Isn't the Amazon Prime Video app doing the same thing? I find it curious why these companies/developers feel they need to make their apps accessible by including a self-voicing TTS when the Apple TV is perfectly accessible with Voiceover. I think we should let Apple Accessibility know about thios as well as of course Youtube. This would be like Microsoft starting Narrator on a Windows 10 PC in addition to Jaws with no option to turn it off.
Regards, Sieghard -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Shai Sent: Friday, February 09, 2018 1:11 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: The new Youtube app on the Apple TV Hello Ben, Yes, I also get the TTS in addition to VoiceOver with the new YouTube app on the fourth generation Apple TV. From my testing of the app, it does not seem like one can disable the TTS; it seems like a setting that gets enabled when it detects that VoiceOver is on. I did notice though that the parts of the app are accessible with the TTS at least and I could disable VoiceOver after getting into the app. I am not sure what occurs when a video starts playing if those controls are still accessible when VoiceOver is disabled. On 2/9/18, Ben Mustill-Rose <b...@benmr.com> wrote: > Hi all > > The Youtube app on my 4th gen Apple TV received an update a couple of > days ago; it got quite a bit of coverage online - the main takeaway > being that the old version was much better. One thing that wasn't > mentioned however was that they appear to have implemented their own > screen reader - E.G. if you open the app and navigate around, you'll > hear the apps TTS talking as well as VO. > > My questions: > > Can someone with a 4th gen or 4K Apple TV test this for me? > Does anyone know how to turn it off? It obviously isn't happening to > sighted people so it must be something that I've enabled but I can't > think what. > > Cheers, > Ben. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone > list. > > 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. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: > mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. 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. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. 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. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.