I was talking to a friend Stephen Giggar some of you might remember him from the talks days. He said you might be able to customize what voice over does and doesn't speak. I'm posting this example to show what can be done with the Voiceover dictionary.
On the Status bar it says cellular 3 of 3 bars signal strength I wanted to change this so I did this:
Put in in the phrase box
of 4 bars signal strength
Replacement bars
now when swiping across the status bar it says cellular 2 bars.
I also didn’t want Status bar item spoken so I did this
In the first box I put
Status bar item
Replacement just put in a space.
Comments
Concern about this approach
This is a good approach, but the only concern would be when you are reading an article or anything else with these fragments it might sound broken. Maybe not with these specific examples above but if people start commenting out more things.
additional testing
Note you have to set it from all apps to home screen. Also the bars should have a comma after it.
exact steps for dictionary entries
Note turn off all apps set it to home screen for all of them
1 go to settings double tap.
2 accessibility double tap.
3 go to voice over on double tap.
4 speech double tap.
5 pronunciations double tap.
6 tap add or add new not sure what it says.
Then follow the instructions below
On the Status bar it says cellular 4 of 4 bars signal strength I wanted to change this so I did this:
Put in in the phrase box
of 4 bars, signal strength
Substitution
Bars
I also didn’t want Status bar item spoken so I did this
In the phrase box I put
Status bar item
substitution just put in a space.
Not charging substitute put a space.
Battery power
Substitution battery
Now when swiping my status bar reads like this.
Visible
Swipe right.
Cellular 3 bars
Swipe right again
LTE
Swipe right again
74% battery