In the very latest version of Android, Jellybean, they have added some accessibility features that should have been in place a long long time ago. With Android rediculous fragmentation though and everyone feeling the need to change everything about the base system to make it their own creation and often needing to wait around a year to even have the availability of the latest version on a particular phone, in my opinion their stupid games are rediculous. So the only way to really do it on that side of the house is to find a phone that has the latest version available on it when you buy it and make sure first that their customizations did not break accessibility. Welcome to the "wonderful" world of shunning any standards. In my opinion the consequences of avoiding any standards are far worse and more real than any perceived or even possibly real limitations of having them. So IOS is built with a target in mind of what it is going to be and how it will be defined and Android seems to try not to be bound by anything. Fighting the accessibility fight on something that intentionally trys to take on no definition that can't be changed at someone's will is very hard.
On 8/23/12, Regina Alvarado <[email protected]> wrote: > With the level of accessibility currently on Android phones and the > necessity to purchase a screen reader that was hard to get for me, I would > only consider buying an Android phone again if all these things were > corrected. In my experience trying to use first the Android and now the > iPhone, iPhone is much, much more accessible at the current time. Wish we > could have Fleksy as the native keyboard or an added keyboard on iPhone, > though. > > Reggie > > > > _____ > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Chuck Dean > Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2012 2:39 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Fleksy on Android devices > > > > I prefer the seamless integration of software to hardware that Apple is > able > to supply. > > I am not impressed with any of the current models of smartphones on any > other platform. > > I would not switch for such a minor convenience. > Chuck > > On Wednesday, August 22, 2012 10:31:46 AM UTC-7, Syntellia Inc wrote: > > Hi from the Fleksy team. We are writing to ask a question to those in the > list. > > > > As you know, we are committed to develop Fleksy and make it available for > more and more users. > > > > One of the restrictions we've had so far, is that on iOS, Fleksy cannot > replace your system keyboard across the device. We provide as much > integration as possible, letting you email, SMS, tweet, and (soon) post to > Facebook from within Fleksy. And you can copy and paste to any other app. > > > > We are trying to go beyond this: we could provide Fleksy as a keyboard > across the device, so you can use it in every single app without the need > to > have a separate app, or to copy and paste. We've also noticed that Android > is becoming more and more accessible for visually impaired users with each > update. > > > > So, here's a question for the list: > > > > If there was a phone that was accessible, and that had Fleksy built in from > the start. By built in, we mean that Fleksy could be used as a system > keyboard on every app, and that Fleksy would come with the phone, i.e. > without having to purchase the app separately. > > > > How likely would this be to make you consider buying such a device? > > > > Obviously we are talking about a hypothetical scenario, so for now let's > assume all other features will be the same as your current device. > > > > Would the availability of Fleksy as a system typing mode to use in every > app > make you consider an accessible Android phone in your next upgrade? > > > > Looking forward to your thoughts on this. > > > > Ioannis > > Fleksy team > > -- > 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.
