Tag: iOS

  • One week of life with Android

    Ah, it’s already one week. Summary is no regrets so far! Yes, it’s already a week that I started using Android. Got a nice back cover from Amazon.in at a offer price of 329 INR but pretty cool in black and blue colour. My initial problem of using SwiftKey keyboard and switched to Apple keyboard.…

  • Day 1 experience of switching to Android

    I’ve been using iOS since 2010 (Thanks to Alan Brightman and Victor Tsaran while we were all at Yahoo!) and it has been an amazing experience. Though I’m not a full time screen reader user, I use a few features meant for people with low vision. Again, I am not big fan of using magnification…

  • A few tips for iOS 10 users

    Until iOS 10, users just use one button to unlock the screen by using On/Off switch and then swiping left to right brings up screen to enter pass code. Now that in iOS, swiping left to right brings up highlights of a few things like News, weather etc., and users are asked to Press home…

  • iOS app Accessibility review – State Bank of India's Freedom Plus

    State Bank of India (@TheOfficialSBI) is one of the popular nationalized bank in India and recently released SBI Freedom Plus app and we decided to help them by reviewing app for accessibility. We have tested the app using VoiceOver, an in-built screen reader on iOS devices. To turn ON the VoiceOver, Go to: Settings ->…

  • Button Shape feature on iOS 7 – very cool!

    I wish I activated this button shape long back. This is very cool. One of the benefits I see it increases visuals for buttons across the apps and also underline text on buttons. To activate this option, go to: Settings -> General -> Accessibility -> turn ON button options. One issue Apple should fix is…

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    So much is done and more would come in the era of mobile accessibility

    I still remember Nokia 6600 (hmm. Nokia forgot this phone, can’t find on their site except the developer specs and found the info on Wikipedia!) that first ever mobile phone where user could install a screen reader either Talks from Nuance or Mobile Speak from Code Factory. Although the phone Nokia 6600 is big in…

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