Hi Mike, A web search shows that Appcelerator Titanium is a software development kit that allows app developers to design apps for multiple mobile platforms (Android, iOS, BlackBerry, and Windows) using a single design interface/code base. As such, the developer's comment is probably correct: if he were using Interface Builder, supplied by Apple for iOS app development, it's highly likely that many features that aid in an app's accessibility would get implemented by default, even if the developer is not aware of VoiceOver. Since the Appcelerator Titanium SDK likely aims for a kind of lowest common denominator of performance across 4 mobile platforms, 3 of which have no accessibility guidelines built into the basic app interface, it's quite likely that some of these features won't be implemented. I'd guess that it might still be possible to run the designed app through Interface Builder for evaluation purposes.
You might point the developer to Matt Legend Gemmell's blog post, "Accessibility for iPhone and iPad apps" http://mattgemmell.com/2010/12/19/accessibility-for-iphone-and-ipad-apps/ There are other resources listed on the AppleVis page for developers at: http://www.applevis.com/information-app-developers HTH. Cheers, Esther On May 24, 5:29 am, Mike Busboom <mbusb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have encountered an app that, I believe, would be very useful to blind > iPhone and iPad users who work in multilingual environments. When I notified > the app developer that the buttons in his app weren't accessibly labelled, he > said: > " > > I'm very sorry to hear that the buttons are not labeled in a way that works > with VoiceOver. This may be due to the programming environment I use (called > Appcelerator Titanium). I'll investigate that!" > > Will he be able to rectify this situation within the constraints of his > programming environment and if so, what should he do? I myself am not a > programmer, but I will pass along any useful information to him. > > Best regards, > > Mike -- 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?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
