I think you hit the nail on the head here. We don't all use our phones the same way. I have no problem with pulling my phone out to do a 3 finger double tap even though I'm using a BT ear peace. A text message comes in, it's going to wait it's turn along with the incoming email. If you need all that going on at once, then maybe you need a secretary! <grin> I keep telling myself that! The problem is, I've got one and she's the one sending me the text messages! LOL! ----- Original Message ----- From: Sieghard Weitzel To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, March 29, 2013 1:12 PM Subject: Voiceover talking during a call, was: Voiceover announces call duration, was: iPhone 4 keeps constantly switching to and from speaker phone
Hi Alan, That is an OK work-around as far as it goes and it is easy to do if you actually pull out your phone. But if I am out and about I have my phone in my belt clip and I either have the Apple Earpods hanging around my neck so that it's easy to pick up the right one or both or I use a Bluetooth earpiece. Where I live having the iPhone in a belt clip means that for at least 6 months out of the year you wear some sort of jacket over top and at that point it is a major pain in the neck if I have the thing babbling away all the time. How useful would you find it if you were using your computer with a screenreader, say you are working on an Excel sheet or you are writing a letter in Word. Then an email comes in and suddenly your screenreader would also start reading out that email. I bet if Jaws found a way to do this people would want to shoot them and in my opinion it is no different when I'm on a phone call and Voiceover suddenly starts reading an incoming text message or push notification at a volume which makes it impossible for me to hear the other person. At the same time, I do sometimes want to use my phone while I'm on a call to look up somebody's phone number or write down something in the Notes or maybe my friend from Germany calls and we talk about the weather and I want to look up the temperature on my Netatmo Weater Station app. If I turn speech off with a 3-finger double tap I have to turn it back on first before I can do this and I just don't think I should have to do so. It's interesting to hear people's thoughts on whether Voiceover should babble away during a call or not, but I think from what I read more people think it shouldn't. But I agree that Apple should maybe investigate if this can be made optional, i.e. Voiceover stays on, but you can choose whether you want it to read incoming text messages, emails and push notifications or not. Definitely it should not continuously read the call duration every 20 seconds and by now I read several replies where others have that issue as well despite the fact that they move focus away from that. Regards, Sieghard -- 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. -- 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.
