Hello Philippa,
Their reply is certainly not encouraging. I also read William's message to their support team and while he mentions that he is a Voiceover user, I typically give a few lines more background when I approach a developer. I mention that I am of course blind which if somebody isn't familiar exactly with Voiceover, he or she may not even consider. I also mention that due to Apple's commitment to accessibility the iPhone is fully accessible and that more and more visually impaired people adopt this platform every day which means that already now many thousands of visually impaired people world wide, probably that's actually tens of thousands, use iDevices. I mostly also mention Viphone which is just one list but which already has well over 1,400 members. I think some of these facts and the fact that many developers do make their apps accessible gives a company more incentive to look into it. Regards, Sieghard From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Philippa Woodcraft Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 12:19 PM To: macvisionar...@googlegroups.com Cc: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: ITV player inaccessibility hi all. as no doubt some of you know, ITV app on iPad or iPhone is completely inaccessible to VO users. below is what they said when my fiancee wrote to them and asked them to consider fixing the issue. would as many people as possible write to them and raise the point? we might be able to do something about it if enough of us complain? thanks. Philippa Begin forwarded message: From: "ITV.com <http://itv.com/> Support" <itv.comsupp...@itv.com> Date: 24 January 2013 17:15:39 GMT To: w.lo...@icloud.com Subject: RE: Accessibility iPad application <<#31865-90011#>> Dear William Thank you for contacting ITV. There are no plans to add this feature in the near future. I apologise for any inconvenience. 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Thank You. _____________________________________________ --- Original Message --- From: william lomas <w.lo...@icloud.com> Received: 24/01/13 09:30:51 o'clock GMT To: "itv.comsupp...@itv.com" <itv.comsupp...@itv.com> Subject: Accessibility iPad application Hello, As a voice-over user of your application on the iPad, I'm not able to select the play option for any given program. Can this please be investigated and resolved for the next version? To enable voice-over please go to settings, general, accessibility regards, William Sent from my iPad -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean ------ Please do not remove your unique tracking number! ------ <<#31865-90011#>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. 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