Hi,
As an avid collector of cookbooks and recipe apps, naturally I was curious
about the How To Cook Everything app. At first glance, it looked as iff the
app might work, but when I opened up one of the recipes for a meat dish, I
ran right into a wall, accessibility-wise. Clicking on the Ingredients
button yielded something like:
2-1/2 pounds
1/2 cup
2 tablespoons
1/4 teaspoon
which led me to believe that the ingredient names were graphical text or
that the recipe used pictures of what was called for.
Likewise, when I then tapped on Directions, I got:
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
and so on, leading me to believe that the text of the directions was also
graphical.
If this is representative of the app as a whole, then we're looking at
something that's virtually useless for a totally blind user. Someone with
limited vision might be able to muddle through. Otherwise, steer clear of
the How To Cook Everything app. It's an accessibility mess. Someone with
the time and inclination could contact the developers and bring this to
their attention but you never can tell if they'll respond or whether the
issues will get fixed.
Tom
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From: "peter altschul" <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: [VICUG-L] I wonder how many of these are accessible?
> 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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