> On Nov 13, 2015, at 5:09 AM, Daniel Phillips <djp_phill...@me.com> wrote: > > I work at Trainline on their iOS app. We had some customer feedback recently > and unfortunately someone booked a ticket for the wrong date because we > botched our voiceover support! > Safe to say our app as it stands is using accessibility solely for UI Testing > purposes and any voiceover functionality is purely coincidence. > > I've been adding voiceover support and my question is, to what level do you > suggest I go with it. By which I mean, we have a lot of data on screen, > departure times, departure station name, a label showing the duration of > travel in an abbreviated format etc etc. > > These labels could all be on say a single table view cell. > > I just added support for the following: "2h 25m, direct" to read out "2 hours > and 25 minutes. Direct train." > > And then I began work on the departure/arrival time. Then it hit me, I don't > really know what I'm going for. It currently reads out something like "10:20. > London. 14:36. Manchester", but having added a nicer support in the previous > duration example, I'm tempted to have voiceover read something like > "Departing 10:20 from London. Arriving 14:36 at Manchester" > > Of course there's no limit on what you could do with this, but I wanted your > thoughts on how far is too far. I want to make sure they get all the info, > but is being too chatty a bad thing? > > Would love your feedback. > > Daniel
Voiceover is your user interface to those who have difficulties viewing the information. If you have a rich visual interface, your auditory interface should be equivalent. Not everyone has eyes to see, some have to depend upon their ears. Get your user interface people involved as well -- they need to realize that snazzy interface means zero to someone who can't see it. Bring blindfolds if necessary. -- Glenn L. Austin, Computer Wizard and Race Car Driver <>< <http://www.austinsoft.com> _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
