[access-uk] Re: BBC Iplayer

  • From: "Rays Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 14:19:46 +0100

Well Colin, yu've managed to find something at BCAB!  I've just searched 
through this month's archive and didn't encounter anything about the new 
IPlayer.

There is of course no defence of the IPlayer as it stands but so many large 
companies just never ever seem to integrate accessability into the design of 
software and websites.  It always seems to be that occasionally something gets 
done, and then the issue is forgotten about and hasn't made its way into 
general practice of developer teams.

I've no idea wether Ulie Schiller is VI or not;  most likely not even though 
there are VI software writers in the mainstream if very rarely.

Cheers,
Ray.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Colin Fowler 
  Subject: [access-uk] Re: BBC Iplayer


  Hmmmmmm, and is Julie Shiller a screen reader user? Not another sighted 
person that uses a screen reader from a sighted 
  persons perspective of testing applications?

  Eric Hugger is the head of future media and technology and Andrea Kalander 
the head of diversity, I think that we should be petitioning people with  that 
seniority for improvements, after all they are answerable for any infringements 
to accessibility and equality.

  I've viewed the BCAB archive on the I Player thread, and apart from one 
message that demonstrated just what and how systemic the problem at the BBC is, 
there didn't seem to be anything of any more interest.

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