By kevinchao89, 12 October, 2011
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Accessibility Advocacy
I've downloaded, installed, and purchased iOS 5 Newsstand issues from: Wired, GQ Magazine, Popular Science, Golf Digest, and Glamour. This resulted in over $20 and 1.25 GB in issues.
Unfortunately, all of these issues are inaccessible/unusable with VoiceOver. The issues will read as one of two ways:
* button, button, button, button, button, button.
* Nothing at all, but will make ding/border sound.
It's very sad, awful, and horrible that these 5 iOS 5 Newsstand apps allow one to purchase/subscribe to issues, see all the details, but not actually read the issues with VoiceOver that one paid for. Please, I hope that users will contact, educate, advocate for, and push for accessibility of these and all Newsstand apps by reaching out to developers. Newsstand is quite a big feature in iOS 5, had the potential to revolutionize magazine and newspaper access for print-disabled, but is inaccessible/unusable in its current form.
Comments
One possible exception
I've read elsewhere that the New York Times app is accessible and shows up in Newsstand when there is new content, so it seems that not all Newsstand capable apps are inaccessible.
If anybody knows of others that work with VoiceOver, post them here and we will try to compile a list.
Another blimmer of hope?
0 for 10: all inaccessible with VoiceOver
I agree. And all the people
Newsstand category now added to the App Directory
Hi Kevinchao89, Just to say I
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