Category: Cell Phone Talk
I never found a good article comparing Android and iOS from an accessibility point of view so I attempted to write one. If your interested see
http://www.blindtech.net/?p=26
Hopefully this is useful to someone.
Not really, because if I was choosing something based on accessibility, I would choose one of the most accessible versions of the product rather than the default version. There seems to have been more progress in the development of accessible products for Android so my smart phone will be an Android phone, despite my concerns about Google's disregard for privacy.
Thanks for posting this; very good read. I am an IOS girl but did have a nexis tablet for a weekend; I slowly got the hang of talkback but it will be a little while before I invest in one myself.
Using android-L its kinda funny articles get written with in 6 months there ready for the trash receptical. I will read this but like one poster said, said "Not really, because if I was choosing something based on accessibility, I would choose one of the most accessible versions of the product rather than the default version." This is why I chose a nexus5 running at the time kitcat and now android-L beta I flashed. If one of your gripes was web views, well if I must, a podcast will be posted here on this board showing this issue is squashed and the new "yappers" talkback eyes-free team is working on a new beta of talkback to fix bugs and web view issues in kitcat.
I started this before Android L was announced, and not all devices will get upgraded. If the Nexus 4 gets android L I will write an update. As far as finding the most accessible version of Android some of us just want to get something that works with out doing a bunch of research and at a decent price. Any Sampson phones are going to be much more expensive then the Nexus 5. Since I was not going to spend $350 on a Nexus 5 I used an old Nexus 4 hoping it would be similar enough to either a Nexus 5 or a Moto G so that the info would help someone on a budget.
Agree with RBM and the original post. Comparing apples to apples is an out of the box comparison, not a let's-modify-this-one-but-not-that-one comparison.
Anyone wanting to challenge me on this name me one mainstream consumer test labs who compares one out of the box system with another modified, as though it were apples to apples. Anyone? Anyone?
Oh, that's right, that's not a real comparison!
But post 1's blog is in fact a real comparison. In the style of Ziff Davis Labs or Consumer Reports. I refrained from saying Smashable because that site's stuff is so much fluff most the time.
I can't even name one consumer test lab, mainstream or otherwise. I don't expect many consumers can either.
But if you're an average blind person, rather than a geek, and you want to be able to use a smart phone easily, surely you will buy a phone that is going to be easy for you to use. That is what I did anyway.
Not being a geek, I haven't bought all sorts of different types of phone to find out which one works best. I bbought one Telorion phone for myself and it is working well. It uses Android.