I was a little disappointed with the response myself Scot. I just hope that they are merely keeping with their apple says nothing until last minute policy.
On Aug 4, 2009, at 11:13 AM, Scott Chesworth wrote: > > At the risk of coming across as slightly standoff-ish, does anybody > else think that this situation and reply is a bit of a sham? There > wasn't even a mention of iWeb, and both products have been updated > recently enough for improvements to be made surely. It's not like > these are old smalltime products on a dusty old shelf somewhere with > no development time being put into them, Apple markets the hell out of > these and makes them into big selling points to buy their hardware and > make the switch. It's like "knock knock, who's there, oh it's just a > third party developer who doesn't see the need to do anything about > access because even Apple themselves don't bother with it that much in > their flagship products". > > Yes it's ranty, no it's not polite and probably it's not productive, > but frankly neither am I anywhere near as productive as I should be by > now in Mac OS, and Apple not practicing what they preach is becoming a > key reason for that. > > Scott > > On 8/4/09, Marie Howarth <marie.jane2...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I thought you guys might be interested in this response I got from >> apple. >> >> >> >> Begin forwarded message: >> >>> From: Accessibility <accessibil...@apple.com> >>> Date: August 4, 2009 6:09:13 AM BST >>> To: Marie Howarth <marie.jane2...@gmail.com> >>> Subject: Re: mobile me and Iweb >>> >>> Hi Marie: >>> >>> Thank you for your interest in MobileMe. As you noted, some aspects >>> work well with VoiceOver and others need improvement. Because of >>> this, Apple is not recommending it for VO users even though some >>> features may work well. We are working to enhance MobileMe but do >>> not have a schedule or date we can offer. When this situation >>> changes, we will be sure to note it on the Apple accessibility web >>> page. >>> >>> >>> >>> On Aug 2, 2009, at 7:09 AM, Marie Howarth wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> I was just wondering as I am using voice over and a trial of mobile >>>> me if there were going to be huge accessibility changes in that >>>> particular area soon? I have successfully kept my iphone and mac >>>> synced with mobile me and have started to use the idisc feature. I >>>> would love to pay for a yearly subscription but am a little >>>> uncertain whether to do this at this present moment with so many >>>> things reading as images on the website and certain features >>>> unavailable purely due to an accessibility issue. >>>> >>>> Also, Iweb would be a great tool for me as I manage several >>>> websites. Are there any ways I can use this application at all? >>>> Looking at it, it seems like it is not possible to do a lot of >>>> things here at the present moment. >>>> Thanks >>>> Marie >>>> >>> >> >> >>> >> > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
