[nfbcs] FW: compiling iPhone apps to Android apps

[Jim Barbour]

I am not at all convinced that android has caught up to iOS for accessibility. As someone who uses both, I think iOS is still way ahead 

However, this is a bit of a religious argument, and people  Will have very different opinions.

Jim

Written While on the Move

> On Mar 28, 2015, at 10:17 AM, Jorge A. Paez via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Oh Android is well established.
> As far as sales they control 80% of the market.
> As far as accessibility they aren't doing that bad.
> Not as good as Apple as far as I know--like, not totally built in, and
> some things are missing here and there but its not terrible either.
> 
> 
> 
>> On 3/28/15, Todor Fassl via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> 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
>>> 
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