[nfb-talk] LookTell

[T. Joseph Carter]

That's actually not hard at all.  The only reason so many apps are 
not accessible out of the box is that they use custom views that 
require the programmer to implement a method to define what VoiceOver 
should say.  They don't care to do it, so the controls say nothing.

It's the equivalent of putting an alt tag on an image, and it's just 
about that difficult to do.  In other words, the programmer needs 
only to want it done and take a few minutes to make it happen.  And 
yet the developers of a great many applications simply cannot be 
bothered to do it.

Joseph


On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 10:15:30AM -0700, Mike Freeman wrote:
>One of the "gotchyas" in porting the KNFB Reader Mobile software to the
>iPhone is coming up with a user interface compatible with the touch-screen
>in general and VoiceOver in particular.
>
>Mike
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
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>Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] LookTell
>
>I'm half expecting to hear before too long that the KNFB Reader software is
>available for the iPhone 4 and 5.  As noted elsewhere, the iPhone 4 has a
>suitable camera, though other Apple devices do not.  The hardware is pretty
>much the same on all major modern smartphones, it's just a question of
>operating system and application software.
>
>There's nothing terribly unique about the KNFB Reader's supported hardware.
>All that matters is porting the software to the appropriate operating system
>and working out how to put it on to the appropriate devices.
>
>Presently, you can only get iPhone software from the App Store (without a
>jailbreak of course), but this comes at a 30% cut of the sale price for
>Apple.  I do not know if that's reasonable at this point or not.
>
>Joseph
>
>
>On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 12:54:43PM -0600, Ryan O wrote:
>>Ed, I have an iPhone and use LookTell. It is a damn neat app. I wish
>>I'd owned it when I was a cashier.
>>
>>I think the day may be coming when mainstream cell phone technology
>>renders the KNFB Reader obsolete.
>>
>>
>>
>>RyanO
>>
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