The App Store has perhaps become a little less efficient but at least on the iPhone is anything but unusable. You can touch the bottom right of the screen or even 1 finger swipe or touch the dock and 4 finger tap and then 1 finger swipe through all apps.
Where exactly do you find it unusable? Danny. Sent from my iPhone On 16/02/2013, at 2:57 PM, Cheree Heppe <che...@dogsc4me.com> wrote: > Cheree Heppe here: > > No need to make excuses for Apple. The IBooks store and the App Store have > become significantly less accessible with the changing IOS versions. This > doesn't have to happen and is a bad sign. In IBooks, there are horizontal > rows of titles and at either end of those rows oone encounters a slider or > something that when barely touched will shift the titles listings so that a > blind user has a hell of a time determining what the list actually contains. > > The same slider in the contacts list on the IPhone works well because it > somehow paces itself with the user's scrolling finger and is very usable. > > The App Store has these screen shots and a tiny place to flick up or whatever > that in using the I-devices since 2010, I have not been able to master. The > earlier iteration of the app store's accessibility worked so well that it was > easy to read about the apps, move through a list and so on. I have barely > used either the app store or IBooks store since these limitations became part > of the IOS. > > These changes make it nearly impossible for a new blind user to get a > confident sense of the potential for independent access that we got only a > few IOS upgrades ago. This would be very off putting to me if I had acquired > my I-device recently. > > Apple does not have to model its screen reader and access after the seriously > broken JAWS example. I use JAWS at work and have never experienced a > computer program so poorly equipped to do a job. > > > Regards, > Cheree Heppe > > > Sent from my IPhone 4S > > On 15/02/2013, at 15:50, "Blake Sinnett" <frequency...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > I would have to agree. Apple has lost some of their magic ever since the > middle of last year. Things just seem to be breaking a little too often. > iCloud, bugs in iOS 6, the maps fiasco... Who knows what'll happen next. Of > course Tim's just taken over, so maybe after a while things'll smooth out. > The only thing we can do is wait and see what happens. > > Blake > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: <jshandr...@gmail.com> > Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 11:42 AM > To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > Subject: OT: iOS 6 Disappointment! > >> OT: iOS 6 disappointment! >> >> Is anyone else feeling a little sad about the iOS eco-system since release >> in October. Don't get me wrong, there will always be issues. However Apple >> has had so many issues. >> First, you had the complete redesign of iBooks, App, iTunes store. In the >> first release the blind community lost a lot of access, because we didn't >> even have the ability to see ratings with the new software. >> Second, you had the App store crashing when you would go into the search >> area. This happened to everyone, not just our community. >> thirdly, who can forget the map debacle. >> You have devices going into recovery mode when you do a reset. >> The 6. 1 update you now have exchange issue. The extreme 4s battery issue, >> and now this morning people who use institutional accounts like at schools. >> Individuals can bypass the no downloading option. >> I just find this so sad. apple used to pay such close attention to >> stability, clean UI, and of course accessibility. I still love my Apple >> products, and hope things change under Jony Ive. Is anyone else feeling >> slightly let down? This is just a short list, I know you could point out >> more. 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