Hi all. My name is Nikos and i am from Cyprus. I started using mobile accessibility since Christmas. At the moment i am not using mobile accessibility as a screen reader but only as a launcher and i am using talkback as a screen reader outsite mobile accessibility. I have got the sony erixon xperia pro running ice cream sandwich 4.04 with explore by touch disabled since this phone has got a very nice keyboard.
First of all i had difficulties subscribing to the list. I tried several times subscribing from http://www.codefactory.es/en/list.asp?id=88 without success. After entering my info i get a message saying that i will get confermation but i never got one. Fortunately today i found the correct address for the list http://list.codefactory.cat/mailman/listinfo/codefactory.cat.ma_mailing because somebody forwarded a message to the eyes-free list so finally i could subscribe with no problems. With in the mobile accessibility suit the apps i use the most are phone, contacts and sms. I feel as these 3 apps are very well produce, easy to use and they do everything that somebody would need from such apps. The other apps i feel as they have a lot of missing features and they are not productive. For example in the calendar app i can add events but i cannot set reminders. I don't think that a calendar app is compleeted without reminders. Also i don't like the fact that we can only use factory ringtones for the phone and alarms and not mp3s. The explorer app needs some improoving. For example it would be nice if we had the ability to copy or move files around and also i don't know how possible this would be but it would be nice if we press menu on an mp3 and we had the option to set it as ringtone. The web browser speaks things twice. With a screen reader and also as a self voicing app. It is even more anoying if we choose the vocalizer voice and we hear two voices talking at the same time. Finally sometimes when using the phone application and having the phone to my ear the phone keeps going in and out from the loud speaker. I feel as the screen doesn't lock sometimes when close to my face and it thinks that i double tab the screen instead. Also i have got some comments about the screen reader part. When going to the notifications mobile accessibility screen reader reads everything at once and the arrow keys don't stop the speetch. Only the proximity sensor works. The same happens in dialogues. For example the dialogue asking if we want to uninstall an app. Mobile accessibility would read everything and the arrow keys don't interapt the speetch and speak the focused item. This is the reason that i use talkback. These are my comments so far. I think mobile accessibility is a very good product but it still needs some improoving. Thanks for reading Nikos _______________________________________________ ma_mailing mailing list [email protected] http://list.codefactory.cat/mailman/listinfo/codefactory.cat.ma_mailing
