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After this update, it now causes my breaker to trip each time I plug it in to my level 2 charger. I’ve tried 48A down to 38A. Never had to do this on prior OTAs
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After this update, it now causes my breaker to trip each time I plug it in to my level 2 charger. I’ve tried 48A down to 38A. Never had to do this on prior OTAs
Are you adjusting the charging amperage on both the vehicle AND the L2 charger to ensure they are matched up? Which charger are you using? What were the L2 output amps set at prior to the OTA update being installed? This should resolve itself once you ensure both the charger and vehicle amp settings match up.
 

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In this update I don’t understand the text address sharing, I was hoping it would make reading a text on nav screen not sure.
 

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Are you adjusting the charging amperage on both the vehicle AND the L2 charger to ensure they are matched up? Which charger are you using? What were the L2 output amps set at prior to the OTA update being installed? This should resolve itself once you ensure both the charger and vehicle amp settings match up.
In the past the Rivian was always set at 48. My L2 is 40. I never had to touch anything and it would charge regardless without tripping the breaker. Only this update has started to cause it to trip. I’ve even did a hard reset to no avail.
 

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In this update I don’t understand the text address sharing, I was hoping it would make reading a text on nav screen not sure.
It does not read texts on the vehicle screen. It's enabling you to share any address that you can view on your phone that is in plain text format to the vehicle's nav via the app. Say someone texts you an address or you view an address on a website that isn't formatted as a link, just "123 North Ave etc" you can simply highlight that text address in your phone and "share" it to the Rivian app and have your nav pick it up to route to it automatically.
 

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Well, no. Screen readers in general won't "read" text that is in an image. This sort of thing violates many federal regulations, and yes a lot of sites get away with it - that doesn't mean it's "right". There's imminent legislation that will make web sites and web developers liable for this sort of thing. This is easy to fix/avoid, so there's really no reason NOT to attempt to comply with the law. Unless you just hate "gubment".
I mean you're welcome to disagree with my first hand knowledge of their technical equipment I suppose.
 

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Wow....the first 4 comments are about HTML coding. I don't care about that as much as the contents of an article.

I just want to read about the updates and not "oh, the html coding is bad"
 

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I agree that is absolutely unacceptable web design. But I would assume that the target audience contains very few blind people. How many blind people care about reading car user manuals?

Even if there are some blind Rivian enthusiasts, how much are you really losing out on by not being able to read instructions that you would never be able to follow? There is no way anyone who is thwarted by text in an image on a website is going to be able to climb into a Rivian and navigate to Settings -> Connect -> Garages on the car's touchscreen.

Again - Rivian should fix that; it is embarrassingly bad. But the odds that anyone is actually inconvenienced by this seems pretty low.
Or at least provide an accessible link to the CHANGELOG.MD file in github, which it appears they have not updated yet...
https://github.com/rivian-community/ota-changelog/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md

How is it not updated in github? You would think that would be the source of truth for the PDF/Images...
 

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I know this was already said, but I'm just echoing the sentiment.

Garage Door accessibility and geofencing was nowhere near one of my top requested features. It wasn't even on my radar. But now that I have it, it is one of my favorite OTAs updates to date. Not having to use the touchscreen for something I do multiple times a day is a huge plus. I'm usually pretty negative, but Rivian nailed this one.

I LOVE this update.
 

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This is one of the more heinous crimes against accessibility I've seen in a while.

A screenshot of Rivian's release notes open in the browser devtools, showing that the release notes are a single .jpg picture of text, with only the alt text A photo in this store for the entire article.'s release notes open in the browser devtools, showing that the release notes are a single .jpg picture of text, with only the alt text A photo in this store for the entire article.
I doubt the error was intentional or that it rises to the level of "heinous crime". Your highlighted text appears to be a placeholder. My guess is that someone forgot to go back and insert a better description. No one else noticed before it was submitted. I'm sure they'll fix it on the next go round.
 
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The updates rolls out over a few weeks. Your vehicle will alert you when it’s turn has come up and downloaded the package.
Ironically I got alert about 30 minutes after posting.
 

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I doubt the error was intentional or that it rises to the level of "heinous crime". Your highlighted text appears to be a placeholder. My guess is that someone forgot to go back and insert a better description. No one else noticed before it was submitted. I'm sure they'll fix it on the next go round.
I think the meta point here is that there's no good text description of an image of pages of text besides... all the text. At which point you should just post the text, not the image.

I mean you're welcome to disagree with my first hand knowledge of their technical equipment I suppose.
You're right that many screen readers can do OCR (and browsers increasingly have some of this support built in - literally something my team works on). It's still sub-optimal for lots of reasons, primarily because it has limited ability to infer semantic aspects of layout (headings, bullets/lists, formatting, etc.).

Most screen reader users are listening to text at blistering speeds and actively moving back and forth between headings/paragraphs/list items/etc. - you can't do that with a flat block of OCR-dumped text.

In my day job I spend a lot of time building accessibility tools, ensuring compliance of production sites with accessibility regulations, and documenting best practices for accessible web development.

I know this feels like an edge case but that's kind of the point - disabled folks are constantly being treated like edge cases by people who don't think (insert product/domain/venue/event/activity) needs to be accessible to them. And as far as web accessibility goes, "image in place of text, with an inaccurate text description" is about as bad as it gets.

I understand most folks don't wander around thinking about web accessibility. But a screen shot of text is annoying for everyone! I can't even copy and paste it!
 

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Or at least provide an accessible link to the CHANGELOG.MD file in github, which it appears they have not updated yet...
https://github.com/rivian-community/ota-changelog/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md

How is it not updated in github? You would think that would be the source of truth for the PDF/Images...
I think this repo is a community project, which is a great example of another audience hurt by the release notes being an image. Now somebody has to OCR or retype/reformat all that to update the community changelog, instead of just copying and pasting.
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