Comments on: Accessible Markup: Provide a pronunciation tip to screenreaders

By: Carlos Ribas

Carlos Ribas — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 00:15:00 +0000

Indeed. He had been using my app for quite some time and just coping with a few minor issues but then iOS 6 really hobbled it, so he reached out. Super cool. I felt the same way about using an iPhone without seeing it. It is actually pretty well done. If you have one and want to try it out, shoot me an e-mail and I’ll share how to enable it :)

By: scichelli

scichelli — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 23:56:00 +0000

Oh, that’s awesome, Carlos. Cool that your customer was open to talking with you about it. I’d love to be able to chat with someone and get that kind of insight. :) I’m having trouble imagining how one would use an iPhone without seeing it; this is really intriguing.

By: Carlos Ribas

Carlos Ribas — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 23:47:00 +0000

Cool post! This reminds me of a recent customer encounter. I received an e-mail from a blind user, asking for some bugfixes. Apparently, iOS 6 had changed some behavior and my app was interacting with that new behavior in a weird way, causing annoying alerts on every tap. It was so amazing to me to realize that people are using my product in a way I had no idea was even possible. We exchanged some e-mails, mostly so my customer could teach me how to use the device in accessible mode, then I spent a couple of hours going through it and adding voice-over hint text where needed, fixing weird ordering, and of course correcting that issue with the annoying alerts. When I released the next update, that same customer emailed me again thanking me for the fixes and improvements. Awesome.

By: scichelli

scichelli — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 14:27:00 +0000

Oh, ha, I should mention that the link to Texas ROSE goes to the “before” site. Their new site will go live after the Open AIR judging is complete.