voiceover reading mysterious Safari countdown timers

By Josh Kennedy, 6 June, 2024

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iOS and iPadOS

I am running the latest iPhone operating system. When I go to certain websites to place orders for tickets, for events, voiceover is reading, mysterious countdown timer on the websites, making the webs websites, hardly usable and accessible, and I cannot navigate the website. How do I turn off the constant reading of these times? how do I turn off the constant reading of these timers?

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By Ollie on Saturday, June 8, 2024 - 07:07

The only thing I can think of is that they are live regions. Is there an option in voiceover settings on IOS? There is on mac and they usually have parity.

By Josh Kennedy on Saturday, June 8, 2024 - 07:07

if they are live regions, how do I turn them off on voiceover on my iPhone? I couldn't find a setting in there to do that.

By TheBllindGuy07 on Saturday, June 8, 2024 - 07:07

Live region option is only on macos.

By Brooke on Saturday, June 8, 2024 - 07:07

This hasn't happened to me so I'm just guessing. I'm wondering if an ad blocking app would make a difference?

By Josh Kennedy on Saturday, June 8, 2024 - 07:07

I I tried an ad blocking app. It did not make any difference.

By Levi Gobin on Saturday, June 8, 2024 - 07:07

On certain sights, voiceover will start reading a countdown timer when an add will stop, for example, "This add will end in 5s. This add will end in 4s. This add will end in 3s. Etc". Using an addblocker has fixed this issue for me. This usually only happens when I am reading an article online so switching to the reader mode helps, but doesn't guarantee the countdown timers will not speak. I would recomend addguard for both mac and iPhone. I have not messed around with the live regions settings on mac so I don't know what they do.

By Brian on Saturday, June 8, 2024 - 07:07

Live Regions on macOS is basically "Dynamic Content" for Windows, like within NVDA or JAWS. Disabling it on YouTube is a must these days, or else you will receive a ton of verbose nonsense when you first load the website.

Unfortunately there does not seem to be a known Live Regions toggle for iOS, so you are stuck with it for now. ☹