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From: Jamous, JP
Date: Sat, Aug 20 2016 4:50PM
Subject: VoiceOver Weird Reading of HTML
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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 ®
</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
The only limitations in life are those we set for ourselves
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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Sat, Aug 20 2016 5:01PM
Subject: Re: VoiceOver Weird Reading of HTML
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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 ADDRESS 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 ®
> </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
>
> The only limitations in life are those we set for ourselves
>
> **************************************************
>
>
> > > > >
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From: Jamous, JP
Date: Sat, Aug 20 2016 5:31PM
Subject: Re: VoiceOver Weird Reading of HTML
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Yeah it is a royal pain in the neck.
I'll definitely file a bug with them. Once I do, feel free to join me and add to my ticket. I'll send you the URL after filing the bug.
There is no reason for blind users to handle excessive swiping especially, when VoiceOver does not give any feedback if the font is bolded or has other attributes.
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Jean-Pierre Jamous
Digital Accessibility Specialist & Developer
UI Accessibility Team
The only limitations in life are those we set for ourselves
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