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Re: [orca-list] Ubuntu Touch/phone

I have Ios8 and haven't had any problems.  Phone works just fine.  Admit to being a bit nervous about 
updating to IOS9 though.  

Alex M


-----Original Message-----
From: orca-list [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of Christopher Chaltain
Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2015 6:52 AM
To: Orca-list
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Ubuntu Touch/phone

Windows Phone is another option. I haven't used one myself, but I know blind people who are using them.

Whether you prefer one phone over the other depends a lot on what you'll be doing with it. I tend to prefer 
my Android tablet over my iPhone for most things, and the things that the iPhone is best at are those things 
I don't tend to do much on my smart phone. The bugs in IOS 8 and now IOS
9 make it really challenging to use the iPhone as a phone.

I tend to ignore statements like one phone is better than the other or more accessible. A lot of people base 
these statements on things they've heard or their experience with older versions of Android. Just as I take 
blanket statements I hear about Linux with a grain of salt, I do the same thing with other platforms, and I 
look for more detailed reviews where people talk about the versions of each OS they've tried and get into 
details on what they've found with one platform over the other. Of course, I also try to get first hand 
experience with a platform myself before forming an opinion on it.

On 09/23/2015 04:41 AM, kendell clark wrote:

hi
I hate to burst your bubble, but afaik ubuntu is doing zero to make 
their phone platform accessible. Android or IOS are really your only 
options. Sad, but true as far as I know. This platform could be 
accessible, but it takes the developers putting time and effort into 
it, and as we all know, that's hard to get someone who doesn't depend 
on accessibility tech to understand. What? Blind people? Huh? I don't 
understand. I'm not an IOS person, mostly because I refuse to buy into 
the apple culture, and also because I can't afford the vast majority 
of apple hardware. I've seen what apple fans are like and I don't 
really want to be caught up in that. Android fans can be just as 
fanatical I suppose, but I've never had an android phone for more than a few days.
Thanks
Kendell clark


On 09/23/2015 04:27 AM, Dennis Westphal wrote:

iOS is in my opinion the most accessible plattform for mobile 
devices. However Id love to use orca and Linux in general on a mobile 
Phone or Tablet as well. I myself dont really like Android. However I 
could really get behind using Ubuntu Phone and that way using Linux 
exclusively

Von meinem iPhone gesendet


Am 23.09.2015 um 11:22 schrieb Vincenzo Rubano <vincenzo rubano studio unibo it>:

 From what I know, we’re really far from getting Orca running with 
them. If I remember correctly, the problem should be that the a11y 
infrastructure is not ready at all for handling touch screen events…

If you want to get an accessible touch screen device I would 
recommend going with an iDevice. Sure, there’s some accessibility 
support in Android devices as well, but I don’t think that it is as 
good as the support that iOS provides… And this is my personal 
opinion after having played a bit with both platforms and I do not 
intend to open up a flame…


Vincenzo.


Il giorno 23 set 2015, alle ore 09:31, Milton <milton duurzaamdigitaal org> ha scritto:

Me too would like to have such phone.
Milton

Op 23-09-15 om 09:15 schreef Dennis Westphal:

Hi guys,

I just was wondering if there is any intension to integrate orca in Ubuntu phone. Or if it is even 
possible.
If it would be possible I'd like to get my hands on one of them.

Thanks
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