I turned on reduce motion and this fixes my issues for me, hope this helps
someone else.
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From: "Ricardo Walker" <rwalker...@gmail.com>
To: "viphone" <viphone@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Friday, September 20, 2013 9:59 AM
Subject: Re: IOS7, various frustrating difficulties
Hi,
Why would it be impossible when many Android devices add the ability to
change the sensitivity of the touch screens? That being said, I think it is
very possible. I think more than sensitivity, this might be some random VO
focus issues. The first thing I would try is restarting my device, and
turning on reduced motion in settings/general/accessibility.
Ricardo Walker
rica...@appletothecore.info
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On Sep 20, 2013, at 9:53 AM, David Chittenden <dchitten...@gmail.com> wrote:
First, it is impossible to increase the sensitivity of the touchscreen.
What Apple has done is made VO more responsive more rapidly to the touch.
When you are typing, holding a letter for than a second first causes VO
to say selected because passthrough has been activated. Now, you can slide
your finger around the keyboard to get various types of alternate symbols
for the symbol in question. If you do not slide your finger at all, but
instead, lift your finger straight up from the keyboard, the original
symbol you were touching will be used. Getting different symbols means you
are moving your finger before lifting it from the keyboard.
Apple appears to have shortened the time between when the screen is
initially touched and when mode shifts to tracking your finger rather than
interpreting your command gesture. The time used to be half a second. I am
guessing the time is now about a fourth of a second, but I do not have an
assistant to help me time it. This shorter time is causing your editing to
get confused because you are used to having more time to start your
command gesture movement after touching the screen. If you start movements
before touching the screen, you will bypass most of the difficulties you
are experiencing.
David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA
Email: dchitten...@gmail.com
Mobile: +64 21 2288 288
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On 21 Sep 2013, at 0:14, Carol <carol.pearso...@googlemail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
First, I love some things in IOS7 and think Apple have done a good job in
many areas. However, so far as us VI's are concerned, it seems that
there are some definite difficulties and pitfalls and I'm feeling a bit
frustrated with these.
First, for me at least the 4S is in some ways quite snappy and, in
others, just not quite snappy enough ... Then, I'm a bit disappointed as
the UK English voice just doesn't sound quite right, even on its higher
setting and awful on its compact setting. Since we listen to speech most
of the time, these voices really need to be very good!
However, my main frustration right now is being unable to perform general
editing techniques nearly as well or as quickly as in IOS6. This is
because of the more sensitive touch, which can create random incorrect
letters. This would even be OK if, when editing and working through word
by wor and letter by letter, the voices were really tiptop and selecting
was better than it is at present. I find I can no longer select and
delete quantities of text as before because so often the cursor jumps
about (often putting me at the top of a message when I was editing
further down) (or the pinch method just doesn't work at all.
Finally, I am finding the dictation when using Siri, less accurate than
before and I was looking forward to seeing some leaps forward in this
area.
M-Braille is definitely my best bet here right now for writing but I
still have a need to utilise these other skills when I need to get things
done quickly and corretly.
The matter which brought this in focus for me was when I was trying to
text a quick message into which I needed to place some numeric and
punctuation signs. I found that, when in touch typing mode, it was just
too easy to slide a finger and find that a character was selected and
then extra characters were available to me, but they just got inserted
every time I slid my finger around - so a real mess! I did try to edit
using standard typing and this was a little better, but I don't want to
use this as I find it generally much quicker to use the touch typing
method.
I'd love some of you to try out texting, including the characters that
are available in the Numbersoption, and see what you think!
For now, I'm taking a break and a cuppa!
Carol P
Sent from the Mac
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