What new accessibility features would you like to see in iOS 7?

Hello. Thanks for asking us what we want out of IOS seven.First and foremost, increase responsiveness in edit fields of voiceover especially in slightly older devices, i.e. iPhone4A speciffic experience withthis, is texting. When entering the person's name from one's contacts, we are very slow to hear the name such as Jen, John BJ. Even after that is selected, the responsiveness is very slow when texting in the message itself. However upon receipt of a response, the voice issomewhat faster. It's the initial contact which is frustratingly slow.

I would like to be able to independently adjust the volume of VO and iOS alerts.

Why is everyone so concerned with a better voice? Is that much better then a real constructive comment? I'm not trying to be rude or harsh here, but I haven't seen anything besides one other comment about adjusting the volume of the alerts and the Voiceover. Nice idea. Is it really necessary to worry about deleting languages, and putting on better voices with accents? I just don't understand is all.

When I get a notification on the lock screen, like for a text message, I would like for VO not to read the time when the screen turns on.

When I get a notification on the lock screen, like for a text message, I would like for VO not to read the time when the screen turns on.

This has also been mentioned earlier here on the forum, but I think to have an option to always stop VoiceOver from speaking during phone calls would be a great feature. And then you could just do a double tap with three fingers to turn it back on if you need it for inputing numbers or another reason. I always get frustrated of all the VoiceOver speaking in the space between when I take the phone from my ear and until I've managed to double tap to end the call. And by the way, there seems to be a bug now that causes the VoiceOver volume to explode just before the call ends. It's also very annoying when you get a long text message while in a phone call, and VoiceOver starts reading up the whole thing. And you would have to tell the person you are talking to to wait for a moment, while you're trying to get the thing to shut up... Hate it when that happens...

Go to VO settings and activate announcing of the lock screen notifications.

Hello. I guess I understood what feature you're talking about. You'd like to change the default input keyboard. For example: you got both fleksy and BrailleTouch apps and want to have the ability to switch between the default input keyboard. Yes, it's an amazing feature. I was able to switch between 2 different input keyboards on an android phone.

I hear you. I'd rather have long standing bugs like the non-preservation of VO volume when toggling off and on, or the random total reset of VO settings after a reset squashed, than new voices or the ability to remove languages. The separation of sounds and VO is a great idea. Don't get me wrong, more TTS options would be nice, but it wouldn't make my short list of desired improvements.

First, the abillity to download other premium voices would be great, as sound is very important to some, to the point of effecting emotions and stress level. Being able to delete voices would potentially increase the amount of storage available on the phone. Even the few MB a voice takes up could make the difference between getting that app you want and having to delete something first. Finally, I would like to see Voice Over stop interfeering with other audio. For example, the bookShare app and other skip when using VO. Also, the latest updates have caused a bug where vVO will stops and the phone be semi-frozen at random.

I agree with the earlier comment about VO being extremely slow when composing a new message (to someone you don't have an existing conversation with); that's a major pain. Other than that, I'd love to have gesture-based controls for skipping tracks (forward and backward). When I'm listening to music in the car with my wife, it'd be nice to turn speech off and just skip an unwanted song with gestures, so that VO wouldn't keep dimming the audio.

The best way to make sure one's suggestions are heard is to contact Apple Accessibility at Accessibility@apple.com.

This has been happening a lot with me especially while typing using the on-screen keyboard, VO's curser jumps from top to bottom which causes spelling errors most of the time

This is coming from a fairly new iOS user, so I'm sorry if a few of these things are already possible and I'm just not aware of it. The addition of new voices would be nice, but that's not at the top of my list. I'd love for some sort of vibration feedback when the phone shuts down or starts up. When I first got my phone, I got into a situation where VO's volume somehow got turned down the whole way. My first thought was to reboot the phone, but I got to the point where I didn't know if the phone was on or off. It may not be a big deal for those who are used to the iPhone, but for a person who'd only had the phone less than 24 hours, it was intimidating. The option to disable VO during a call would be helpful! For some reason, VO's volume seems to double when in a call, and so when I get a notification, VO is practically yelling its contents, to the point where I have to ask the other person to hold on for a second.

Hi everyone. This topic really seems to be quite popular, and in the end it will be great to find out what is finally released. I do however, have one question. What does the original poster of this discussion want out of the accessibility? As it is, they are submitting our "feedback" to Apple, so i was curious. Are they in the we want voices camp, or are they trying to facilitate a truly better bug lessening release then in past updates? We all will have bugs, that's simply par for the course. I'm simply curious what this person wants, and curiously why they are doing this.

You can't do a triple click to turn VoiceOver off while holding the phone to your ear. You would have to take the phone away from your ear first, then wait for it to go on speaker mode, then triple click and put the phone up to your ear again. After you've hung up, which by the way could be a real pain to do with VoiceOver turned off, you would then have to triple click the home button again to turn VoiceOver back on. If I ought to do that every time I'm on the phone, it would probably turn me crazy after an hour, and after three hours I would be ready for a mental institution. And if you don't do it in the beginning of every phone call after first having to ask the guy on the other end to wait for a second, you could be damn sure that somebody decides to send you a message during that phone call that is longer than one of the books of the Pentateuch that VoiceOver so kindly wants to read out to you before you finally get it to stop talking again... So you see, if you had an option that would let you set voice to be muted in every phone calls as a standard setting, you wouldn't have to deal with all this, and you would probably don't have to read this far too long comment either ;) Just my experience with this issue...

Important: Switching from the phone's speaker to the loud speaker is a VoiceOver function, not an iPhone feature. If you turnd VoiceOver off, you'll have to tap on the speaker button to switch between handset and speaker. Those who are facing any issues when having a phone call can easily triple click the home button while the device is on speaker mode to talk comfortably. If you'd like to use VoiceOver during the conversation the best option is to use headset to easily operate the device.

For me, the top priority is for us to have more voices in IOS. This is because of my hearing impairment if we could have espeak or elquance I would be such a happy bunny! Also to have these on the Mac would be wonderful too! Finally if Apple can get the heading bug fixed in Safari in IOS7 then that would be an extra bonus because at the moment since purchaseing my Iphone in December of last year I am perfectly happy with the way the phone works wit the exception of Voiceover jumping here there and everywhere in Safari! Apart from the fact that it drives me mad! It also stops say the new comers to IOS having a good web browsing experience. I could go on but these are the items I would choose for the next addition of the IOS opparating system.

Hi J. Unfortunately if you have voice over speaking when the mute switch is flipped, wouldn't that defeat the purpose of the silent mode? I mean you feel it vibrate if you have it on, youhit the home button, swipe and hear Voice over speak John Mobile. I'm really hoping that Apple finally nixes support for the iPhone 3GS I'm glad I had one. The other person I forget who this was, wanted Espeak, and Eloquence for voices. I had thought when someone had requested new synthesizers, that there was no way to incorporate those voices. for one I don't think Eloquence is available anymore and two, I don't think there is an Apple version. but as stated before, I am not on the more voices bandwagon at all. I am enjoying however the bugs that I and others with to fix. Though I haven't had all of them, I am still thriled others see this is better then just a glorofied way to get other frills instead of an innovative, stable, functional release.

I also notice that. as well. I believe I forwarded that bug to apple when ios 6 was released. so we'll see what happens.

I second others opinion here, vo volume in a call is too low... and also we should have the possibility to turn off vo speaking during a call...

You can do that already. Just tripple tap with two fingers to bring up the item chooser and you're good to go! ;)

didn't realize it contains a search box. i thought it was the same "item chooser" on the mac, which i never used anyway.

Happy to help out!

Hi. I'm aware of your wishes to submit a ton of suggestions at once to Apple, however you must've been unclear in my attempt to communicate what I was asking. I simply requested, your, imput, as in, what do you want out of this? As with others some things i think would be an asset to Apple's accessibility team, others I shrug off. I was merely curious why you'd put together such an indever when as far as i understood, we had not known your own views. After all, you are the one whom is going to submit these suggestions, correct?