Exciting news from Maverick Software/Working with App Developers

By Jennifer, 15 October, 2012

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App Development and Programming
Several of you have been writing to the Maverick software company about their apps such as Cupcakes! and More Salad. I received a very promising note from Glenda, the woman from Maverick Software I have been writing to for a couple of weeks. Here's what she wrote just a few days ago: Beginning of note: Good news, we did a bunch of work the last couple days and expanded & tweaked the Voice Over functions of Cupcakes!. We went through every screen, made sure anything you interacted with is tagged with the proper label. This new version is going off to Apple for approval, and hopefully in a week or two will be out as a free update. Many of the hard things like picking a spot in the pan to add a liner or batter are very easy now (the pan cups will read off as "pan cup 1" or "pan cup 2". The names for the various liners, frostings, toppings & other buttons are all the exact names from labels, not just filenames, so it's much clearer what you are picking. We'll be interested to hear how you & your readers like the new update, and welcome any feedback if there are other tweaks we can make. Glenda End of note. If this works out, it will certainly be thanks to all of the efforts of people on AppleVis. I'll keep you posted. Jennifer

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By AnonyMouse on Tuesday, October 23, 2012 - 05:51

Member of the AppleVis Editorial Team
Great job for Jennifer and all of your that have contacted the developer in making those apps more accessible for the rest of us! Well deserve pat on the back for all of you. Especially for the developer for taking the time to listen and make the changes so that all of you will enjoy it! Thanks for keeping us up to date on this!

By Lulu Hartgen on Tuesday, October 23, 2012 - 05:51

I am so pleased about this!  It really shows that writing to developers can do really good things. I also think if you tell people you like their ap, and helpfully suggest ways to make it better, they are much more likely to want to improve it than if they hear a string of complaints about inaccessibility etc.

I can't wait to play the new update, and thanks so much to Maverick software for working to make this fun ap even more fun!