The Facebook Messenger app can be set to read messages by voiceover when you receive a message on the lock screen of your device. Just go to Settings, Notifications & swipe down to Messenger.
Donna > > You may be thinking of the Messages app, which does read incoming messages. > Facebook never has done this, unfortunately. The only way to know if a new > message has come in is to try to feel the phone vibration which happens when > a new message comes in, and hope it’s from the chat you’re in at the time. > >> On Nov 3, 2018, at 10:34 AM, Robin Frost <robin...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> Funny you mention this as just yesterday I was in this app and noted that >> it doesn’t read in coming messages automatically at least not by me. The >> only way I could get alerted to new messages was to lock the phone but then >> the sighted person with whom I was speaking kept saying I was disappearing >> in terms of their view. I thought the app used to read in coming messages as >> they arrived but perhaps my memory is faulty on this one. Are there any >> work-arounds for this? >> Robin >> >> >> From: Davy Cuppens >> Sent: Friday, November 2, 2018 3:20 PM >> To: viphone@googlegroups.com >> Subject: big regressions in accessibility facebook messenger >> >> Hi folks >> >> It is no longer possible to delete messages in messenger using the rotor >> tasks. However, you can click on delete message but nothing happens. If you >> hold and release after the 3 progress beeps you can access the menu for that >> person but there seems to be no option to delete the conversation. >> >> For the users of itunes 12.6.3 it makes no sense to roll back to a previous >> version of the app because when reinstalling the app on your phone you are >> prompted to update the app otherwise it won’t work anymore. >> Please report this bug to facebook accessibility. >> Regards >> Davy >> -- >> 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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