[Diabetes-talk] Pocket Pal

rshelton1 at gmail.com rshelton1 at gmail.com
Fri Feb 7 16:21:37 UTC 2014


Looks like you shot a blank.

Sent from my iPhone

On Feb 7, 2014, at 9:02 AM, Mike Freeman <k7uij at panix.com> wrote:

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> Mike Freeman
> sent from my iPhone
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>> On Feb 7, 2014, at 6:45, "Robert Shelton" <rshelton1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> You folks know that it is possible to label buttons yourself.  It, of
>> course, would require sighted help, and you'd probably need to do it every
>> time the app gets updated, but still something to consider.
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Diabetes-talk [mailto:diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of
>> Mike Freeman
>> Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2014 10:05 PM
>> To: 'Diabetes Talk for the Blind'
>> Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] Pocket Pal
>> 
>> the principal problem with the app is unlabeled buttons. However, when one
>> brings up the documentation, voiceOver can't see it -- to a VO user, it just
>> looks like a blank screen. So the app developers are going to have to learn
>> a bit about the VO API.
>> 
>> Mike
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Diabetes-talk [mailto:diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of
>> Sandi
>> Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2014 7:56 PM
>> To: 'Diabetes Talk for the Blind'
>> Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] Pocket Pal
>> 
>> That is truly awesome!  That's right--the discussion was that lots of the
>> buttons weren't labeled, wasn't it?  So getting in touch with them is a good
>> idea.
>> 
>> Sandi
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Diabetes-talk [mailto:diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of
>> Mike Freeman
>> Sent: Thursday, February 6, 2014 9:51 PM
>> To: 'Diabetes Talk for the Blind'
>> Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] Pocket Pal
>> 
> Yes. However, the documentation is not accessible, that is, VoiceOver can't read it. 
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