Steve, As a former professional programmer, I would suggest that the word "Coupon" in this instance, is referring to a Facetime security coupon and / or "Token", depending upon the state of the argument being passed through to the function.
Again, just a guess. Mark -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Steve Matzura Sent: Wednesday, January 4, 2023 7:08 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: What it Means when VoiceOver says the word, "Coupon" in the latest versions of iOS Ha, an interesting take. I've been a programmer for a long, long, very long time, but I've never heard of any programming object called a coupon. I thinhk that's quite funny! I've heard of lexical tokens, syntax trees, parsing algorithms, fuzzy logic, datapoint fragmentation, forking, relational pyramids, reciphering, lots of other interesting linguistic oddments, but coupons? Sure would like to find out what that's really all about. On 1/4/2023 8:51 AM, M. Taylor wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > In a previous thread, someone mentioned that she / he sometimes hears > VoiceOver say the word, "Coupon" when performing various task, via > VoiceOver, in the latest versions of the OS. > > It did not occur to me until yesterday but, I too, have encountered > this word being spoken on my 14 with iOS 16.2. > > Now keep in mind that in no way am I speaking on behalf of Apple; in > short, this is just my opinion. Said opinion, being the following: > > The word "coupon" has no practical user meaning for anyone using the OS. > This announcement is happening because somewhere in the programming > language, a display handler is mistakenly being announced by VoiceOver. > > Now that I think about it, I encountered this announcement very early > on but immediately dismissed it because I could tell that it was > randomly announced during various screen display transitions. > > It is just a VoiceOver programming glitch in so far as the developers > inadvertently failed to suppress VoiceOver from announcing this > particular behind-the-scenes function. > > So, not to worry, this has happened in the past and will, from > time-to-time happen in the future. > > Again, this is just my opinion, nothing more. > > Mark -- 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/d8d0a91a-60ba-93d1-f600-aa5975e30a22%40gmail.com. -- 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/00af01d9205c%240a76faf0%241f64f0d0%24%40ucla.edu.
