[access-uk] Re: More to accesibility than a synthetic voice (was telephone landlines)

  • From: <Clive.Lever@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2014 12:35:06 +0000

Hi Steve,

So who, if anyone, do you think is getting inclusive design right? VoiceOver 
with all its bugs is at least built in, not bolted on.

Best,
Clive



-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
Steve Nutt
Sent: 06 November 2014 12:28
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: More to accesibility than a synthetic voice (was 
telephone landlines)

Hi,

Don't want it to work like Apple at the moment, full of bugs <Big Smile>.

All the best

Steve

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-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
Clive.Lever@xxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: 06 November 2014 12:20
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] More to accesibility than a synthetic voice (was telephone 
landlines)

Hello all,

I wonder if the problem with partial accessibility is another instance of what 
I think happened with Blackberry and the early models of Kindle. There seems to 
be a naïve assumption on the part of some companies that if a device speaks at 
all, it will be fully accessible to blind people. So you get spoken caller id 
but no spoken menu; could read a book on the old Kindle, but try using the 
silent keyboard; Blackberry had speech output on a useless touch screen device, 
so at least you were told when you'd accidentally fouled up settings you didn't 
intend to tamper with. Perhaps developers should be asking "does it work well? 
And is it versatile", instead of adding in half-baked accessibility features. 
In short, does it work like apple?

Best,
Clive

 

-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
Mobeen Iqbal
Sent: 06 November 2014 12:06
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Land Line Telephones

hi pele. yep that's the one. yes, i agree it is a real shame!

all the best,

Mo.

On 06/11/2014 11:57, Pele West wrote:
> Hi Mo
>
> Thanks. We do have a cordless phone with 3 handsets connected as well, 
> but thanks for the information about the Panasonic system. Is this the 
> one that speaks the name of the person calling if they are in the 
> phone's address book? It is a shame it does not speak all the menus 
> and things.
>
> Pele
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