You are correct for the Mac. For iOS devices, however, this is not the case. Most of the professional proofs and studies clearly demonstrated that blind peepul, as a whole, did not have the necessary spatial awareness, and attempting to memorise, without good tactile clues, would be almost impossible for most blind people. Therefore, an accessible pure touch-screen device was not expected or required. After all aside from some basic functionality, it couldn't be done anyway. Those poor blind people.
David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: [email protected] Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone On 18/09/2012, at 9:34, Christopher Chaltain <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree with David here, but I also wonder how much of Apple's sales are > effected by their commitment to accessibility. For example, how many > government sales or small business sales or educational sales wouldn't > have even been possible if they weren't able to demonstrate that they > had an accessible solution and meet the various regulations and laws, at > least here in the US? I think this would explode the 100K figure by > quite a bit, although I'm not sure it's possible to capture such a > number. I also don't mean to take away from Apple's commitment to > accessibility. I think their commitment goes beyond just bottom line > dollars and cents, although they are a business, and I don't think > they're doing it entirely out of the kindness of their corporate hearts. > > On 17/09/12 16:05, Scott Howell wrote: >> David, >> >> True, but my point is that although a small portion of the overall sales, >> APple still considers this segment worth the investment. I would love to >> know what the real numbers are across all Apple products including the Macs. >> >> On Sep 17, 2012, at 4:19 PM, David Chittenden <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Do not consider 100,000 iPhones to blind folk to be much of a market in >>> this case. This number represents 0.3% of 1 quarter year of Apple's iPhone >>> sales, but includes all models of iPhones for the past 3 years. In other >>> words, if Apple were to stop supporting VO, they wouldn't even notice the >>> tiny bump to their profits. Apple is not supporting concepts of universal >>> access for their bottom line. >> > > -- > Christopher (CJ) > chaltain at Gmail > > -- > 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.
