[nfbcs] FW: compiling iPhone apps to Android apps

[Todor Fassl]

I suspect what you are saying will come as news to a lot of people. I 
certainly didn't know that Android had caught up to Apple with respect 
to accessibility. I haven't looked into it for years but the last I'd 
heard was that Android had major accessibility problems.

I just got into a very hot debate on a Apple products list about 
different screen readers. Actually, I was just asking questions and 
trying to get answers. Naturally, I got
accused of trolling. But one thing that did come out was that Android  
was the best selling operating system in the world in 2014.



On 03/27/2015 05:10 PM, Joseph C. Lininger via nfbcs wrote:
> I've been hearing a lot of talk about how great Apple's accessibility 
> is, how that in Android is lacking, etc. However, as of today I'm just 
> not seeing it. I'm not necessarily saying you're wrong, as I don't 
> have an Apple device. That being said, I've watched people using them 
> and I'm not seeing a lot of difference in their capabilities using an 
> iphone and mine using a Galaxy S4. A couple of years ago, I would have 
> said there was a major difference. I won a Galaxy S3 tablet in a 
> raffle, and it just didn't work that well as far as accessibility 
> goes. However, my Galaxy S4 phone has a newer version of Android and 
> is much more capable as far as accessibility goes. I can even install 
> things from Google Play and they usually work. In fact, there has been 
> exactly 1, count it, 1 app that I just flat could not use. It was one 
> that came with the device. I would be interested in hearing about what 
> abilities the iphone has accessibility-wise that I don't have with my 
> Galaxy S4.
>
> What I have seen, and what made me make the original choice of Android 
> over Apple is that the Android offers me some choices that are simply 
> not available with the iphone. I can use an SD card to exchange data 
> between my machines if I want to; I'm not required to pass data over a 
> network or sharing service. I can synchronize my address book, 
> calendar, and task list wiht that in Thunderbird by installing a 
> program on my computer and an app on my phone. I can connect my phone 
> to my computer and have it appear as a drive so I can transfer files 
> if I want to do that. No itunes or other software required to make 
> that work. (Apple might have that ability too; unsure) I can write 
> software and load it on the device over USB without publishing it to 
> Google Play.
>
> In the interest of complete honesty, I will admit that I am not overly 
> fond of how the dialer works. It's not the easiest thing in the world 
> to get it to cooperate and work the way I'd like, although I'm not 
> sure how much of that is an access issue and how much of it is just 
> that I don't like the way it operates. I think it's a bit of both, 
> actually. From what I saw, the one in the iphone works more the way I 
> would like. I wouldn't make a purchase dicision based on that, but I 
> do acknowledge it.
> Joe
>
> _______________________________________________
> nfbcs mailing list
> nfbcs at nfbnet.org
> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfbcs_nfbnet.org
> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for 
> nfbcs:
> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfbcs_nfbnet.org/fassl.tod%40gmail.com