I downloaded all of them today, only Barefoot world Atlas was semi-accessible. Not accessible enough to use though.
Jon
On Jul 13, 2013, at 1:55 PM, Claude Everett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> It probably wouldn't have been more expensive if they had designed the app
> with accessibility in mind in the first place.
>
>
> Claude Everett
> "First of all: what is work?
> Work is of two kinds:
> first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface
> relatively to other such matter;
> second, telling other people to do so.
> The first kind is unpleasant and ill paid; the second is pleasant and
> highly paid."
> From The collection of essays "In Praise of Idleness" by Bertrand Russell
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Penny Reeder
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> Subject: Re: [VICUG-L] I wonder how many of these are accessible?
>
> I don't know about the others, but the "How to Cook Everything" is not
> accessible. I wrote to the maker of the app, which is not the NYTimes, to
> ask that they make the recipes accessible with VoiceOver, and they said it
> costs too much for them to do so. Very frustrating and disappointing!
> Penny
>
> On 7/13/13, peter altschul <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> 10 Of The Most Popular iOS Apps Are Free This Week
>> For the App Store's fifth anniversary, Apple is offering 10 top-tier
>> apps as free downloads for a limited time.
>> Christina Chaey
>> Ten top-tier iOS apps, which normally retail for up to $19.99 in the
>> case of the DJing app Traktor DJ are free to download this week as
>> part of a mini-fire sale to celebrate the fifth anniversary of Apple's
>> App Store, which has grown from 500 apps to more than 900,000 since it
>> opened in 2008. These apps are only free to download for a limited
>> time, so get tapping:
>> ininTraktor DJ for iPhone and iPad This app, which normally retails
>> for $19.99, lets you spin and mix tracks like the DJ pros.
>> ininBadland This game, which takes you through a series of obstacles
>> within a fairytale-like forest, won an Apple Design Award at the
>> company's developer conference this year.
>> ininBarefoot World Atlas Barefoot World Atlas's 3-D globe interface
>> acts as a starting point for discovering new facts about the world's
>> countries, landmarks, wildlife, and more.
>> ininDay One Day One is a personal journaling app for Mac, iPhone,
>> and iPad that lets you keep track of your daily happenings, whether
>> that's jotting down ideas or tracking the meals you ate. It won
>> Apple's Mac App of the Year award in 2012.
>> ininHow To Cook Everything The mobile app version of /New York
>> Times/ columnist Mark Bittman's /How To Cook Everything/ cookbook
>> includes 2,000 recipes, hundreds of illustrations, and advice on
>> techniques, equipment, meal-planning, and more.
>> ininOver Use Over to add beautiful artwork or captions in a host of
>> elegant fonts to your photos.
>> ininInfinity Blade II This role-playing combat game is a sequel to
>> the highly accoladed /Infinity Blade/.
>> ininTiny Wings for iPhone and iPad In Tiny Wings, you play one of
>> five mostly flightless birds who catch bits of airtime by jumping off
>> hills.
>> ininSuperbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP This music-based game follows
>> the adventures of a female warrior protagonist in the mountainous
>> wild, and is set to a soundtrack composed by Jim Guthrie.
>> ininWhere's My Water? /Where's My Water"/ players bring water to
>> Swampy the Alligator's broken shower by getting through levels of
>> physics-based puzzles.
>>
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