[nfbcs] Ethics of screen reader friendly development

[Mike Freeman]

Tracy: 
I don't think marketing would make a whit of difference. As you say, the learning curve is too steep and most people are singularly lacking in patience. Whether we like it or not, people don't like conversing with machines with the possible exception of GPS devices.. And the elderly in general don't want to learn something new; they just want their sight back if they have lost vision. Even talking watches are often too complicated for them. 

Mike Freeman


On May 21, 2013, at 10:03, "Tracy Carcione" <carcione at access.net> wrote:

> But do they have to know it's "disabled stuff"?  What if it was advertised
> like "See these nifty things you can do without needing to look at the
> screen"?
> My sister can see OK, and she didn't know Voiceover was on her iphone. 
> Now she'd like to use it, although maybe not enough to go through the
> learning curve.
> Tracy
> 
>> Jim,
>> 
>> You pick an interesting example.  While I would agree that people are not
>> using VoiceOver in their cars, the van I carpool in has
>> a system where the phone connects to the stereo system and in-coming calls
>> are announced including who is calling along with other
>> status messages.  However, this is part of the car's system and not the
>> phone.  It does not read text messages, but our driver
>> wishes it did.  I think some of the trouble is marketing, but I also tend
>> to think that is speech is promoted to the public that
>> it is likely some of the extra capabilities we need will get lost.  Even
>> if there is a need, sighted people don't want to use that
>> there disabled stuff.
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> 
>> Steve Jacobson
>> 
>> 
>> On Tue, 21 May 2013 06:46:41 -0700, Jim Barbour wrote:
>> 
>>> I must say I've always been very skeptical of the argument that if
>>> devices talked sighted people would use them when driving,
>> etc. The iPhone seems to be a pretty good indication  that this doesn't
>> happen.  sighted people could use voice over when driving
>> if they wanted to, but rarely do.
>> 
>>> Jim
>> 
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>> On May 21, 2013, at 6:05 AM, "Tracy Carcione" <carcione at access.net>