Hi Chris,

Just switch to groups mode and it will work with voiceover.  The rest of the 
form works fine with dom navigation.

On Jun 10, 2015, at 5:01 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland <clgillan...@gmail.com> 
wrote:

So, guys, I never like writing e-mails like this, and I know some of you are 
going to write me and scream at me for being over dramatic, or for waisting 
your time etc.  Most of you on this list who're civil have seen the patterns, 
therefore I don't think it's either necessary nor appropriate for me to quote 
names, as you all probably know the folks I'm referring to.
 
Here is the situation though.  I'm obviously going to keep this fairly general, 
but I have to at least be detailed enough for you all to understand where I'm 
coming from, so though this may be borderline, I don't think it's quite at the 
point of violating anything.
 
So, this morning, I installed the beta of I O S 9 on my IPhone 5S.  I'm not at 
liberty to state the specifics, but I found a bug which is quite severe and 
could really effect accessibility in one aspect.  Though it's not anything that 
would render the device useless, it definitely is severe enough it needs to be 
fixed.  Again, I'm not at a position to elaborate on this, but my point is, I 
logged into the Apple developer web site, and proceeded to the bug reporter.  I 
should add that I tried this both with Capitan and with Yosemite.  Both have 
the same results.  Once I clicked the button for a new bug report, it popped up 
asking what type of bug I'm filing.  Under the "Other" heading, I chose 
accessibility.  This opened up a window to create a new accessibility report.  
I hit vo+Right arrow, and got down to classification.  Once I hit vo+space on 
the item that says select classification clickable, nothing at all happened.  
Absolutely nothing.  So, I cannot accessibly continue the process, as at this 
point, I get totally stuck.  I tried routing my mouse pointer with 
vo+command+F5, then vo+shift+space, I tried hitting spacebar, return, clicking 
the literal trackpad, interacting, vo+shift+M, ctrl+clicking the trackpad, 
absolutely nothing! is working.  I tried with Safari, and with Chrome both on 
Yosemite, and on Capitan with the same results.
 
I tried on Windows with Windows 8.1 in both IE 11, and in Firefox.  Both were 
tested with JAWS 16, and with NVDA 2015.2.  Once I clicked the new button for a 
new report, I tried hitting enter on the accessibility button, and absolutely 
nothing happened.  In JAWS, I did an insert+escape to refresh the screen, no 
good.  I re-initialized Aria, just in case that was what it was using, no good. 
 I tried routing my jaws cursor to my virtual PC cursor then clicking.  No 
good.  In NVDA, I routed my mouse pointer with NVDA+numpad slash, then left 
clicked with num pad slash.  No good.  I even tried with Window-Eyes, routing 
the mouse with insert+num pad plus, then doing a left click.  Again, no good.  
Nothing happened.
 
When I called Apple developer support to let them know about this, and that the 
accessibility of the bug tracker was broken, they didn't exactly blow me off, 
but they didn't seem really all that concerned either.  They basically told me 
they'd file it with
 
apple.com/feedback <http://apple.com/feedback>
 
When I told them that I don't know how long that would take but it probably 
wouldn't get solved very soon that method, most likely, the guy got a little 
bit defensive with me.  He told me that in his words, they don't support the 
Bug tracker in his department, therefore he doesn't have a way to open a ticket 
with the engineers to get this fixed.
 
When I told him that I just spent the very last 99 dollars I had for this 
program, he got snovvy and said, then you better start developing your apps so 
you can get paid back.  I told him I don't program, I don't write applications. 
 The reason I joined was to report bugs, and help them with making sure things 
were accessible.  I told him if I can't do that and report bugs in the first 
place, then what is the point therefore of me being a dev.  I told him I'd paid 
99 dollars for this, and therefore feel it's my right to be able to have this 
looked into quickly, or to get a refund.  He told me unfortunately, he doesn't 
have the tools to push the feedback up to the bug reporter engineers.  That 
might be true, I don't know if it is or not, but if it is, then, that's 
frankly, ridiculous!  Especially considerring he was a senior advisor in the 
developer department.
 
When I asked him for a refund, he told me that their policy is no refunds no 
matter what.  He said, plus, even if they did! refund me, they've changed the 
way they deploy I O S 9 to devices.  Technically, I'm not probably supposed to 
tell you all this, but I feel it's in you all's best interest to know, so you 
don't totally ruin your devices.  If you upgrade to I O S 9, it even says right 
there on the web site, you cannot downgrade back to I O S 8.  Not even 
apparently with D F U mode.  So, if I did! get a refund, and they disabled my 
dev account, that would unenroll my devices, therefore renderring them forever 
permanently useless unless they were re-enrolled, which there policy is, I 
couldn't do for 12 months after disabling them.
 
Frankly, Apple needs to get their shit together.  That's all I'm gonna say.  
You may not like hearing it, but this has me a little disturbed.  If we blind 
people can't report bugs, then how the hell do they expect us to help them with 
that side of things?
 
Chris.

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