[access-uk] Re: Setting the cat among the pigeons
- From: Christopher Hallsworth <challsworth2@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 19:18:23 +0000
Hi all,
I have to agree here. I appreciate Android is coming along but like many
others I picked iOS over Android at the time back in 2011 and will stay
with this platform for the forseeable future. Yes 8.x hasn't been the
best release, but weighing out the bugs from the features I would rather
take the features and work around the bugs.
On 28/11/2014 13:50, Peter Bentley 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
"Currently 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-tim
e-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."
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