Cherree I have to agree with Ricardo and others. I'm not totally sure what you're talking about here, but I think you're getting to head up. I have to admit, I struggled to use the iBookstore for a long time, but that was just because I didn't give it the time to work it out. There are no problems, except that sometimes it jumps and stops reading and jumped off the page, but that is easy to solve the two or three fingers swipe usually does the trick. As for finding books that's easy, and yes you do have to double tap to find more information, but why is that a problem? Similar with the App Store, if you want more info you double tap on the heading, but why is that a problem, perhaps you have to go back a page to be able to access the results but so be it. It's still a lot more accessible than it was when iOS six first came out. It's still a lot more accessible than if we didn't have voice-over at all! I'm not saying Apple accessibility aren't without their issues, but as others have said, email their accessibility people. They are very helpful, and they try to make amends. Yes, I am very annoyed currently about the jumping in Safari which continues, and which I find on both my iPhone and iPad. I'm not sure who to report that too, as I'm not sure it'll accessibilityan thing, And I think it has been reported before, but still, I will report it and hope that in the next release it is updated and improved. I'm sorry to say, but you seem to be having a nonsensical rant about, well, nothing here…
Kirsten Sent from my iPhone On 16 Feb 2013, at 14:56, Cheree Heppe <che...@dogsc4me.com> wrote: > Cheree Heppe here: > This fascinates me. Whenever a change in accessibility is made that impairs > us, somebody always apologizes for us by saying that we have to make > allowances for the visuals among us. Does that strike anyone as backward > thinking? > > Hanging accessibility on the visual appeal perceptions of a blind observer > implies that we as blind people have no idea of what is easy to use or what > is useful. Universal design does not mean me firster design, unless I'm > seriously misunderstanding the intent of the English language. > > The previous iteration worked. This iteration is convoluted and restrictive. > > Earlier, Apple made the choice to ignor accessibility and ended up losing the > contract for the State of New York's schools because their newest version of > accessibility had narrowed the access so badly that those needing the access > couldn't use it and the Windows camp took precedence. > > I would hate to think that sort of slippage is re-asserting itself. > > My srance: The current iteration of IOS it flawed and moving farther into > that area. My thinking is that somebody in Apple is embarrassed to be > compared to a charity group pandoring to the disabled and, why don't the > Apple people realize that they have a normal public to satisfy, etc. > > Well, the fact remains that anyone has the potential to require disability > features. An accident, a careless inattention by our fellow man and we have > the accessibility paradigm staring us in the face. There are always those > pesky wars, where whole people come back with less than they left with. > > Accessibility features aid everyone. There should not be a stigma in how > accessibility is introduced into a product. If there is doubt, the > accessibility tab in the IOS devices is way at the bottom of the list of > other modalities,. Accessibility should be intuitive and simple, so that > somebody newly faced with issues that already cloud their emothins and > judgment can just reach out and keep going with a slightly new form. > > The App Store isn't easy and isn't accessible. The IBooks store is iffy and > tedious to navigate as a blind user now and it didn't act that way before -- 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?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
