It’s remarkable how every single design change Apple makes makes it harder for disabled people to use. This is ridiculous like all else they appear to have updated, and then they have the audacity to claim that they care about their disabled customers with their “accessibility“ features.
This has not been my disabled wife's experience. If there's something that's changed that's negatively impacting your usability, tell Apple!
I posted above and so far the only redundant gesture impacts zoom which is the three finger double tap. It’s also now easier to three finger triple tap by accident and turn on screen curtain.
Three finger swipe is also a feature in voice over but doesn’t seem to impact where it is implemented in iOS 13 with undo/redo.
Please share if there is another feature you find that is redundant. .
I’ll never use 3 fingers on an iPhone... never. Do the developers have child sized hands?
I tried this in an email on my iPad. It’s more trouble than it’s worth. Maybe 1% of users will bother, it’s not intuitive at all. If you need to edit more than a paragraph, buy a MacBook.
It’s remarkable how every single design change Apple makes makes it harder for disabled people to use. This is ridiculous like all else they appear to have updated, and then they have the audacity to claim that they care about their disabled customers with their “accessibility“ features.
This has not been my disabled wife's experience. If there's something that's changed that's negatively impacting your usability, tell Apple!
Clearly it depends on the disability but for those who cannot use their hands/have motor issues alongside other disabilities not that Those are as relevant for this post, it Takes it from difficult to physically impossible. As for telling Apple, I have repeatedly alongside countless fellow disabled souls (I run in intractable pain support site), who have told Apple how profoundly limited their accessibility features are/how difficult they are making it forcing my need to switch from Apple altogether. It does nothing as they really don’t care about this minority. Wishing you well.
The new cursor movement/placement is terrible. However, as someone helpfully pointed out in a previous thread, one can use finger movements on the spacebar as a partial solution.
It’s remarkable how every single design change Apple makes makes it harder for disabled people to use. This is ridiculous like all else they appear to have updated, and then they have the audacity to claim that they care about their disabled customers with their “accessibility“ features.
This has not been my disabled wife's experience. If there's something that's changed that's negatively impacting your usability, tell Apple!
Clearly it depends on the disability but for those who cannot use their hands/have motor issues alongside other disabilities not that Those are as relevant for this post, it Takes it from difficult to physically impossible. As for telling Apple, I have repeatedly alongside countless fellow disabled souls (I run in intractable pain support site), who have told Apple how profoundly limited their accessibility features are/how difficult they are making it forcing my need to switch from Apple altogether. It does nothing as they really don’t care about this minority. Wishing you well.
Apple is far and away the best company for people with accessibility needs. Even if you can’t touch your device you can completely control it with your voice with Voice Control. If you have extremely limited mobility there are numerous switches that can be utilized with switch control. I happen to be a big proponent and fan of the work Apple does with accessibility.
I’m not making light of any challenges you or yours might have with interacting with iPhone, iPad and Mac. I’m just pointing out some of the many features you can use with different disabilities.
I wonder if it conflicts with Zoom accessibility feature.
I thought about this and it shouldn’t in voice over but might in zoom.. If you have voice over on a three finger triple tap turns on screen curtain so it could happen by accident but only if VO is turned in.
Zoom is different. If you three finger double tap zoom is turned on. Maybe it is intuitive to know if you are editing text and go to cut, copy, paste if you are typing.
Edit: just checked and nope. With zoom on it will activate the accessibility feature.
Yep, I had to turn zoom off because every time I wanted to copy something, it would zoom. I probably could have trained myself out of it, but I chose to disable a feature I never use instead.
My most used feature is to select all when reading articles or writing ideas/articles myself. I am constantly copying and pasting from articles to notes or websites and select all IS a life saver. I cannot go copying paragraph after paragraph when I’m copying whole documents at once. I really hope they fix this because they have truly screwed this for me and I’m guessing people that read/copy/investigate/write as well.
This article describes a few of features which simply are not feasible for the iPhone. Tapping 2, 3, and 4 times to select a word, sentence, paragraph?? Does not work on Mail or Safari. In text app it kind of works, although it cannot seem to tell a word vs a paragraph consistently. Pinch in and out with 3 fingers?? Not possible on small iPhone. I realize you can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs. However, if the eggs are rotten, let’s stick with the great pancakes we already had with the old versions!! iOS’s competitive advantage is that it’s intuitive to the average user. iOS 13.2 Govea that advantage away.
I’m having good luck getting Select All to pop up in a menu when I first tap and place the cursor anywhere, then pause, then tap on the cursor. Is this working for you?
These completely unnecessary and unwanted, newly re-developed text selection options are total garbage.
I have just spent 40 minutes unsuccessfully trying/ tapping/ begging my screen for a simple “select all” function (it must have been useful for others in the past, as that function survived the previous 12 iterations of IOS software development for a reason).
Something that was previously so intuitive, simple, effective and easy to display within a millisecond has after at least a decade, now appears to have become “outmoded”/ vanished or at the very least, ceased to conveniently exist !
i am now having to screenshot paragraphs of text and re-write it a sentence at a time, reading it from the photos app.
Please stop over analysing software development and over intellectualising previously long established interface command structures and simply bring back the “select all” function.
If you don’t I’m switching to android in 2020, despite only ever having previous experience of using IOS since 2007.
Thanks apple for turning what was a simple 1.5 second screen gesture in every iteration of IOS (between 1 thru 12), in to a 40 minute stultifying migraine with no satisfactory resolution at the end (for no apparent reason whatsoever), in IOS 13.
Help please! I tried tapping twice, 3 and 4 times to select a word, a sentence and a paragraph, in “Notes”, on my iPad Pro (iPadOS 13.5.1) and this is what it happens when I tap:
2 times: selects a word
3 times: selects a paragraph
4 times: selects a paragraph
I can’t find a way to select a sentence. Any ideas on what might be happening?
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Do the developers have child sized hands?
I tried this in an email on my iPad. It’s more trouble than it’s worth. Maybe 1% of users will bother, it’s not intuitive at all. If you need to edit more than a paragraph, buy a MacBook.
Something that was previously so intuitive, simple, effective and easy to display within a millisecond has after at least a decade, now appears to have become “outmoded”/ vanished or at the very least, ceased to conveniently exist !
i am now having to screenshot paragraphs of text and re-write it a sentence at a time, reading it from the photos app.
Please stop over analysing software development and over intellectualising previously long established interface command structures and simply bring back the “select all” function.
If you don’t I’m switching to android in 2020, despite only ever having previous experience of using IOS since 2007.
Thanks apple for turning what was a simple 1.5 second screen gesture in every iteration of IOS (between 1 thru 12), in to a 40 minute stultifying migraine with no satisfactory resolution at the end (for no apparent reason whatsoever), in IOS 13.
I tried tapping twice, 3 and 4 times to select a word, a sentence and a paragraph, in “Notes”, on my iPad Pro (iPadOS 13.5.1) and this is what it happens when I tap:
Thanks!