[nfbcs] NFB & narrator

[Littlefield, Tyler]

I'd like to say this is also the case for Microsoft apps as well. If you 
write apps to Microsoft's guidelines, they are also going to be 
accessible. There's no difference here between Apple and Microsoft. 
There are accessibility guidelines for both; the commonality is who 
actually uses them.
On 8/11/2013 8:11 PM, Littlefield, Tyler wrote:
> This is the case to a point. apple provides Cocoah, which is a layer 
> you can use to design your applications, but just because you use 
> Cocoah doesn't mean that your app will automagically be accessible. 
> Apple has some guidelines, but there are still unaccessible apps out 
> there. It's the same with a lot of the win32 stuff. A lot of .net 
> applications can be natively accessible, but when you start designing 
> controls and the like there's a lot more that goes into it.
>
> On 8/11/2013 7:56 PM, Gabe Vega wrote:
>> that is very untrue, if the application is written with the code 
>> guidelines proveded to them by the Apple Accessibility Guide lines, 
>> the app no matter who writes it will be accessible.
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>> On Aug 11, 2013, at 4:52 PM, Joseph C. Lininger 
>> <devnull-nfbcs at pcdesk.net> wrote:
>>
>>> I know I'm coming to the discussion a bit late. Rest assured, I'm 
>>> not here to raise another point to argue or anything. I'm actually 
>>> just wanting to ask a clarifying question. I've heard that the way 
>>> Voice Over works is that it will work with applications that ship 
>>> with OSX or IOS or what ever is running on the device you have. 
>>> However, if you want to use some third party application it really 
>>> doesn't work that well. I'm not an Apple user, so I don't know how 
>>> true that is. Can someone illuminate?
>>> Joe
>>>
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