[nfb-talk] LookTell

Mike Freeman k7uij at panix.com
Sun Apr 24 17:41:10 UTC 2011


I hear you.  But sighted persons -- at least of the current geological era
-- seem congenitally allergic to lists and simple tables.  After all, said
constructions might force them to -- gasp -- actually *read* something.

Mike


-----Original Message-----
From: nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of T. Joseph Carter
Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2011 6:07 AM
To: NFB Talk Mailing List
Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] LookTell

Mike,

I use an app called Where To? on the iPhone which has a custom view for its
first screen.  Rather than have a simple list of items, it has a circular
wheel of icons that easily identifies categories for you.  This screen was
inaccessible, until I contacted the developers.  
They fixed it in the very next update.

Another application basically displays HTML content, generated out of a
database.  Toolbar buttons activate a Javascript function that increases or
decreases the font size with a cap at a given size.  
Though I specified in my request that I needed either a change in the font
face to be able to read the screen or about four point sizes larger maximum
font size (which can be done by editing one number in this Javascript file),
they won't do it.  This application provides mass readings and I use it
literally sitting in the pew, so I don't wish to use it with VoiceOver
(which could read that part of the program well enough.)

Custom views or standard ones, if the developer wants it to be made
accessible, it's easily done.  If not, even the most trivial request can be
ignored.

Joseph


On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 05:28:36PM -0700, Mike Freeman wrote:
>I see.  Thanks.
>
>In any event, I wish we could ween those sighted programmers from their 
>custom views.  I don't think human civilization will perish due to 
>excess CO2; I think it will perish due to excess bling! (smirk)
>
>Mike
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] 
>On Behalf Of T. Joseph Carter
>Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2011 5:07 PM
>To: NFB Talk Mailing List
>Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] LookTell
>
>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 Behalf Of T. Joseph Carter
>>Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2011 12:10 AM
>>To: NFB Talk Mailing List
>>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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