Baring in mind that the BBVC news app was useless to voice over users, I'm guessing the Iplayer app will take a similar form and probably won't work. Let's hope I'm wrong though. I did contact them re inaccessibility of the news app but received no response.
Peter-----Original Message----- From: Jonathan
Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2011 9:59 AM To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxSubject: [access-uk] Re: BBC iPlayer iPhone app imminent | News | TechRadar UK
Regarding the lack of Android app mentioned in this article, there have already been two excellent and perfectly functioning iPlayer apps released on the Android market. However, the BBC forced them to be removed. Incidentally, I've had to manually scrape the BBC's website and bodge a link together to help a blind friend get Radio 5 and 5 live podcasts, because 3 months after being notified, they STILL haven't fixed their broken podcasts lists. It took me 20 minutes. Amazing, isn't it? How many £billion do they get? And how much is squandered on things like the already technically obsolete DAB system? Grrrr. Rant over! On 29 January 2011 09:41, Gordon Keen <gordonkeen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/apple/bbc-iplayer-iphone-app-imminent-924056 BBC iPlayer iPhone app imminentThe BBC iPlayer app for iOS devices, including the iPod, iPad and iPhone, isnearing launch and should be in the App Store for February. This is according to PaidContent who have been given the nod by an unnamed source that Apple users will soon be able to watch the iPlayer on theirportable devices without having to go through the laborious task of viewingcontent through a web browser.It's been a long time coming for the BBC iPlayer app to enter the App Store.Announced way back in February 2010, the app was meant to be in place before2010 was out but never actually made it to market. This was because the BBC Trust had to look into whether the iPlayer app,alongside a dedicated news and sports app, were the right thing for the BBCto release. It turns out apps were part of the company's raison d'etre, which promptly brought on the release of the hugely successful BBC News app and gave the greenlight for the iPlayer on the App Store. No Android Unfortunately there is still no word as to whether Google Android will get an official iPlayer app. Considering Erik Huggers is departing at the end of February to snuggle upnext to Will.i.am at Intel, and massive job cuts have been announced for theweb arm of the BBC, it's unlikely we will see an Android version of the iPlayer anytime soon. Via PaidContent
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