Hi, I would also like to point out, the accessibility team is made up of more people than the people who read our e-mails and answer our calls. There are a few dedicated Voiceover engineers. I’m guessing not many, but a few that work on Voiceover specific issues. I think we must understand like most huge companies, maybe even more so with Apple, things are very compartmentalized. So, there might be an accessibility issue in Mail for example that the people responsible for the Mail app must address. Sure, the VO engineers might assist, and point out the errors on a technical level, but they might not be a high priority for the Mail team to address, and the Voiceover team just doesn’t have access to that to do it themselves. They might well be as frustrated as you or I. And this stuff about Steve’s Jobs passing being related to the lessoning or enhancing of Apple accessibility sounds so silly to me its not even funny. I mean guys, do you not remember me and others complaining about access to third party icons in the status menu? That wasn’t added until last year. If my math is right, Steve Jobs had been gone over a year by then. I don’t hear anyone thanking Tim cook for this. lol. Yes, don’t get me wrong, I think Steve Jobs and others at Apple felt strongly about accessibility. But less not kid ourselves. I don’t think Jobs was spending sleepless nights trying to figure out how to make Voiceover better. After all, there was a gap of around 4 years where the Mac was completely inaccessible. I’m just pointing out facts here folks. I’m as biggest Steve Jobs fan as you might find, but I’m not going to delude myself in thinking he coded Voiceover with his own two hands. :).
JMO. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Dec 17, 2013, at 5:37 AM, Ray Foret Jr <rforet7...@comcast.net> wrote: > Of late, I have noticed complaints against the Apple accessibility team as if > to suggest that we are being ignored. It seems to be the belief of some that > the Apple accessibility team fixes accessibility bugs and problems with Voice > Over. I do not believe that this is the case. It is my belief that the > Apple accessibility team has, in fact, a very limited role at Apple. > Frankly, with the passing of the late great Steve Jobs, that role has perhaps > demenished greatly. I believe that the Apple accessibility team never has had > actual decision making capacity with respect to actual implementation of > fixes for Voice Over. They didn’t even have this power under Steve Jobs. > Unless I am very much mistaken, all the accessibility team has any power to > do is to forward our findings over to the development teams but nothing more. > They cannot even tell us whether or not our reports will be acted upon. > Now, this last is most likely a part of Apple’s non disclosure policy: > however, I suspect that even if this was not so, Apple’s accessibility team > would not be informed in any case. In short, it seems that the only function > that this accessibility team has and will ever have at Apple is not much more > than a kind of clearing house of feedback from us blind users. I cannot help > wonder how many Apple app developmental teams look at submissions from the > accessibility team and say to themselves, “Oh, no, not again.”. I suspect > that this explains why it is that our reports seem to go unheeded. > > > Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind > built-in! > > Sincerely, > The Constantly Barefooted Ray, still a very happy Mac and Iphone 5 user! > > -- > 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.
