This is weird. The Times of India app on my iphone seems perfectly accessible
Sagar +91 99 30 271732 intouchid: 2010-SAGAR007 <http://intch.me/2010-SAGAR007> "The evil of the world is made possible only by the sanction you give it." - John Galt in "Atlas Shrugged" On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Kotian, H P <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > My experience, however, was not so bad. I picked up the TOI app first, > in IOS 5 a few months back. The accessibility was far better. Later on I > upgraded to IOS 6 and updated the app. Accessibility thereafter dropped > considerably. > > However it was usable. I have not used for a some time now. I am presently > using the same app on Android. Unfortunately I am running ICS on Android > and its general accessibility with Talkback is not very great. Using this > app with keyboard is extremely good on Android. Getting news is no problem. > There may be some options which not be accessible. I will only know it once > I get it checked up by a sighted person. I am enjoying reading the > newspaper this way. > > > Harish. > > -----Original Message----- > From: AccessIndia [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of [email protected] > Sent: 07 August 2013 10:51 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [AI] Ipad edition of the Times of India (TOI) app - Where is > accessibility? > > App a Month - A new Blog Series by Barrierbreak to talk about Mobile App > Accessibility. Here's the first one > > Experience shared by Bhavesh who is blind and is currently an employee of > BarrierBreak. Bhavesh chose to review the iPad edition of the Times of > India (TOI) app to know whether the app can be accessed by people with > disabilities. > > Why did I choose to review the TOI app? > > As a blind person, I can listen to the news on the various FM news > channels. But how about reading the news on a device on the go? I spend > almost 30 minutes daily in traveling and since it's not possible for me to > read from a newspaper, I would prefer to get access to news with a device > that can read out the news for me. Let's assume that there is an app which > allows the user to access the news items, including audio/video content. > But what if such contents are not accessible for persons with > disabilities? > > My experience with the TOI app > > I used Voiceover screen reader to test the app on the iPad. Voiceover is a > screen reader built into Apple's OSX and iOS operating systems. By using > Voiceover, the user can access their Macintosh or iOS device based on > spoken descriptions. As I went through the app, I noticed that they have > provided the option to view the app with different font size for low > vision users. However, the option (Button) provided to get to font size is > unlabeled. The Voiceover simply announced it as "Button". That's not all! > Majority of the textual buttons and image buttons lack textual > description. The textual buttons are announced as "button", whereas the > image buttons are announced with the image name e.g., "Home btn button", > "City btn button" etc throughout the app. > > Headings help a screen reader user to navigate through different sections > of the app. Many screens of the app lacked headings. I wanted to read > something from the cricket section. But guess what? When I opened the > Cricket section and went through the article list, all the articles were > announced as buttons, instead of the title of the article that I had > expected to hear. This made me very frustrated. I opened an article by > guess work and landed at the bottom of the page of that article. I had to > go to the top of the page, read the entire page and find the article. > > While reading the article, I noticed that many informative images had the > absence of alternative text. Alternate text provides the information > conveyed through images to the users in the form of text. Alternate text > is helpful for users with visual disabilities, learning disabilities, > users browsing with text browsers etc to understand the information > conveyed using images. > > Next I decided to give a shot at accessing the videos. I selected a video > from the videos screen and that video started playing automatically. > Moreover there was no option to stop the video content at the beginning of > the video page. Fortunately Voiceover suppresses any audio playing in the > background. > > By far, I feel that the app is completely inaccessible for people with > disabilities. Now imagine the plight of a person for whom reading is the > only way to access the news, such a person who is deaf-blind? How would > they be able to read the news? > > > Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of > mobile phones / Tabs on: > > http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > > Search for old postings at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > To unsubscribe send a message to > [email protected] > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, > please visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > > Disclaimer: > 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of > the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; > > 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails > sent through this mailing list.. > > Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of > mobile phones / Tabs on: > > http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > > Search for old postings at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > To unsubscribe send a message to > [email protected] > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, > please visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > > Disclaimer: > 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of > the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; > > 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails > sent through this mailing list.. > Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
