email for Audible feedback, was: Audible app has changed completely
Hello Aser and others, I seem to be able to flick up and down with one finger when focus is on the time elapsed readout and, as you previously said, only if playback is paused. Make sure you are on the time readout that shows how much has played of the particular chapter which is followed by adjustable, the time remaining readout does not say adjustable. There is also an item in the Settings which allows you to set the jump interval to either 30 seconds (default), 60 seconds and 90 seconds. This was there in the old version, too, but in the old version as in the new changing it to 60 seconds doesn't seem to make any difference and it still jumps in 30 second intervals. I just wrote a fairly comprehensive email to the email address they list in the app in Settings, Help and Feedback. For those who would like to add their voice to mine, here is the email: audible-iphone-feedb...@audible.com Below is the email I sent to Audible, feel free to use all or parts of it if you want to write to them. I'm sure I didn't mention all of what could be improved, but I tried to include those things I find most important and to me right now that would be better options for navigation inside a chapter and by chapter, the fact that it is not indicated which chapter is currently playing in the listing of chapters in the Chapters and Bookmarks area and as you can see I also mentioned that it would be really nice if they enhanced the features of the sleep timer by providing a warning tone before it reaches 0 and a way to reset it similar to how the iTired app works. But let's not forget that all of these are missing features and not accessibility issues as such except maybe for high-speed scrubbing which I will ask a sighted friend to check if that works without Voiceover. I think the app is much improved and I love the fact you can now download all parts of a book with one double tap and also delete an entire book all at once. OK, here is that email: From: Sieghard Weitzel [mailto:siegh...@live.ca] Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 7:37 AM To: 'audible-iphone-feedb...@audible.com' Subject: FW: The new Audible app Hello, I am a blind iPhone user and use VoiceOver. I am also a very frequent user of audible. I just downloaded the new version of the Audible app and would like to congratulate you on Some very nice improvements. The ability to delete books all at once without having to start to play each part and deleting all the parts of a book separately is really a huge improvement. However, there are. Also a few areas where I thing functionality was taken away. Mostly this is with playback controls. I used to be Able to easily jump forward or backward by chapter and I don't see this at All Anymore. There is also no easy way to quickly move around in a chapter, e.g. by having access to a high-speed scrubbing function. There is still the Jump Back button which jumps back by 30 seconds, but I don't see an equivalent control to go forward and flicking up or down on the Elapsed Time control which is adjustable only works if I pause the book, at least it does if Voiceover is enabled. Furthermore, changing the jump amount from 30 seconds to 60 seconds in the Settings does not seem to have any effect. I did this but if I use the Jump Back button and look at the time read out it still jumps back only by 30 second intervals. Lastly, I am disappointed the Sleep Timer function was not enhanced by including some sort of option that would notify the listener with a discrete audible tone that the sleep timer was about to reach 0 maybe 10 or 20 seconds before and that one could then reset the timer to the selected time by touching the screen, pushing on a volume button or any such action that indicates the listener is still awake and alert. Separate apps with such functionality exist, however, they unfortunately only work if I playback via the built-in music app and a more advanced sleep timer would really be appreciated by myself and many other users of your app I spoke with. It would also be extremely useful if Voiceover would announce which chapter is currently playing in the Chapters and Bookmarks area. Right now it simply lists all chapters in the particular part of a book starting with 1 and their total time. However, it does not actually say what chapter of the book that is and if, for example, I am currently playing chapter 8 of 20 chapters in a part, Voiceover does not indicate in any way that this is the currently playing chapter when I flick through the list. It should say selected or currently playing and provide the remaining play time in addition to the total play time of the chapter. Overall I think the changes are good, but you really need to put back more functionality to control playback, jump by chapter without having to go into the Chapters and Bookmarks section and also add a high-speed scrubbing feature which allows for larger jumps and quicker movement along the
Re: email for Audible feedback, was: Audible app has changed completely
I sent a bug report, as I think the slider moving without impacting playback position is an issue with a feature as implemented, and not a missing feature exactly. The app as a whole is more accessible though, and since we still can forward and rewind through a book, it's by no means as bad as I first thought. Incidentally, their user feedback apparently led them to conclude that the next/previous chapter buttons were being inadvertently triggered, hence their removal as well as the timeline slider being rendered inactive by default. The thing about the timeline was in the user guide and the chapter buttons tidbit is from the FAQ. The thing I've noticed in this and other apps, is that when a slider is inactive by default, you get results like I've described, where even when VoiceOver says it's adjustable, your input has no effect on the variable, even as VoiceOver tells you the slider is moving. I wish the removal of the controls had been a user option rather than a design change though, something more dramatic than the previous flick to hide like a toggle in settings or something. Sent from my iPad On Feb 20, 2013, at 8:00 AM, Sieghard Weitzel siegh...@live.ca wrote: Hello Aser and others, I seem to be able to flick up and down with one finger when focus is on the time elapsed readout and, as you previously said, only if playback is paused. Make sure you are on the time readout that shows how much has played of the particular chapter which is followed by “adjustable”, the time remaining readout does not say adjustable. There is also an item in the Settings which allows you to set the jump interval to either 30 seconds (default), 60 seconds and 90 seconds. This was there in the old version, too, but in the old version as in the new changing it to 60 seconds doesn’t seem to make any difference and it still jumps in 30 second intervals. I just wrote a fairly comprehensive email to the email address they list in the app in Settings, Help and “Feedback”. For those who would like to add their voice to mine, here is the email: audible-iphone-feedb...@audible.com Below is the email I sent to Audible, feel free to use all or parts of it if you want to write to them. I’m sure I didn’t mention all of what could be improved, but I tried to include those things I find most important and to me right now that would be better options for navigation inside a chapter and by chapter, the fact that it is not indicated which chapter is currently playing in the listing of chapters in the “Chapters and Bookmarks” area and as you can see I also mentioned that it would be really nice if they enhanced the features of the sleep timer by providing a warning tone before it reaches 0 and a way to reset it similar to how the iTired app works. But let’s not forget that all of these are missing features and not accessibility issues as such except maybe for high-speed scrubbing which I will ask a sighted friend to check if that works without Voiceover. I think the app is much improved and I love the fact you can now download all parts of a book with one double tap and also delete an entire book all at once. OK, here is that email: From: Sieghard Weitzel [mailto:siegh...@live.ca] Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 7:37 AM To: 'audible-iphone-feedb...@audible.com' Subject: FW: The new Audible app Hello, I am a blind iPhone user and use VoiceOver. I am also a very frequent user of audible. I just downloaded the new version of the Audible app and would like to congratulate you on Some very nice improvements. The ability to delete books all at once without having to start to play each part and deleting all the parts of a book separately is really a huge improvement. However, there are. Also a few areas where I thing functionality was taken away. Mostly this is with playback controls. I used to be Able to easily jump forward or backward by chapter and I don't see this at All Anymore. There is also no easy way to quickly move around in a chapter, e.g. by having access to a high-speed scrubbing function. There is still the Jump Back button which jumps back by 30 seconds, but I don't see an equivalent control to go forward and flicking up or down on the Elapsed Time control which is adjustable only works if I pause the book, at least it does if Voiceover is enabled. Furthermore, changing the jump amount from 30 seconds to 60 seconds in the Settings does not seem to have any effect. I did this but if I use the Jump Back button and look at the time read out it still jumps back only by 30 second intervals. Lastly, I am disappointed the Sleep Timer function was not enhanced by including some sort of option that would notify the listener with a discrete audible tone that the sleep timer was about to reach 0 maybe 10 or 20 seconds before and that one could then reset the timer to the selected time by
