might I suggest, that instead of just an email campaign to correct some of the issues with voiceover in the later OS versions, that we should follow up with a snail mail campaign directed at the company president. I know this seems archaic, but the presence of physical mail can sometimes carry a lot more weight, especially if its a lot of mail from a large group. If their mail room at the facilities (located at 1 infinite way, cerritos california) has to start putting more and more resources into filtering the snail mail, it will quickly get the attention of higher ups in the company. This is one of many methods to attack their wallet in an attempt to get what we want done.
-eric On Dec 17, 2013, at 3:37 AM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > Of late, I have noticed complaints against the Apple accessibility team as if > to suggest that we are being ignored. It seems to be the belief of some that > the Apple accessibility team fixes accessibility bugs and problems with Voice > Over. I do not believe that this is the case. It is my belief that the > Apple accessibility team has, in fact, a very limited role at Apple. > Frankly, with the passing of the late great Steve Jobs, that role has perhaps > demenished greatly. I believe that the Apple accessibility team never has had > actual decision making capacity with respect to actual implementation of > fixes for Voice Over. They didn’t even have this power under Steve Jobs. > Unless I am very much mistaken, all the accessibility team has any power to > do is to forward our findings over to the development teams but nothing more. > They cannot even tell us whether or not our reports will be acted upon. > Now, this last is most likely a part of Apple’s non disclosure policy: > however, I suspect that even if this was not so, Apple’s accessibility team > would not be informed in any case. In short, it seems that the only function > that this accessibility team has and will ever have at Apple is not much more > than a kind of clearing house of feedback from us blind users. I cannot help > wonder how many Apple app developmental teams look at submissions from the > accessibility team and say to themselves, “Oh, no, not again.”. I suspect > that this explains why it is that our reports seem to go unheeded. > > > Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind > built-in! > > Sincerely, > The Constantly Barefooted Ray, still a very happy Mac and Iphone 5 user! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
