Re: Change.Org Petition Against Samsung
Although I agree that android has made a very good progress on improving the accessibility, Apple is still way better than android in terms of accessibility. When both these phones were released, at the time Samsung galaxy s3 and iPhone 5, there was an opened battle between them. Samsung galaxy s3 is better because it provides more options like NFC, a brighter screen, a larger screen, almost equal to iPhone 6. Also it is possible that you can insert an SD card. I'm still using this phone and I used iPhone 5 as well. I didn't see any tremendous speed of the iPhone 5, they were almost equal at all small tests I did. The problem with every company is money and money. Business is devastating invention.
There was also something to do with microsoft's accessibility here. Microsoft is definitely the worst of all in terms of accessibility. They are passed by both apple and android. A 20 year old company should be far far better. Android was started around 2008 or 2009 and it's now better when we talk about accessibility.
First, let me say that I strongly disagree with your assessment of Android, saying that Apple is "way better in terms of accessibility". If you last used a Galaxy S 3 to reach your conclusion, then there are many factors to consider. First and foremost, Samsung released that phone two years ago. So, the newest S 6 has significantly improved. As a matter of fact, it even has a customized version of TalkBack called Galaxy TalkBack.
Secondly, every Android phone has its differences, which leads to varying degrees of accessibility issues for certain users. HTC Sense was never very user friendly, though they've been improving their custom skin from what I've heard. However, I've never used an HTC skinned device. Samsung's Touchwiz was also notorious for not being too blind-friendly, but their new Galaxy S 6 has
improved that with their version of TalkBack. If you want to compare Android to iOS closely, your best bet is to play with a Nexus device. On Nexus devices, Android offers a purely stock experience, which is very simple to learn and it the closest to what you may be used to on an iPhone. TalkBack doesn't have any issues reading any of the elements in most of the stock and many third-party apps on these devices and the responsiveness of Lolypop makes it quite enjoyable.
As I said before, VoiceOver still does certain things better. For example, I am still annoyed at the fact that TalkBack doesn't give users the ability to touch the status bar and check the status of the battery, time, Wifi, Bluetooth, or cell signal strength. instead, it reads the contents of the notification shade. This has been an issue for a while now and I provided Google with feedback in a recent TalkBack improvement survey in hopes that the issue will be addressed in a future update. There is also
the issue of keyboard shortcuts not being as well supported as they are by VoiceOver. However, a new screen reader called Shine Plus does support reading the status bar, as well as extensive scripting. This means that scripts can be written to enhance the functionality of Shine Plus with apps that weren't well designed with accessibility in mind. So, Android really has come a long way.
Again, if you think Apple is way better, then that's really a personal preference. It comes down to experience with the device and many blind people still use iPhones for the simple reason that they're accessible and very simple to learn. Since iOS isn't customizable the way Android is, they don't have to worry about breaking their device. Hope this clarifies some of the misconceptions people have about the Android operating system.
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