No doubt about it that - at the present - IOS devices are incredibly
popular with blind people however whether the status quo remains will be
the interesting point given that accessibility to Android technology is
improving at an alarming rate! thanks to both third party developers and
Google.
On 29/12/2011 6:27 AM, Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith wrote:I have
encountered ignorance on behalf of technology dealers when it comes to
IOS, for example the claim is made to clients that an IOS device cannot
be "Typed upon", this of course is partly true as an IOS device doesn't
come equipped with a qtraditional qwerty keyboard but one can be
purchased easily enough, you can even use a standard USB keyboard if you
so desire if you buy the "camera kit" and its this lack of information
that that hinders the growth of Apple Products.
On the other hand technology dealers do have some very balid points, I
spoke of the problems with Microsoft Office for example.
I'm told another area of concern is magnification and I can't really
comment here as I don't need to use it, the word is that Apple have only
partly solved the problem for those who require magnification.
There's a product for Windows called Zoomtext which not only magnifies
the screen but it also reformats documents etc to make them easier for
people with low version to read.
Whether Zoomtext is a complete waste of time or whether something
similar to Zoomtext exists on the Mac I don't know, I'm only echoing
comments given to me by people who are heavily involved in accessible
technology and products for the blind and visually impaired.
I have offered an invitation to those concerned to join this list in the
hope that they will contribute to the discussion.
Hello Dane
Alright; just to be clear. I'm talking about all Apple devices; iPhones, iPads, iPods and their notebooks and desktop computers. Judging by the influx of Mac Access members we're getting, many of them from down-under, it would seem that popularity is increasing rapidly. But I'm not in possession of any statistical information so I won't bother to push this further. All I can say is this, and I'm sorry that you're not interested in the views or comments of anybody who happens to have vision, as you indicated to me privately earlier this week. Whoever does the right thing and promotes accessibility at a reasonable price, and at the moment I still think that "someone" is Apple, it has to be a good thing. I'm all for those of you less fortunate than myself having just as good accessibility as I enjoy. Believe it or not; I'm actually passionate about this and it's for that reason that Gordon and I, mainly on my suggestion I should add, subscribe to both MSDN and Apple Developer
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tworks programmes, not just one of them but all of them. We want to do good
for the wider community and it's much more than just getting to play with the
latest and greatest I can assure you. I won't go further because I can't. But
all the same, don't anybody dare please ever suggest that we/I/Gordon are
committed totally to betterment of accessibility.
Lynne
On 28 Dec 2011, at 17:33, Dane Trethowan wrote:
Again I'm going to have to agree to disagree with you regarding popularity of
Apple systems with blind people, certainly here in Australia at the moment at
any rate, and I've stated the reasons why.
As for Microsoft Narrator? Well under Windows 7 its certainly better than it
had been and yep, poor accessibility is something that Microsoft have managed
to get away with for far too long.
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