Unless the feature exists already -- and has therefore hitherto
escaped my notice -- a general screen  search tool on iOS would come
in very handy.  Suppose you're in Safari and the information, e.g. a
phone number, is many lines or even screens down. Rather than
traversing everything before you get to it, you would perform a unique
gesture, e.g. a two-finger rest i.e. tap and hold in position,
followed by a thumb swipe to pull up a search dialogue box. You would
enter your search text and press enter (or perform a two-finger right
swipe on the onscreen Braille keypad) and voila, focus is positioned
at the start of your search result! Of course, you could make the
feature as fancy and elaborate as you want but its very basic function
should be searching for the next occurrence of the search string, and
positioning focus at start of said string.
What does the list think? Any comments, criticisms, any flaws in the
idea, all welcome.
I'm hoping once we've hammered out something we could all agree on we
will then present it to Apple as a feature request.
Ben

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