Submitted by blindteky on and last modified on 4 October, 2017
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Description of App:
Get the official Gmail app for your iPhone or iPad. The newly redesigned app brings the best of Gmail with real-time notifications, multiple account support and search across your entire inbox. With the Gmail app, you can:
● Switch between up to 5 accounts
● Get notified of new mail fast, with notification center, badge and lock screen options
● Search through all your mail quickly - now with predictions as you type
● See profile pictures as part of the conversation
● Read your mail with threaded conversations
● Auto-complete contact names as you type from your Google contacts or your phone
● Respond to Google Calendar invites right from the app
● Organize your mail by archiving, labeling, starring, deleting and reporting spam
● Send and receive attachments
● Customize emails with custom scribbles
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This app does work great with VoiceOver!
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This app is really cool.
You can easily compose new emails from the gmail app.
At the bottom there are buttons where you can reply, forward and reply all.
If you hit the reply all button a forwarding screen will pop up on your screen.
6 Comments
#1 Can't Review What I Wrote
Submitted by Nina on
Hi,
When I write an email I can't review what I wrote. For example, I'll write something, then for some reason I will go out of the text field. I can hear VoiceOver reading everything, but when I try to use the rotor to move by word, character, or line it doesn't do anything.
Is this a bug? If so, is there a developer contact info? Are other's experiencing something similar? Or any suggestions?
Thanks
#2 What's New In Version 4.1
Submitted by Nina on
Bug fixes and stability improvements.
#3 Blank Emails
Submitted by Kerry Fielding on
Even though I'm hearing what I'm dictating via voiceover people are receiving blank emails from me and I too have the issue where I can't read backthe text that is supposedly in my response or email either.
#4 Current Accessibility?
Submitted by Misty Dawn on
I've been thinking of downloading this app to use along with my native Mail app because it contains more Gmail-specific features.
So, I was wondering: how is the current accessibility of this app? Are there still issues reading messages and things like that as stated above?
#5 State of Accessibility as of January 2019
Submitted by Humberto Avila on
Hello,
I have been recently testing out the Gmail from Google app, and it does seem pretty accessible from the start. There are no issues reading email in the app. You can easily reply and read as well as the message list area is very accessible. That is, with one exception. When you flick to the message list area, VoiceOver will say, "You're all done. Null." This happens even when you have messages in the list view. I'm not sure if this is happening across the board, with iOS versions and iPhone / iPad / iPod models, ETC.
The real usability glitches start though, at the writing end. When you compose an email, the "Too:" "CC:" ETC. area is very accessible. So is the multiline text area of when you write the message. I personally use Braille Screen Input when composing, and you can not insert new lines in the message using that feature. Often I have had to leave Braille screen input then tap on the "Return" keyboard option on the bottom-right corner of the screen. Then go back to Braille screen input.
Also, the issues expressed with the navigation by character, word, line, ETC. are still eminent today. When you navigate by character, you hear the "tip, tip," sound, but no character is heard either back or forth. When you navigate by word, you only hear the boundary reached sound of VoiceOver.
When I use Braille Screen Input, there are times where I have had to turn off VoiceOver and then toggle him back on, because he will stay stuck to the Braille Screen input rotor setting even though I am using the rotor gesture to move back out of that mode.
I would say, I wouldn't use the Gmail app as my primary means of doing business through email. I am currently using Gmail, I believe is version 5.0 of the app, with iOS 12.1.2 on an iPhone 7 64-bit. Perhaps experiences across the board like I've stated, may vary and if so, I'd like to know those experiences. And maybe, send feedback to Google about them.
#6 State of Accessibility of gmail
Submitted by Afrim on
Hello,
I downloaded the gmail app and I am facing the exact issues the previous poster mentioned. Everything is ok until you go to the multiline text field of the body message.
What I have noticed is that the bug comes from Voiceover, not the app. It is a regular multiline text field which Voiceover can't properly access, just as it does with any multiline text field you will come across in any other app like Inbox by gmail, or Outlook.
Granted, gmail is the lightest app for accessing your e-mails you can find on the Appstore today. No calendar, no extra buttons, no confusing functions, just a simple application for daily use. I hope Apple will improve Voiceover's support for multiline text fields, and then I'll never look back to the preinstalled e-mail app of iOS.