Re: Accessible development
Re: Accessible development
- Subject: Re: Accessible development
- From: Josh de Lioncourt <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:31:32 -0700
Hi,
In an ideal world, your arguments have merit. However, plenty of
developers do not have access to companion developers. My company
develops products for a nitch market, and I have yet to find anyone
willing to work based on sales royalties. It's just the way it is.
Your proposals may indeed be the better way to go, but for many small
developers, they aren't realistic or practical.
Josh de Lioncourt
Mac-cessibility: http://www.Lioncourt.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/Lioncourt
"Beauty was a savage garden, so why should it wound him that the most
despairing music is full of beauty?"
The Vampire Lestat--Anne Rice
On Oct 15, 2008, at 12:08 AM, Georg Tuparev wrote:
Chris,
As I already wrote, I would like to avoid discussing this subject
via emails. The reason is simple - it is too complex and time
consuming discussion, and made in a hurry it might give the wrong
impressions and I definitely would not like to be misunderstood. I
believe the right place for such in-depth analysis is the WWDC and
if you are going to be there next year I will gladly buy the beer
and do the talking.
Here I will give only two arguments that are relatively easy to
understand and hopefully will not be taken out of context.
1. What distinguishes Cocoa apps from the rest of the world is their
ability to amaze. Partially this is achieved by a greatly superior
UI, which are beyond the reach of many developers and certainly of
those with visual disabilities. One of the reasons I always
recommend that developers should work in teams is the UI. So far my
sight is very good, and I have hundreds of IB hours under my belt,
but I try always to have a buddy around when I am working on new
interfaces or modifying existing once.
2. Most people could remember (short-term memory) 7 till 12 facts.
Most operation on a moderately complex UI done with IB must consider
far larger number of attributes. Even the bast voice-over program
cannot help us with this physical limit of our memory.
These two arguments above relate only to people with visual
disabilities.
cheers
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