HI Willem, Chris is one of the most thorough and meticulous researches I know of.
For myself, since I am also on the Eyes Free list and work personally side-by-side with Android developers, I find nothing in his article that is stated incorrectly. I know for a fact that web views display all of the atrocious accessibility issues that his article touches on because I've seen other Android users talking about this very same thing on the Eyes Free list themselves. >From my own experiences with my coworkers and my own team, developing for >Android is an accessibility nightmare if one is looking for some sort of >consistency or universal access. Please do not mistake the above for any lack of support for Google or Android. I and my company, both would love to see nothing more than Android be completely accessible and useful across the board. This just is not the case right now. So please perhaps give the article another read and seriously consider what Chris is saying. If people on any platform, decide to pass off a less-than-accessible alternative as something that is accessible then it is truly a lousy move for access tech as a whole. Thanks for your note and have a terrific day! Smiles, Cara :) --- iOS design and development - LookTel.com --- View my Online Portfolio at: http://www.onemodelplace.com/CaraQuinn Follow me on Twitter! https://twitter.com/ModelCara On Feb 24, 2014, at 5:54 AM, Willem Venter <dwill...@gmail.com> wrote: I find this article extremely biased and badly researched. He starts off by saying he doesn't know android, the API or how to use it and then tries to show how unusable it is. duh. Making controls accessible works differently compared to other platforms, but does not require "hundreds of lines of code". While many things he says might or might not be true his lack of proper research makes me cautious to accept any of his findings at face value as many of the things he says seems to be thumb suck and conjecture based on heavily biased personal opinion. The fact that he bashes apple in another article won't make his research in this one better. Note, weather I agree with him or not is not the issue. From programming for android I know many of the things he says are false. It's also not even talking android up over IOS as I don't know objective C or the IOS API well enough to comment on it. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
