suggest to add screen curtain to activities

By Claus, 21 January, 2025

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iOS and iPadOS

I have suggested this to accessibility see my post in the bottom of this mail, and got the expected answer we have sent your suggestion ttto the relevant department. Even though it is simple to add my guess is that unless more people ask for this feature we will never see it.
The idea is basic I want a way to set the sdcreen curtain on or off in specific apps. Most of us has apps where other people has to see or scan the screen for a picture or a qr code or other dcode. This means that in these apps we need to remember to turn off the screen curtain. This can easily be automated, but currently there is no way to do this. The obvious way to do it would be to add screen curtain control to the list of options in activities, ios settings, accessibility, voiceover, activities. With this added to the list of things that can be changed with an activity rule we could create whatever activities we need for the relevant apps.

The caseID i received is:
Case-ID: 11132892

The following is the answer and my original mail.

Hello Claus,

Thank you for your email. We appreciate you taking the time to bring this to our attention and have passed this information along to the appropriate team for consideration.
Sincerely,
Apple Accessibility

For more information on Accessibility at Apple, please visit:
http://www.apple.com/accessibility
http://www.apple.com/support/accessibility
Please include the line below in follow-up emails for this request.
On Jan 08, 2025, at 3:13 AM, Claus Thøgersen <c.thoeg@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,

Usually I run voiceover with the screen curtain on, unless I am doing videos, or using a few specific apps where the screen needs to be visible. Having a few of these apps where I know that I always want the screen curtain to be turned off, made me look through the options in activities. Unfortunately screen curtain is not there so cannot be used to make an activity that turns the screen curtain off when a specific app is opened.
I am sure most other voiceover users are facing the same situation, so adding the screen curtain to the list of options in activities most likely would help many blind users.

Regards

Claus Thøgersen

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By Ayub Abraham Flores on Wednesday, January 22, 2025 - 06:57

I also have requested more VoiceOver and the thing is they don't really implement them. Maybe call them and see if they'll add that feature.