I was surprised in fact to hear Scott so readily and easily suggest just how usable and accessible Face Book and other social media sites and services are.
This to me was a prime opportunity to really lay out on the table to a core sector of the internet community, and Mr. Leo Laporte himself, thee tech guy, just how dam lazy, lousy and poor many web-sites, online services and applications truly are… and Scott just said, oh yeah, sure they are accessible and all but completely usable. The majority of folk would even argue that opening an account with many of these services is hell on earth with screen capture etc, let alone the myriad of unlabelled buttons, poorly laid out tables, difficult to navigate interfaces and UI's, oh, not to mention, Face Book's complete inaccessibility of their iOS App… I would have focused on that, well Leo, let me tell you, some of it works, but when we say works, we mean partially, or that with a little guess work we can figure it out, but, the truth is that Face Book, Linked In, Twitter etc could do way, way more to help us… To my mind, and I'm sorry if this is taken harshly, Scott had a prime opportunity to really state for the record to a hugely influential person in this field just how bad things are, and failed to do so… I'm sure that the promotion was good etc, but, what we need to be doing is outlining to these people our predicament and what we need them to be doing for us. for example, check out the, stress not yet completed, www.TheOEF.org its just my view... Regards, Neil Barnfather Talks List Administrator Twitter @neilbarnfather TalkNav is a Nuance, Code Factory and Sendero dealer, as well as an Apple iOS, Macintosh and Android accessibility specialist. For all your accessible phone, PDA and GPS related enquiries visit www.talknav.com URL: - www.talknav.com e-mail: - [email protected] Phone: - +44 844 999 4199 On 9 Jul 2012, at 00:20, VaShaun Jones wrote: > On this Saturday's episode of The Tech Guy podcast Leo Laporte spoke with > Scott Rumery of our firm about the importance of social media in business. > Leo is a tech luminary and pioneer of podcasting with over 30 years of radio > and television experience. He is the founder of the TWIT TV podcast network > and currently has over 25 shows on life, technology and law. We commend Scott > for his initiative to bring this type of exposure to the firm and we are > proud to have him on our team. > > > Click to listen to the full dialog between Leo and Scott. > > -- > 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.
