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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Aug 20, 2016 5:01PM

Voiceover has always done that, as far as I can remember. It treats
each element as a swipe stop, sometimes special characters as well.
You see a little bit of the same in Jaws where if you have a <div>
element in a heading it is read on a separate line when navigating by
arrow keys, but when you move to the heading using the h key it reads
the whole heading.
This seems to be how the screen reader vendors think users prefer to
browse. I guess if we think different we need to file a bug.
I kind of agree with you with he Voiceover thing, so I would
support/comment on a ticket (if public).


On 8/20/16, Jamous, JP < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Does anyone know why in the world VoiceOver on iPhone reads HTML in a goofy
> way? Here is what I mean.
>
> <h1>
> Welcome to Jepelsy &reg;
> </h1>
>
> If I swipe left to right or right to left. VoiceOver selects the text in the
> H1 and reads it without the registered sign. I have to swipe again for it to
> select and read the registered sign.
>
> The same occurs with text that is bolded in a paragraph, a span in a
> paragraph, etc.
>
> In other words, whenever it notices any HTML markup in a parent, it
> separates it as a different swipe, which makes the user think it is a word
> on a separate line. In reality, it is breaking the structural layout of the
> paragraph or heading.
>
> It is really quite annoying because it leads to excessive swiping for no
> reason.
>
> I got a hold of Apple about it and they sent me to their Safari ticket
> dashboard. I did not notice anything related to my issue. They asked me to
> file a bug there.
>
> Does anyone know why it does this by default? I have an iPhone 5 running
> 9.3.4 It even does it on my iPhone 6 and 6S.
>
>
>
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> Jean-Pierre Jamous
> Digital Accessibility Specialist & Developer
> UI Accessibility Team
>
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