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
<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
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On 28 Nov 2014, at 13:50, Peter Bentley <bentleypdlists@xxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto: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
âEURoeCurrently 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/
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.âEUR?