Last month, there was a hearing in Congress, in which
telecommunications and other entities under Section 255 were told, in
no uncertain terms, to "get on the good foot" and there is no excuse
why people with disabilities should be denied access to information
other facets of society have at their disposal. Richie Gardenhire,
Anchorage, Alaska.
On Jun 10, 2008, at 1:42 PM, Scott Howell wrote:
508 applies only to the GOvernment, but Section 255 if I have the
correct number would apply to cell phones. This is section 255 of
the Telecommunications Act.
On Jun 10, 2008, at 4:15 PM, Chris Blouch wrote:
Which federal regulations would that be? There is Section 508 but I
thought that only applied to government procurement. So without
compliance the government will not buy iPhones or something. Also a
lot of laws only require registering a plan to reach accessibility
and demonstrate adherence to that plan, not that you must have
things accessible day 1. Apple may well have a plan in place but
the solution is not yet implemented or surfaced in a public product
yet. I suspect they have bags of lawyers who checked into this.
CB
Larry Wanger wrote:
Never mind that Apple is probably violating Federal requirements
to make phones accessible. You know, this morning my wife's cell
phone (an iPhone) was ringing with an important phone call and I
couldn't even answer it! Something is wrong with this picture.
They are aware of the problem and yet have taken no steps to make
the phone accessible.
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On Jun 9, 2008, at 8:07 PM, Richie Gardenhire wrote:
Unfortunately from the preliminary readings I've done, the new
iPhone 3G edition, will not be VoiceOver friendly. We will
probably have to wait a while longer for that to happen. But as
they say, "All good things come to those of us who wait
patiently." So I'm going to keep reading and checking to see
what comes down the pipe in the next generation of iPhones after
this one. Richie Gardenhire, Anchorage, Alaska.
Scott Howell
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