Google has an accessibility team working on their TalkBack screen reader
and making accessibility improvements in Android. I've gotten betas of
their TalkBack screen reader and I know Android Lolly pop has addressed
issues in Android, such as those with web views. Apple devices do have
the best accessibility, and you may not be happy with the progress
Google is making on accessibility, but that's a far cry from saying they
don't care.
On 11/21/2014 01:33 PM, rafal wrote:
the apple still has the best accessible devices, and google dont care
about making android more accessible. Sorry but in apple devices all
solutions is already. Of course there are many bugs but now I think that
is the most accessible devices for blind users.
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*From:* Scott Berry <mailto:[email protected]>
*To:* Vi Phone <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:* Friday, November 21, 2014 6:58 PM
*Subject:* Re: Apple updates and things related to accessibility,
PDF documents and Flash
I’d like to say that your right Apple is very committed to
accessibility. I spoke to a Tier 2 advisor who are the only one’s
who know about the accessibility features. Apple is wonderful and
they are a place that I’d love to work as well.
On Nov 21, 2014, at 10:38 AM, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi Mary,
I started a new thread here since we are straying a fair bit now
from the original thread about Android Lollypop.
I am also still convinced that Apple is commited to accessibility
despite the fact that iOS 8 was released with so many Voiceover
bugs. It really has only been just over 2 months since the release
of iOS 8 and even if I don’t count that screw-up with iOS 8.0.1
which was replaced by 8.0.2 the next day, Apple has already
released 3 updates to iOS in that time. Basically simultaneously
with the release of iOS 8.1.1 Apple has now released a beta of iOS
8.2 to developers and if the follow the pattern of iOS 8.1 and
8.1.1 where the beta was released only 2 or 3 weeks before the
public release we could see the public release of iOS 8.2 before
Christmas and even if it does take longer, chances are it will
come in January. I can’t discuss improvements, but simply the fact
that Apple is pumping out updates as such a furious pace would
indicate to me that they are dead serious about fixing iOS 8
although 8.2 is also a lot about the Apple Watch as developers now
have access to the tools they need to start creating apps for this
new category of iOS devices. Anyhow, I don’t think neither Android
nor Windows can claim to have released 3 updates which were
available to the vast majority of users in such a short time
frame. One thing Apple has definitely done right is to force
carriers to accept that they are in charge of software updates and
releases and not the carrier and I think that is one huge benefit
of Apple and iOS over anybody elses devices/platform.
As for Flash, well, at this point it doesn’t look like it’s going
away any time soon as I often find websites I go to use it.
I didn’t know it was so difficult to read PDF documents with
Voiceover on a Mac. For me that would definitely be a problem
because I deal with all sorts of PDF files every day in my
business and I love the fact that now with Jaws 16 it doesn’t even
matter any more if they are accessible PDF’s since if they were
just scanned I can still get mostly good results with the new OCR
feature which allows me to open a PDF in Adobe and with 2
keystrokes to recognize the entire document and read it, search it
or copy and paste from it.
Regards,
Sieghard
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