however, i do agree that apple should have a rating system for accessibility, that way, we know if what we are thinking about buying will meet our needs or not.
Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 11, 2014, at 11:18 AM, "'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries" > <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > The hard part is that accessibility is a continuum, not a boolean checkbox. > You can never, or at least seldom, say an app is fully accessible. At some > point it's just like saying an app has a good user interface. That's highly > subjective. Sure the basics are obvious like missing button labels or > undiscoverable controls, but beyond that there be dragons. When I check apps > for accessibility I give them a priority ranking 1-4. P1 blocks access to a > major feature, P2 blocks a minor feature, P3 makes a major feature difficult > to use, P4 makes a minor feature difficult to use. I usually get a good > response from developers on P1s and even some P2s but that leaves a pile of > hard to use stuff because those bugs never get high priority. The typical > developer is asked to implement 100 things but only given enough time to do > 50. So they've already had to dump a bunch of stuff. Then to ask them to dump > more features to fix some accessibility bugs, well, that's a hard sell. Some > care and will do the 'extra' work or at least fix the worst/easy things but > some are already under a lot of pressure and really can't spare the cycles. > > CB > >> On 7/10/14, 6:12 PM, DD wrote: >> >> http://www.marco.org/2014/07/10/app-review-should-test-accessibility#tk.rss_all >> >> >> >> XB > > -- > ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > > -- > 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. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
