Dear Access Indian Bharat, thanks a lot for your well-informed feedback, Access Indians can better visit global consumer campaigning website at http://www.change.org and read the petition in its entirety and can sign the petition. Regards. David Richards.
Sent from my Nokia phone -----Original Message----- From: Bharat Sent: 24/06/2013 1:00:04 pm Subject: Re: [AI] A petition to Google on accessibility from the visually-challenged community David, Accessibility with Google is more than a lost cause! It just isn't their priority. Also, I guess, you forgot to include the link with your message On 6/24/13, David Richards <drvvrj...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all Access Indians, Software giant Google has been petitioned by J.P. > Shandra, a blind user, to make each of its products accessible for people > with visual disabilities. The petition, posted on global consumer > campaigning site Change.org, identifies that the company is failing to keep > up with its competitors on accessibility. While Google has made significant > steps towards improving the accessibility of some of its applications, > including Gmail and Chrome, Shandra says Google fails to integrate the needs > of vision-impaired users into its product development. Shandra identifies > the social network Google+ as an example of a product which has been > released to the public with inaccessible buttons and form fields. > "Vision-impaired community is tired of hearing accessibility features are > coming in updates. They must be there from the very beginning. Stop treating > your vision-impaired customers as second-class citizens," said Shandra in > the petition's description. "Moreover, stop treating them like they don't > exist at all. We have the right to live a productive life like everyone > else," Shandra asserted. Conversely, Apple incorporates the accessibility > into the development of its devices and software, making its products the > first choice of the most blind and vision-impaired users the world-over. > "Apple designs their products with accessibility in mind right from the > start. Even if the execution isn't perfect, the intention was clearly > there," Shandra remarked. According to the World Health Organization, there > are 285 million blind/vision-impaired people worldwide. This represents a > significant market which Google is failing to reach. At the time of writing > the petition on Wednesday, 22 May 2013, it had 125 signatures backing > Shandra's representation, but many more are needed to exert pressure on > Google to change its policies. If so many of us want to prove ourselves as > champions for the cause of accessibility, let's not hesitate to carry the > torch for our rights of accessibility and back Shandra by signing the > petition to Google. > Warm regards. > David Richards. > > > Sent from my Nokia phone > > Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of > mobile phones / Tabs on: > http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > > Search for old postings at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ > > To unsubscribe send a message to > accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please > visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > > 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.. > Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in 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..
