Thank you, I will write you off list… Can I ask for a Tweet from the article never the less please? thanks.
Regards, Neil Barnfather Talks List Administrator Twitter @neilbarnfather TalkNav is a Nuance, Code Factory and Sendero dealer, as well as an Apple iOS, Macintosh and Android accessibility specialist. For all your accessible phone, PDA and GPS related enquiries visit www.talknav.com URL: - www.talknav.com e-mail: - [email protected] Phone: - +44 844 999 4199 On 12 Nov 2012, at 15:00, Joe <[email protected]> wrote: > Good article, and I'm all about social networking to advance causes. Yet, > app development is too fragmented for this to be a good vehicle. The better > way of going about this is by supporting the AppleVis campaigns that target > specific developers at a time. Also, take to writing to public forums where > the audience is not primarily blind. Twitter could serve that function, but > Twitter is also busy. You don't come across what you're not looking for. > CNET is one good venue. Gizmoto is another. Maybe consider writing an > article to be floated around ArsTechnica. More is likely to come from > hitting up those venues. Overall though, I agree, and I will do what I can > to support your efforts. Personally, I think Microsoft has taken a good > first step by adding a disclaimer to items on its Store as to whether it is > thought to be accessible or not. Maybe we ought to turn similar efforts to > Apple to begin making accessibility ratings a part of its Store. I'm not all > about leveraging legal and ethical arguments. A developer does not sit down > to think about moral values when designing applications. They're thinking > about their primary customer base. That happens not to be us, which is > unfortunate, but they can learn differently if we take a strategic approach > to educating them about the benefits of opening their apps to an even larger > audience. Just some thoughts. > > Joe > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Neil Barnfather - TalkNav > Sent: Monday, November 12, 2012 7:28 AM > To: The Accessible Phones Discussion List; Talks Mailing List; > [email protected]; [email protected]; > [email protected] > Subject: A stance against inaccessibility... > Importance: High > > All, > > Forgive the cross list posting, but, I like many of you feel that the time > has come to stand up and be counted with regards to inaccessible Apps, and > those who produce them. Please see my below article, and if you agree, > please I urge you to use the Twitter link at the end and Tweet this as much > as is possible. We need to stand up, and be counted in our collective > community. > > I would ask all of you to Tweet this and RT as much as is humanly possible. > Lets see if we can make a difference today... > > I wanted you to see this article: > http://www.neilbarnfather.com/accessibility-matters-sonos > > Regards, > > Neil Barnfather > > Talks List Administrator > Twitter @neilbarnfather > > TalkNav is a Nuance, Code Factory and Sendero dealer, as well as an Apple > iOS, Macintosh and Android accessibility specialist. For all your accessible > phone, PDA and GPS related enquiries visit www.talknav.com > > URL: - www.talknav.com > e-mail: - [email protected] > Phone: - +44 844 999 4199 > > -- > 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.
