Re: very nice experience at University Village Apple Store in Seattle Washington

2009-06-09 Thread Ben King
...@gmail.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 3:37 PM Subject: very nice experience at University Village Apple Store in Seattle Washington Dear Mac Friends, I am writing you to let you know about an experience I had today at the University Village Apple

Re: very nice experience at University Village Apple Store in Seattle Washington

2009-06-08 Thread Mitchell Smith
success if I was traveling with a Dell. - Original Message - From: Ben King benmartink...@gmail.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 3:37 PM Subject: very nice experience at University Village Apple Store in Seattle Washington Dear Mac Friends, I am

Re: Accessible IPhone was Re: very nice experience at University Village Apple Store in Seattle Washington

2009-05-30 Thread gene
: very nice experience at University Village Apple Store in Seattle Washington I don't think you're wrong. I'm sure it's only a matter of time. like someone else said it seemed people were freaking out when the GUI interface came to computers and people found ways to make it accessible to us

Re: very nice experience at University Village Apple Store in Seattle Washington

2009-05-29 Thread Vicki Manley
Hi, I guess you could be right. It's just I know a few people with iphones and have often thought it'd be great if it had speech on it, however I hadn't thought that the apps would be inaccessible. Apologies for barking up the wrong tree!!! Best wishes, Vicki. On 28 May 2009, at 18:48, Sean

Re: very nice experience at University Village Apple Store in Seattle Washington

2009-05-29 Thread Jessi and Goldina
I don't think you're wrong. I'm sure it's only a matter of time. like someone else said it seemed people were freaking out when the GUI interface came to computers and people found ways to make it accessible to us so I'm sure the same will be done for touch screens in time. I can't think

Re: very nice experience at University Village Apple Store in Seattle Washington

2009-05-29 Thread gene
- Original Message - From: Jessi and Goldina sanginsista3...@gmail.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 8:53 AM Subject: Re: very nice experience at University Village Apple Store in Seattle Washington I don't think you're wrong. I'm sure it's only a matter

Re: very nice experience at University Village Apple Store in Seattle Washington

2009-05-28 Thread Cara Quinn
hey Ben, thanks so much for sharing! this is exactly the kind of thing I personally love to hear. I'm glad that Apple is really stepping this great level of service up even further. For someone with or without a disability to go into a store and really be shown not only equal

Re: very nice experience at University Village Apple Store in Seattle Washington

2009-05-28 Thread Vicki Manley
Hi, That would be so ace if they brought out an accessible i phone What a really great suggestion!!! Best wishes, Vicki. On 28 May 2009, at 06:37, Ben King wrote: Dear Mac Friends, I am writing you to let you know about an experience I had today at the University Village Apple Store in

Re: very nice experience at University Village Apple Store in Seattle Washington

2009-05-28 Thread Sean Tikkun
Can folks on this board help me out here? I don't see the point of an accessible iPhone. The fluid dynamic of screen touch technology combined with GUI interface seems like it is just a counter accessible design form the get go. Once you make the thing accessible it is no longer

Re: very nice experience at University Village Apple Store in Seattle Washington

2009-05-28 Thread Jessi and Goldina
hey, Ben, this is good news!!! I love when I hear good stories about apple employees not only knowing what voiceover is, but wanting to help improve it!!! I've never even been to the apple store here in vancouver, canada, I know...sad!! lol. I need to find a way over there. but when I do

Re: very nice experience at University Village Apple Store in Seattle Washington

2009-05-28 Thread Cara Quinn
Sean, I'd be happy to entertain your below points, but firstly, forgive me, but this honestly sounds like the very same rhetoric that I hear all too often in the blind community which simply is a negative response to touch screens?… Yes?… Is this really what your saying with the

Re: very nice experience at University Village Apple Store in Seattle Washington

2009-05-28 Thread gene
with htat! Gene - Original Message - From: Jessi and Goldina sanginsista3...@gmail.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 1:41 PM Subject: Re: very nice experience at University Village Apple Store in Seattle Washington hey, Ben, this is good news!!! I love

Re: very nice experience at University Village Apple Store in Seattle Washington

2009-05-28 Thread Jessi and Goldina
: Thursday, May 28, 2009 1:41 PM Subject: Re: very nice experience at University Village Apple Store in Seattle Washington hey, Ben, this is good news!!! I love when I hear good stories about apple employees not only knowing what voiceover is, but wanting to help improve it!!! I've never

Re: very nice experience at University Village Apple Store in Seattle Washington

2009-05-28 Thread Mike Reiser
On 5/28/2009 2:34 PM, Jessi and Goldina wrote: agreed, Arthur, lol. if you're gonna take that approach about the iphone and firefox and their various addons and apps why don't you just say that about voiceover as a whole? what it seems like you're saying is let's not make the iphone

Re: very nice experience at University Village Apple Store in Seattle Washington

2009-05-28 Thread Mike Reiser
On 5/28/2009 3:39 PM, Cara Quinn wrote: Sean, I'd be happy to entertain your below points, but firstly, forgive me, but this honestly sounds like the very same rhetoric that I hear all too often in the blind community which simply is a negative response to touch screens?… Yes?… Is

very nice experience at University Village Apple Store in Seattle Washington

2009-05-27 Thread Ben King
Dear Mac Friends, I am writing you to let you know about an experience I had today at the University Village Apple Store in Seattle Washington. The person that I spoke to was very nice and he asked me what I would like to see improved in regards to Voiceover. I told him that Fire Fox