I’m adding better Voice Control support to @studysnacksapp to celebrate the Global Accessibility Awareness Day. It’s amazing with how little code you can make it so much better 😍
A thread on what Voice Control is, what the problems in my app are, and how I fix them🧵
I just spotted something odd with my app and Voice Control. I can scroll down repeatedly but then hit a point where I can't scroll any more. If I use my finger and scroll down a tiny bit then I can continue scrolling down with VC.
I can scroll up from bottom to top with VC.
It's not necessarily in the same place where it gets stuck. A different day with similar, but additional items, will get stuck in a different spot.
@gabriel
Yes your reference to them wanting it to be a #cloudUploadingDevice (or #CUD) for the ewes to chew on is a worst case scenario.
An interesting idea would be the phone does nothing, but talks to your #gnuLinux at home, which does all the logic for it. The only thing it needs to do is connect to your #PersonalComputer.
We can dream, but most importantly, push, for that.
This is possibly the most important post on my blog. I’ve finally written about the period I couldn’t use my arm, and how I used technology to work. But seriously, I should have rested.
Around the release of iOS 13 Siri's accuracy was significantly reduced. Seemingly over night Siri went from being easily the best voice recognition I'd ever seen - to being one of the worst and it hasn't recovered.
Back on iOS 11/12 - Siri's average accuracy when I was speaking standard English (aka not jargon) was a pretty consistent 94%.
As soon as iOS 12 (or it may have been 13) was released there was a massive dive right down to 30-75%.
Interestingly 4 years on and it hasn't got back to where it was previously - in fact I doubt it's really improved much at all as it's average accuracy now seems to sit around 60% for me.
I do wonder if Apple doesn't test New Zealand and Australian accents very well and has made some sort of storage or compute savings by applying a less specific model to it's speech recognition engine.
Does anyone have any insight as to what might have happened?
Just four weeks unti our Health Hackathon on 17-18 June! Our number of attendees signed up has more than doubled in the last week. And even more challenges are being added each week.
Thanks to NHS Grampian and University of Aberdeen for sponsoring the event and to Robert Gordon University for participating too. Also thanks to ONE Tech Hub for hosting us! See you there!
Day 171. When using #VoiceControl, say: "Show names". You'll see all the accessibility labels for interactive elements overlaid on the screen. It will help you identify labels that can be improved, or actually missing. Accessibility labels are not just for VoiceOver.