Hi Jane and others I'm a new subscriber to this list. I'm a Windows and Jaws user, but have a Mac-using friend and we're considering getting a Macbook Pro in which case I'll be wanting to learn how to use Leopard and Voiceover some of the time.
There are quite a few significant accessibility issues with the Apple website. For example, when I tried to listen to the recent webcast on Leopard accessibility, I was required to download Quicktime for Windows. On the Download page the Download button has no alt-tag, and the layout is such that it is virtually impossible to tell that it refers to the download. By the time I figured this out (which involved asking a sighted colleague) I'd missed the presentation. I'm in Australia, and I because of the time difference it was about 3am here while this was going on. I wasn't happy. I emailed some robust feedback to Apple, but received no response. It does rather tend to detract from a company's otherwise positive efforts in the disability area when their website is not accessible, so I would urge you to contact the Apple accessibility team and bring it to their attention. I don't know how accessible Itunes is on the Mac, but there are accessibility issues with the Windows version. For example, when you access the Itunes Store from within the program, the Buy button is not detected by Jaws. Is this button accessible with Safari and Voiceover? Cheers Bruce On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:46:44 -0500, you wrote: >I jsut have one question: Why doesn't Apple alt-tag their images so >we can tell what they are? I wa slooking for something in the Apple >Store, the online one, and before I could even consider getting it, I >had to select a model. I could not tell which model to select, >because all it said was "image" or something. I had to go into iChat >and get a sighted friend to assist. Very frustrating. I didn't know >if I should email this to the Accessibility Team or not. I was >looking at iPod Shuffles, if you are curious. > >Jane >
