If it's mandatory for some apps to be accessible, but not others, who will determine which are to be accessible and which not? And if you talk about feasibility, doesn't that start to become a little like inaccessible apps don't need to be accessible, but accessible apps must be accessible? Who is going to determine feasibility? I'm sure many developers would argue about this. Amazon et al would of course argue that e-readers would fall into that category of not feasible for blind people; they're designed for people who have eyes to see the written words on the page. We, of course, believe this to be rubbish. It would take too much time and effort to mediate all the disputes; I don't think Apple would ever take such an approach. Something should be done, yes, but it must be straight forward to implement.
I think some kind of information in the app store about whether the app is built with Apple's UI elements or with custom UI elements could be useful and feasible. This could be misleading though as the custom UI elements may nevertheless be accessible. I agree, however, that Apple could be stricter on ensuring apps at least had properly labeled buttons and alt text. This would not necessarily make apps accessible, but it would be an improvement. I"m a little unsure about the accessibility rating system. There's the problems that Alex mentioned, and then there's also the issue that an app might become accessible in a new update but no one will test it because the rating says it's inaccessible, but I suppose this hasn't become a problem with AppleVis. Anyway, we probably don't need a separate rating system for this anyway as we could just make accessibility comments in the ordinary reviews section. Indeed, I believe one of the best things is for more of us to leave reviews with accessibility comments, both in the app store and on AppleVis. I must confess, however, that I don't do much of this myself as I find the process a little cumbersome and time consuming. This is both for AppleVis and the app stores. I've been meaning to go through my vast collection of apps and rate them all on AppleVis one day, but I never get around to it. I've been wishing of late for an app which would help me rate my apps. Ever since using iOS I've had less patients for websites; preferring instead the clean interface of mobile or desktop apps. One which would list all my apps and let me rate them for accessibility would be great. Sigh. -- 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/groups/opt_out.
