First of all I must say that I don't regret upgrading my 4s to iOS 8. However, VoiceOver crashes all the time on my 4s. I have not found a pattern to all the crashes. The good thing is that VO at least restarts when it decide to die on me. But it crashes at least 10-15 times a day and I know when it crashed VO is on, screen curtain on etc is announced. I have done a reset - reset to factory settings but still the same.
-----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Christopher Chaltain Sent: 24. september 2014 13:53 To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: IOS is complete crap with VoiceOver Doing as David suggests is probably best, but it might also be the case that your voice was turned off. Try a three finger double tap to toggle the voice on and off. Also, if you have the home button set as your VoiceOver short cut, try a triple tap of the home button. Recycling VoiceOver helps me in similar situations. Maybe you can use Siri to turn VoiceOver off and then back on as well. I've seen a couple of posts now to where IOS 8 with it's VoiceOver bugs is compared to blindness specific products or older smart phone technologies, like Windows Mobile running Mobile Accessibility. IMHO, one of the great things about Apple and their commitment to making their main stream products accessible is that we get treated the same as the rest of their main stream customers. I fear that if we lower the bar with our expectations then we're no better off then when we use those so called blind ghetto products that so many people are quick to thumb their noses at. Let's give Apple credit where credit is due, but let's just not roll over like blind Uncle Tom's being happy with whatever accessibility Apple thinks we'll be content with. On 09/24/2014 12:18 AM, David Chittenden wrote: > When VO goes quiet like that, take your fingers away from the iPhone. iOS is > performing memory management. Give a chance for iOS / VO to catch up. > Something similar occurred with iOS 7 when it first came out. Unlike > blindness specific poducts which can take six months to a year to be fixed, > Apple's history is to take one-three months. Let's see what happens. > > David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA > Email: dchitten...@gmail.com > Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 > Sent from my iPhone > >> On 24 Sep 2014, at 14:49, Brian Fischler <brianfisch...@me.com> wrote: >> >> I'm sorry but VoiceOver on my 5S has now complete crap on IOS 8 as for the >> second time today VoiceOver has completely crapped out while tapping the >> screen at the same time a push notification comes through. VoiceOVer just >> dies and if I press the home button and tell Siri to tell Siri to turn VO on >> Siri tells me VO is already on. Ok, really then why am I hearing nothing but >> clicks. Then I go to press the power on/off button and the home button to >> restart the phone and now that doesn't work as I hear the photo being taken >> sound. Really impressive job with IOS8 Apple. I'm sorry but this IOS 8 >> release with all of its bugs is total crap and a really piss poor job by >> Apple for the blind community. If you haven't upgraded yet don't until 8.1 >> and that is if Apple can be bothered to actually make some VO changes in >> that one as it is obvious there engineers are more focused on other areas >> and VoiceOver is at the bottom of the food chain. Time to start at least >> listening to what Droid is doin g, never thought I would say that having been on the iPhone since the 3GS and completely shifting all my products to Apple, but this release and the 35 or so VO bugs is making me start to think maybe Apple isn't the answer. >> >> -- >> The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. >> All new members to the this list are moderated by default. 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. 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