I saw the "How To Cook Everything" App and was not impressed withit
whatsoever. Unfortunately, I found the whole book on Bookshare. It looked
like it was going to be a really good app. I, like you, could E-Mail myself
a recipe, but then, I could read it. So, I figured, rather than E-Mailing
myself the recipes, I'd just look for the book somewhere.
I didn't try anything else there, because nothing else but that seemed
to interest me.
Take care,
Brenda
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Esther" <[email protected]>
To: "Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 08, 2013 4:40 PM
Subject: Re: several free apps.
Hi Dónal,
I would have posted earlier about these apps gone free in celebration of the
5th anniversary of the App Store, but there are accessibility problems in
all the ones that I tried. I got the "How to Cook Everything" app last
night, and it's probably the most accessible of the bunch. What's rather
weird is that you can navigate and search, but you can't actually view the
full content of the recipes unless you use the option to Email Recipe (or
Print Recipe). I tried this cooking app on an iPad (since I have more
memory space there.) The button that accesses the option to Email is the
second "Add to Shopping List" button, which actually should be labeled
"Recipe Actions". (On the iPad, the buttons are "Btn Home", "Contents",
then the search text field, "Back", "Save to Favorites", "Add to Shopping
List", "Add to Shopping List" --- really should be "Recipe Actions", and
then the number of votes for the recipe. This assumes you have either done
a search or used "Browse Recipes". But if you browse recipes or do a
search, the search results announced by VoiceOver only list the time and
number of votes -- not the name. If you double tap on a selection, you get
the recipe page, but still not the full content and name, unless you email
the recipe to yourself. The alternative is screen capture and use of an OCR
app.
This does have lots of recipe content, and is normally $9.99. I just don't
want anyone to be frustrated with this because of high expectations. The
"Traktor DJ" app doesn't give any feedback with VoiceOver. I haven't had
much success with Day One (Journal/Diary), either. And the games (Infinity
Blade II and Tiny Wings) don't seem accessible.
Cheers,
Esther
On 8 Jul 2013, at 10:21, Dónal Fitzpatrick wrote:
> Folks,
>
> As the Appstore is approaching its 5th anniversary, Apple has launched a
> promotion where it is offering several (usually expensive) apps for free.
>
> I can't vouch for the accessibility of any of these but the direct link
> is:
>
> https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewFeature?id=660896396&mt=8
>
> Just to note I've already got the cookery app listed here and it *seems*
> on a very very quick preview and "skim" to be reasonably accessible.
>
>
> Dónal
> Dr. Dónal Fitzpatrick,
> School of Computing,
> Dublin City University,
> Glasnevin,
> Dublin 9, Ireland
> Tel. +353-(0)1-700-8929
> fax: +353-(0)1-700-5442
> email: dfitzpat (at) computing.dcu.ie
>
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