RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<p>Loving being in the <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/iPadOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>iPadOS</span></a> beta program for <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/iPad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>iPad</span></a> Pro. It lets me properly report <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/accessibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>accessibility</span></a> bugs through <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Feedback" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Feedback</span></a> when it will actually light a fire under the developers' rear end! Like this windowing problem I've had to deal with for a half-dozen releases. I use Speak Screen constantly…</p><p><strong>Speak Screen gesture preferentially reads an Appl App window instead of foreground window.</strong></p><blockquote><p>I am currently using Windowed Apps mode, but this behavior happens in stage manager. In the past, I've seen it in split screen and slide-over, but have not tested that in the beta.</p><ul><li>First, load a number of Apple App. I suggest Notes and Books.</li><li>Add a 3rd party app with text you'd like read. I use Scrivener. Leave it in the foreground</li><li><p>Swipe down with two fingers to activate Accessibility Speak Screen.</p><blockquote><p>The text read will be one of the Apple app windows that IS NOT in the foreground.</p></blockquote></li><li><p>To ensure a clean test, tap the controller ... button and tap Stop and Hide. It isn't necessary to display the defect. It happens if you press Pause or if you follow the next step below while it Speak Screen continues reading.</p></li><li><p>Tap an Apple app that IS NOT being read to display it as the foreground window, then use the gesture.</p><blockquote><p>Speak screen will persist in reading the window it originally started reading, not the new foreground window.</p></blockquote></li></ul></blockquote><p>-</p><blockquote><p>It doesn't matter which apps are opened first; the Apple apps always get read first regardless of what is in the foreground.</p><p>To read the desired app, all other Apple apps need be closed first.</p><p>The foreground windows should ALWAYS be read by this gesture, and if can't, Speak Screen should say "No readable content was found." Any other result for people with low accuity vision is confusing. Not being able to tap a window to the foreground and have it be read makes this accessibility feature useless for its target audience, as does the concept of windowing itself.</p><p>I use this feature constantly.</p></blockquote><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writersOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writingCommunity</span></a></p>