Why not have Apple hire an accessibility team which would consist of all the disabilities. This team would bear the responsibiility of determining accessibility: thus, no ambiguity. After all, who knows better than we how to test such things?
Sent from my mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in! Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray Still a very proud and happy Mac and Iphone user! On Sep 13, 2013, at 3:05 AM, Nicholas Parsons <mr.nicholas.pars...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. -- 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.
