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So I don't know just how widespread this issue is, but I read on a mailing list that in the new iOS 16.3, there's a Braille bug where if you open the notification center, with Space with dots 4-6, your Braille display disconnects from the phone. I can't tell you how insulting this bug is. Opening the notification center is something a person does on their phone tons of times per day. Any kind of quality control could have caught this bug. And yet, here we are. And it makes me so glad that, whether Google has a blind person sitting there testing every build or not, that TalkBack's new Braille support is pretty damn solid. No, it doesn't have the turn pages while panning, or automatic panning, or showing equations in Nemeth code, or even Grade 2 US/UK Braille, although it does have Unified Grade 1 and 2 Braille. But shoot at least it doesn't have iOS-level slap-in-the-face bugs.

#iOS #accessibility #blind #Android #iPhone #a11y
oh i know beta testers who've reported many many bugs to apple, so far none have been fixed and more have been slipping through the net.

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I can't say that in my beta testing of 16.3, I saw this issue with two displays. If the issue exists, then it's limited to particular displays. Android has its issues too. Some significant ones.
@ppatel It's definitely on the Applevis list. https://www.applevis.com/bugs/ios/when-invoking-notification-center-any-connected-braille-display-will-become-disconnected
I'm sure it is. But it's not accurate based on my testing. *Any* display is an exxageration.
@ppatel Which display do you have?
I just added a comment to the report on Applevis.
I'll grant you, iOS' long-term braille issues are problematic.
It's actually worse at least for me. Any time I lock my screen my braille note touch plus won't reconnect, I have to reconnect it manually.

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