Yes. They made the Australian voice higher and the American lower! Both bad in my opinion!
Sent from my iPhone On Sep 22, 2012, at 10:42 AM, "Cheree Heppe" <che...@dogsc4me.com> wrote: > Cheree Heppe here: > > This morning, September 22, I updated the I O S of my I-devices from 5.xxx to > I O S 6. I used wifi. > > At the end of the update process, the prompt instructed me to type in my > ICloud password. When I attempted to do this, neither of the IOS devices' > screens would respond to taps to engage the shift or numbers/symbols levels. > This meant that I had to skip this process. > > I phoned Apple. Their service offers an automated, interactive tool which I > attempted to use. Things went well until the auto-service wanted my serial > number. It placed me in wait mode while I looked up my serial number. > Unfortunately, the wait mode employed music to keep the line active. The > music masked out VoiceOver prompts. The assumption in wait mode seemed to > exclude auditory feedback as a mode to acquire and transfer info. The > designers didn't think that a VoiceOver user would have to hear spoken > prompts over the music. > > A solution could involve a choice at the point where the wait screen came on > saying something like selecting whether to hear the music or a soft, > intermittent tone. The tone would keep the line active and would not > significantly block VoiceOver feedback while a VoiceOver user searched the > device for data or info. > > I asked for an agent and got a woman who could not get her head around the > Voice Over connection at first. Apparently, apple is still training their > people to think in separate but equal mode, where VoiceOver becomes the > province of a specialized cadre who only deal with this ever so special > application. Sounds a lot like JAWS and Freedom Scientific's way of handling > things, doesn't it? I, for one, have walked in greener pastures and don't > want that non-productive, isolating thinking circulating in an Apple mindset > or tech environment. > > I got escalated to what the woman called a senior person. He didn't get > disability access well. He kept saying that the odd, high-pitched tone the > VoiceOver voice now uses when the screen locks is so that blind people who > are totally blind can understand that the screen is locked. When I cleared > it up by explaining that I am totally blind and don't need to have > incompetence flouted as accessibility in the name of me being blind, he then > said that the voice went into this high-pitched, exaggerated tonal mode for > the lock screen notification because some blind people put their screens on > vibrate and this signals them. I said that when the screen is on vibrate, > the voice doesn't signal. > > I think he wasn't as senior as he claimed. But he did know enough to show me > how to check the Settings/ICloud area. It seems that my problem is fixed > somehow re ICloud enrollment or upgrade, or whatever. > > Have any others experienced this dramatically different lock screen tone > change when the screens of the I-devices lock? I'm using the Karen voice, I > think that's her designation. > > > Regards, > Cheree Heppe > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
