Here are the changes in low vision that I published in my article with the help of a friend, as I have no vivison myself. Maybe this will help you. "Boldly Moving Forward … Sort Of.
In Settings under General > Display and Brightness, you will now find the Bold Text option that used to be under the Vision heading in iOS 7. This feature is identical to bold text in iOS 7, except that it adapts to the color of the fonts on the Home Screen. If the Home Screen is light, the feature makes text dark; otherwise, text will be light. When the background color is somewhere in-between, this setting will default to white text. A New Zoom for a New Version of iOS Prior to iOS 8, Zoom simply magnified the entire screen. However, the new Zoom lives much more up to its name. When a user first enters "Zoom" in the "Accessibility" menu, they will find that they can toggle Zoom on and off, and that the instructions and method for using it are unchanged. However, there are a number of new feature toggles underneath the Zoom instructions -each of which will be discussed in turn: •Follow Focus: This setting determines whether or not the Zoom lens will follow the text cursor. •Show Controller: This toggle places a joystick on screen which can be used to move Zoom focus around, to bring up the new Zoom control panel, and to quickly zoom in and out of an area (I found it easier to use than dragging three fingers to move my focus all over). •Zoom Region: This feature allows a user to use Window Zoom (a smaller than full-screen lens) or Fullscreen (as in previous versions of iOS). •Maximum Zoom Level: This slider allows users to limit how much magnification Zoom will offer, which is helpful on iPod and iPhone due to screen size limitations. applying Zoom’s Features Using Windowed Zoom: When a lens is enabled, a user will see a small horizontal bar at the bottom of the lens which allows for access to several controls and allows the user to move the lens itself. If you drag this control, you will move the lens; if it is single-tapped, Zoom will open an on-the-fly Zoom control panel. From the control panel, a user can take advantage of several options. First, the user can zoom in or out (though to regain access to the control panel without visiting settings again, when Zoomed out or in Fullscreen, the controller needs to be on), and you can then choose between fullscreen or window zoom. The Zoom lens can also be resized from this menu. Users can also choose to filter just their zoomed lens; options are: Inverted, Greyscale, Inverted Greyscale, and Low Light (which dims the lens on screen only). You can also hide or show the controller from this menu and grow or shrink the magnification size. VoiceOver and zoom … Not Such a Happy Merger The Zoom controller takes a backseat to VoiceOver if both are enabled, and using the more advanced Zoom features with VoiceOver looks like it may involve a lot of frustration and compromise. For instance, while testing with both Zoom and VoiceOver enabled, it did not seem possible to move the Zoom lens created earlier, and movement was restricted to the old Zoom controls. Most likely, the combining of both VoiceOver and Zoom with the new features is a work-in-progress. All things considered, the improvement to Zoom is significant, but the tiny size of the iPhone and iPod screens will always limit it's usefulness for more than spot-checking. As this build of iOS 8 was only tested on an iPod, it’s unclear if these new features will come more in handy on an iPad. Getting Cut Off While Sizing Up the Text In iOS 8, text size can be increased in two different areas in Settings. First, one can increase text size from the "Display & Brightness" menu; this will exhibit smaller changes to the text size. Never fear, though, as at the top end of the window, you are given the feedback that "Larger sizes are available in Accessibility Settings.” Once you turn on "Larger Accessibility Size" under the Accessibility Settings, it will not increase the size of text in the Settings menus any further. However, a modest growth in the Settings menu itself has occurred, which may help to some extent. Also, the lock screen date text is increased to a small degree. The text of some Settings panels are cut off when they are a larger size than the screen allows. A moderate increase in text size can be seen in dialog boxes, in Settings, on the Lock Screen, Notifications, Tips, Voice Memos, and in the music player. Full sized dynamic text can be seen in Notes, Mail, reminders, and Messages. This can only be used, generally, in places where the user is inputting their own text, and not on most labels. However, some labels in contacts were enlarged. Labels do cut off in the larger sized text and do not appear to offer a method for reading the entire line they are on. Messages, notes, and the like will correctly wrap the words that are too long. It should also be noted that no changes in text size were encountered in the App Store, Safari, or iTunes. 50 Shades of Grey on My iDevice? By the time you factor in all of the options available with Zoom and now Grey scale, which is a new feature, there are probably way more than 50 different shades of grey on your iDevice. Grey Scale, very literally, turns all of the content on your iDevice grey. This can be combined with Invert Colors or Zoom to assist the low-vision user in any number of ways. Speak it to Me Another new setting called "speak screen” has been added in iOS 8 under Settings > General > Accessibility > Speech > Speak Screen. This option offers a simple way for low-vision users to "read" the screen only. This feature will only give users access to rewind, fast forward, play/pause, and speed. It is not intended to be a replacement for VoiceOver; rather, it is meant to be a simple solution for when a low-vision user would like to quickly read an entire screen. When enabled, a highlight text toggle appears, showing a visual highlight of the paragraph being read. On 9/26/14, Chuck Dean <[email protected]> wrote: > Personally, I will hold off on updating. There are still a lot of bugs > especially with voiceover in IOS 8.02. Maybe wait a week and see if they > come up with another update. > > -- > 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. 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