once again South Africa is forgotten. They always say an app is available
worldwide, but rarely is it actually true. I have emailed many developers
asking why they clame an app is available everyware, when it's just not the
case.
Are there anyware we can go to regarding this at apple themselves?
Regards,
Brandt Steenkamp
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From: "Scott Howell" <scottn3...@gmail.com>
To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 1:35 PM
Subject: Re: VO accessible Chess, Checkers, Draughts and Xaingqi games
released for iPhone, iPad & iTouch
Colin,
I have no idea, but it is unlikely. Converting an iOS app to run on the Mac
platform is not impossible perhaps, but would not be trivial by any stretch
since your talking about a complete change to the interface as far as how
you would interact with it. In other words, going from a touch-screen to a
keyboard or other input method. There is an accessible chess app on the Mac
in the APplications folder. You can choose to have the application speak the
moves of the computer.
Scott
On Feb 4, 2011, at 6:29 AM, Colin M wrote:
Hi Scott!
Could Marcel possibly make those Imac apps as well?
Do not want to cause them more headaches but would be interested if at all
possible!
All the best!
Colin
Qapla!
Chegh chew jaj Vam jaj Kak
On 4 Feb 2011, at 11:13, Scott Howell wrote:
Hi Jim,
ALthough several of us have been working with Marcel, I have not had a
chance to really dig into the games myself, although I did purchase them
all. :) I understand the exercises is for player 2 to win in one move.
The right or wrong is stated in the top message bar. I will check this
out, but Marcel is aware of an issue or two and will be working on these.
You would not know this necessarily, but Marcel took a game that was not
completely accessible and especially with regard to the game board and
made it fully accessible (game board primarily) within two weeks or so.
So, there will be issues yet and any feedback is appreciated and please
share with Marcel, via this list, or send directly to me, and I will see
your issues are presented. Marcel has done something that no one else has
and I tried working with another developer of a chess app that cost twice
what Chess-Wise Pro costs and he has yet to make his game accessible.
Marcel's enthusiasm and interest in making his games accessible speaks
volumes about him and his commitment to a quality experience. Now so I
don't sound like a salesman, I did purchase these games, I got no free
codes or any such thing. However, purchasing any or all of his accessible
games will support his efforts and is appreciated. :)
Thanks,
Scott
On Feb 3, 2011, at 8:59 PM, Jim Barbour wrote:
I've been playing with chesswise, and it looks awesome! I'll
definately say so in the app store.
My only question is about the excercises. The board is accessible,
but the explaination (what to do) appears not to be. That is, I
couldn't find any text on the screen. Has anyone played with this?
Well done Bryan, Scott, and of course Marcel!
Jim
On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 08:54:03PM -0500, Bryan Jones wrote:
Greetings All,
Today Apple approved and released the accessible versions of Marcel
Nijman's Chess-wise Apps! In addition, Marcel modified three of his
other game apps to make them VO accessible. Those Apps are:
Checker-wise, Draughts-wise and Xiangqi-wise. These apps are all now
available worldwide in the App Store and in the following languages:
English, Spanish, Russian, German and Dutch. Marcel hopes to add
Polish, Czech and French translations in the next update. The viphone
mailing list, Scott Howell and Geoff Waller in particular, were
instrumental in providing input, feedback and other information to
Marcel during this process.
Each of these four Apps is a universal App, which means they will run
correctly on the iPhone, iTouch and iPad. WHile there is a free version
of the Chess-wise App, I would urge you to consider purchasing the Pro
version to support Marcel's work. The price is only US $2.99 for the
Chess and Checker Apps, and only US $1.99 for the Draughts and Xiangqi
Apps. I believe Marcel is the kind of developer who deserves our
support one hundred percent.
I've not tried the 3 other games yet, but I can tell you the Chessboard
and Chess pieces are now recognized and read aloud by VO. You can
navigate the board using a one-finger swipe, or you can just slide one
finger around the board and VO will announce the coordinates and the
name of a piece if one occupies that square. To make a move, use one
finger to locate the piece you want to move, then double-tap. VO will
announce "Selected." Now use one finger again to locate the destination
square and double-tap again. Please note that this is considered a
first version of this game in it's accessible form. While Marcel has
made the heart of the App accessible, it is a very feature-rich App
which will require additional coding to make it fully accessible.
Marcel has asked that those of us who use the Apps provide feedback to
him so he can continue to refine and update the accessibility features.
Here is a link to Marcel's App Gallery in the US iTunes store:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/marcel-nijman/id337888122
Here is a link to Chess-wise Pro in the US App Store:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/chess-wise-pro/id351303981?mt=8
Here is a link to Chess-wise FREE in the US App Store:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/chess-wise-free/id367318028?mt=8
Cheers,
Bryan
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