Lisa Herrot at Sitepoint blog: "For the most part seminars and industry nights hosted by the Mobile Monday guys or AIMIA focus on marketing, advertising, gaming and identifying ways of further monetising the mobile industry. BORING. I've even stopped attending the Mobile Monday events because they appear to have such little interest in promoting any discussion around best practices or mobile accessibility. [...] Mobile use is at an all time high globally and it offers affordable access to the web for a huge proportion of people including many users with disabilities. It's time for industry groups to get back on track and deliver informative sessions on how we can produce accessible, usable web content. [...] What Do We Want? Discussion! When Do We Want It? Now!
What I'd really like to see is a lot more information presented by web community groups and industry nights that focus on accessibility issues for the mobile web. I don't give a toss about what the latest Nokia is, or what cool data plan 3 is offering at the moment. I want presentations, discussions and tutorials. I want to hear real people talking about their experiences and I want us to do it now. [...] All it takes is for us, the community, to speak more loudly. Contact the industry groups you're involved with and tell them you want to know more. Better still, put something together and present it yourself. But don't forget to let me know. I want to come along and see it!" Source: http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/05/01/the-open-letter-initiative-and-the-mobile-web/ I hope that Android will become a helpful platform for blind persons in the future. For this, the Android platform should provide an API for assestive tools such as screen readers. This would allow blind persons to use many different applications and services without being addicted to the prices, terms and trading policies of just one or two global companies. Applications for blind people should not only be the property of a few developers or vendors. OCR, satellite navigation, mobile web access and location based services are very helpful aids and many other solutions are imaginable as well. As it seems, developers and companies from the mobile technology sector are just interested in new business models and in making money. I am not the only blind fan of mobile technology, there are 37 million blind and 124 million visually impaired persons around the world, including 1.4 million blind children, which surely would like to have affordable access to the revolutionary new possibilities! If any of you have submitted applications for blind or otherwise handicaped persons to the challenge and unfortunately had no success, please let me know. I would like to promote your efforts: http://blind.wikia.com/wiki/Open_Letter_Initiative Come on Google, show the world that you are not evil but accessible. You already did a very good job by improving the accessibility of some of your web services and now it's time to open Android for all. Best regards, Per P.S.: Sorry for repeating my arguments but obviously nobody is interested in these topics as yet. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
