Woo, subject line dramatic enough? Panic stations!! Seems to me that this is a far call from a scripting language. Also seems that elements would have to expose themselves to VO in some capacity for it to work at all, all be it unlabeled ones, so developers themselves might use this as a quick and dirty fix until a stage of the development cycle presents itself where they're back getting their hands dirty at whatever level they'd need to be at to pop a few labels into the code. It's a feature that'll at least give us a few options when tackling a not-quite-accessible app surely.
I'm waiting to see it in action first I think, but I'm imagining a feedback email to Apple already that says congrats on a useful new feature, and to gently remind them that while it's cool to have the option and I appreciate being able to do some work on apps myself, it still would often require sighted help or help from the developer, so could they be sure to keep tooting access out of the box whenever they can to make sure that devs don't see this one as a way out. Access out of the box and this are quite different, but it's still a marked improvement on the current setup imho. On 6/10/09, Justin Harford <[email protected]> wrote: > > The subject line here is complete nonsense. > On Jun 9, 2009, at 9:11 PM, Brent Harding wrote: > >> >> Hmmm, I don't think this is necessarily the case. What I'd say it is >> is that >> it is their terminology for a graphics labeler so that we can label >> things >> we find in apps that haven't been fixed yet. Without that, we'd just >> have to >> live with the unknown unlabeled buttons that are around now and then. >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Alex Jurgensen" <[email protected]> >> To: "MacVisionaries" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 10:45 PM >> Subject: Apple is shrugging off Responsibility for Accessibility >> >> >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Did you guys see the feature to add descriptions to elements. It >>> sounds a lot like FS's JAWS Scripts, don't you think. >>> >>> I think we should bprevent this from happening before it gets out of >>> hand. Too many developers will take that as the easy way out. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Alex, >>> >>> >>> >>>> >>> >> >> >> > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
