Robin, I know what you are saying. If the phone is locked, you get a notification that a message has come in, and it is even read by VoiceOver; however, if you are in a chat...sending messages back and forth...there is no indication that the other person has sent a message unless you swipe and see if you can locate one. Kind of a pain, but doable. Perhaps in the near future they can get VoiceOver to read as it does in Messages.
Regards, Ann Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 4, 2018, at 12:26 AM, Robin Frost <robin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > Yes that’s true but if you lock the phone the sighted people with whom you > might happen to be chatting think you’ve disappeared or are no longer > available to chat. That’s what they kept saying to me yesterday. > Thanks for the correction perhaps I was mistaken that this app ever voiced in > coming messages. Still seems strange that it wasn’t or couldn’t be designed > to do so. I hadn’t any vibrations on my device. Doe this occur if you > haven’t vibrations turned on in settings and sounds? > Robin > > > From: Donna > Sent: Saturday, November 3, 2018 6:30 PM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: big regressions in accessibility facebook messenger > > 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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