[macvoiceover] Re: Kindle now accessible on IOS with Voiceover.

  • From: Ricardo Walker <rwalker296@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 17:33:35 -0400

Hello,

I totally agree.  I think instead of laptops and netbooks, it will be tablets 
filling that higher processing role for consumers.  The netbook is already 
dead. haha.  Its good to know for the mobile revolution, accessibility will be 
a prt of it from almost the start.

I find this topic interesting but, I don't want to clog up the list with off 
topic stuff. :)  

Ricardo Walker
ricardo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Twitter:@apple2thecore
www.appletothecore.info

On May 2, 2013, at 12:57 PM, Ronald Johnson <ganahee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>       Well, my sense of all this is that the future of computing appears to 
> be heading toward a nearly 100% mobile world.  The desktop computer, as we 
> know it, will probably become a thing of the past in the next 5 to 10 years, 
> except for business, server machines, etc.  I suspect laptops, netbooks, 
> tablet PCs and smart phones will be the dominant platforms.  For this reason, 
> I think everyone wants to jump on that bandwagon and make their apps 
> available on those platforms, and make them accessible.
> 
>       I don't know if this is a trend in the Windows PC world, but my sense 
> is, at least from the Mac side of things, the way things seem to be heading.  
> Also, I've got a good friend whose commented, on more then one occasion, that 
> he's noticed that Windows and Linux are both implementing the look and feel 
> of the smart phone UI, further bolstering my assertions.
> 
>       One thing I've been picking up on, which concerns me a bit, is that, 
> since Steve Jobs is no longer with us, and Tim Cook's at the helm, Apple's 
> pace of innovation has slowed considerably, and they're no longer the only 
> "cool kid on the block", as it were.  I hope that's not gonna affect the 
> further development of VO, both on the Mac platform, or in the iOS world?
> 
> Take care,
> 
> Ron
> 
> On May 2, 2013, at 9:34 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote:
> 
>> Yup,
>> 
>> And to that list you can add the official twitter app.  Yes.  The official 
>> twitter app.  It boggles my mind that a company can work so hard to improve 
>> accessibility of there app for IOS, then put out an app for the Mac that is 
>> worthless to Voiceover users.  
>> 
>> Ricardo Walker
>> ricardo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Twitter:@apple2thecore
>> www.appletothecore.info
>> 
>> On May 2, 2013, at 9:10 AM, Ronald Johnson <ganahee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>>> Ricardo and others,
>>> 
>>>     Oh, how I wish that were necessarily true!  I can tell you, as a fact, 
>>> that there are at least 2 apps which are perfectly accessible on iOS 
>>> devices, but not on the Mac itself - MacTracker and Twitterrific.
>>> 
>>>     I've had MacTracker on my iPhone 5 now, for quite some time, and it's 
>>> quite accessible.  I've got it on my MacBook too, and, last time I checked, 
>>> it was pretty much useless.  As to Twitterrific, I don't have it on my 
>>> iPhone, at present, but, from what I've read from their App Store 
>>> description, they make a point to mention that they've made VoiceOver 
>>> improvements.  I downloaded a demo of their most recent version of the app, 
>>> for the Mac itself, and I couldn't get past the opening screen, which asks 
>>> me to authenticate with Twitter, but that's all I see - nothing else.  The 
>>> version I have is 4.5.  I'd like to find a fully accessible Mac Twitter 
>>> client, as Twitter access in Adium X seems not to function anymore, and 
>>> I've not found anything which is fully VoiceOver accessible and actually 
>>> makes sense.
>>> 
>>> HTH?
>>> 
>>> Ron
>>> 
>>> On May 1, 2013, at 1:44 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Yup,
>>>> 
>>>> Hopefully this will change.  They can no longer use Voiceover as an excuse 
>>>> for why the app is not accessible on the Mac.
>>>> 
>>>> Ricardo Walker
>>>> ricardo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> Twitter:@apple2thecore
>>>> www.appletothecore.info
>>>> 
>>>> On May 1, 2013, at 1:31 PM, Mary Otten <maryotten@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> The Kindle Mac app is worthless for VO users. A total nonstarter.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Mary
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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