Quick Tip: A Workaround For The Back Button Bug In Safari On iOS 8




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Summary: <p>If you’re using iOS 8, it’s likely that you have encountered a problem with navigating web pages in Safari. When using either the back button or scrub gesture to return to the previous page, VoiceOver focus gets stuck on the element that it returns to and you are unable to navigate the page by swiping.</p> <p>Suggested workarounds have included closing Safari via the App Switcher, restarting your device or reloading the web page. In this short podcast, Marco demonstrates the problem and shows us that another workaround is to simply locate the address with by touch. This should ‘unstick’ VoiceOver and allow you to swipe through the page as normal.</p>