Re: IOS7, various frustrating difficulties

2013-09-21 Thread Carol Pearson
Hi David, I appreciate your detailed reply but maybe I haven't explained my situation well enough. I have now changed the reduced to the on position but still have major problems in correcting and editing text. Whenever I touch the screen, there is a response. If I'm writing, any character

Re: IOS7, various frustrating difficulties

2013-09-21 Thread David Chittenden
Yes, what you say makes perfect sense. Basically, to get around the shortened response time, it is necessary to be moving when you touch the screen. And, by touch, I mean when the screen registers the conductivity of your finger, not when you feel the haptic response of the screen against your

Re: IOS7, various frustrating difficulties

2013-09-21 Thread Dawn Petty
turn on reduce motion. also, if you are running 4s or 4 remember it may be a little sluggish due to the fact that the phone was really meant for the higher update. -Original Message- From: Carol Sent: Friday, September 20, 2013 7:14 AM To: VI Phone Users Subject: IOS7, various

Re: IOS7, various frustrating difficulties

2013-09-21 Thread Carol
OK, David, I shall try to follow these instructions and practice, and I will come back in about a week's time and say how I'm doing. If, after that time, I still struggle nearly so much, it's time to rattle cages for me! Can't be fairer than that! Carol P Sent from the Mac On 21 Sep 2013, at

IOS7, various frustrating difficulties

2013-09-20 Thread Carol
Hi all, First, I love some things in IOS7 and think Apple have done a good job in many areas. However, so far as us VI's are concerned, it seems that there are some definite difficulties and pitfalls and I'm feeling a bit frustrated with these. First, for me at least the 4S is in some ways

Re: IOS7, various frustrating difficulties

2013-09-20 Thread David Chittenden
First, it is impossible to increase the sensitivity of the touchscreen. What Apple has done is made VO more responsive more rapidly to the touch. When you are typing, holding a letter for than a second first causes VO to say selected because passthrough has been activated. Now, you can slide

Re: IOS7, various frustrating difficulties

2013-09-20 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, Why would it be impossible when many Android devices add the ability to change the sensitivity of the touch screens? That being said, I think it is very possible. I think more than sensitivity, this might be some random VO focus issues. The first thing I would try is restarting my

Re: IOS7, various frustrating difficulties

2013-09-20 Thread Neil Barnfather - TalkNav
Carol, Certainly agree that the UK British English voice has some issues, and I'd encourage you to write to Apple about them, as for your other issues, I agree that the sensitivity seems to have been adjusted ever so slightly upwards, and, to me personally its slightly to high. Regards,

Re: IOS7, various frustrating difficulties

2013-09-20 Thread David Chittenden
The touchscreen technology has a specific sensitivity which is hardwired. What the OS does is delay the time it waits before responding to the command gesture. This gives the appearance of greater or less sensitivity, but the actual touchscreen sensitivity with the capacitive touchscreen is a

Re: IOS7, various frustrating difficulties

2013-09-20 Thread Anthony Vece
Hi David; I learned to do a feather touch from one of your expert posts. Thanks Anthony ll Sent from my Verizon iPhone 5! On Sep 20, 2013, at 10:56 AM, David Chittenden dchitten...@gmail.com wrote: The touchscreen technology has a specific sensitivity which is hardwired. What the OS

Re: IOS7, various frustrating difficulties

2013-09-20 Thread Troy Sullivan
I turned on reduce motion and this fixes my issues for me, hope this helps someone else. - Original Message - From: Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com To: viphone viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, September 20, 2013 9:59 AM Subject: Re: IOS7, various frustrating difficulties Hi