Hello,
some days ago, I bought MA for my Sony Xperia Pro. Sadly, I couldn't
install it on my Acer Iconia A500 tablet running Android 4.0.3. since
it, as many current devices, lacks navigation buttons. Devices with such
buttons are quite rare these days and the situation won't be any better
in the future. That's why Google introduced Explore By Touch feature,
and I'm really looking forward to a day whdn MA starts supporting this
feature, making it possible to use it on mainstream devices.
As a person able to use a sight, although in a very limited ways, I
don't need constant chatter of speech engine. Fortunately, some
alternative launchers and other tools allow me to set up shortcuts to
screens, where I can turn of(off screenreader, or where I can select
speech engine to bu used.
I had some difficulties to make MA's Web app to work with Google Reader,
so I chose to use Google's Reader for Android app, which is quite
reasonably accessible. Pity I can't provide labels for buttons which
lack them, so that other MA users could benefit from them too.
I really like the "Where Am I" applet of MA. It tells me exactly what I
need to know.
I already posted some suggestions directly to Code Factory using their
email address provided on Google Play, But I'll share my ideas about
what could be improved in this list as well.
* It would be nice if I could set inverse colors for MA screens, i.e.
dark background with light text. Light background make my eyes hurt
after a while.
* It would be nice to be able to change the font size in MA environment,
preferrably by standard pinch-to-zoom gesture.
* MA's virtual keyboard should support international characters. It's of
limited use for me right now, since I'm Czech.
* It should be possible to create shortcuts to MA's apps to other
lounchers. I'd use "Where Am I", "Web", "SMS", and maybe others too.
* Nuance voices should be available as system-wide voices. It's a pity
they are bound only to MA now. Or am I wrong? We Czechs are short of
high quality and low latency voices for Android now.
* And as I already said above, MA should definitely support ICS's
Explore By Touch and ICS devices without nav buttons.
* I have an old Alva Satellite 544 braille display, which I can connect
to my Acer A500 tablet. Shame there's no way to make use of this
connection yet. BRLAPI might help ... This is not MA related, but MA
supports braille displays, which have to be connected via Bluetooth. Sigh.
That's all for now, If I stumble upon anythong worth mentioning here,
You'd hear from me.
Tomas Valusek
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