The Accessibility Bugs in iOS 10 for Blind and Low Vision Users, From Serious To Minor

Hi folks. Had some initial teething problems when upgrading to IOS10 however, simply forgetting and re-pairing the keyboard seems to have eliminated the vast majority of these. the only 1 now that seems to remain is the inability to navigate by word when using control+left or right arrows. Is this particular to the Logitech Keys-to-go keyboard, in which case, maybe I'm better off talking to them, or is it something that other people with other keyboards are experiencing? I did email accessibility@apple.com last night as this bug is not just particular to 3rd party apps but also occurs in the iMessaging and mail apps native to the iPhone. I'd be interested to know if anyone else has this problem and what devices/keyboards other people are using if they are not experiencing this. Thanks.

Is anyone experiencing a bug with the alarm where you're not able to use snooze when your phone is not locked when the alarm goes off? There are no alarm options when it goes off and as soon as I try to swipe or tap anything the alarm shuts off.

the thing is that i'm not using contracted braille, I use 6 dots braille and I type each letter individually. I don't really know how this is called because i'm relatively new in tthe field of writing braille on phones or computers, the only thing I used until recently was an old giant of a type writer. anyways, the question mark works as expected when I switch to romanian now. I reported to apple that when I'm using the romanian keyboard dots 2 3 and 6 still imput a question mark because those dots make only the opening quote sign in romanian. I hope they'll fix it in the next update.

I have a very large music collection and use an iPhone 6S. Here is how navigation by heading, i.e., letter by letter works for me.

After selecting artists, I locate the table index and then begin flicking upward. This increases the alphabet by one letter. Then, if flicking downward, it decreases the alphabet letters. I then toggled back to playlists and then reactivated the artist selection and had the same result. My library is 125 pages and I didn't have any navigation problems.

HTH

I think this may actually be an iOS bug, but not sure. In your library tab, when you click on downloads, then songs, the library is still sorted by artist. Anyone else noticed this?

I sorted by music downloads, and then songs. I see that the sort does sort by artist but it lists the individual songs by the artist, as well. This looks to be normal to me.

I have no option on my keyboard. I have function, control, alt and command to the left of the space bar. Either way, I've just tried the alt key and that seems to do the trick. :-)

I've found a bug that if you type a four digit number such as 2084 instead of reading as twenty eighty four, it reads as two zero eight four.

Just to let you know Kerry, the Alt key and the Option key are the same thing. Some keyboards say Alt and some say Option, but from a software point of view they are literally the same thing.on Alt is Option

One I have replicated throughout the beta builds and public release of iOS 10 on two separate iPhone 6 and an iPhone 5 is Braille Screen Input closing when typing # while sharing to Twitter from apps like News, Safari, and other apps.

Another bug I have replicated on the same three devices is when sharing from News and you are in the article, the linked article is the previous article in your list and not the actual article you are reading. The workaround is to share the article from the main News screen or other screen with the aggregated list of articles.

Seems with all of these posts and even the ones I've discovered on my own iOS10 seems pretty buggy as far as accessibility goes. Or is it just me?

I'm having no problems here. The reason it always seems so incredibly buggy on Applevis is that everyone literally uses their iPhones in different ways, with different languages, with different apps in different ways. This is why reading things about the latest iOS can be both a bit of a blessing and a curse. The blessing is that you read about how everyone uses their iPhones, which is really sort of cool. The curse is that a new user reads about all these bugs, and it can get rather unsettling if you're not used to using iOS. Either way I can't think of a single thing i'm having trouble with.

I'm also experiencing the issue of not having enhanced quality siri voices in VoiceOver. Has anyone found a work around for this? Very annoying...thinking about completely erasing my phone and starting with a clean install to try to fix this, but I'd rather not do that if possible...
Thanks,
Rocco

I downloaded it this evening. I did have some reservations, but, after an evenings use, really it isn't all that bad. Quite good, for a .0 release actually. The one thing I have noticed is that the reachability sound is no longer present on the home screen or whilst your on a page of the home screen, but does happen if your inside an app. This is obviously intentional, so just wondered had anyone else noticed this.

I am having issues when on the locked screen, my phone does not vibrate on siolent. However, when I turn Voiceover off, it works. I find this to be very strange. It does work when not on the locked screen though. I remember having this issue at the beginning of iOS9.

Encountered a pretty serious one here, whereby searching for apps in the app store is now completely inaccessible. Can't clear text, can't get at the search results and can't dictate a search either. A good old British phrase for this circumstance is bugger. Will be writing to accessibility tomorrow.

Did eventually get this working again, by opening and closing the app store several times. Something is definitely amiss with app store search. However, searching using dictation in the app store does appear to be completely broken at the moment, can't get it functioning correctly at all.

Yes, the vibrate issue is still hit or miss, and I'm also noticing the appstore search issue as well. Other than that, love the update and I will be sending the most common bugs mentioned on here to apple as well.

Hello all!!! I found a way that dictation will work in the App Store the first thing that I did was refresh the App Store by double tapping nine times on any of the bottom tabs such as featured or search or updates you will know when the App Store is refreshed it will make a little sound then I double tapped on the search tab and then I double tapped on the search bar and I put one space using the onscreen keyboard and then use dictation to dictate my query and it worked I hope this helps!!!

Further to my comments regarding app store search, and thank you for the work around, it also appears that BSI is flaky when using it in the app store. This was a bug in ios8, and the difficulty with searching was again prevalent in prior releases. There's also a strange pop-up that you have to dismiss before being able to access the search results, which is a change, but perhaps is some kind of visual modification to the design.

Searching in the podcasts app does seem completely impossible currently. Attempted BSI, dictation and regular typing with no success. Very buggy. Not good.

Thank you so much and you're very welcome I'm glad that that workaround helps!!! Hopefully it will be fixed in the next release!!!

I cannot search for apps in the App Store at all, either by dictation or with the on screen keyboard. I also often struggle with searching in the contacts app for a contact and in other search Fields

In the Podcasts app when I want to dismiss the many player, I have to swipe right over the whole status bar. Before the update, the dismiss mini player option was the first option on the left.

Yes it does sort by artist, just as it does with the artisst button. By song is supposed to sort alphabetically by song title.

I don't think this is a Voiceover bug, but I can't find the autolock settings. Before, it used to be under settings, general, autolock. Anybody know where it is in iOS10? Thanks.

Hello! Autolock is now under display and brightness

I'm quite happy to have my iPhone on 9.0.2 jailbroken while my much less used iPod remains on the current iOS10 brance. Just so many many bugs that come up from everybody its insanety at its finest.

Thanks for that answer. In retrospect, it makes lots of sense. Although, I did do a search for it in settings and it didn't come up.

When playing live stream, such as ESPN radio in the music app, or a football game of some type on tuneIn audio ducking will work for a short time, but the moment another sound such as a notification or voiceOver feedback sounds is played audio ducking no longer works and I can barely hear the Alex voice over the live feed playing. Tried this on two separate 6+ devices one 64gb and the other 128.
Anyone else experience this?

Audio ducking has had a bug for several iOS versions. For instance, even when you have it turned on and not in your roter, so you really shouldn't be able to turn audio ducking off, when you unlock your phone, more often than not the first time you flick up or down, it will change the status of audio ducking. Also, sometimes when audio ducking is enabled, like you said, sometimes the background sound doesn't drop out during other audio. What I find works is to let the Voiceover voice stop for a few seconds and then try to read the notification again. That usually seems to fix the problem.

I think I found another possible bug using a iPhone 6, can someone try to see if they also experience it?
1. In the Mail app compose a new email.
2. Double tap the "To" field to type in the recipients email address.
3. After entering the email address, double tap on another field like subject or the mail body to type in that field.
4. Now go back to the "To" field and double tap on it to edit the recipients email address as if you initially made a mistake when typing it.
5. Turn your roter to navigate by caricters and try to navigate through the email address which you typed earlier.
6. When flicking up and down to navigate the email address by caricter, my Voiceover doesn't speak the caricters like its suppose to, so its basically impossible to hear where you are and impossible to edit the address. The only way is to completely delete and type it again.

Yes, this seems to be a bug. Don't honestly know if It's exclusive to ios10, because I've not needed to do precisely those steps before, but regardless, VO doesn't announce the characters as it should.

I let Apple Accessibility know of this hiccup today.

I use an iPhone 6S Plus running iOS 10. I use VoiceOver 100% of the time and wear EarPods and control my iPhone with a BlueTooth Logitech Keys-To-go keyboard

I have the timer set up to only vibrate when it goes off. However, when the timer does go off, all sound is routed through the phone speakers rather than the EarPods which are plugged in. I have tried this with both the mute switch on and off.

I would hope that VoiceOver output would continue to go through the headphone jack if in use.

If someone is listening to something private and then the timer goes off, all talking is then out loud. And, to turn off the timer, VoiceOver is talking out loud while you are trying to clear the timer and not through the EarPods.

I just discovered a work around. When the timer goes off and VoiceOver begins to talk through your phone speakers even when you have headphones plugged in, just press the Volume Down button on the side of your phone. Sound then goes back through the attached EarPods. Phew! Perhaps this is not a fix, but it is a good work-around.

I've emailed Apple Accessibility on this.

When I first used the iPhone 6S after downloading IOS 10, the screen lock announcement, for the love of god was gone.

However, when I changed the Raise to Wake setting to off, the screen lock announcement came back.

Despite changing the, Raise to Wake, setting to on again, Voice Over still announces the screen lock.

The only other change I did was to the Home button setting, to change the fingerprint to unlock the phone, which doesn't work at this time

When I get message from braking or message I heard the toe but voiceover does not read it. It just says notification.

I just got this note from Apple Accessibillity, but haven't tried it yet. Remember I and a few others have posted there was a bug in reading the body of a message in mail, where you'd have 5 lines of text shown but Voiceover would not read them?

Hello again,
After reporting this I have come to learn that the behavior was changed in IOS 10. Now you three finger tap to hear the email preview.

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