There's quite a difference between a public beta and a developers' beta. The
original warning notioce was for a developer's beta, which came out one week
BEFORE the PUBLIC beta was released. No change was made to improve the
functioning of VoiceOver with Watch OS 7 during those seven days. Thus,
blind beta testers of Watch OS7 are missing out on the opportunity to
participate in Apple's Watch OS7 beta program, where they could report any
other bugs. How often have we discovered, to our disappointment, that some
features that worked well with previous iOS versions, were broken in the
subsequent OS, even though they had been reported to Apple during the beta
process for that OS?
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From: Donna Casteen
Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2020 7:16 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Pétition · Apple: Apple, commit to never again willfully
excluding disabled people from public betas · Change.org
I can't believe such a petition was started!!🙄🤦🏻♀️ This petition was
started because an Apple watch user went against Apple's WARNING to NEVER
install beta versions of IOS on ANY Appple device that is YOUR main device!
Of course, this person just HAD to have the beta update & installed the beta
version on their Apple watch that they RELY on & USE daily! Beta versions
of any program WILL have bugs. The fact that Apple is a company that stands
behind their products making them accessible for the blind & those with
other disabilities, does NOT exclude Apple's beta versions of IOS from
having bugs. Nor does this bug prevent those who are blind taking part in
the public beta testing process. Apple was FULLY aware of the voiceover bug
Associated with ALL Apple watches. And fully WARNED voiceover users with
Apple watches of the bug. Apple also informed voiceover users that they were
working on fixing the voiceover bug, so that voiceover users could
participate in the public beta testing program. Placing the blame on Apple &
criticizing Apple for a problem that they were working toward fixing, is
wrong. The Blame solely lies with Apple watch user(s), who in their poor
judgement decided to install the public beta on a device, in which is used
daily.
It is very important that blind iDevice users participate in Apple's beta
testing program, otherwise voiceover or low vision features of the iDevices
would always have major bugs, making the iDevices unusable. Apple is a large
company. The population that is blind & who use Apple products is very
small. If this type of placing blame where it is obvious it does not belong
& publically criticizing Apple for something that at the time was out of
their control, but Apple was working toward fixing: Apple is in the end
going to do 1 of 2 things 1. No longer let blind users participate in the
beta testing process. Apple can do this by stopping all public beta testing.
2. Apple throws in the towel, giving up on trying to make their products
accessible for such a small population of people. Neither of these scenarios
are in the best interest of blind iDevice users.
When beta testing follow Apple's guidelines or otherwise DO NOT complain
when your device stops working!
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