I asked some questions about the Balance My Checkbook app by LingsDesigns on this list and another one but didn't get any answers, so I finally decided to contact the developer. And as I expected from reading some of the reviews about the app, I did indeed get a response.
If anybody recalls my first message to the list regarding this, if memory serves seeing as I didn't bother to save my original message here, I had three questions. As the first question involved what were improvements made to VoiceOver to the newer version of the program and was just a curiosity question, I opted not to take up the developer's time with it. My other two questions involved whether the search transactions feature was still available in the legacy version of the app, and whether the notes field was still auto completed for the same type of transaction in the current version of the app. While I don't feel comfortable posting the developer's full email here, I'll post the part relating to those specific questions, and then I'll talk a little bit about my call to Apple Accessibility afterwards. And speaking of Apple Accessibility, I've heard in various places that they're no longer letting one call with non-VO questions but are referring those to the AppleCare number. Are folks here finding this to be the case? Anyway, here is the developer response followed by my comments: Search is available in all versions but the search bar may be hidden, to show it swipe down on the center of the Account screen. I'm not sure how you do that with VoiceOver. The most current version shows it by default. Because of user complaints, auto complete for the notes field was disable to match its behavior in version 1.x. I'll consider adding an option for whether to auto complete the notes in a future update. Anyway, I very much appreciated the developer's concise, timely, and courteous response to those and my other questions. And since I didn't know how to access the search option in the legacy version, either, I called Apple Accessibility. We talked a bit, and then it was decided that I would let them take a look at my screen. However, when he tried to send me the notification, I never did receive it, and he said it was because I wasn't using Wi-Fi. I then suggested that I try connecting the phone I was using to the personal hotspot of my other phone, and that did indeed work to allow him to see my screen. We still couldn't figure out how to get to the search bar, though, so I suggested turning off VoiceOver and letting him take a look, to which he agreed. He then suggested I swipe down from the top of the screen with three fingers with VoiceOver turned off, then turn VoiceOver back on, and then see if I could see the search box. So I did the swipe down with VO off, turned VO back on, and the search box stayed there as long as I remained in that particular account. Actually, after I hung up from Apple, I tried turning off VO, doing practically anything anywhere on the screen with however many fingers I liked, and the search box would appear. But depending on what I did, for example just tapping in the middle of the screen with one finger, often brought up a specific transaction in the account as well as the search box, if that makes sense. Anyway, as I mentioned in a follow-up email to the developer after talking with Apple, as much as I am tempted to go back and use the legacy version now that I know how to use the search feature with it, I'll just stick with the newer version, especially since the developer talked about making the legacy version identical to the current version at some point. -- 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. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/20210715171101.vcollins5286%40gmail.com.
