Hi Kevin, Thank you for your good efforts. Frankly, I wish they would just make the apps for these things really accessible to the screen reader of choice, rather than trying to build some kludgy nonsense into the fire TV etc. I have a Kindle fire HD, and I was so dissatisfied with it that I gave it to my husband
Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 13, 2015, at 2:57 PM, Kevin Shaw <tvsound...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Mary, > > No, I don’t know anyone on the Echo team, but my friend tells me it’s not > hard to get the message across to the right people. I’ve already told her the > “community” is hating on Amazon products for lack of screen reader > accessibility. > > My friend has worked on some motor accessibility stuff for Fire TV, so it’s > not a far leap to get them to put a screen reader on it. > > I suggested they take the screen readers from the Fire Phones and put them > into the Fire TVs, but the Fire Phones are all being used to prop up wobbly > desks and chairs at Amazon. Only kidding. > > Will keep you guys in the loop. > Kevin >> On Jul 9, 2015, at 11:54 PM, Mary Otten <motte...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Good, Kevin. I hope something comes of it. You don't happen to know anybody >> on the Amazon echo team do you? It seems that requests from ordinary echo >> users don't do any good, as the updates they release do not help. The iPhone >> app remains a loser. The website is barely usable in my opinion and not >> usable and that of some others I know. >> >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>> On Jul 9, 2015, at 8:31 PM, Kevin Shaw <tvsound...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> A friend of mine is a software engineer on the Fire TV team at Amazon. I’ve >>> told her about the discussions on this list around the Fire TV iPhone app >>> being inaccessible to VO users and she’s given me her promise that she will >>> bring it up with the dev team. >>> Kevin >>> >>> -- >>> 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. > > -- > 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.
