[nfbcs] Questions about making an accessible app

[Nicole Torcolini]

Have you talked to your professor about this? Are there any requirements by
the school that can help?
I think that I know where the other students may be coming from, but you
should try talking to them about it. They might be afraid that spending time
on accessibility up front may take away from the time that is needed to do
all of the other requirements. I would try explaining to the other students
that you cannot add accessibility at the end and just expect it to work;
it's like adding ramps and elevators after a building is completed. You have
to plan from the start. They may think that they can just slap accessibility
on at the end like a sticker, but that does not work. They will find that,
in order for certain accessibility stuff to work, they would have to
basically start all over from scratch. Also, if you are already working with
something that is accessible, why is making the app accessible such a big
deal? Finally, why in the world would text directions not dynamically get a
person from point A to point B?

Nicole

-----Original Message-----
From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Suzanne Germano
via nfbcs
Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2015 12:09 PM
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Subject: [nfbcs] Questions about making an accessible app

Hi

I am in my senior capstone class and we are developing a tour app for
Arizona State University Fulton Engineering. As a legally blind person, I
want to make sure our app is accessible to those with disabilities.

This app will be a self guided tour and will be using the Google Maps API.
The group outvoted me and decided to do it in Intel XDK rather than swift or
the native dev for android. They want it to be dynamic where the user is at
one waypoint selects the next and follows the arrow on the map. IS there any
way to add accessibility to this for screen readers? I felt there should be
text directions but they said that would not dynamic get a person from point
A to point B.

I have never developed and app in XDK nor worked on accessibility in an app.
Any advice on good practices would be appreciated. I even had to convince
them you can't just use color as an indicator of things.

I said as a school provided app this must be accessible. They want to push
accessibility until it is done which makes not sense and is a backwards way
to develop.

Thanks for any advice
Suzanne
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