[gui-talk] iPhone, a Reality Check

[albert griffith]

When individuals as opposed to companies are creating the applications there
will be more of them that aren't accessible.  The phone manufacturers would
need a layer of people to screen for and correct inaccessible programming.
I doubt this will happen because it would add so much to the cost of the
project.  However, we can expect those applications created by the big
players
To be accessible and we should advocate with this as a goal.
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The problem is that there are all kinds of people writing apps.  In
fact, community colleges are starting to teach courses in how to write
aps.  I recently heard about a 9 year old boy who is writing apps. Apple
says that they will encourage 3rd party developers to make their apps
accessible, but Microsoft has said that they do this as well, and you
know the results.

Andy
 

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On Behalf Of Darrell Shandrow
Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 4:31 PM
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Subject: Re: [gui-talk] iPhone, a Reality Check

Hello David and all,

There are still so many apps that aren't accessible, or at least not
fully so, with Windows, so is there really much difference? The question
really
is: how difficult is it going to be to make the apps accessible? That
will probably determine how successful we will be in the advocacy I am
sure we will need to do in order to increase their accessibility.

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Andrews" <dandrews at visi.com>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 2:47 PM
Subject: [gui-talk] iPhone, a Reality Check


Andy:

Material from Apple indicates that most third-party apps will not be
accessible.  We will have to wait and see if changes can be made in
the future, but this is potentially one of the gottcha's with the phone.

Dave

At 11:59 AM 6/9/2009, you wrote:
>What interests me most about the Iphone are the many apps that you can
>run on it.  But the vast majority of these apps are written by 3rd
>parties.  I wonder how many of them will be accessible.  otherwise,
this
>seems more like a gimmick than anything else, but I do embrace the
>concept of having as much freedom of choice as possible.
>
>Andy


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