Hi Holly, I have only attempted to view photos. Double tapping did not work with photos.
A sound file or document may be different. Mark -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Holly Anderson Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2012 6:30 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: TIP: How Blind And Low Vision IOS 6.0 Users Can Work With Photos Received Via SMS Hi, you probably tried this, but does double tapping work? I got a media file attachment the other day and I was able to get to the controls by double tapping the screen. Thanks. Holly On Oct 26, 2012, at 5:21 PM, M. Taylor <mk...@ucla.edu> wrote: > Hello Everyone, The following was just posted to the Candle Shore BLOG: > > TIP: How Blind And Low Vision IOS 6.0 Users Can Work With Photos > Received Via SMS > > Hello Everyone, > > I accidentally deleted the original question that was posted on this > subject but I want to offer an answer regarding how blind and low > vision iOS 6.0 users can work with photos received via SMS. > > NOTE 1: > VoiceOver is Apple's software screen reading solution for the blind > and low vision. > > NOTE 2: > This document assumes that VoiceOver users are familiar with basic > VoiceOver gestures. > > With the release of iOS 6.0, there is a serious VoiceOver bug with > regard to manipulating photos received via text message. The > workaround for this bug may prove somewhat challenging for totally > blind iOS 6.0 users but, at the time of this writing, appears to be the only solution. > > Scenario: You receive a photo via SMS and you double-tap on the > attachment in order to view/open/edit/delete/forward the photo. > > Now, based on my experience, the photo will open in full screen. That > is to say, there are no controls with which to manipulate the photo. > > All a non-VoiceOver iOS 6.0 user (sighted person) need do is to simply > tap the upper part of the photo in order to display the soft-controls > necessary to save, forward, delete the photo and more. > > With VoiceOver enabled, there does not seem to be anyway of getting > these controls to be displayed. > > To my knowledge, the only way blind and low vision iOS 6.0 users can > get the necessary soft-controls to display is to do the following: > > 1. > Disable VoiceOver. > > 2. > Single-finger, single-tap the upper part of the display screen. This > will cause the image soft-controls to be displayed. > > 3. > Enable VoiceOver. > > I strongly encourage all voiceover users to send an email to > accessibil...@apple.com to report this bug. > > Mark > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
