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laney92 Yes, that is what happens. I tried to find a setting in the Calendar app to remove the holidays from showing up, but no luck. I "unchecked" U.S. Holidays, but apparently this setting doesn't correlate. For a person who is blind using Siri to access appointments, he/she would use VoiceOver screen reader to read the text and have to hear the holidays mixed in with the appointments. I'm not sure I understand this holiday setting in the Calendar app.
In regard to the "Holidays" calendar that Apple incorporated in iOS 7.1, it's just a calendar add-on that displays holidays so that we won't have to manually insert them into our home or work calendars. The problem is that many members already had a Holidays calendar subscription.