I find this problem to be the most annoying problem on the iphone.
Sent from my Verizon iPhone 5! On Mar 29, 2013, at 4:12 PM, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Alan, > > That is an OK work-around as far as it goes and it is easy to do if you > actually pull out your phone. But if I am out and about I have my phone in my > belt clip and I either have the Apple Earpods hanging around my neck so that > it’s easy to pick up the right one or both or I use a Bluetooth earpiece. > Where I live having the iPhone in a belt clip means that for at least 6 > months out of the year you wear some sort of jacket over top and at that > point it is a major pain in the neck if I have the thing babbling away all > the time. How useful would you find it if you were using your computer with a > screenreader, say you are working on an Excel sheet or you are writing a > letter in Word. Then an email comes in and suddenly your screenreader would > also start reading out that email. I bet if Jaws found a way to do this > people would want to shoot them and in my opinion it is no different when I’m > on a phone call and Voiceover suddenly starts reading an incoming text > message or push notification at a volume which makes it impossible for me to > hear the other person. At the same time, I do sometimes want to use my phone > while I’m on a call to look up somebody’s phone number or write down > something in the Notes or maybe my friend from Germany calls and we talk > about the weather and I want to look up the temperature on my Netatmo Weater > Station app. If I turn speech off with a 3-finger double tap I have to turn > it back on first before I can do this and I just don’t think I should have to > do so. > It’s interesting to hear people’s thoughts on whether Voiceover should babble > away during a call or not, but I think from what I read more people think it > shouldn’t. But I agree that Apple should maybe investigate if this can be > made optional, i.e. Voiceover stays on, but you can choose whether you want > it to read incoming text messages, emails and push notifications or not. > Definitely it should not continuously read the call duration every 20 seconds > and by now I read several replies where others have that issue as well > despite the fact that they move focus away from that. > > Regards, > Sieghard > -- > 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/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > 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 Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- 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/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. 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 Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
