[the-facts-machine] iOS8 issues.
- From: "Richard McKinley" <mcfurbie@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "the Facts Machine" <the-facts-machine@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 13:52:47 -0500
Got this from applevis.
Serious Bugs
1. In Braille options (Settings > General > Accessibility > VoiceOver >
Braille), changing
the setting for Status Cell from "off" to either left or right will cause
VoiceOver
to stop working completely. The only way to get VoiceOver back is to set the
cell
back to "off", and to do that one will need sighted help since VoiceOver is
completely
inoperative. Toggling VoiceOver with the shortcut, telling Siri to turn
VoiceOver
off and back on, restarting the device - nothing works except changing the
status
cell option. Additionally, it now appears as though this bug will also present
itself
when upgrading from an earlier version of iOS if the status cell is set to
either
Left or Right-necessitating that the VoiceOver user turn the Status Cell to
"off"
before the upgrade.
2. In many applications, the screen does not automatically scroll to follow the
movement
of VoiceOver focus as you swipe through the page. This causes problems when
focus
lands on an actionable element which is not visually displayed on screen, as you
cannot interact with it. For example, the screen does not scroll when flicking
through
an email. So, if there is an attachment at the bottom of the message,
double-tapping
on it may not open it as you would expect. One exception is links, where the
screen
will scroll to their location when focus moves to them. However, moving focus
beyond
the link will cause the screen to scroll back to its previous position. This
behaviour
has been encountered in a large number of apps. When this results in VoiceOver
focus
landing on actionable elements which are visually not being displayed on the
screen,
it is likely to be confusing and extremely frustrating to users who will not
know
why a gesture isn't working. The only workaround is to use the 3-finger swipe
up/down
to bring the desired element on to the screen, locate it by touch, and then
double-tap.
3. Various problems have been reported when using a bluetooth keyboard,
including duplicate
and skipped characters. Disabling the Predictive option in Settings > General >
Keyboard
has been reported to improve things. The problems also appear to be less
prevalent
in native iOS apps and those which have been updated to provide iOS 8
compatibility.
4. When using the Share option to send a message from outside of the stock
Messages
app (such as sharing a recording from Voice Memos), double-tapping on the "Send"
button does nothing. To successfully send the message, one must disable
VoiceOver
and attempt to find the "Send" button with no spoken feedback.
5. Once in awhile if one uses the Keypad to dial a number, they may encounter a
stuck
key. For example, as you press a number you will hear the DTMF tone for that
number.
At times, a number will seem to get stuck in that the DTMF tone will keep
playing.
One must do a reset of the phone to make it stop. We have also found that
pressing
the same key a second time or removing the Phone app from the App Switcher is
sometimes
enough to fix the problem without resorting to a complete restart.
6. QuickNav appears not to work with a Braille display. Enabling it is supposed
to be
done with space and Q, but VoiceOver always reports that it is on, thus
suggesting
it's never on. Pressing H for heading, F for text field, etc, yield no results.
This
problem has been seen on a Braille Sense Plus and Vareo Ultra.
7. Using the Handwriting mode crashes VoiceOver. VoiceOver will restart itself
in a
few seconds, but this does make handwriting unusable.
Moderate Bugs
1. In the lock screen, when a user receives a new Notification, VoiceOver
sometimes
does not announce the Notification nor the content of the Notification. You will
only hear the chime or the default sound for that Notification and nothing else
is
announced. Conversely, sometimes VoiceOver speaks the entire notification
instead
of announcing the time and the number of pending notifications.
2. VoiceOver fails to read the caller ID for incoming calls on the iPhone,
whether on
the lock screen or while the phone is unlocked. The information is still
displayed,
and you can touch the screen to find it, but it is no longer announced
automatically.
A temporary workaround is to enable "Always Speak Notifications" in Settings >
General
> Accessibility > VoiceOver. However, note that this will have privacy
> implications.
3. When in a message thread's details screen, if the thread has attachments,
VoiceOver
is sluggish and may even crash when flicking right through the attachments for
the
first time. Flicking left, or even right past any attachments VoiceOver has
already
encountered, works fine. It is only attachments VoiceOver has not yet seen that
cause
the problem.
4. On the "All" tab of the Notification Center, the "Clear Section" buttons are
announced
as "Confirm Clear Section", even if you have not activated them. You still must
double
tap twice to clear a section, but you will hear "Confirm Clear Section" both
times.
Additionally, VoiceOver gives no audible feedback to indicate that the gesture
was
successful.
5. In the Featured Tab of the App Store, VoiceOver focus will loop continually
through
a carousel of highlighted items displayed near the top of the page. The only way
to force focus out of this loop is to tap elsewhere on the screen.
6. When double-tapping on the name of a contact in App Switcher to reveal the
available
contact options, VoiceOver does not announce the identifying label when there
are
multiple options for the same contact method - for example, home, work and
cellular
telephone numbers will all be read as simply "phone call".
7. When first opening the App Switcher you can move through all of the listed
contacts
by flicking left/right. However, after double-tapping on a contact to reveal the
available contact options, flicking will no longer move VoiceOver focus through
all
of the contacts. Instead, you have to use the 3-finger swipe left/right to make
VoiceOver
see all of the listed contacts.
8. In some apps the screen will auto-lock whilst VoiceOver is in the process of
reading
text (generally when reading a long block of text). If you have disabled the
auto
lock in Settings > General > Autolock, this will not affect you.
9. In some circumstances it is not possible to move app icons on the Home
screen. This
seems to be particularly problematic for those located in the row of icons
directly
above the Dock.
10. When browsing the list of subscription options available in Settings >
iCloud > iCloud
Drive, VoiceOver announces only the price, not the amount of storage space that
you
get with the package. For reference, as of the time of this writing, the $0.99
per
month is 20GB, $3.99 is 200GB, $9.99 is 500GB, and $19.99 is 1TB.
11. If you tell Siri to add a reminder or Calendar event, it will display your
event
along with the cancel/confirm buttons. However, Siri speech may be silent or
speak
a couple words at most, and the prompt for you to speak the action you'd like is
never given. This is with Siri's speech feedback set to "always", which works
when
using Siri for other tasks.
12. Upon first downloading the Alex TTS Voice, VoiceOver fails to switch
automatically
from the voice in use while the Alex download was in progress. One must turn
VoiceOver
off, then reenable it.
13. The button to purchase an item from the iTunes Store does not always
respond to a
double-tap. It is reported that in some cases a double-tap and hold on the
button
may work, followed by another double-tap and hold to confirm the purchase.
14. When using a Braille display, using space with F prompts you to search for
text,
but this only works like the search box in the item chooser. It is also case
sensitive.
15. On occasions, VoiceOver will not announce that an email folder is empty
when you
tap or swipe onto the area of the screen where any email messages would be
listed.
Instead, the only audible feedback is a muted clunk tone. The behavior has
been
seen in both smart folders and regular folders.
16. When writing a draft email, flicking left past the "cancel" button will not
move
you to the "minimize draft" button (which is visually located directly below the
status bar). Similarly, touching the minimize button will focus on it, but you
cannot
then flick right to get to the rest of the page. This is doubly problematic as
the
button is small, so many users may not realize it is even there since they
cannot
flick to it and touch exploration can easily miss it.
17. The VoiceOver Keyboard echo setting is unreliable. It does not take effect
in 3rd
party apps and some stock asps such as Messages. As a result, keys are always
echoed.
The only noticeable difference is that the pitch of the echo appears to vary
based
upon the setting selected.
18. There are some issues with iBooks created using iBooks Author. Notably, the
drag
and drop widget does not work with VoiceOver; VoiceOver does not announce if a
selected
answer is correct in iBooks reviews; and the reviews widget does not show the
letter
buttons to VoiceOver users.
19. In Braille screen input, the space (one-finger flick right) does not
register roughly
half the time. It is not misinterpreted as a dot 4, since no dot 4 is entered,
it
is simply ignored. This makes Braille very frustrating to use.
20. In Braille screen input, when deleting or entering text, a sound sometimes
plays,
the same sound made if you try to flick past the end or start of a screen. The
character
is usually deleted/entered, as far as we can tell, but the sound precludes any
speech
feedback so users will have no idea what is going on. Plus, sometimes, the
character
is not deleted and you have to use the on-screen keyboard to delete it instead.
21. Occasionally, when double-tapping on the screen to answer a call, audio
playback
will resume rather than the call being answered.
Minor Bugs
Setup
1. Updating the device from iOS 7.1.x to iOS 8 will not remember the VoiceOver
Typing
Preference.
General
1. When automatically switching languages, VoiceOver triggers compact voices
even if
the premium versions are installed.
2. When in a Group Message, at the top right hand corner is the "Details"
button. Flick
once to the right and you will land on an Unlabeled button. This button seems to
do the same thing as the "Details" button.
3. When you have issued a say all command (a two finger flick up or down),
VoiceOver
ignores all incoming notifications instead of pausing to speak them. This is a
feature,
but notifications from the Messages app are an exception. In other words,
VoiceOver
will ignore all notifications except incoming texts; those usually cause
VoiceOver
to stop reading entirely.
4. In the Mail app, when you have a draft minimized, VoiceOver's focus is
affected.
Elements are out of order as you flick left or right, you suddenly get stuck and
cannot move past an element, or you get into loops where VoiceOver keeps moving
between
a few elements as you flick left or right, and never moves beyond those few.
Sending
or canceling the draft, so the "x drafts in progress" message is gone from the
bottom
of the window, is enough to restore things to normal.
5. In the stock iOS Calendar app, you can double tap and hold on an event, then
move
a finger up or down to adjust its start or end time. However, VoiceOver offers
no
feedback as to the new time as you move your finger, so you must move, lift your
finger, check the new time, then try again to make this work at all.
6. When VoiceOver focus is on an item in the Dock, a 3-fingered swipe to the
left or
right will no longer move your through Home screen pages (It is possible that
this
is by design).
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