On Sep 11, 2006, at 12:14 AM, Dan Keys wrote:
What will they do when they find out how many accessibility problems exist for blind people having full and complete access to the course presentations through iTunes.
Hurry up and get the issues taken care of, I hope. One hopes there is *already* some internal effort to update the app underway since one assumes Apple is aware of the iTunes (in)accessibility issues. I'm trying not to be *too* abundantly critical as I don't have any knowledge of what technical and/or business issues might need to be (re)solved by Apple on the road to iTunes accessibility...but, truth is, those issues (whatever they are) aren't going to mean a whole lot to blind consumers who (quite reasonably) want the app to be fully accessible, like, yesterday. Usability black eye. PR black eye too.
I'm inclined to agree, more or less, with Gabe, in that, the iTunes inaccessibility is not necessarily a show-stopper for everyone. But that is, perhaps, not the point. The point is that we want the Mac to be broadly, consistently accessible. One wants to have the freedom to use - or not use - all of the popularly, available apps. Thanks to Apple, we've got the sustainable, integrated foundation (don't forget). Now developers - including Apple - have to work hard to get the apps caught up.
Joe
