These are revised instructions. Thanks go to Mike B for the additions.
NOTE: TURN OFF ALL APPS and turn on HOME SCREEN FOR ALL entries
To get to the Apply to all Apps, after you double tab the, Add button, swipe
right to, Apply to all Apps button, and double tap it to turn it off.
After turning off, Apply to all Apps, swipe right to the, Apply to, heading.
Swipe right 1 time to get to the, Home Screen button and double tap it to
turn it on.
If you continue to swipe right you can turn other apps on / off if you want
Now follow the below instructions.
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
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:
1 Put in the phrase box
of 4 bars, signal strength
2 Substitution
Bars
3 turn off "apply to all apps it is set to on by default.
4 select home screen after turning "apply to all apps to off.
5 press back button.
I didn't want
Status bar item spoken so I did this
1 In the phrase box I put
Status bar item
2 substitution just put in a space.
3 turn off "apply to all apps it is set to on by default.
4 select home screen after turning "apply to all apps to off.
5 press back button.
I didn't want not charging spoken I did the following.
1 in the phrase box I put
Not charging
2 substitute put a space.
3 turn off "apply to all apps it is set to on by default.
4 select home screen after turning "apply to all apps to off.
5 press back button.
I didn't want battery power spoken I did the following.
1 in the phrase box I put the following
Battery power
2 Substitution battery
3 turn all apps from on to off.
4 select home screen.
5 press back button.
Now when swiping my status bar reads like this.
Visible
Cellular 3 bars
LTE
74% battery