@sophieschoice With Android, you're getting spied upon not only by Google, but all the people getting through lax security. With Apple, you're getting spied on by Apple. With Linux, it depends on who made the particular software you're using.
@sophieschoice and this brings up a good point: we need multiple OSes to be accessible so that users have real OS choice. I know people who use an iPhone because not only could they afford it, but they felt it was the only real choice for them phone-wise. I have a Windows phone and while there is a button shortcut to turn on Narrator, it can only work if a sighted person first turns it on in the settings when you first get the phone.
With an iPhone, you can walk into a store, buy a phone, go home, unbox the thing, start it up and turn on VO without needing sighties.
That and Narrator still kinda sucks.
And some apps don't talk to Narrator at all anyway (like WhatsApp)
[benstoltz] Hey all! I’m working on making charts accessible and have come down to the decision between generating a description of the data contained within vs generating a table of the data. I was curious as to folks thoughts on which is better, if you’ve done anything like that before, and if I opted to go with both options what should be included in the description. Also if you’ve worked with accessible charts before how did you handle things like scatterplot charts where you have size or color as an element to the visual display of data?
[aisha] Hello @marcysutton!! I’ve got so many questions, but am attempting to finish up some contract work, so I will start peppering y’all with those later =D
Gitter Channel Archive 31st of October 2016
