Re: Problems Using Amazon

2025-01-04 Thread 'Jason J.G. White' via MacVisionaries
ubject: Re: Problems Using Amazon I have been using the Amazon app myself, and have found it to be cluttered, but still accessible. Sometimes it annoys me how many headings I have to go down before I get to what I want to read, but it is still pretty easy to do. Navigating by headings is still your fri

Re: Problems Using Amazon

2025-01-04 Thread 'Mary Ward' via MacVisionaries
I have been using the Amazon app myself, and have found it to be cluttered, but still accessible. Sometimes it annoys me how many headings I have to go down before I get to what I want to read, but it is still pretty easy to do. Navigating by headings is still your friend, which is nice because

Re: Problems Using Amazon

2025-01-04 Thread 'Margaret Ricciardi' via MacVisionaries
Just used the amazon app, no problem. Peggy Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 3, 2025, at 11:47 PM, Michael Irons wrote: > > I just want to say because one person is able to work with the Amazon app > and make it work. Doesn’t mean that everyone else can. Those apps are always > tricky and most of

Re: Problems Using Amazon

2025-01-04 Thread 'Raymond Foret Jr' via MacVisionaries
With respect to the Amazon app, I just get around it by going to amazon.com/text Now the trouble there is you must log on every time. This is so no matter if your doing it on the Mac or your phone. Works but a well functioning app would be so much nicer. Funny, it used to be. With respect to

Re: Problems Using Amazon

2025-01-03 Thread Eric Oyen
Very true. It really depends on a number of secondary issues that can result in either minimal difficulty right up to complete unusability. On my OS X Catalina system here, I cannot use safari at all with amazon’s website. They have a web dialogu that completely steals focus, won’t allow it to

Re: Problems Using Amazon

2025-01-03 Thread Michael Irons
I just want to say because one person is able to work with the Amazon app and make it work. Doesn’t mean that everyone else can. Those apps are always tricky and most of us either get lost in what we’re doing or we can accomplish what we need to accomplish. To give you another example of another

Re: Problems Using Amazon

2025-01-03 Thread Karen Lewellen
Given the off list comments supporting my stance, you seem to be choosing to focus energy quite negatively here. I might add that the supervisors I spoke with at amazon, along with those from the disability team did not give me reason to feel your stance about Amazon Development is correct,

Re: Problems Using Amazon

2025-01-03 Thread 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries
   Then simply focus on the point, which is, send feedback to both Apple and Amazon. But it is very  likely that the Amazon developrs already have the connection to Apple. So keep the complaints going to Amazon. From E.T.'s Keyboard... Ambivalent? Well yes and no. My e-Mail: ancient.ali...@ic

Re: Problems Using Amazon

2025-01-03 Thread Karen Lewellen
Perhaps you did not understand my point, I might have been to vague. There are likely hundreds of thousands if not more voiceover users..they are not on this list though to learn from brad. Instead, they are going to contact amazon, and likely learn no way to fix their issue. Voiceover is

Re: Problems Using Amazon

2025-01-03 Thread Karen Lewellen
Brad, as helpful and appreciated as your wisdom might be, have you ever considered something? very very few voiceover and IOS users are on this list. So, a person understandably in the poster's situation is never going to get this idea, and of course because it works in your case does not mea

Re: Problems Using Amazon

2025-01-03 Thread 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries
   I have not seen a survey that corroborates that statement. Very few VO users? Brad did specifically state the Amazon app works for him using an iOS app. So why argue the [point? From E.T.'s Keyboard... Ambivalent? Well yes and no. My e-Mail: ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 1/3/2025 1:23 PM, K

Re: Problems Using Amazon

2025-01-03 Thread 'Sabahattin Gucukoglu' via MacVisionaries
I am still having no trouble—or, at least, no more trouble—than I was before, with the iOS app. But the issues persist, with a vengeance, on macOS. And I don't know whether it's related, but I'd say a big part of the issue is indeed that VoiceOver makes it very hard to explore outside dialog ele

Re: Problems Using Amazon

2025-01-03 Thread Brad Snyder
I just used the Amazon app on iOS to make a purchase, and found no VoiceOver issues whatsoever.I suggest you make sure that Screen Recognition is not enabled.- Brad -On Jan 3, 2025, at 10:06, Yolanda Thompson wrote:The iPhone Amazon Shopping App is broken for VO users as well.On Fri, Jan 3, 2025

Re: Problems Using Amazon

2025-01-03 Thread Yolanda Thompson
The iPhone Amazon Shopping App is broken for VO users as well. On Fri, Jan 3, 2025 at 9:04 AM 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries < macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Please share with us that Amazon email address. > > From E.T.'s Keyboard... > Ambivalent? Well yes and no. > My e-Mail: > ancie

Re: Problems Using Amazon

2025-01-03 Thread 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries
   Please share with us that Amazon email address. From E.T.'s Keyboard... Ambivalent? Well yes and no. My e-Mail: ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 1/3/2025 7:54 AM, radiof...@gmail.com wrote: I plan to send an email to both Apple and Amazon insisting that they collaborate to find a solution ASAP.

Re: Problems Using Amazon

2025-01-03 Thread radiof...@gmail.com
I plan to send an email to both Apple and Amazon insisting that they collaborate to find a solution ASAP. I suggest that others do the same. Otherwise they will just waste time blaming each other and nothing will get resolved. On Thursday, January 2, 2025 at 7:07:20 PM UTC-7 kare-ca wrote: >

Re: Problems Using Amazon

2025-01-02 Thread Karen Lewellen
Any update on raising the accessibility issues here? Just tried this in Linux. Reached the page asking for a captcha, called the accessibility team only to be told that the disability team does not help with captchas..is there not someone who can help you? I am sorry, but the suggestion that on

Re: Problems Using Amazon

2024-12-22 Thread 'Jason J.G. White' via MacVisionaries
isionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Problems Using Amazon I use the amazon app all the time. Haven't had a problem. Will have to try it on my computer. Peggy Sent from my iPhone On Dec 21, 2024, at 6:47 AM, 'Jason J.G. White' via MacVisionaries wrote:  I tested it under Linu

Re: Problems Using Amazon

2024-12-21 Thread 'Margaret Ricciardi' via MacVisionaries
d accessible in both. So far, only Apple devices are exhibiting the accessibility issues. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com on behalf of Eric Oyen Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2024 03:23 To: [MacVisionaries] Subject: Re: Problems Using Amazon   You aren’t the only one to notice this. The n

Re: Problems Using Amazon

2024-12-21 Thread Karen Lewellen
Sharing this too given the discussion of basic html coding in the other thread. Linux exists in so many varieties, but it, like apple, has a UNIX basis. Just because one person has no issues does not mean other Linux users are not experiencing them. even for those not using adaptive technology

Re: Problems Using Amazon

2024-12-21 Thread 'Jason J.G. White' via MacVisionaries
mazon does not have this problem, though. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com on behalf of Jessica Moss Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2024 07:04 To: 'Jim Fettgather' via MacVisionaries Subject: Re: Problems Using Amazon One thing I’ve noticed on my

Re: Problems Using Amazon

2024-12-21 Thread John Dowling
I don't have a mac anymore, at least, not an up to date mac, but I've noticed the IOS app has significantly degraded overtime.Regards,John Dowling,  Jr.On Dec 21, 2024, at 06:05, Jessica Moss wrote:One thing I’ve noticed on my end, a lot like with the Walmart app, is these sponsored ads that both

Re: Problems Using Amazon

2024-12-21 Thread Jessica Moss
One thing I’ve noticed on my end, a lot like with the Walmart app, is these sponsored ads that both have incorporated that just randomly pop up when scrolling and snatch focus away from what I’m trying to navigate, and in both cases, there seems to be no way to hide them. I found both apps to b

Re: Problems Using Amazon

2024-12-21 Thread 'Jason J.G. White' via MacVisionaries
, 2024 03:23 To: [MacVisionaries] Subject: Re: Problems Using Amazon You aren’t the only one to notice this. The name/account and lists thing is apparently a web dialog that steals focus and cannot be dismissed or bypassed. This appears to happen in safari a lot (especially older versions). They

Re: Problems Using Amazon

2024-12-21 Thread Eric Oyen
You aren’t the only one to notice this. The name/account and lists thing is apparently a web dialog that steals focus and cannot be dismissed or bypassed. This appears to happen in safari a lot (especially older versions). They have also changed the amazon app so that it is more confusing (and t

Re: Problems Using Amazon

2024-12-17 Thread 'Jason J.G. White' via MacVisionaries
On 16/12/24 16:05, Matthew Janusauskas wrote: Yes, navigation on the website with VOiceOver and Safari is badly broken. Google Chrome appears to work though; Firefox may be unaffected also. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have an

Re: Problems Using Amazon

2024-12-16 Thread Karen Lewellen
Please report this to amazon's customer service support for people with disabilities. Granted, I am told that even for those not using voiceover, but who are say using Linux, the issues are quite a mess. However, if not reported, it will not be fixed speaking personally. On Mon, 16 Dec 2024,

Re: Problems Using Amazon

2024-12-16 Thread Matthew Janusauskas
Yes, navigation on the website with VOiceOver and Safari is badly broken. > On Dec 15, 2024, at 12:02 PM, 'Sabahattin Gucukoglu' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > Yup, can confirm that this is a thing. Striking how once again the solution > is "Use iOS or Windows". I had hoped to use the scr

Re: Problems Using Amazon

2024-12-15 Thread 'Sabahattin Gucukoglu' via MacVisionaries
Yup, can confirm that this is a thing. Striking how once again the solution is "Use iOS or Windows". I had hoped to use the screen-reader friendly version of the site, but I couldn't find that either. Sigh. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list.

Re: Problems Using Amazon

2024-12-14 Thread Gabe Griffith
Hi, I haven't used the Amazon website in years. I always use the app on my iPhone and even though they keep changing things it's at least perfectly usable with VO. Gabe Gabe Griffith (925)768-8195gabrielgriff...@gmail.comOn Dec 12, 2024, at 11:02 PM, Herbie Allen wrote:Yes, I was looking at the s

Re: Problems Using Amazon

2024-12-12 Thread Herbie Allen
Yes, I was looking at the site earlier and it was acting funny. > On Dec 12, 2024, at 21:46, Brandon Olivares > wrote: > > Hello, > > Has anyone else been having issues with Amazon with voiceOver? I know they’ve > been changing things quite a bit, but I just tried to place an order and it >

Problems Using Amazon

2024-12-12 Thread Brandon Olivares
Hello, Has anyone else been having issues with Amazon with voiceOver? I know they’ve been changing things quite a bit, but I just tried to place an order and it was super frustrating. I can navigate normally with VO-arrow keys but the moment I try to jump to a heading or do anything else, it to