You bring up some excellent points Brad, but they still need to do a
better job of keeping us up to date as to what's coming. I thought that
because Android is open source, we wouldn't have to wait months and
months for a new release. There's a lot we don't know, and now they
know, if they're paying attention, that the frustration on the parts of
Mobile Accessibility's users is palpable. On 10/20/2011 5:10 PM, Brad
Ford wrote:
Wow. Way 2 bash 1 of the only companies trying 2 make android accessable. It
seems u arent a program designer. If u were, u would really understand how long
it takes for these kinds of things 2 be developed. U pay for the app because of
that time and effort made 2 design ma. There is a way 2 have feedback without
brow beating an entire company.
Besides all that, the app is really still very new. It took freedom scientific
ages 2 get the bugs out of jaws. They still have a few bugs.
Did u ever think that maybe its more the fact that u either had false
expectations when downloading it coz u had a phone with mobile speak before?
Maybe its also coz u arent that great a touch screen user, lets face it, not
every blind person likes or can use a touch screen. The key is 2 open ur mind
and be adaptable coz afterall, all software designed for the blind is adaptable.
Regards
brad
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From: Nimer M. Jaber IC³
Sent: 21/10/2011, 7:34 am
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [MA] Codefactory, please take notes of these opinions
Mike,
My comments resulted from the half-ass job they did with the access
they _did provide. I downloaded it mainly for testing purposes but
also because of the email client and web browser, but I was shocked at
how little attention they paid to making their product truly usable. I
mean, what kind of a browser doesn't provide streaming? And it takes a
sighted person who has no experience with the blind to say "Oh, we
should include a where am I app because poor helpless blind people are
always getting lost and they should know their address every two
inches while walking but the intersection isn't that important because
why would blind people care about that"? And it's not like the cloud
hasn't been around for a while now ... I mean, how difficult would it
be to make the google calendar and the MA calendar sync? And maybe
provide push notifications for the MA calendar? Like "Hey, you have an
appointment coming up, here's a little alarm to remind you". Or are we
substandard phone users who wouldn't wish to appreciate the features
that every single sighted phone and/or droid user has enjoyed for the
past few years? now, before people start blocking me because of
negative posts, I am enjoying certain aspects of mobile accessibility.
The apps list with its removing apps being right there in the menu,
the email app for the most part, the calendar even are excellent apps,
and the voice is excellent. But it is extremely lacking, I don't know
if there are any MA representatives keeping an eye on this list, and I
haven't seen an effort to fix these issues even though I have seen the
same things I'm posting about over and over on many different lists.
Now maybe they're going to come out with an awesome new update that
fixes all of this. At that point, I will try it out and say "Wow, I'm
sorry codefactory, you really have innovated and come a long way".
Until then, how can I recomment that a user pay the most money for any
app I have used on the android market when it doesn't provide too much
more access than other free alternatives? This is especially true with
the release of the accessible browser in ICS.
Thanks.
On 20.10.2011, Mike Arrigo<[email protected]> wrote:
Hey everyone, while we all would like more answers, remember that the
new version of android has just been released, at least the SDK has.
Also, there are other companies that don't provide a lot of feedback
until a product is released, Apple is probably most known for this.
Original message:
Hi all I am sure code factory will do us proud and it would be nice if we
had some answers but the more they answer emails the less time they have
to
develop things. I wonder if anyone can tell me if the orion 18 will be of
use to uk customers or is it just in America where it will be used.?
thanks.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mauro Avila"<[email protected]>
To:<[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 5:01 PM
Subject: [MA] Codefactory, please take notes of these opinions
Hello.
Well, I have seen that some kind of customer careless from codefactory.
I have months asking for a recomendation of a cell phone with android,
neven in their web page they have a simple list of recomended models.
In Nuance's web page they have a list of cell phones which can run Talks.
Codefactory does not have something like that.
Besides, people consider that a better customer attention is needed.
We would like to know is you have something which might improve the work
of MA in the new Android version, people could prefer your product in
sted
of Apple's or Nuance's because they velieve in Android concept and they
spect if Coode factory support android so, they will support codefactory.
Thanks and keep reading the opinion of your users.
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