I think it helps if we distinguish between turning Voiceover off (e.g. with
the three taps on the Home key), and turning speech off (three-finger double
tap).
If you have Voiceover on and do the three-finger double tap you will lose
speech but Voiceover is still on, meaning that, for example, you still need
to use voiceover gestures to control what's happening on the screen, and not
the conventional "sighted" touch-screen actions.
This is also why you can still turn the screen curtain on (using
three-finger triple tap) since the screen curtain is a voiceover function.
If you do this by accident (and I'm not sure why anyone would want to turn
screen curtain on deliberately when speech is off) it can obviously be very
confusing as you now have neither spoken nor visual feedback.
In fact it seems to me it might make sense if Apple would amend Voiceover to
preclude the combination of Speech Off and Screen Curtain on, or at least
make the two gestures less easily confused.
Terry
-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
CJ &AA MAY
Sent: 01 May 2015 11:06
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Subject: [access-uk] Re: screen curtain
When I first got my Iphone, I accidentally turned voice-over off and in my
attempts to recover it, also enabled the screen curtain. I was convinced the
Iphone was broken and re-set it - only then did I realise what I'd done!
Alison
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Janet Bell
Sent: 01 May 2015 09:01
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Subject: [access-uk] screen curtain
Thanks to both Martin and john. Yes it was the screen curtain.
Janet
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