are you sure about that? because the eyes-free android list has huge
amounts of list traffic on it from many different people, all blind, all
using android, all using talkback or some variation of talkback. Are you
on the eyes-free list? android is excellent and getting better all the
time. Whoever told you android is a tiny market has misinformed you
unfortunately I think. It's true back in 2009 through 2012 android was
still getting its footing so to speak. But now android and IOS are quite
close as far as their accessibility features. As of the latest talkback
beta, talkback can label buttons automatically for you most of the time.
It has verbosity options similar to jaws, different reading modes like
those in voiceover, and very good web support. With the latest
brailleback app we now have grade2 braille input. If blindfold games
were open sourced, other developers could help the main developer work
on the android versions. and talkback also works good with my RCA
galileo pro android 6.0 tablet with physical keyboard, thanks to
talkbacks many customiseable keyboard shortcuts.
On 11/9/2017 05:25, john wrote:
Josh:
It almost certainly would not be worth it. In the blind community, it
seems that Android is actually only used by a small, if very loyal,
group of people. I'll say this platform loyalty transfers into double
sales, but even so, 5%*2=10% of original sales figures. That's not
worth it.
*From:* Josh Kennedy <mailto:joshknnd1...@gmail.com>
*Sent:* Wednesday, November 08, 2017 22:29
*To:* blind-gamers@groups.io <mailto:blind-gamers@groups.io>
*Subject:* Re: [blind-gamers] No more Blindfold Games or Updates
yes it would take time. but would be worth it i think.
On 11/8/2017 21:49, Liam Erven wrote:
Josh. You realize all of his games would have to be rewritten from
the ground up right?
It’s not exactly a rainy day project.
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*From: *Josh Kennedy <mailto:joshknnd1...@gmail.com>
*Sent: *Wednesday, November 8, 2017 8:46 PM
*To: *blind-gamers@groups.io <mailto:blind-gamers@groups.io>
*Subject: *Re: [blind-gamers] No more Blindfold Games or Updates
just switch to google play store so we android users can have more
games please. thanks. and a new talkback just came out recently 6.0
beta. it works very good.
On 11/8/2017 20:37, Liam Erven wrote:
It’s unfortunate, but I’ve talked to some other developpers who
have had the same issues.
Mainly developpers who are designing apps as 3^rd parties get hit
by this.
I will certainly write and Call Apple though. Maybe enough people
can give you some sort of free pass, though I doubt it.
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*From: *Joe Quinn <mailto:jdawg1...@gmail.com>
*Sent: *Wednesday, November 8, 2017 7:28 PM
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*Subject: *Re: [blind-gamers] No more Blindfold Games or Updates
What does this mean for the end-user? Will we still be able to do
in app purchases?
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On Nov 8, 2017, at 5:34 PM, Marty Schultz
<ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com
<mailto:ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com>> wrote:
I just finished talking with an Apple representative, and
Apple’s decision is that unless I merge the 80 Blindfold
Games into a handful of apps, they will no longer allow new
games to be released or allow updates to be make.
From a technology perspective, that’s extremely hard and
time-consuming. From a business perspective, that would mean
spending hundreds of hours recoding the games, with no
possible return-on-investment. Most of the games generate
sales in the first three months of the game being released,
and I’ve been building these games for 4 years.
From a usability perspective, that means the main menus would
be ridiculously complex, and the settings screens would be
confusing and almost unusable.
If you are unhappy with this decision, you can express your
opinion to Apple. The accessibility desk is at
accessibil...@apple.com <mailto:accessibil...@apple.com>or
you can call 1-800-MY-APPLE. Thanks to everyone for enjoying
my games.
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