When I read Jos's email, I didn't think he was making any broad
generalizations about blind people. When he said "most people" I took
that at face value, and I didn't interpret that to mean "most blind people".
I can see where Jos is coming from as well. I schedule an awful lot of
events where I don't know how long it's going to run or how long I'm
going to stay, such as dinners, parties or festivals. Also, there are
times when I'm looking at my schedule where I just want to see the list
of events and start times. Since I've already loaded those events into
my calendar, hearing the end times is unnecessary.
Definitely for some meetings, especially business meetings where I and
others are looking for open slots, what you suggest is an absolute must,
and I agree it's an important feature for anyone who wants to use VO
Calendar for such meetings. It could still be useful for those tracking
their personal calendars though.
On 04/27/2013 01:29 PM, Ron Pelletier wrote:
Hi Jos,
Thank you for your explanation. I hope this update is coming as soon as
you can. Blind and visually impaired people have the same needs as
sighted people. It is not right to assume that most of us do this or
that. Setting a common denominator at the lowest level is not right. I
would say that it is important to all of us to be able to know when an
appointment ends so we know when to book the next one and this, whether
we need to book 2 or 20 appointments a day. Having to make anyone wait
for us forever while we try to figure out our schedule makes us feel
inadequate in a world where we constantly have to fight to keep up. At
the end of a meeting, when everyone is looking at their agenda to try
and figure out the best date and time for the next meeting, We, like
everyone else have to have the information at our fingertips. It is not
fare to make everyone wait for the blind person to fumble around to get
his or her act together.
Hope you understand my point of view.
Respectfully
Ron & Danvers
*From:*viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] *On
Behalf Of *Jos Jong
*Sent:* Friday, April 26, 2013 9:53 AM
*To:* viphone@googlegroups.com
*Cc:* ron.pellet...@sympatico.ca
*Subject:* Re: VO Calendar
Hello Ron,
I see your problem. I hope to integrate that in the future. The thing is
that most people do not need/want to set and end time for most
appointment unless they have a full business schedule or let their
calendar being managed by others. You may fall into that category?
I did the same thing in another app that I developed, Easy Calendar, and
in both we would like to add 'end time' as an optional field. The fact
that VO Calendar now assumes 1 hour is because the iOS calendar does not
support and optional end time.
With kind regards,
Jos Jong
VO Calendar
Op woensdag 24 april 2013 05:42:11 UTC+2 schreef ron.pelletier het volgende:
Hi all,
I wonder if Jos is still monitoring this list.
One more thing I find is seriously lacking in VO Calendar is the fact
that I can’t easily see what time an appointment ends. The app almost
assumes that every appointment is one hour. It is inconvenient to have
to go into more options just to find out what time an appointment ends
when wanting to add another. I don’t feel comfortable having people
wait for me while I fish all over for information as to when I am
available when that information should be available up front. If
someone knows a way to do this without jumping into the native calendar,
please let me know.
**
**
*Ron & Danvers*
**
*Falling down is part of LIFE...*
*Getting back up is LIVING...*
Read Bria and McKenna’s account of their cruise to the Panama Canal at:
http://www.chrisandron.com";
--
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
<mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com>.
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
<mailto:viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>.
For more options, visit this group at
http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google
Groups "VIPhone" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send
an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
<mailto:viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
--
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.
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit this group at
http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google
Groups "VIPhone" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send
an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
--
Christopher (CJ)
chaltain at Gmail
--
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.
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit this group at
http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email
to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
