Hello Robert, It's not a bug, but a feature! The behavior you describe of phrases in web pages or email messages being read in the original language instead of U.S. English occurs whenever your language rotor is set to "Default language" instead of "U.S. English" or some other specific language. This is a deliberate design decision, as far as I can tell, that has been in effect in iOS since the very first versions that supported a language rotor (iOS 4.0 for the iPhone; either iOS 4.1 or 4.2 for the iPad). If an iOS device user speaks or writes in more than one language, the difference between setting the language rotor to "Default language", which might happen to be "U.S. English", and explicitly setting it to "U.S. English" is the ability to hear text spoken in other languages in that setting.
For example, I have multiple language voices and keyboards enabled on my devices. If I attach a Bluetooth keyboard and change the rotor to a language that does not use Latin characters, like Russian, Greek, Chinese, Japanese, or Korean, I will not hear VoiceOver even announce those keyboards and languages unless my language rotor is set to "Default language" instead of "U.S. English". The solution is easy: explicitly add "U.S. English" as a separate selection to your VoiceOver language rotor. The advantage of the "Default Language" setting is that anyone who is reading multilingual documents will not have to spend all their time changing the language rotor setting. There's also a potential performance advantage in not having to maintain multiple language resources continuously open for the default voice. And this behavior is true for any language selection. I tried changing the default language of my iPhone to French, and selecting "Default Language" instead of "Français" produced the same behavior you described of pronouncing text I. The original language, while choosing "Français" made it impossible to hear VoiceOver say anything when reading a language with non-Latin characters, or even to change to such an input language for an attached keyboard. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Jan 28, 1:29 pm, Robert Fenton <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everybody: > > The bug I experienced with reading webpages and email messages generated > outside of the United States in languages other than English still exists > when the US English voice is selected as the default. When this kind of > content is accessed, VoiceOver will attempt to read it in the language of the > country where the email or website is generated from this even happens if the > message is written in English. However, if you switch the voice to British > English or Australian English, the message reads fine. I do still do not have > an explanation for this problem. I Will copy Apple accessibility on this > message to see if we can get an answer. I will keep you posted. > > Bob Fenton > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 2013-01-28, at 2:07 PM, Richard Turner <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Check this out > > >http://www.applevis.com/blog/advocacy/ios-61-accessibility-bug-list-f... > > > Richard > > (Sent from Richard's iPod Touch 5th gen) > > -- -- 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 Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
