Hi Michael, Excuse me if I disagree with your statement that they have made the CBC News app marvelously accessible. In fact, I think the CBC News app leaves much to be desired with respect to accessibility especially in one main area and that is actually reading the articles which of course happens to be where I would want good accessibility the most. It's relatively easy to swipe through the articles although sometimes you get bounced around in the list a fair bit. After I double tap on an article I can touch near the bottom of the phone and Voiceover tells me I'm in the Main Body of the story and it starts reading it. This is where the trouble starts because I pretty much have to listen to it from start to finish because there is no way to swipe sentence by sentence or even to turn the rotor to lines and read line by line. You can do characters and words, but who wants to do words if I want to check out a passage more closely or look at the spelling of something that is word 187 of a 200 words story. Furthermore, as Voiceover reads the main story it also reads links to other stories which is distracting and if for some reason the reading is interrupted by an incoming text message or push notification I have to start all over again from the beginning since there is no way to really stop and start again where you left off. I can do a 2-finger tap to stop the reading and restart with another 2-finger tap as long as it's only a few seconds later, but as soon as you wait a bit longer or some other event happens that does not work. How often was I listening to a long story and I was 80% done only to have to start all over and listen to everything again just to hear the last 20%. I have several times tried to contact the CBC about this, but as far as I can tell there is no way to leave direct feedback for the development team, you more or less are limited to going to the website and leave feedback via the contact us area. I haven't done it in a while since they don't seem to be very interested in improving the app, once I called them and had the impression that the person I spoke to couldn't care less. I was just recently considering to get the name of the head honcho at CBC and to write him a good old traditional letter and, failing that, maybe submit a story to Go Public and see if they want to investigate their own ignorance. One other area that is hit and miss is playing videos which sometimes are part of a story. I have more often than not come across the link to start playback and couldn't activate it with Voiceover. I also think that I am not the only one to complain, the app does not get very good ratings in the app store from the general public, either. Maybe you will say that I could always not use it, but I do use it because it does have the content I want, but consuming that content is in my opinion not a pleasant experience and despite the fact that the CBC has an official accessibility statement I would call the CBC News app far from polished when it comes to accessibility. It's useable which is probably about as far as I would go at this point.
Regards, Sieghard -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Michael Feir Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2016 7:19 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Canadian news apps The CBC News app is absolutely superb and you can set it to give you notifications on areas of interest. They have taken pains to make the app marvelously accessible. On 5/12/16, mike <mmstopk...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > My wife and I are looking for apps that will show us breaking news > here in Canada on our lock screens. > > Thanks for any help > > Mike Stopka > co-owner > Nunavut hosting services > company site http://profile.skynetcommunications.ca > > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, > or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact > the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara > Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Michael Feir Creator and presenter of Journeys of the Mind: Play is Where Community Begins http://www.michaelfeir.blogspot.ca/2015/01/journeys-of-mind-play-is-where.html Volunteer at New Horizons Peel Multicultural Centre www.peelmc.ca 2014--2015 Disability advocate Meadowvale Community Christian Reformed Church www.meadowvalecrc.ca 2013--2014 Volunteer at The Dam http://www.thedam.org 2011-2013 Twitter: mfeir Skype: michael-feir Author of Personal Power: How Accessible Computers Can Enhance Personal Life For Blind People 2006-2008 http://michaelfeir.blogspot.ca/2009/01/personal-power.html A Life of Word and Sound 2003-2007 http://michaelfeir.blogspot.ca/2009/01/life-of-word-and-sound.html Creator and former editor of Audyssey Magazine 1996-2004 Check out my blog at: http://www.michaelfeir.blogspot.ca -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
