Hi,
It is no longer honest though in terms of
accessibility. I would say Android is
virtually equal to iOS in terms of
accessibility, provided you know the operating
system, especially Android 5.0, AKA Lollipop.
As for Marco's blog, the second time he was
supposed to do it for 30 days and quit on day
18, just because he couldn't find a way to turn
the screen off. I could have told him of at
least two apps that do it, Filters and Shades,
so his research left a lot to be desired.
Sure Android is not perfect, but it strikes me
these so-called experts want it to be like iOS, and it simply isn't.
All the best
Steve
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From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dave Sheridan
Sent: 28 November 2014 14:26
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Setting the cat among the pigeons
Hi Peter
Whilst it may not be the response you had hoped
for It is honest in respect of how long you may
need to wait for this app to be developed before its release.
Dave
Sent from my iPhone
On 28 Nov 2014, at 13:50, Peter Bentley
<<mailto:bentleypdlists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>bentleypdlists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Afternoon
I contacted BlindSquare support yesterday to see
if they might be preparing to relaease their
program on the android platform. This was their reply. What do you think?
Peter
âCurrently iOS is superior on accessibility,
so 99% of blind users picks that one. Android is
coming better, but still long way to go...
I appreciate lot Marco Zehe, who is blind and
also works on Mozilla's accessibility team. He
has tried to switch over to Android 2 times now. For him it
was not yet possible, but he has written a lot
of differences and where Google still have something to be improved:
<http://www.marcozehe.de/2014/08/03/revisiting-the-switch-to-android-full-time-experiment/>http://www.marcozehe.de/2014/08/03/revisiting-the-switch-to-android-full-time-experiment/
That said: I hired Android developer 3 months
ago and we have been building some groundings.
BlindSquare is currently 80 000 lines of beautifully written
code, so making port of all of it would be
possibly 6-12 months task, so I'm aiming first
lite version. I have no idea, when that would be ready.
One of the best Android apps is DotWalker. It
has probably 5% of features of BlindSquare, but worth trying.â