255 applies to at&t here strangely. it goes like this, at&t must provide service and equipment which is accessible and they are doing that. Many of their phones are not accessible so if the law were applied in that way, it would be a real mess. Apple have provided an accessible os. if someone wants, they can use that os to access the AT&T services through a pc card I believe.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Wanger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by theblind" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 4:25 PM Subject: Re: The New iPhone--to Be Released in July 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! DisabilityNation, an Audio Magazine by and for People with Disabilities. Listen at http://www.disabilitynation.net 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. >> >> >> DisabilityNation, an Audio Magazine by and for People with >> Disabilities. Listen at http://www.disabilitynation.net >> >> >> >> 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. >>> >> >> >
