Which federal regulations would that be? There is Section 508 but I
thought that only applied to government procurement. So without
compliance the government will not buy iPhones or something. Also a lot
of laws only require registering a plan to reach accessibility and
demonstrate adherence to that plan, not that you must have things
accessible day 1. Apple may well have a plan in place but the solution
is not yet implemented or surfaced in a public product yet. I suspect
they have bags of lawyers who checked into this.
CB
Larry Wanger wrote:
Never mind that Apple is probably violating Federal requirements to
make phones accessible. You know, this morning my wife's cell phone
(an iPhone) was ringing with an important phone call and I couldn't
even answer it! Something is wrong with this picture. They are aware
of the problem and yet have taken no steps to make the phone accessible.
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On Jun 9, 2008, at 8:07 PM, Richie Gardenhire wrote:
Unfortunately from the preliminary readings I've done, the new iPhone
3G edition, will not be VoiceOver friendly. We will probably have to
wait a while longer for that to happen. But as they say, "All good
things come to those of us who wait patiently." So I'm going to keep
reading and checking to see what comes down the pipe in the next
generation of iPhones after this one. Richie Gardenhire, Anchorage,
Alaska.
