Voiceover announces automatically value change

By JP, 30 May, 2020

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iOS and iPadOS

Hi all,
I have an App for the iGrill thermometers by Weber.
When the temperature changes by one degree, Voiceover announces the new value automatically.
I have another App for a pressure sensor, but on this one Voiceover doesn't do that.
My understanding is that this auto speak has to be supported in the App.
I talked to the developer and they told me that they don't have plans to change it.
Does anyone know if there is a workaround it, other than changing the App?
Is there some trick or another App that would run in the background and make this work somehow?
Thanks
John

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By peter on Tuesday, May 26, 2020 - 03:39

Did you try putting focus on the number that is changing? I thought that VoiceOver would read new text that is displayed wherever it has focus. If the item does not have focus then I am not surprised that VO wouldn't speak the change unless the developer did something specific to speak the change.

--Pete

When I move my finger to a new element on the screen, the focus doesn't seem to change, I can read the value by touch, but a value change is not detected by VO.
From what I read, focus change has to be enabled by the developer.

By DK6 on Friday, June 26, 2020 - 03:39

Have you tried the Watch Item command?

As far as I know, this is not assigned to a gesture, so I have assigned it to a two-finger quadruple tap myself.

When I want to monitor an element, I just focus on it and do a four-finger quadruple tap. VO then announces every change to the element.

You can check it out by going to settings / accessibility / Voice-over / commands.

HTH

Regards

DK6