Hi Mary, Well, this is definitely something I don't want to recommend, and I had my suspicions when I tried the iPhone download. Your description of performance on the iPad does not meet my description of good accessibility, either. On the older version of the app that I have, all the buttons that you flick through are announced by VoiceOver. Flicking from left to right, these buttons are "Nations & Territories", "Map Library", "Bookmarks", "Home 20px", "zoom out 20px", "zoom in 20px", "center 20px","help 20px", and then the "Search Field" along the top of the screen. If you keep flicking you reach 3 tabs at the bottom of the screen for the map view format, which are "Executive", "Classic" (selected by default), and "Satellite". When I type in "Oregon" into the search field and select it or a particular city, I don't get additional text information. Instead, I believe this changes the map view displayed on the screen to the location you select. Also, now when I flick through the tabs at the bottom of the screen, there is a 4th tab labeled "Road". According to the description in the "Instructions for use" link under the help button,the maps can be visually explored with the zoom buttons, and also downloaded.
Because this is a world atlas, I think all the descriptive information is only given on a country by country level, from the "Nations & Territories" pop up window, and using the search field only selects a map for display on the screen. This app was also fairly easy to navigate with an attached Apple Wireless Keyboard. Sorry to find out that the latest version is a bust with regards to accessibility on the iPad. Thank you for sparing me the pain of trying out the latest update. Cheers, Esther On Jan 29, 2013, at 10:28 AM, Mary Otten <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Esther, > I didn't have the previous app, but this one I just downloaded does not seem > to fit your description of good accessibility. The opening screen of the app > gives the following options as you flick through the screen "button menu off" > "saving maps for off line use" "button search off" Double tapping the > "search off" button brings a pop up with a search field into which you can > type your term. I typed "oregon" my home state. I get a bunch of returns, > each of which is a city in Oregon, so I clicked on Eugene, the town where I > live. The result of this double tap seems to me that the city name is now > announced as selected. But I'm not seeing any sort of buttons that will let > me access any info on Eugene. This is all within the search pop up. There is > the usual option to dismiss the pop up, but doing so does not reveal any sort > of text information about the selected city. So as far as I'm concerned, this > looks like something I want to delete. Sorry I missed the good version. Ther e > is a telltale hint in the app description that this app could be a problem. I > refer to the what's new section where it mentions infographics. Makes me > wonder if all the text is in infographics which, naturally, are not seen by > VO. > > Mary > > Mary Otten > [email protected] > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
