Blind and Low Vision Users

 

I must say that it looks really bad

Probably I will not upgrade till they will fix basic problems

Sent from my iPhone


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Date: 18 September 2021 at 8:57:43 am BST
To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> 
Subject: [AppleVis Newsletter] The Accessibility Bugs Introduced and Resolved 
in iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 for Blind and Low Vision Users
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The Accessibility Bugs Introduced and Resolved in iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 for 
Blind and Low Vision Users


iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 will be released to the public on Monday 20 September, 
2021. As is our tradition, we have posted to the AppleVis website a list of 
VoiceOver, low vision, and braille bugs which we believe will be introduced in 
these releases; as well as details of the pre-existing bugs which we believe to 
be resolved.

If you have already read our post to AppleVis, there will be nothing new for 
you in this email, so we apologise for repeating ourselves and wish you a great 
weekend. However, we know that many in our community won’t yet have seen the 
post, so decided to mail it to our newsletter subscribers - this should 
hopefully ensure that as many people as possible are aware of what to expect 
when the public releases of iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 become available on Monday.

As is our routine practice, each new bug has been given a severity rating; 
these ratings are based upon what we believe to be the implications for 
accessing and using features and functionality and the level of impact on the 
overall user experience, as well as whether or not there is an effective 
workaround for the issue. However, as these ratings are subjective, it is very 
possible that they may not reflect your own opinion or use case.

As we always stress, we can make no claims on the completeness or accuracy of 
our testing. We have only a small team of testers, and it is simply impossible 
for us to test all devices, configurations, applications, and use cases; this 
is even more important to note now as Apple’s ecosystem continues to expand and 
the number of possible device configurations increases. Some of the bugs listed 
below will be specific to a certain device, configuration or use case. 
Consequently, it is entirely likely that you will not encounter all of what we 
list; and it is also probable that you will encounter bugs or regressions that 
we did not identify during our testing.

We strongly recommend that you read through this email and all of the replies 
to our post on AppleVis 
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  before updating—as this will allow you to make an informed decision on 
whether to install iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 at the current time or to wait for a 
future release.

To help us ensure that the information is as complete and accurate as possible, 
we would appreciate feedback from those who have installed iOS 15 or iPadOS 15 
—both to confirm whether they are encountering the same problems (or have found 
workarounds), as well as to let us know of any additional issues that are not 
on this list. Of course, it’s even more important that you let Apple know of 
any additional bugs that you find (they already know about the ones currently 
listed here and are actively working on resolving them). This post 
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  explains why you should report bugs directly to Apple, as well as the best 
ways to do so.

With all of the preamble out of the way, here are the new bugs for blind and 
low vision users which we believe to be present in iOS 15 and iPadOS 15:


Serious Bugs


*       Apple Wallet will crash if you attempt to use any card, ticket, or pass 
other than the first one listed. 
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  As a workaround, our experience suggests that whilst on this screen you 
should be able to use “Move up” from the VoiceOver rotor on the desired card, 
ticket or pass to temporarily move it to the top of the list. Unfortunately, in 
our own testing, this process hasn’t always behaved as expected or been 
reliable.
*       The Wallet app crashes if you use the swipe gesture to navigate through 
cards, tickets, and passes listed on the main window of the app. 
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  As a workaround, our experience suggests that you can still explore the 
screen by touch and then activate the desired card.
*       The time picker used when creating or editing a scheduled Screen time 
downtime or app limit is not accessible with VoiceOver. 
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  Specifically, if you navigate to Settings > Screen Time > Downtime and enable 
“Scheduled”, the picker used to set the start and end times is not accessible, 
as is the picker used with setting app limits.
*       The Apple One subscription screen is not accessible with VoiceOver. 
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  Specifically, if you do not currently subscribe to Apple One and go to your 
Subscriptions screen through the App Store or Settings app, and then select the 
button to view the Apple One bundle options, the text on the page is not read 
by VoiceOver and most of the UI elements are either unlabelled or have 
meaningless labels.


Moderate Bugs


*       VoiceOver may not speak the names of apps when moving focus through the 
App Switcher. 
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  This issue has only been experienced by one of our team, but we are aware of 
others reporting the same behavior. Their experience is that VoiceOver will 
correctly speak the first 2–3 app names as you swipe left to move focus away 
from the most recently used app, but will then stop announcing app names beyond 
this point.
*       When composing a lengthy email with the Apple Mail app using a braille 
display, random words will be inserted in the incorrect place. 
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*       It is not possible to edit existing alarms in the native Clock app when 
VoiceOver is enabled. 
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  For now, the simplest workaround is to use the VoiceOver rotor’s Action menu 
to delete the alarm, and then recreate it with the desired configuration.
*       When attempting to add an existing photo to a message in the Messages 
app, the grid of available photos cannot be located or navigated by swiping, 
only by touch. 
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  Specifically, after double tapping on the button for the Photos app on the 
message composition window, a grid of available photos is displayed on the 
bottom part of the screen. This cannot be located by swiping. You can, however, 
locate by touch each photo in the grid, but having located one by touch you 
cannot then swipe to the next or previous photo.
*       It can be difficult to access the multi-tasking controls on iPad with 
VoiceOver after opening the menu. 
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  Specifically, the multitasking controls button is accessed in the status bar. 
However once selected, VoiceOver does not indicate that the menu is open, and 
you cannot simply swipe to enter the open menu. Instead you need to move off 
the status bar, and return to it to find the controls.
*       The window which shows you the available hardware keyboard commands on 
iPad does not work correctly with VoiceOver. 
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  Specifically, you can press and hold the Command key or the Globe key + M to 
bring up a window displaying all of the currently available keyboard commands. 
This window is arranged into columns, with headings such as System and 
Multitasking. While VoiceOver does read all elements in the window, it does not 
follow this column or table structure and the buttons don’t have a clear affect.
*       VoiceOver does not announce the selection status when adding people or 
apps to the allowed notifications list of a Focus mode. 
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*       When the Safari toolbar is collapsed to the bottom of the screen, 
VoiceOver finds UI elements which are not visually present and consequently do 
not behave as expected. 
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  Specifically, when you have Safari configured so that the address bar and 
toolbar are located at the bottom of the screen, you can use the VoiceOver 
rotor to ‘collapse’ this so that only the address bar is visually displayed. 
However, when swiping, VoiceOver will locate the controls such as ‘Tabs’ and 
‘Share’ which are located on the now visually hidden toolbar. When double 
tapping on one of these ‘ghost’ buttons, instead of performing the expected 
function, the toolbar is expanded.
*       When using drag and drop to rearrange the position of a shortcut in the 
Shortcuts app, VoiceOver does not provide meaningful feedback whilst dragging 
regarding where the shortcut will be placed when dropped. 
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  Specifically, when in a folder of shortcuts and dragging a shortcut to a 
different position, as the shortcut is dragged VoiceOver announces feedback of 
its current position in the form of “Before Null” and “After Null”, where 
“Null’ should be the name of a shortcut.


Minor Bugs


*       When viewing an interactive notification from the Mail app, the context 
menu items “Delete” and “Mark Read” may on occasions not function when located 
by swiping. 
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  In these cases, performing a 3-finger swipe up on the screen appears to 
‘drag’ these items in to view, which makes them work as expected..
*       After using “More” from the VoiceOver rotor’s Action menu on a 
notification, VoiceOver users can locate when swiping UI elements which are not 
present visually on screen and do not behave as expected. 
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  Typically, this will be other UI elements which are on the Lock Screen or 
Notification Center such as notifications or playback controls. When double 
tapping on one of these ‘ghost’ UI elements, instead of performing the expected 
behavior, the interactive view of the selected notification will be dismissed.
*       When selecting the second app for a split screen setup on iPad, 
VoiceOver does not tell you if an app you’re selecting does not in fact support 
multi-tasking. 
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  Specifically, after selecting the split screen option in the multi-tasking 
menu, you are returned to your Home Screen to select the app you want to share 
the screen with. Some apps are not supported, and if selected will simply open 
in full screen, but VoiceOver gives no indication of which apps are and are not 
supported.
*       Pressing and briefly holding the Globe key on a hardware keyboard to 
bring up the list of keyboard commands does not work properly when VoiceOver is 
enabled. 
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  Specifically, the Globe key, or FN on some keyboards, is now used as a 
modifier key. Pressing it while VoiceOver is disabled brings up a list of 
available keyboard commands. With VoiceOver enabled, it only briefly pops up 
and disappears again.
*       When using a hardware keyboard with an iPad, pressing Globe/FN + 
Control + Option activates the keyboard hints window, which is conflicting with 
the VoiceOver command to go to the first or last item when combined with the 
left or right arrow key. 
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  Specifically, as well as pressing and holding Command, or Pressing Globe + M 
to bring up the keyboard commands window, pressing Globe + Control + option 
does so too. Pressing these keys combined with the left and right arrow keys 
should take VoiceOver to the first or last item, and so the two commands are in 
conflict. Making sure to press down Control + Option first appears to help.
*       When selecting shortcuts in a folder in the Shortcuts app, VoiceOver 
does not speak the selection status of shortcuts. 
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  Specifically, when you have activated Edit mode and chosen “Select Shortcuts” 
from the context menu, VoiceOver will not announce when a shortcut has already 
been selected when you place focus on to it.
*       The button used to clear the Safari address bar is labelled “Close” 
rather than “Clear Text”. 
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*       On the Power Off / Medical ID / Emergency Call screen, VoiceOver finds 
and speaks erroneous elements such as the word “Call” and the phrase 
“location.fill.radiowaves.left.and.right iPhone Findable After Power Off 
Forward” if invoked when you have an open app in the foreground. 
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*       On the Weather app’s small widget, the high and low temperature 
information is spoken twice by VoiceOver. What’s announced will be something 
similar to: “Check The Weather Widget LocationName, ,, 18°, , High of 19°, Low 
of 12°, High of 19°, Low of 12°.” 
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*       On the Weather app’s small widget, the graphic that visually indicates 
to sighted users the current weather conditions is not recognised or announced 
by VoiceOver. 
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*       On iPod touch only, the option to show or hide Reader view is missing 
from the VoiceOver rotor’s Action menu in Safari. 
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Additionally, we are aware of three issues that effect users of USB HID braille 
displays. The USB HID industry standard was announced in May 2018 
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  with Apple being involved in its drafting, but Apple platforms may not yet 
officially support the standard.

*       After connecting a supported USB HID braille display via USB and then 
locking the screen, braille input and output stops. 
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*       If a HID-compatible braille display is connected over USB and has had 
custom commands added through Bluetooth, the custom commands do not work with 
USB. 
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*       After connecting a USB HID-compatible braille display, there are no 
options or acknowledgements within the braille menu that this device is 
connected. 
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Other Reported Bugs


The following bugs have not been encountered by any of our team, but we are 
aware of them being experienced by others:

*       VoiceOver may not speak the labels of all Actions available on the 
system-wide share sheet. We understand that when this occurs, VoiceOver will 
simply announce “activity” for the share sheet action rather than its title.

If you encounter any additional VoiceOver, braille, or low vision bugs in iOS 
15 or iPadOS 15, please let others know by posting a reply to our post on 
AppleVis. 
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  When doing so, please provide as much information as possible so that others 
know exactly what to expect; when and where the problem occurs; and any 
possible workarounds you have found.


Accessibility Improvements in iOS 15 and iPadOS 15


Our testing suggests that the following pre-existing accessibility bugs have 
been resolved or significantly addressed in iOS 15 and iPadOS 15:

*       Using Full Keyboard Access in conjunction with VoiceOver no longer 
causes issues with VoiceOver focus. 
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*       When editing text that contains line breaks using a braille display, 
the cursor which is represented by dots 7 and 8 will no longer occasionally 
disappear after a cursor routing button is pressed. 
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*       The Misspelled Words rotor option now appears to work consistently and 
as expected in the Notes and Mail apps. 
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*       On the Lock Screen and Notification Center, VoiceOver once again Speaks 
the Total Duration Time That’s Visually Present on the Playback Control 
Timeline Slider. 
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*       If using VoiceOver, it is now possible from the Account settings page 
of the Music app to revoke access to your account for apps or services which 
currently have access. 
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*       The Next-Hour Precipitation Data in the Native Weather App is Now 
Accessible with VoiceOver. 
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*       On the native Weather widget, VoiceOver no longer speaks the word 
“degrees” twice. 
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*       VoiceOver now appears to be consistent in announcing the time when 
waking your device. 
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*       VoiceOver now appears to be consistent in announcing the number of any 
notifications when waking your device. 
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If you encounter any additional fixes or improvements during your own use of 
iOS 15 or iPadOS 15, please let us know by posting a reply to our post on 
AppleVis. 
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Changes in Functionality or Behavior


As is common with major operating system updates, Apple has made some changes 
in functionality or behaviour in iOS 15 and iPadOS 15. As sometimes these types 
of changes may not be discovered by some or can reasonably be mistaken as bugs, 
below are a list of the notable changes we are currently aware of:

*       One change in iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 that we understand is by design 
rather than being a bug, is that VoiceOver will announce when a Focus mode is 
automatically enabled or disabled (for example at a scheduled time). This 
occurs even if you have speak notifications disabled and your device is asleep. 
If, like us, you believe that this is not the preferred or expected behavior, 
we would encourage you to email Apple’s Accessibility Team 
<mailto:[email protected]>  and ask that they reconsider the current 
implementation.
*       A new feature on iPad is Quick Notes. Regardless of what you’re doing 
on your iPad, you can access an existing note or a new note quickly via a 
number of methods - using an Apple Pencil or hardware keyboard, via the Control 
Center, or by mimicking the move of the Apple Pencil by swiping up from the 
bottom right corner. Currently, the last of these does not work with VoiceOver, 
but VoiceOver users can assign the “Quick Note” action to any Touch Gesture 
they prefer from Settings > Accessibility > VoiceOver > Commands > Touch 
Gestures.
*       A nice addition to Safari is that VoiceOver users can now perform a 
3-finger swipe down on the top part of a webpage to perform a page refresh.

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We have been compiling these lists of new bugs for every major iOS release 
since iOS 7. In our opinion, although iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 introduce a number 
of new bugs for VoiceOver and braille users, they should be stable and usable 
updates for most use cases. One exception would be if you frequently use Apple 
Wallet with a selection of cards; tickets; and passes, in which case you may 
wish to delay updating.

However, there are certain to be more issues discovered and shared; so, if you 
haven’t already upgraded, we would strongly recommend that you take a few 
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typically fixed a significant number of VoiceOver and braille bugs in the first 
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and iPadOS 15. In the past, our announcement posts about yearly major iOS 
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important that readers be able to quickly navigate through the comments to find 
the information they need. Additionally, when posting, please remember that the 
decision about whether or not to install a software update is personal; and 
that everyone’s situation is different and there is no right or wrong answer. 
Posts criticizing others on their upgrade decisions are not constructive and do 
nothing to add to the discussion.

Finally, we want to take this opportunity to publicly thank Apple’s 
Accessibility Team for their timely response to most of the bug reports filed 
by our team during the beta cycle. As always, it’s been clear from our 
experience that the Accessibility Team has strived to ensure that iOS and 
iPadOS offer the best possible experience to blind and low vision users.

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