Hi Mo,
Try Text Fairy, it's pretty good too.
All the best
Steve
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hi mat.
its very very usable. i've used nothing else for the last few years.
there has always been app for what i've wanted to achieve and its
always worked. fair enough things like OCR could be improved, but i
don't tend to use my phone much for OCR anyway though i believe google
goggles works quite well.
all the best,
Mo.
On 28/11/2014 16:05, MJ Williams wrote:
Hi,
How usable is Android? It may be accessible, but as you know
accessibility doesn't always denote usability.
I have never used Android, so I come to this as a complete beginner.
Matt
At 15:33 28/11/2014, you wrote:
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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<mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>] *On Behalf Of *Dave Sheridan
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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?