Hi. Itr is truely anoying that is for sure. One thing I will try is to disable voiceover and then start the app, then turn Vo on again to see if it works. CUrrently my ssmall son has the controls so interrupting the watching is not such a good idea. Well, will try it in abit. Kind regards, Jesper.
On 2/10/18, Daniel Miller <miller...@gmail.com> wrote: > Unfortunately, apples accessibility team will probably not do anything about > this, since it is third-party apps. The best course of action is to contact > google and or Verizon or Amazon. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Feb 9, 2018, at 7:40 PM, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote: >> >> 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? 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