I have emailed Marcel, now let's hope things happen.
This happened with boath aurifi and soultrapper as well, and haven't seen
anything happening on that frunt for months now.
Regards,
Brandt Steenkamp
MSN/Windows live: [email protected]
Google talk: [email protected]
AIM: [email protected]
Skype: brandt.steenkamp007
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Howell" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2011 2:02 PM
Subject: Re: VO accessible Chess, Checkers, Draughts and Xaingqi games
released for iPhone, iPad & iTouch
Brand, let me make something very clear to you, I am not mistaken at all. I
have no access to the store in your country and I am only reporting what the
developer told me. Now if you have a problem, with locating the app in the
store, I suggest you send Marcel an e-mail to [email protected] and inform
him he is mistaken.
If you choose to take some other route to obtain the software, that is your
option, but again, I can only provide you information that is available to
me.
Scott
On Feb 5, 2011, at 2:27 AM, brandt wrote:
I am sorry to say that you're mistaken. I've searched on boath the iPod
and the computer just in case of typing error, and no go, neither
searching for chess wise, chess-wise or Marcel Nijman braught any
desirable results.
I think resorting to my technicaly non legal american account is the thing
to do in this case.
Regards,
Brandt Steenkamp
MSN/Windows live: [email protected]
Google talk: [email protected]
AIM: [email protected]
Skype: brandt.steenkamp007
----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Howell" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 11:09 PM
Subject: Re: VO accessible Chess, Checkers, Draughts and Xaingqi games
released for iPhone, iPad & iTouch
If you having difficulty locating the games, try searching for Marcel
Nijman , which is the developer's name. He informed me that he checked
since someone else was having trouble locating them and he said they are
available in the South African store.
Scott
On Feb 4, 2011, at 2:25 PM, brandt wrote:
once again South Africa is forgotten. They always say an app is available
worldwide, but rarely is it actually true. I have emailed many
developers asking why they clame an app is available everyware, when it's
just not the case.
Are there anyware we can go to regarding this at apple themselves?
Regards,
Brandt Steenkamp
MSN/Windows live: [email protected]
Google talk: [email protected]
AIM: [email protected]
Skype: brandt.steenkamp007
----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Howell" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 1:35 PM
Subject: Re: VO accessible Chess, Checkers, Draughts and Xaingqi games
released for iPhone, iPad & iTouch
Colin,
I have no idea, but it is unlikely. Converting an iOS app to run on the
Mac platform is not impossible perhaps, but would not be trivial by any
stretch since your talking about a complete change to the interface as
far as how you would interact with it. In other words, going from a
touch-screen to a keyboard or other input method. There is an accessible
chess app on the Mac in the APplications folder. You can choose to have
the application speak the moves of the computer.
Scott
On Feb 4, 2011, at 6:29 AM, Colin M wrote:
Hi Scott!
Could Marcel possibly make those Imac apps as well?
Do not want to cause them more headaches but would be interested if at
all possible!
All the best!
Colin
Qapla!
Chegh chew jaj Vam jaj Kak
On 4 Feb 2011, at 11:13, Scott Howell wrote:
Hi Jim,
ALthough several of us have been working with Marcel, I have not had a
chance to really dig into the games myself, although I did purchase
them all. :) I understand the exercises is for player 2 to win in one
move. The right or wrong is stated in the top message bar. I will check
this out, but Marcel is aware of an issue or two and will be working on
these. You would not know this necessarily, but Marcel took a game that
was not completely accessible and especially with regard to the game
board and made it fully accessible (game board primarily) within two
weeks or so. So, there will be issues yet and any feedback is
appreciated and please share with Marcel, via this list, or send
directly to me, and I will see your issues are presented. Marcel has
done something that no one else has and I tried working with another
developer of a chess app that cost twice what Chess-Wise Pro costs and
he has yet to make his game accessible. Marcel's enthusiasm and
interest in making his games accessible speaks volumes about him and
his commitment to a quality experience. Now so I don't sound like a
salesman, I did purchase these games, I got no free codes or any such
thing. However, purchasing any or all of his accessible games will
support his efforts and is appreciated. :)
Thanks,
Scott
On Feb 3, 2011, at 8:59 PM, Jim Barbour wrote:
I've been playing with chesswise, and it looks awesome! I'll
definately say so in the app store.
My only question is about the excercises. The board is accessible,
but the explaination (what to do) appears not to be. That is, I
couldn't find any text on the screen. Has anyone played with this?
Well done Bryan, Scott, and of course Marcel!
Jim
On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 08:54:03PM -0500, Bryan Jones wrote:
Greetings All,
Today Apple approved and released the accessible versions of Marcel
Nijman's Chess-wise Apps! In addition, Marcel modified three of his
other game apps to make them VO accessible. Those Apps are:
Checker-wise, Draughts-wise and Xiangqi-wise. These apps are all now
available worldwide in the App Store and in the following languages:
English, Spanish, Russian, German and Dutch. Marcel hopes to add
Polish, Czech and French translations in the next update. The viphone
mailing list, Scott Howell and Geoff Waller in particular, were
instrumental in providing input, feedback and other information to
Marcel during this process.
Each of these four Apps is a universal App, which means they will run
correctly on the iPhone, iTouch and iPad. WHile there is a free
version of the Chess-wise App, I would urge you to consider
purchasing the Pro version to support Marcel's work. The price is
only US $2.99 for the Chess and Checker Apps, and only US $1.99 for
the Draughts and Xiangqi Apps. I believe Marcel is the kind of
developer who deserves our support one hundred percent.
I've not tried the 3 other games yet, but I can tell you the
Chessboard and Chess pieces are now recognized and read aloud by VO.
You can navigate the board using a one-finger swipe, or you can just
slide one finger around the board and VO will announce the
coordinates and the name of a piece if one occupies that square. To
make a move, use one finger to locate the piece you want to move,
then double-tap. VO will announce "Selected." Now use one finger
again to locate the destination square and double-tap again. Please
note that this is considered a first version of this game in it's
accessible form. While Marcel has made the heart of the App
accessible, it is a very feature-rich App which will require
additional coding to make it fully accessible. Marcel has asked that
those of us who use the Apps provide feedback to him so he can
continue to refine and update the accessibility features.
Here is a link to Marcel's App Gallery in the US iTunes store:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/marcel-nijman/id337888122
Here is a link to Chess-wise Pro in the US App Store:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/chess-wise-pro/id351303981?mt=8
Here is a link to Chess-wise FREE in the US App Store:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/chess-wise-free/id367318028?mt=8
Cheers,
Bryan
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