----- Original Message ----- From: Reginald George To: Support for I Devices. Sent: Monday, April 07, 2014 11:11 PM Subject: [IDevices] Fw: Agogo Accessibility
I wanted to pass on this great letter I have received from the president of the company who makes the Agogo streaming app for listening to podcasts, music, and other content while driving. This app is 100% free and accessible from what I can tell, and very easy to use. He is already monitoring the Applevis web site. Reg From: J.D. Heilprin Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2014 6:46 PM To: Reginald George Subject: Re: Accessibility Hello Reginald: I'm J.D., AGOGO's founder and just taking an moment to reach out to you personally. I wanted to share some personal thoughts, and apologiesI hope you don't feel that we're spamming you. We're not. . . (even though I realize our team already reached out). First, I REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR NOTE! Thank you so much for reaching out. You might not know this, but our path to giving Accessibility a great deal of attention from our very limited engineering resources, was totally the result of user feedback from our preview of AGOGO. I wish I'd have thought of it myself,. . .but didn't(!). . . instead I noticed a meme in our feedback emails from blind users saying, "you know, you created a great universe for us to hear a universe of listening. . . but you didn't make it fully accessible. . . " Geez, I thought, - wow, here's a population of customers that not only could really benefit from our service, . . (we can do something GOOD). . but also, if we can make a service that works well for vision impaired users. . then won't we both grown a dedicated group of users while at the same time gaining great insights (sorry for the pun!) into how to create a service that doesn't rely on (sighted and other) users starring at a screen. As a startup with very limited resources, we as a team had to decide that this would be a smart, valuable and meaningful way for us to proceed. The response from the vision-impaired community has been awesome. Some of it critical. . . but most of all very appreciative. Here's the lowdown: We're just getting started in our efforts to make AGOGO the most accessible and best service for both sighted and sight-impaired users. In the next few days we'll be putting out a new release that actually has a number of fixes and improvements to Accessibility features. In fact, we view this as only a start for our accessibility efforts. We're just getting rolling! For example, we've heard from you and number of users that you'd like speed control functionality. We'll get it, I promise, just as soon as we can. Candidly, . . if we're going to proceed with these efforts there's something you can do to help us: PLEASE help spread the word to other users. Seriously, the only way we can afford to continue to do this is if we are successful as a startup and start very quickly showing that consumers like and use our service. If we're successful, you have my word that we'll work hard day and night to provide a great service for you and other blind and sight impaired customers. I PROMISE. Specifically, here's some little things that would help us a great deal. 1. Share AGOGO. Share it with your friends and people in your community both sighted and blind. 2. Give AGOGO a review in the App Store! It's a simple way to show you dig AGOGO. (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/agogo-cure-for-boring-commute/id632350781?mt=8) 3. Write a review of AGOGO on Applevis: http://www.applevis.com/apps/ios/news/agogo---cure-boring-commute-listen-news-audio-you-love -- Like AGOGO on Facebook (www.facebook.com/AGOGOAmalgamated) -- Follow AGOGO on Twitter (www.twitter.com/AGOGO) -- Add AGOGO on Instagram (www.instagram.com/AGOGOgram) I am really gratified and humbled by your note. I hope other's feel the same way and if we both get the word out. . . and build something better and better and better. . . I hope you and AGOGO have a long and delightful relationship. Reach out anytime. --J.D. Regards, --J.D. ------------------------------------------ J.D. Heilprin, Founder AGOGO Amalgamated, Inc. San Francisco / New York www.agogo.com j...@agogo.com twitter: @jdagogo / @agogo 323.552.7717 ------------------------------------------ This email and any attachments thereto may contain private, confidential, and privileged material for the sole use of the intended recipient. Any review, copying, or distribution of this email (or any attachments thereto) by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender immediately and permanently delete the original and any copies of this email and any attachments thereto. On Apr 5, 2014, at 8:22 PM, Reginald George <ad...@kc.rr.com> wrote: Wanted to say as a blind user that I appreciate the Voiceover universal support. The app is clean and easy to navigate on the iPhone. Is there any chance of you adding a speed control? I really like the ability to speed things up when I'm listening. If this functionality is available in the iPhone app, I haven't found it. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________ For podcasts and other information that will assist you with your IDevice visit: WWW.GatewayForTheBlind.Com/idevice Having problems with MS Office applications? Join the MS Office and screen readers list serve at: office2007-j...@gatewayfortheblind.com To post a message to IDevices send an email to: idevi...@gatewayfortheblind.com To join this list send an email to: idevices-j...@gatewayfortheblind.com To unsubscribe from this list send an email to: idevices-le...@gatewayfortheblind.com ______________________________________ _www._GatewayForTheBlind.Com The Gateway To Independence -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. 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