: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of
Michelle Bernstein
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2014 2:45 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Advocating for VO Accessibility
The bard mobile app is easy to locate I agree. The nfb Newsline was not, for
me, when I
Hello, everyone.
What resources do you use to explain Voiceover to application
developers? When contacting people to ask for accessibility, how much
explaining is typically required to get the ball rolling? Do you find
that this process takes a lot of explaining, or does simply mentioning
VO get
It in interesting to me that even when I contact the apple accessibility
telephone number, I have to explain the apps that I am asking for help with
accessing. Two recent examples are the Bard mobile app and the nfb Newsline
app. In the case of the nfb Newsline app, the only way that I could
: Monday, August 11, 2014 3:00 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Advocating for VO Accessibility
Hello, everyone.
What resources do you use to explain Voiceover to application
developers? When contacting people to ask for accessibility, how much
explaining is typically required to get the ball
hmmm, maybe these got changed. I just went to the app store on my iPhone and
NFB Newsline was the third choice when I typed nfb and bard mobile was the
second choice when I typed bard. I then tried the same searches on my iPad with
the same results. So maybe something has been changed since you
The bard mobile app is easy to locate I agree. The nfb Newsline was not, for
me, when I searched nfb or national federation of the blind in the iTunes Store
and the App Store. What was surprising to me was that these apps were not
familiar to the people who answered the apple accessibility
To my way of thinking, Apple *facilitates accessibility
in third-party apps, and not all of the reps at the accessibility service
number will necessarily know all of the specific blindness-related apps.
this is not to say that they shouldn't be familiarized with them to some
extent. However,
in the past. I guess a lot depends upon with whom
you get on the other end of the line.
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of
Teresa Cochran
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2014 7:24 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Advocating for VO Accessibility
To my way
One key, that people forget, is to always press search in the lower right
corner of the keyboard, or enter on the bluetooth keyboard, when searching for
an app in the App Store.
David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA
Email: dchitten...@gmail.com
Mobile: +64 21 2288 288
Sent from my iPhone
On 12 Aug
Both apps you mention are third-party apps, so are not Apple's responsibility.
I would not expect Apple Accessibility to know third-party apps any more than I
would expect you to know how to program my washing machine. For assistance with
third-party apps, one must always contact the app
I have been advocating for increased technology access for 25 years
now. In the process, I have piled up a number of advocacy successes
from talking ATMs by the biggest banks to accessible audio interfaces
of voting machines to audio description at movie theaters. I have been
a moving force that
I didn't have to do that in order to find the bard mobile app or the nfb
newsline app. Usually I start out by not tapping search; then if I don't see my
choice I tap it just to be sure.
--
Cheryl
I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf.
I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper
thrown in
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