I don't think this explains what I'm experiencing. When I'm in my Google
Contacts that I sync with Exchange, flicking up or down after setting my
roter to headings is very unpredictable. I don't experience this
unpredictability with other lists of contacts, including my Google
Contacts I've synced with CardDav or other apps like Safari. I don't
think my flicking technique is any different when I'm in my Exchange
synced Google Contacts than it is elsewhere on the phone.
On 04/25/2013 06:11 PM, David Chittenden wrote:
Based on your description, there are a couple things going on.
First, I need to make an assumption. On a few of the letters in contacts, there
are either no, or very few contacts under the particular letter. The number
would be less than 6 to 10 depending on whether the iPhone is a 5 or an earlier
model.
To understand what is going on, you need to be aware of how and when the iPhone
activates its interpretation algorithm for VO commands. All tap, flick, and
other movement-based commands are interpreted and activated when the finger(s)
are removed from the display. However, location tracking of one finger is
activated when one finger touches the display and remains still for about half
a second. This is very important, especially when a person is learning to use
the iPhone. What inevitably happens is, the person wants to do a flick. The
person touches the display. The person is thinking so hard about doing the
technique properly that they hesitate for about half a second to a second (this
amount of hesitation is well-known in martial arts training). The hesitation
moves VO focus to the part of the display where the person happens to be barely
touching the display. Before VO announces the item that is under the person's
finger, the person performs the flick and removes the finger from
the display. The new command interrupts the announcement of the previous
command, VO performs the required action, and the new location is announced.
Because VO's focus was shifted to a different position / item on the screen,
the alphabetical listings announcements are apparently out of order. Yet, when
the screen is checked, everything is where it is supposed to be. If you pay
careful attention, you will actually notice the same thing occurring even when
letters do not change. It is less noticeable in this case because the first
letter is the same, and we find it much more difficult to remember all the
names in a single letter.
As for the headings, the display shows all letters, and the display is
continuous. If a letter only has one entry, and the next letter also only has
one entry, you can see several heading letters on the display at one time. If
the focused letter is at the top of the display and the hesitation moves focus
to the bottom of the display before the vertical flick is sent, several letters
can be easily skipped. The same is true for the reverse.
Finally, when horizontally flicking, the VO highlight tends to remain near the
middle of the display. When an item in a list is closed, however, that item and
VO tend to be placed at the top of the display.
A note about touching. The display is not pressure sensitive. Barely touching
the display is all that is needed. The touch can be so light that you are not
sure you have touched the screen yet. The location timer activates at this
point because the display does not know whether you are barely touching it or
quite firmly touching it.
David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA
Email: [email protected]
Mobile: +64 21 2288 288
Sent from my iPhone
On 26/04/2013, at 10:31, "Raul A. Gallegos" <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello all. The following is a weird problem that one of my clients is experiencing and I am not sure how to help them. This is all in the contacts list. From what I can tell the contacts are in alphabetical order the way the client wants them to be. They are set up to sort by last name, first name. And display by first name, last name. This is all good. The problem is if you are flicking to the right and you come across the letter C the next contacts which are displayed all start with D. Then as you keep flicking to the right and you eventually get to the letter E, the contacts after that start with D. I set the rotor to headings and am experiencing weirdness there as well. As I flaked down I would hear things like a, B, H, E, F, P, H. So it is as if things are being misread. However if I hear a letter out of turn, I touch the screen to see what is there and the correct contact for the letter it is supposed to be is actually displayed. This is telling me that voiceover is actually
speaking different letters in the headings for the categories but those letters
are not correct. So in my example above the G is missing. Yet if I stop on that
missplaced the letter the contacts for G are actually spoken. I have never seen
this happen before and I am not sure what to do to fix it. At first I thought
the client might have been left flicking instead of right flicking, but that's
not the case.
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complete errors.
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