There is a federal regulation, 215 or 255? I can't recall it exactly
that addresses accessibility. My understanding is that complaints
about the iPhone were filed late last year under this requirement. But
seriously, when things come to a point where we can't even answer a
phone as blind people are we really okay with saying that Apple will
get to it. Come on folks, do we love Steve Jobs and his innovation all
that much. Its not acceptable!
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On Jun 10, 2008, at 1:15 PM, Chris Blouch wrote:
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.
