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Jonathan Mosen@overcastfm Hi Marco, I know regressions are your focus right now so will stick to those, from a VoiceOver user’s perspective.
Regarding the restoration of Overcast speaking the podcast from which an episode comes while viewing a playlist, it would be a major efficiency gain if you have Overcast speak the source after the episode title, not before it. My rationale is that if a user hears enough of an episode title to know they don’t want to hear it, they can immediately perform an action and the source is irrelevant. If the title intrigues them then we want to know who produced it. Some podcast names are long, so this would save VoiceOver users considerable time, especially those of us with a large number of podcasts.
Second, when in a playlist, it now takes two swipes to engage with each episode, whereas in the previous Overcast it only took one. The Info button used to be part of the VoiceOver Actions Rotor, but now it’s a separate button a VO user is required to swipe through. If the Info button can be added back to the Actions Rotor and removed from the swipe order, this would be another efficiency gain. There’s a similar issue when editing a playlist, except in that case it pertains to the Reorder button. I would think there could be Move Up and Move Down options added to the Actions Rotor so once again there’d only be one swipe per episode.
Third, I think via a VoiceOver hint, the old Overcast used to speak the show notes of an episode after a short pause. This was brilliant! The new version doesn’t do this, so it’s necessary to invoke the Info button to get that info. This is quite an efficiency hit.
And finally, if you have gone into the Info screen to get those notes and then returned to the previous screen, focus doesn’t seem to return to the last episode you were on.
I won’t revisit the issues with focus when you choose to play an episode since you’re already aware of them.
Thanks. I know these things vary but for me, this build is definitely a lot more performant with VO running.
And I appreciate that Delete option being at the bottom of the Actions Rotor, I hope that remains as it makes deleting episodes in a playlist more efficient. It’s also consistent with the way Apple handles deleting Mail in the Mail app.
Regarding the restoration of Overcast speaking the podcast from which an episode comes while viewing a playlist, it would be a major efficiency gain if you have Overcast speak the source after the episode title, not before it. My rationale is that if a user hears enough of an episode title to know they don’t want to hear it, they can immediately perform an action and the source is irrelevant. If the title intrigues them then we want to know who produced it. Some podcast names are long, so this would save VoiceOver users considerable time, especially those of us with a large number of podcasts.
Second, when in a playlist, it now takes two swipes to engage with each episode, whereas in the previous Overcast it only took one. The Info button used to be part of the VoiceOver Actions Rotor, but now it’s a separate button a VO user is required to swipe through. If the Info button can be added back to the Actions Rotor and removed from the swipe order, this would be another efficiency gain. There’s a similar issue when editing a playlist, except in that case it pertains to the Reorder button. I would think there could be Move Up and Move Down options added to the Actions Rotor so once again there’d only be one swipe per episode.
Third, I think via a VoiceOver hint, the old Overcast used to speak the show notes of an episode after a short pause. This was brilliant! The new version doesn’t do this, so it’s necessary to invoke the Info button to get that info. This is quite an efficiency hit.
And finally, if you have gone into the Info screen to get those notes and then returned to the previous screen, focus doesn’t seem to return to the last episode you were on.
I won’t revisit the issues with focus when you choose to play an episode since you’re already aware of them.
Thanks. I know these things vary but for me, this build is definitely a lot more performant with VO running.
And I appreciate that Delete option being at the bottom of the Actions Rotor, I hope that remains as it makes deleting episodes in a playlist more efficient. It’s also consistent with the way Apple handles deleting Mail in the Mail app.
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