Archive for category: iOS

iPhone and iOS

When Readability harms readability    (2012.03.07)

The Readability app supposedly makes Web pages easier to read. What does it do to pages that are already easy to read?

Hot new iPhone apps by irresponsible developers    (2012.03.01)

How many hot-hot-hot! new iOS apps have impressed legions of fans while demonstrating their developers are too irresponsible or incompetent to make them accessible under VoiceOver? Shall we start a list? [Updated twice]

Oliver Reichenstein’s unusable iPad app    (2011.12.11)

iA Writer for iPad keeps your documents under lock and key. But we are endlessly reminded how much work went into making this text editor “simple”

GetGlue, maker of iPhone apps blind people can’t use, is hiring!    (2011.11.30)

Some kind of app named GetGlue is so inaccessible two blind people had to record a 45-minute podcast teaching you how to overcome the problem. And now GetGlue is hiring!

Can you use an iPhone in the Yukon?    (2011.11.29)

Yes, the iPhone 4S works in Whitehorse, Yellowknife, and Fort Nelson – but you’d never know it from the lack of publicity

Where’s the Home button?    (2011.11.29)

Why struggle to find the Home button on a black iPad when you can just use AssistiveTouch?

Of course Siri will work in Canada    (2011.10.10)

Of course Siri will work in Canada. Spoken Canadian English is American English. Now, French becomes another issue

‘Using Braille displays in Mac OS X’    (2011.09.28)

Braille displays work instantly on Macs and iPads

Eat quads’ dust, iPad users!    (2010.04.07)

Typing on the iPad? A lot of people need to type. Aren’t you crippled? Well, who cares? We’ve got you covered