[macvoiceover] Declaration addressed to Apple for accessibility improvements petition
- From: Daniela Rubio <mabuhay94@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 17:41:00 -0500
Hello all:
Here I send a link for a sign recollection addressed to Apple.
The iniciative was started by a group of spanish speaking people, but I think
it would be great for all, regardless of our native language.
The page is in spanish, but is very easy to follow. The form fields are just:
Name, Last name, E-mail and the check box where you accept the regulations of
the page.
In the page we can see the letter in english and spanish, but I paste it here
before the link.
Users with and without disabilities who use Apple products declare the
following:
We recognize the great work done by Apple in order to include support for
multiple disability profiles for their products. With this, many people can
access a big variety of services and content on the same date, in the same way
and paying the same as people without disabilities. However, the great
potential of this effort made by Apple could grow more. A major commitment by
the company is required to achieve full accessibility in their products and
services, as people with disabilities still face problems accessing them
freely. For all this we request:
Apple should give more importance to the accessibility of applications from the
App store and the Mac app store, since there are many developers who ignore or
do not pay attention to the needs of people with disabilities. It is very
important to raise the presence of accessible design issues and tools for
improving accessibility within the documentation, design guidelines and
development tools provided by Apple to its developers, for at this time, ,
documentation and accessibility tools fill in positions of minor importance,
and many developers are unaware of these elements.
Apple should reward the efforts of developers who create accessible
applications by giving them a greater visibility within the application
stores. for this a new category or distinction for applications should be
created in the Mac App store and app store, where applications in which
accessibility is assured are classified. To achieve this, besides creating the
distinctive character or the corresponding category in the App Store, Apple
should define procedures for evaluating the applications accessibility during
the review process prior to the publishing of each application.
Apple should integrate accessibility within their staff. Employees at Apple
should have more training and awareness about accessibility and disabilities ,
so they can more effectively help this group of users to take more advantage of
Apple's products and services.
According to the fact that Spanish is a language whose speakers number is high
worldwide, and more people from spanish speaking countries acquire and use
Apple products, we find necessary that the support of accesibility@xxxxxxxxx
extends into Spanish in order to improve the feedback between Apple and its
users, for this feedback has proved to be very important for the company.
here you have the link
http://actuable.es/peticiones/la-accesibilidad-plena-un-camino-al-excelencia-2
SALUDOS, DANIELA R.T.
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