Hi Unfortunately it still talks with VO off. I can't really just turn VO off every time I want to use it either as the inbuilt screen reader doesn't work with search. VoiceOver doesn't work with search either, so for me at least the apps a complete writeoff for now.
Cheers, Ben. On 2/10/18, Jesper Holten <jesper.hol...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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? 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. 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