When VO goes quiet like that, take your fingers away from the iPhone. iOS is performing memory management. Give a chance for iOS / VO to catch up. Something similar occurred with iOS 7 when it first came out. Unlike blindness specific poducts which can take six months to a year to be fixed, Apple's history is to take one-three months. Let's see what happens.
David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: [email protected] Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone > On 24 Sep 2014, at 14:49, Brian Fischler <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm sorry but VoiceOver on my 5S has now complete crap on IOS 8 as for the > second time today VoiceOver has completely crapped out while tapping the > screen at the same time a push notification comes through. VoiceOVer just > dies and if I press the home button and tell Siri to tell Siri to turn VO on > Siri tells me VO is already on. Ok, really then why am I hearing nothing but > clicks. Then I go to press the power on/off button and the home button to > restart the phone and now that doesn't work as I hear the photo being taken > sound. Really impressive job with IOS8 Apple. I'm sorry but this IOS 8 > release with all of its bugs is total crap and a really piss poor job by > Apple for the blind community. If you haven't upgraded yet don't until 8.1 > and that is if Apple can be bothered to actually make some VO changes in that > one as it is obvious there engineers are more focused on other areas and > VoiceOver is at the bottom of the food chain. Time to start at least > listening to what Droid is doing, never thought I would say that having been > on the iPhone since the 3GS and completely shifting all my products to Apple, > but this release and the 35 or so VO bugs is making me start to think maybe > Apple isn't the answer. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. > All new members to the this list are moderated by default. 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. 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 post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. 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. 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 post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
