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----- Original Message -----
From: "David Richards" <drvvrj...@gmail.com>
To: <accessindia@accessindia.org.in>
Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2013 11:12 PM
Subject: [AI] A petition to Google on accessibility from the
visually-challenged community
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.
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