Android accessibility: Model T Syndrome
january 2011 by joeclark
‘How many mainstream users would buy an Android phone if it wasn't competitive with the iPhone? What if such users had no web browsing, could not read descriptions in the Android Market…, could only see some buttons with meaningless information on them in order to do things like installing new software, could not use more than half of the standard apps, could not use the on-screen keyboard, could not use the built-in email client, could not use any of the handsets without a built-in hardware keyboard, could not turn it on without assistance and could not do a panoply of other fundamental smart phone activities? The answer, plain and simply, is that a phone with all of these problems would have been the laughing stock of the telecommunications biz’
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blindconfidential
blind
accessibility
iphone
android
january 2011 by joeclark
Go Walkies iApp for guide dogs
december 2010 by joeclark
‘The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association has launched an exciting new iPhone app to build awareness of guide dogs and participation in its go walkies events’
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apps
iapps
iphone
gowalkies
guidedogs
december 2010 by joeclark
AppleVis
december 2010 by joeclark
“For vision-impaired users of Apple’s iOS devices”
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voiceover
apple
ios
iphone
applevis
accessibility
december 2010 by joeclark
No Grindr for sapphists
december 2009 by joeclark
Because “he hasn’t seen as much demand”
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iphone
iapps
grindr
wsj
december 2009 by joeclark
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