True and understood. I'm not saying that iPhone accessibility isn't
superior to Android's. I think it is, and that's why I'm an iPhone user
and not an Android user. However, people have just been saying incorrect
things about the Android phone and making generalizations without any
facts to back their statements up. There's plenty of totally valid and
factual reasons why an iPhone is the right choice for many people.
there's no reason to spread dated and incorrect information about any
other product.
My reference to significant improvements had to do with the changes from
Gingerbread to Ice Cream Sandwich to Jellybean, since many of the
statements on the list had to do with the state of Talk Back in
Gingerbread. I'm just saying that that information is dated and the
improvements since then have been significant. I don't think
accessibility in Gingerbread was almost non-existent, but that's a
judgement call.
I hear what you're saying about the set up process for a blind user on
the Samsung Galaxy S3, but the day I brought my iPhone home, I spent 4
hours trying to get my Apple ID in the App Store. I eventually just gave
up and tried again the next day. I know you said the podcast author was
familiar with the iPhone, but picking up a new touch screen device is
going to take some time to get used to. I'll also point out that the
Samsung Galaxy S3 shipped with Ice Cream Sandwich and I know there were
improvements in Jellybean in the area of typing.
On 08/22/2012 11:50 PM, Sieghard Weitzel wrote:
Hi Christopher,
It's not all that hard to improve something significantly which was almost
non-existent before. I am interested in technology of any kind and recently
listened to a very detailed 2-part german Podcast by somebody who is a very
experienced tech user about Talkback on a I think Samsung Galaxy S3
top-of-line phone. This person also has an iPhone and he actually had to
stop the Podcast and restart it because the gesture which was supposed to
activate Talkback during setup did not work. He finally did get it going and
then continued to setup the phone and boy was it painful to listen to his
attempts to do the simplest things. At one point he had to enter his name on
a virtual keyboard and it literally took him 5 or 6 minutes in the Podcast
before he managed to enter his first and last name, as I said, it was simply
painful and I was sitting there thinking why somebody would put him or
herself through such frustration if you can get an iPhone, you triple click
the home key and that's it. When I got my iPhone 4S I set it up myself in
the store with Voiceover and the entire process took me about as long as
what it took him to enter his name. I am not exaggerating, but the entire
first part of the Podcast which was over an hour was about him getting past
the few start screens and that is not counting the time where he paused the
Podcast to even get Talkback to initialize. They may have come a ways, but
they have a very very long road ahead before they get even close to the
iPhone's accessibility and ease of use and as I said in my earlier message,
I don't think they will ever get there.
Regards,
Sieghard
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