[access-uk] Re: BBC I player answers back on in touch
- From: "Iain Lackie" <ilackie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 22:31:34 +0100
I was more concerned by the user at the start of the piece. He seemed to me to
be saying that there were accessibility problems where accessibility wasn't the
real issue. It's this kind of thing which gets claims of accessibility a bad
name. A bit of a case of crying accessibility wolf.
Iain
----- Original Message -----
From: Steve Nutt
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 9:17 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: BBC I player answers back on in touch
Hi Iain,
I only wish the "totally blind consultant" whom they referred to actually
came on air and spoke to give it some balance. But all they said was that that
person, and they didn't name them, said that it was accessible, but more
difficult.
All the best
Steve
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From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Iain Lackie
Sent: Wednesday 6 August 2008 12:18
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: BBC I player answers back on in touch
My main problem (as I may have already said) was that the iPlayer was painted
as much more inaccessible than it actually is. It is indeed very poor that the
areas which are inaccessible are inaccessible. However, the main functionality
such as finding and playing programmes is far from inaccessible. Like every
other website, all that is needed is to spend a little time getting to know it
and a willingness to overcome the fear of Flash.
Iain
----- Original Message -----
From: Gordon Keen
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 12:10 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: BBC I player answers back on in touch
Ray
Just to point out that Quicktime is perfectly accessible using voice over
on my Apple mac book, I use it all the time for listening to audio books in mp3
and I have had no problems listening to streams via the www.
As the saying goes, works for me! smile
Cheers!
G
From Bridgerule, Devon, England.
Devon, glorious Devon (first verse)
Combe and tor,
green meadow and lane,
birds on the waving bough.
Beetling cliffs by the surging main,
rich red loam for the plough.
Devon's the font of the finest blood
that braces England's breed.
Her maidens fair as the apple bud
and her men are men indeed.
On 6 Aug 2008, at 12:02, Rays Home wrote:
Well, at least it isn't the Apple Quick Time player we're dealing with
here, and that abounds in many podcasts. A greater load of pance in lack of
accessability is hard to imagine.
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