I would agree with you John. as a total VI user of an IPhone, I don't think they praised the screen reader enough. And its that point of the accessibility out of the box that has wound me up. I think that could put users off entirely and let's see, how many products are accessible out of the box that rNIB promotes readily? I'll post a link to my blog I'm writing for you guys to agree or disagree with me but on the whole, I think its a fair first impressions.
On 20 Apr 2010, at 17:33, John J Herzog wrote: > Thanks for passing this article along. I think that, for the most part, this > article was fair. They seem to point out both positives and negatives of the > product which is good. > The only area where I have some problems with the article, is that they made > to big of a deal about activating voiceover through Itunes. This is not that > hard since it is accessible on both mac and windows, and requires all of two > seconds to do. Other than that, it's pretty good. > > John > > On Apr 20, 2010, at 12:18 PM, marie Howarth wrote: > >> Hi guys, >> Thought I'd put this article out there for everyone to discuss. I will be >> writing a blog on my opinions of this article shortly. But here it is for >> you all to read. >> >> It's an article done by the RNIB which is the national charity for the blind >> in the UK. You need to download the article, its in word format but will >> read on text edit and such on the mac. >> thanks >> http://www.rnib.org.uk/livingwithsightloss/computersphones/Pages/technology_news_reports.aspx >> >> -- >> 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. >> > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
