Hello List, I recently came across this device and app. The app is a universal remote which works via a network attached device. This device in turn has to sit near your TV/DVD Player/Receiver etc. and sends out the IR signal to control the devices. The advantage is first that one can control the devices from anywhere in the house and also that no dongle is required. Some dongles plug into the headphone jack which render them useless since they disable Voiceover, but I had at one point also purchased the 30-Pin dongle for the "Re" universal remote app and while it sort of works, I find it not practical enough to use it and the app is not really fully Voiceover accessible. I think recently somebody asked about another ssolution called "L5" or something like that. Anyhow, I emailed the developer of RedEye, ThinkFlood, on Saturday and received the below reply on Monday. I find this very encouraging, firstly a quick response and secondly a very informative and promising one. If anybody has used RedEye I'd appreciate any feedback, I will most likely order the $150 device as long as I have the guarantee that I can return it should it not do what I hope it will do and do it really well and easily. Read on for the ThinkFlood message, any relevant comments would be welcome and if you feel whatever you want to say is not of interest to the list, just email me directly. Regards, Sieghard Message: Thanks for your email and interest in RedEye. Our aplication does indeed support Voiceover. For many parts of the application we use standard Apple UI components, which include Voiceover support automatically. When it comes to the remote control layout where we make extensive use of custom UI controls, we have taken the following approach:
1. Each control (button, slider, etc) has a user-settable name and description. We default the name based on what the control does (e.g., the volume up control gets the name "volume up"). Typically descriptions are blank. 2. The accessibility label for each control is the control name (in the earlier example, "volume up"). 3. The accessibility hint for each control is the control description. Thus, we give you a lot of flexibility, but also try to give you some useful out-of-box behavior, as well. As far as sales in Canada go, we work through distribution rather than directly to end consumers. That said, we do sell through a wide array of retailers and I believe that many (including Amazon Canada) have liberal return policies. *http://thinkflood.com/buy/products/redeye/ca/*<http://thinkflood.com/buy/products/redeye/ca/> If there is one retailer in particular that you would like to purchase through, perhaps we could make contact with them in advance and make sure that you would have the opportunity to try the product risk free. Please let us know if you have further questions. And if you do have suggestions as to how we might improve accessibility for our application, please let us know that, as well. We write all of our software in house and appreciate the opportunity to make improvements. Best regards, Matt -- 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.
