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Apple CEO Tim Cook Talks Accessibility With Three Accessibility Activists
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Really? Please cite your assertion with a link.
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What? That makes zero sense.
Let's let people with disabilities enjoy their time in the spotlight here. These are great videos as are the short ones that were just published. People with disabilities are shown in a positive light doing jobs or activities many might think they can't do. Sorry if you have some flaming hatred for Apple.
As a disabled person, who also works with other disabled people. I can assure you that your assumption is incorrect. Windows without added expensive software is unusable for me. Macs are usable out of the box. Depending on the model macs are cheaper than PCs for me.
Besides the obvious that was mentioned by another user, those without the disability won't understand the need without the "activist brigade" voices.
All of these videos have CC toggle on the bottom just like any standard Youtube videos.
Glad we agree.
Hmmm, although I think you're disagreeing with yourself.
As you've suddenly added caveats, let's stick to your original arbitrary 5 year time frame and the latest tech:
- iPhone 5 2012 - $649 ($692 in 2017 adjusted for inflation)
- iPhone 7 2017 - $649
Pop.
For a company that doesn't care about disabled people, they sure seem to spend a lot of time and money developing technology for and talking about those issues. In fact, Apple appears to be one of the few companies that puts their money where their mouth is when it comes to accessibility issues.
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I really wish that one of these interviewees would've questioned Tim on his idea of democratizing Apple products. He only gets those kind of questions from jaded analysts so it would be fascinating to see him squirm a little to justify Apple's pricing and strategies. It could be argued that Google is much more successful at democratizing technology to the world. Of course Google forces users to pay a different kind of "price" but if people with accessibility issues cannot afford Apple products, how is Apple really helping them?
[QUOTE="I really wish that one of these interviewees would've questioned Tim on his idea of democratizing Apple products. He only gets those kind of questions from jaded analysts so it would be fascinating to see him squirm a little to justify Apple's pricing and strategies. It could be argued that Google is much more successful at democratizing technology to the world. Of course Google forces users to pay a different kind of "price" but if people with accessibility issues cannot afford Apple products, how is Apple really helping them?[/QUOTE]
There is no doubt that some people are being shut out. However, the price of assistive technology has been so much more expensive than an iPhone and an iPad. When you have an app that takes the place of an assistive device, that almost always results in a more affordable solution.
There is no doubt that some people are being shut out. However, the price of assistive technology has been so much more expensive than an iPhone and an iPad. When you have an app that takes the place of an assistive device, that almost always results in a more affordable solution.
Instead of complaining about what might be, why not just check it out yourself? You could have saved yourself the post.
So many people eager to complain and criticize EVERYTHING but too ______ (lazy?) to do any real verification themselves. Come on friends, check before posting.
I'll just have to settle for liking yours.
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You are the hero we need.
If you haven't already, tell Apple. Mention it's an accessibility issue for you. Every bit of feedback helps.
https://www.apple.com/feedback/macbookpro.html
This in spades ^^^
I am hearing impaired. Burdened by the stratospheric cost of archaic hearing aids. My savior is always closed captions. This because the world has turned into video documents without closed captions, rather than the written word.
Here hoping that, in the near future, iOS/MacOS will include:
- accurate speech-to-text parsing
- speech captured remotely off its microphone
- accuracy of parsing honed-in by machine learning/adaptation, and
- text captions projected onto either a native display, or onto a colocated Apple Glass/Watch.
So... Tapatalk (not an Apple product) scrapes/interprets the YouTube web site (not an Apple product), and somehow, that's Apple's fault?
Yes, the CC icon is there on the YouTube interface. I turned CC on, and read the captioning while listening to one of the interviews. If that's YouTube's automatic captioning, it's phenomenally good - not a single "uhhh," or "ummm," no repeated words/stammers, "I I mean..." no misspellings of homonyms, no misinterpretation of words spoken - nothing like the automated captioning I've seen. Operating on the theory that there was indeed human intervention, to the captioner's credit there are no corrections to grammar, no "editorial" fixes; what I'd consider a purely technical clean-up. It seems incredibly likely that Apple delivered pre-captioned videos to YouTube.
But of course, Apple must still have done something wrong, right?
The plain truth is that companies like Apple are careful to caption every video they deliver to the public, for whatever purpose. It's to their benefit to control the delivery of their message. Captioning is not only used by those with hearing impairments; it's turned on in all sorts of noisy public environments like airports, bars, Times Square video displays, and Apple Retail Stores. Captioning is as much a part of modern video/film production as makeup, lighting, and set decoration. If they fail to caption, it's not a sign of being insensitive to the hearing impaired, it's flat out stupidity.
Hi, that blind person here. I can answer that I was skeptical about the Touchbar at first but I actually made a video about some of the accessibility around the Touchbar
There's also some neat VoiceOver commands/gestures that can make navigation on macOS even more seamless.
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Apple retails hires more people with disabilities than I've seen anyone else do in the tech space. I know many friends within my community who work as Geniuses, Specialists, Creatives, and even Managers(Leaders). These same people are blind, deaf, autistic, wheel-chair users, service/guide dog users, etc. I know at least 14 people with disabilities personally, and have met even more briefly. During my trip at corporate this past week, there wasn't anything different. Many people with disabilities are employed by Apple from contractors, to corporate employees. Just because they're not listed on a website doesn't mean you can speak for many of us and who employs us. Every person featured with a disability in Apple's ads are people with disabilities in the entertainment industry, a place often overshadowed by able-bodied actors taking roles from PWDs and playing disabled characters themselves. Hope that sheds some light on the facts.
I'm disabled. Deaf and physically disabled. We've been put down and marginalized for centuries - only because of that "activist brigade" have we been able to contribute to the best of our abilities.
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Because people advocate for their self-interest, regardless of what that interest may be. Someone advocating free markets and minimal taxation is as much an activist as someone advocating a communist state. When we look beyond self-interest, we find people advocating for issues they believe aren't getting the attention they deserve. Advocates for the poor, the enslaved, the wealthy, the free, a clean environment, the freedom to leave a mess...
Facts
[doublepost=1495131831][/doublepost]I am a blind apple user. I have the new MacBook Pro with touch bar. And, I have an iPhone 7. No complaints
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I am a blind apple user, and I have the new MacBook Pro with touch bar. I use voice over, and the touch bar works fine with it. So I have no idea what your talking about