Hello Mike,
Thank you very much for your help.
In fact, I had enabled MA as my screen reader in the phone's accessibility
settings, but it hardly said anything outside of the suite of apps. I even
had to ask a sighted friend to turn it off again and turn Talkback on. But I
will give it another try, with the gestures you suggested. Thanks again very
much.
Regards,
Miranda
-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
From: Mike Arrigo
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 8:28 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [MA] very disappointing experience with MA on Galaxy Nexus
I can help regarding using the product outside of the mobile
accessibility apps. The gestures are a bit different from talkback.
First, make sure you have enabled MA as the screen reader. The gestures
are the same as inside the suite. So, swipe up and down to move by
item, this is similar to talkback's left and right swipe. In MA,
swiping left and right will skip several items on the screen. I have
not found a way to get the screen reader component to read by word or
character outside of the suite, but the basic navigation does work.
Original message:
Hello all,
I recently bought a Samsung Galaxy Nexus, which now runs Android 4.2
Jelly Bean. Most things on it are very accessible using Talkback, but
still I was glad when the new version of MA was released, because I
liked MA a lot on my old Galaxy Pro running 2.3. However, MA doesn’t
work properly on my Nexus.
First, MA barely speaks outside of the suite of applications, which
makes it completely useless as a screenreader. Then, it doesn’t react
correctly to touch gestures. Ma doesn’t use accessibility focus like
Talkback does, which means you can not always open or activate an item
by tapping anywhere on the screen once the item is selected. For
example, when I select somebody in the MA contacts app and then double
tap the screen, MA will not necessarily open the selected contact, but
rather a random one, I guess it is the one I tapped by coincidence. And
this happens in many of the MA apps. It was also very difficult to edit
a contact, because I could not activate the “save changes” button. The
button was spoken by MA, but when asking a sighted person where it was,
he said it was nowhere on the screen. Very weird.
Next, I don’t have all the settings in the MA settings app. I can see
the phone settings like ringtone, notification sound and vibrate on
call. But the settings that are more specific to MA, like speech
settings, advanced and screenreader settings, are just not there. This
means I can’t set things like which voice and call screens I want to
use, and volume buttons to accept and hang up calls.
I was curious to know if the calendar app now synchronizes correctly
with Google Calendar, but could not test this, because I could not
manage to enter a new event. Most of the time I did not know on which
edit field I was, and I couldn’t find out how to enter the date and
time for the event.
If anybody could give me some tips or advice on how to use MA on a
toucch-only phone running Android Jelly Bean, I would be most grateful.
But until then, I think I will stay with Talkback.
Kind Regards,
Miranda
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