Hi Ron, You wrote: Hi Group,
Remember before September of 2023, when the Spectdrum TV app was very straight forward? It had a main interface where a simgle swipe left or right would move channel by channel and if the app ws properly configured, VoiceOver would read the channel number, station name/callsign, and the current program name. Well that all chaned in September of 2023. They added a lot of junk to the main screen, hid the channel number and didn't allow anyoen to simplify the interface to be able to go back to a simple browse by left/right single swipe. Still, once you got used to using three finger swipes to move from 3 or 4 channel groups to another, you could use the app. This morning, when I tried tuning into my loca news channel, I got a surprise. Even the 3 finger swipe to mvoe page to page or channel group to channel group did not work. I am not sure how I did it, but swiping up/down or double tapping near the bottom and moving every which way, I was able to find a channel or two. But this literally took me about five minutes to tune to the desired channel. Has anyone experienced this in the past few days and if so, is there any work around that I am missing or is this the way it is going to be? It looks as if that's the way it's going to be, sorry to say, but the good news is that accessibility isn't totally screwed up, in fact it's not that bad, once you dig into the app and take a good look around. . Read on for details. When I checked the Spectrum TV app just a few minutes ago, I found it to be exactly as you described. On the Home Tab I went into Settings and found no way to change the interface. Back in the Live tab, I had to do a 3-finger swipe up/down to move among channel groups. So, in order to get to channels 65 through 75 I'd 3-finger swipe down several times until Voiceover told me what group I'd navigated to. Okay, so I then would 3-finger swipe left to get to the time slot that I wanted, say the time slot for 7 o'clock. I then could flick through that group listing to see if Sports Net L.A. is showing tonight's Dodgers game. It is; the Dodgers play Baltimore. Each 3-finger swipe left/right would move you by half-hour increments. Now that I figured all this out, I was able to navigate much easier then when I first glanced at the revised app. Another thing that annoyed me was that channel numbers weren't displayed in the group listing. So, if I didn't already know that Sports Net L.A. is on channel 68, who knows how long I'd have to mess around in order to find it, which is a royal pain in the behind. . However, those additional onscreen controls do help. The More Options button gives you the option to search for a channel by name. In my case, I did a search for Sports Net LA HD, found and double-tapped it, then in the resulting screen I found the network schedule option, double-tapped that and lo and behold, there's a nice orderly chronological listing for anything going on in channel 68. Indeed, I was able to confirm that the Dodgers game is at 7 PM tonight. Continuing to flick through the schedule, I could also see what's happening tomorrow and everything else until September 9. Other controls include Filters, the aforementioned More Options button, Minimize Video, Unmute Audio, Expand to Full Screen and a More controls button. I'll cut this short, as I have other stuff to tend to at the moment. Hope this helps you. Tom -- 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. Mark can be reached at: [email protected]. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/00b901daf8c6%2460ff0630%2422fd1290%24%40gmail.com.
