I was working at an agency for the blind when I began testing the NLS player prototypes. I'm sure that is the sort of agency developers are looking for. A BARD app would be wonderfully useful, especially one that combines Braille and recorded books.
Teresa "On the other hand, there are different fingers." On Apr 27, 2012, at 2:05 PM, Wayne Merritt wrote: > It may be a case of being in the right place at the right time. I > would expect that some of the testers are probably librarians that > work at cooperating libraries. Other times, you may see an email on a > list such as this asking for testers. I would imagine that if you are > developing a big app that will likely be popular, like the NLS app, > you probably have a list of private testers and use them to test the > app. > > Wayne > > On 4/27/12, Brent Harding <[email protected]> wrote: >> Where do they even end up finding testers for such a thing from? It seems >> like we never hear about things like this until the day it's out. I'm sure a >> lot of these blindness organizations have regular VO users as employees to >> do it, but I always wondered how one got into testing apps like this. >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Cristobal" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 2:01 PM >> Subject: RE: Status of possible NLS Bard app for the iPhone? >> >> >>> If this would actually come to pass, my audiobook needs would be complete. >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf >>> Of Jared >>> Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 11:59 AM >>> To: VIPhone >>> Subject: Status of possible NLS Bard app for the iPhone? >>> >>> I saw a thread about this in November, saying a NLS iphone app may be >>> released anytime in 2012. Does anyone know the status of this, and if >>> there's a way to sign up for more information on this assuming it is still >>> under development? >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" >>> Google >>> Group. >>> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. >>> 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/viphone?hl=en. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" >>> Google Group. >>> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. >>> 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/viphone?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google >> Group. >> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. >> 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/viphone?hl=en. >> > > > -- > Follow me on Twitter at: > www.twitter.com/wcmerritt > My websites: > www.wayneism.com > www.whitecaneday.org > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > 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/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. 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/viphone?hl=en.
