Dear AccessWorld Editor,
This message is in reference to Janet Ingber's November 2019 article, An Overview of iOS 13 and iPad OS 13.
Many thanks for providing a fabulous article that may solve many, if not all the problems I'm encountering with iOS 13, and my iPhone 6S.
If it fails to achieve that goal, then perhaps only I can be blamed if my phone does not provide the performance that I believe it should deliver.
Unfortunately, though, there is one issue that your article doesn't address: while Apple consistently increases the availability of voices for users to select or play with, it is either unable or stubbornly unwilling to give us the choice to use Elloquence.
To some blind people, if it talks, it is sufficient. I don't care how many choices you offer, as long as Elloquence fails to be added, my feeling is that Apple is doing me a dis-service, either according to some title of the ADA or perhaps in the UNCRPD. I can't close without mentioning that, because while we still don't have accessibility contained in law here yet, we hope that we may enjoy that right soon here, and we certainly hope that our needs in that access legislation might be at least heard. If the law should fail to deliver that, then perhaps accessibility wasn't a good enough reason to insist on equality for all, where only sight reigns supreme of all the senses.
God bless America, absolutely, but long too, I believe, should New Zealand be counted in the world community.
David Allen
Dear AccessWorld Editor,
This message is in reference to Janet Ingber's November 2019 article, An Overview of iOS 13 and iPad OS 13.
I wish they had told me it doesn’t work with iPhone 6s. Some features work but I can no longer hear some of my alert tones. The phone still flashes and vibrates. The worst is that the Bluetooth connection to my hearing aids flips back and forth between one hearing aid and the other during phone calls, and one of my ears has terrible speech discrimination. I hope my audiologist has a fix. I was on a conference call for work today and it was very frustrating!
Priscilla
Dear AccessWorld Editor,
This message is in reference to Jamie Pauls' February 2017 article, Easier-to-Use Cell Phone Options for People with Vision Loss .
Jitterbug is not what it is cracked up to be. My dad has one. He had several strokes and cannot work a smart phone‑too many options. The flip phone from Jitterbug shuts down and has to be re-set if the phone is open and shut too often without using it. This means we can’t call him, he can call us (it reverts back to phone dial instead of voice dial and he must use voice dial). It is daily, sometimes more, that we have to call assisted living and ask them to have someone reset his phone. And...its not really any larger than previous flip phones. Not impressed.
Michelle
