Great work. Its a very handy platform and fixing it will be of great help. Hope the Android version won't take too much time.
On 1/23/24, Amar Jain <amarj...@amarjain.com> wrote: > Dear all, > > From Mission Accessibility, we are happy to share that Urban Company has > fixed a lot of accessibility issues on IOS and is working to fix > remaining ones. Android's accessible version should be out soon as well. > > This was perhaps one of our oldest collaboration without any financial > benefit to us as an organization and took time for us to be able to > educate the company on even the very basics of what accessibility is. > > It took different approaches for us to get them to achieve this. While > Turab worked hard on sensitizing them, Tanishk, who heads our > sensitization and capacity building vertical now then had joined us as a > volunteer who drafted a beautiful legal notice which Rahul sent them, > and I kept on engaging into technical discussions with their > engineering, products, and customer success team. We even did one office > visit at our own cost for them last year or so. > > Frankly, at one point, nothing was moving ahead. And I was dam > frustrated. In my mind then, court battle was the only option which I > thought would get us the desired results. But persistence and team > effort worked ultimately. > > We are conscious of the fact that we need to closely monitor them for > future updates. But at least it is a good start. And the only reason we > wanted to share all the background with everyone on this list is to > convey the point that it takes constant pushing and efforts to even get > businesses to take baby steps. Therefore, when someone feels frustrated > that no result is coming, lets channelize that frustration into making > one more service provider more usable and accessible instead of being > angry! > > Regards, > > Amar Jain > > -- > Disclaimer: > 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the > person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; > > 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails > sent through this mailing list.. > > > Search for old postings at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "AccessIndia" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to accessindia+unsubscr...@accessindia.org.in. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/a/accessindia.org.in/d/msgid/accessindia/9b8b185a60ab145001f0055266993d80%40amarjain.com. > -- Dr. Mahesh S. Panicker Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Lajpat Nagar New Delhi 110024 -- Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list.. Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AccessIndia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to accessindia+unsubscr...@accessindia.org.in. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/accessindia.org.in/d/msgid/accessindia/CAFAyNEOM1hzUsPRVBNp596spzvFLWgezXhOJFzyOtp1jf29piQ%40mail.gmail.com.
