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.
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