When you touch the screen, if your finger is not already moving, VO focus moves to the actual location on the display where your finger is touching. Now, when your finger performs the finger flick, VO moves from its new position on the display to the next position. This gives the appearance that VO is jumping around the screen, when in actual fact, you are shifting VO before you perform the flick.
But wait, you say, I am not touching the screen before I start my flick. This is actually something VO does not get confused about. The touchscreen does not require any pressure whatsoever. When you hold your finger just above the screen before starting your flick, if your finger is barely touching the screen, so lightly that you do not feel it, this is enough contact to activate the display and move VO focus to the actual location where your finger is touching. Testing this in the lab demonstrates that the finger can barely touch the screen enough to activate it and both sighted and blind people do not register the haptic (tactual) sensation. An analogy is, when you are typing on a keyboard, pressing on the wrong letter causes the wrong letter to appear in your document, no matter how much you were thinking about pressing the correct letter. If your finger is heavy on the wrong letter, the key repeat activates and you get a bunch of the wrong letter in a row in your document. Start your flick gesture with your finger at least a quarter of an inch above the display. This way, your finger is fully engaged in the flick motion before it contacts the display. finally, lift your finger from the display before you stop moving it. Exaggerate this motion until you consistently flick without VO jumping randomly around the display. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: [email protected] Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone On 20/09/2013, at 4:54, "Sandra Heaton" <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes it does I have noticed that as well. > > > Sandra > Braille Greeting Cards > www.braille-greetings-cards.co.uk > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hope Paulos" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2013 5:19 PM > Subject: Re: Voice over jumps around when swiping > > > I can also reproduce this. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Sep 19, 2013, at 12:18 PM, "rafal" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I have a problem with vo it's strange but vo jumps items when i flicking. >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Reiser" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2013 5:09 PM >> Subject: Voice over jumps around when swiping >> >> >> >> >> Twitter michaelsreiser >> >> Skype [email protected] >> >> Facebook [email protected] from my iPhone hello all, >> I noticed that in iOS 7, when I swipe around on the screen, voiceover seems >> to skip items. It also seems to be much more sensitive than before. Is there >> a new method that I need to know about when flicking around for the screen? >> This is on an iPhone 4S. 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