Sean, I'd be happy to entertain your below points, but firstly, forgive me, but this honestly sounds like the very same rhetoric that I hear all too often in the blind community which simply is a negative response to touch screens?… Yes?…
Is this really what your saying with the below, or are you genuinely not understanding how current touch screen tech is already used in the VI / blind community… Touch screen devices are already used by the visually impaired on a daily basis… On the point of accessible apps, I'm also not sure what your getting at here; Obviously, OSX / VO is already functioning just fine with a wide range of applications and as Apple would most assuredly extend the same paradigm to the IPhone, the same would logically hold true… Yes there would probably be apps which weren't accessible, as there are on the Mac, Windows, and various current Smart Phones / PDAs. However, there's every reason to believe that if there were an accessible IPhone screen access solution by Apple, that it's integration alone, would allow substantial access out of the box as it were. I'm not clear on why you'd suggest that an accessible IPhone isn't really an IPhone. What do you mean here?… <smile> Is a computer not 'really' a computer simply because it may run an accessible interface solution?… This type of logic doesn't make sense to me, but I'd certainly be interested in hearing where you're coming from on it, if you don't mind… Sure, the user experience would be different from a sighted user, but people customize their user experience very often, anyway. So this seems kind of moot to me… Anyway, I hope I've understood you correctly here, and that the above makes sense. :) Have a great day and talk with ya soon!… Smiles, Cara :) --- Follow me on Twitter! https://twitter.com/ModelCara View my Online Portfolio at: http://www.onemodelplace.com/CaraQuinn On May 28, 2009, at 10:48 AM, Sean Tikkun wrote: Can folks on this board help me out here? I don't see the point of an accessible iPhone. The fluid dynamic of screen touch technology combined with GUI interface seems like it is just a counter accessible design form the get go. Once you make the thing accessible it is no longer an iPhone. I may not be far enough outside the box, but even if the iPhone were made accessible then all of the apps would still not be. It is the same issue with Firefox. If Firefox wanted to be accessible, they would be! From my understanding the mark-up is there. The code for using it is free to the programmers and developers... They just don't care to do it. Shouldn't we be e-mail spamming Firefox to get with the program? Sean Richards Tikkun Apple Distinghuished Educator class of 2007 jaq...@mac.com <ADE_Logo_graysingle.png> On May 28, 2009, at 5:20 AM, Vicki Manley wrote: > > Hi, > That would be so ace if they brought out an accessible i phone!!!! > What a really great suggestion!!! > Best wishes, > Vicki. > On 28 May 2009, at 06:37, Ben King wrote: > >> >> Dear Mac Friends, >> >> I am writing you to let you know about an experience I had today at >> the University Village Apple Store in Seattle Washington. The person >> that I spoke to was very nice and he asked me what I would like to >> see >> improved in regards to Voiceover. I told him that Fire Fox would be >> nice with Voiceover support as well as maybe an accessible I Phone. >> Anyway, it was extremely nice for me to go into an Apple Store and >> play with main stream technology. I love Voiceover as well as the >> Mac. I hope you all have a nice evening. >> Blessings, >> Ben King >> >>> > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en > -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
