When using @MonaApp with #VoiceOver, is it possible to share an image attached to a post with another app? When I use the "view media" rotor action, and then triple-tap on what VoiceOver claims is the image, I get sharing options related to the alt text, or detected text, or something, but not the image itself. In the end I had to take a screenshot of the image and use that instead.
@pitermach That's what I did. It just gives me a menu relating to text. When I press "Share", and then choose e.g. "Save to Files", it wants to create a text file. @MonaApp
@jscholes@MonaApp Hm, I can get it to work here both on media with and without alt text. I do see the option to copy the alt text but also things like share image, save, copy image link and so on
If you are #blind and you have been locked out of being able to use your InstantPot after the inaccessible app update, please email support@instantpot.com and refer to Case 02284154 asking that they restore #VoiceOver#accessibility to their #iOS app.
I just realized that if you're formatting to an abbreviated weekday then VoiceOver (at least Ava and Zoe Premium) will only fully pronounce some of the days.
I guess it's because the ones that aren't pronounced are actual words with other meanings? 🤔
Text(oneShowDay.formatted(.dateTime.weekday(.abbreviated)))
@ryanlintott I flip flop on that because sun.max is classified as "Weather" in the SF Symbols app and all of the other weather symbols have weather appropriate VO descriptions. But it does need to mean brightness higher in some scenarios.
I've just pushed a bunch of #accessibility changes for screen readers to the main branch of FediThready. ( It makes long texts into post sized chunks)
I've run through it with #VoiceOver and it seems ok. HOWEVER it all feels like it's "usable" instead of "good".
If there's a #a11y geek out there who uses screen readers regularly I would REALLY appreciate some suggestions on how to make this actually feel good for folks who rely on screen readers.
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It's June 10, 2024, at 4:00 PM Central US time. Almost every blind person that owns an iPhone has installed the iOS 18 beta. Some are playing retro games with the new, AI driven screen recognition. Others are gladly using DecTalk as their main voice, the Enhanced Siri voices that use ML to speak using emotion and context, as their reading voice, Eloquence as their notification voice (sent to one ear to minimize distractions), and finding it amazing that VoiceOver emphasizes italic text, and emboldens bold text. Others are finding it amazing that they can navigate their whole phone using Braille screen input, searching to find things by typing a few letters, or just swiping down through everything. A few are connecting their multi-line Braille displays, and feeling app icons and images, made much more understandable through touch, using an AI filter.
The next day, when news of all these features filters down to Android users, they quickly begin hammering Google, wanting DecTalk and Eloquence on their Pixel phones, like iOS users have. But Google is silent as always, only just now having given Chromebook users high quality Google TTS voices.
Note: great liberty has been taken to imagine the coolest outcome for the vague feature announcements Apple gave for VoiceOver users. We'll see just how cool, or not, they actually are on June 10.
@pixelate@Lottie If I were to guess which voices are going to be added in the next iOS release, I bet you it is some neural voices that can run locally.
@datajake1999@pixelate@Lottie I wondered about that. I've never heard of that HumanVoice company before. Googling for it brings up an insecure webpage that doesn't appear to have anything to do with dectalk.
DEVONthink To Go 3.8.2 is here. It supports the PDF bookmarklet and no longer applies default styling to Markdown when you use your own CSS. The new version also shows fewer notifications, checks for broken file permissions, and improves VoiceOver support. #devonthinktogo#devonthink#pkm#markdown#css#voiceoverhttps://buff.ly/3yl1yyB
I noticed that with the iOS Weather app VoiceOver would say "Hourly Forecast" when you selected an hour in it but not say it again when you moved to another hour.
@bas helped me recreate this with an AccessibilityChildBehavior of "contain" and an accessibility label.
Now it says my label when I touch an hour in the Hourly Forecast or day in the Nearby Days.
The year is 2049. All software has contributions from Chris Wu. Yes, somehow even the closed source tools. Every repository tool and service now includes a "Chris Wu approval" step for PR approval. No one questions this. No one remembers a time before the Wu ascension.
with #VoiceOver on a mac, after I press VO+Up to get out of the group I'm in, is there a way to quickly get back to the where I was inside that group? VO+Down takes me to the first item in the group.
If you were wondering whether the new #Sonos app is as bad with #VoiceOver as people said, I can confirm that it is.
The first element that receives focus has no #accessible role or name, i.e. VoiceOver doesn't announce anything for it. The screen is split up into sections, like "Recently Played", "Your Services", and "Sonos Favourites", but none of these have headings. And, as previously noted, explore by touch doesn't work; VO seems to just see that blank element I mentioned as being stretched across the entire screen.
As a result of all this, the "Search" button requires 32 swipes from the top of the screen to reach, at least with my setup. If you have more services and/or more favourites, that number of swipes will be higher. #accessibility
@jscholes That, and on my iPhone with system language set to German, the UI does show up in German but is spoken by VO using an English voice, probably because the localization settings are not correctly configured and so all the German strings are marked up as being in English. This truly is a huge #accessibility#fail.
Actors: If you’re an American or have American friends/colleagues and family, encourage them (and I encourage you) to contact your representative and both your senators and tell them your needs in regards to the No Fakes Act: https://www.congress.gov/event/118th-congress/senate-event/335702