[the-facts-machine] Fw: iOS 8 Issue and Voiceover

From: "Marcia Moses" <mgmoses@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <the-facts-machine@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 15:22:45 -0400

This came from Scott NorrisFrom: Norris, Scott (LARA) 
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2014 10:17 AM
To: BSBP Staff 
Subject: iOS 8 Issue and Voiceover

Good Morning All, 

I upgraded my iPhone five Friday evening to iOS 8, the latest version of 
Apple’s iOS operating system.  

After the upgrade was complete I anticipated Voiceover, Apple’s screen reader 
program would begin speaking.  However, this was not the case.  I tried a 
series of key presses, finger gestures, and reboots to no avail.  Voiceover was 
running but would not speak.  I was becoming very frustrated.  

After speaking with Al Puzzuoli of the MSU RCPd on Saturday he called me back 
with a suggestion he had seen on Twitter.  We thought this sounded somewhat far 
fetched but we found out differently.  

Apparently if you have used your iPhone with a braille display and set the 
status cell option to Left or Right Voiceover will crash.  

To prevent this from happening and causing you frustration do the following 
prior to performing the iOS 8 upgrade.

1.   Go to Settings 

2.   Go to General 

3.   Go to Accessibility 

4.   Go to Voiceover, your phone should say “Voiceover on.”  Double tap 
voiceover On to open up the voiceover menu. 

5.   Go down to Braille and open it.  You will hear Voiceover say, “Bluetooth 
is turned off.  Bluetooth is required to use a braille display.  Would you like 
to turn on Bluetooth?” There are two buttons labeled no and yes.  Double tap 
the No button.  

6.   Flick right five times until you hear Voiceover say, “Status cell off.:  
Your other choices are Left or Right. If either are highlighted double tap the 
highlighted item to go into Status cell options and change the selection to Off 
prior to performing the iOS 8 upgrade.  

Thanks to Al Puzzuoli and Twitter.  

Scott

Scott J. Norris 

Adaptive Technology Librarian

BARD Administrator

BSBP 

Braille and Talking Book Library

702 W Kalamazoo St

PO Box 3007

Lansing, MI 48909

V: 517-373-5516

F: 517-373-5516

www.michigan.gov/btbl

[the-facts-machine] Fw: iOS 8 Issue and Voiceover

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