Doing as David suggests is probably best, but it might also be the case
that your voice was turned off. Try a three finger double tap to toggle
the voice on and off.
Also, if you have the home button set as your VoiceOver short cut, try a
triple tap of the home button. Recycling VoiceOver helps me in similar
situations. Maybe you can use Siri to turn VoiceOver off and then back
on as well.
I've seen a couple of posts now to where IOS 8 with it's VoiceOver bugs
is compared to blindness specific products or older smart phone
technologies, like Windows Mobile running Mobile Accessibility. IMHO,
one of the great things about Apple and their commitment to making their
main stream products accessible is that we get treated the same as the
rest of their main stream customers. I fear that if we lower the bar
with our expectations then we're no better off then when we use those so
called blind ghetto products that so many people are quick to thumb
their noses at. Let's give Apple credit where credit is due, but let's
just not roll over like blind Uncle Tom's being happy with whatever
accessibility Apple thinks we'll be content with.
On 09/24/2014 12:18 AM, David Chittenden wrote:
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 doin
g, 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.
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