[gps-talkusers] Re: Android tablet

  • From: Carter Temm <crtbraille@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 10:46:15 -0500

Couldn't agree with you more

Sent from my iPhone

> On Jul 8, 2014, at 10:35 AM, "Ray Carette" <ray957719@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> I'm glad you folks find android to be accessible cause I know when I
> tried it a couple years ago, it was almost totally non[accessible. In
> fact, the only way to make it accessible wasto purchase mobile speak
> or something like that. Anyway, after all that, I switched to the
> iphone and I am not looking back.
> 
>> On 7/8/14, Mike Arrigo <n0oxy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Yes, android is very accessible, I use it on a daily basis. Anyone who
>> still says android is not blind friendly simply has not given it a
>> chance. Does it work differently than IOS? Yes. Is it just as accessible?
>> Yes.
>> Original message:
>>> These days Android devices are quite accessible.
>>> For example, here is an unboxing of the Samsung Galaxy Tab S that was
>>> released on June 26.
>>> http://www.mysticaccesspodcast.com/audio/mp71samsungunboxing.mp3
>>> Note: just to keep the message on topic, this tablet runs Nearby
>>> Explorer just fine.
>> 
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>>>> On 7/8/2014 10:29 AM, Carter Temm wrote:
>>>> Not to mention their devices I'm not accessible either
>> 
>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>>> On Jul 8, 2014, at 6:51 AM, "Luke French" <nhbostonfan@xxxxxxxxx
>>>> <mailto:nhbostonfan@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>> 
>>>>> Hello all, I would have to say that Google is not friendly to blind
>>>>> people. The Google Chrome app is nearly impossible to use with the
>>>>> voice synthesizer. Their Google glass only works for the ride I sorry
>>>>> if you don't have a right eye.
>> 
>>>>> Luke
>> 
>>>>> On Jul 8, 2014, at 1:53 AM, Ilkka Pirttimaa <ilkka.pirttimaa@xxxxxxxxx
>>>>> <mailto:ilkka.pirttimaa@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>> 
>>>>>> I see this "why don't you use Google Maps" question so often, that I
>>>>>> think I need to give my thoughts. I was originally planning to use
>>>>>> Google Maps in BlindSquare, but their license explicitly says it is
>>>>>> not allowed to be used in apps like this. I tried to contact Google,
>>>>>> but it is very hard to get to contact with them, even I have some
>>>>>> business channels there.
>> 
>>>>>> So, as a built in map data source, I don't see Google Maps as an
>>>>>> option. They don't have API to get street data in vector form which
>>>>>> is often needed in apps like this. What they provide is map in
>>>>>> graphical form which is not very useful).
>> 
>>>>>> Yes, they have possibility to do route plan and search for POI, but
>>>>>> for BlindSquare it is not enough (+there is this license issue).
>> 
>>>>>> So, for this reason, Google Maps is provided only as 3rd party route
>>>>>> planning and more detailed map data is coming from OpenStreetMap and
>>>>>> Apple Maps.
>> 
>> 
>>>>>> On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 2:02 AM, brandon armstrong
>>>>>> <baarmstrong37@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:baarmstrong37@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>> 
>>>>>>    hello all, I want to weigh in on what mike may said here.  you
>>>>>>    love foursquare, my point here, please get google maps in the
>>>>>>    next version of this app, like we've been asking you to do sense
>>>>>>    1.0 and call it a day.  do you know, that we got a bypass here in
>>>>>>    my location, after the bypass opened, with in two days of that
>>>>>>    road opening, google maps starts telling me turn right on to
>>>>>>    state highway 9, where your app and some others keep telling me
>>>>>>    to continue on to 190.  I'm sorry, but for almost real time
>>>>>>    updated map info google maps will be your best way to go verses
>>>>>>    tom tom and map quest.  brandonTo change your email settings
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