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This is why I have high respect for Apple, which routine ships new accessibility features and maintains them, despite them being very low usage. A few of those
by strawberrypuree 6y ago
This is why I have high respect for Apple, which routine ships new accessibility features and maintains them, despite them being very low usage. A few of those features end up becoming handy for non-accessibility users, like the ability to make your screen black and white on the iPhone or the ability to detect sounds.
- snuxoll 6y agoTim Cook has famously told investors to fuck off (in slightly more polite language) for questioning the ROI of accessibility features.
- missedthecue 6y agoCan you give me one example of this?
- lathiat 6y agohttps://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2014/03/07/why-tim-cook-doesnt-care-about-the-bloody-roi/#1f6a711955f2 https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2014/03/07/why-tim...
- mthoms 6y agoThe quote is "When we work on making our devices accessible by the blind, I don't consider the bloody ROI." https://www.imore.com/apple-accessibility-human-right https://www.imore.com/apple-accessibility-human-right
- ultrarunner 6y agoI wonder (seriously) what the ROI on a statement like this might be. Is there a level where "responsibility to the shareholders" is sampled, or could it be a few layers of indirection away? There is a pretty fine line between cynicism (i.e. it's just marketing) and idealism (ethical companies will generate a higher level of support), but I wonder how far this goes before a lawsuit shuts it down.
- agency 6y agoThe business judgement rule gives company management pretty wide latitude in making business decisions so long as they are not blatantly fraudulent or conflicted. For example Shlensky v Wrigley[1] which concerns the owner of Wrigley field’s decision not to install lights and hold night games. A decision by their own admission motivated not by a business interest but by a personal belief that baseball is a “daytime sport”. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shlensky_v._Wrigley https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shlensky_v._Wrigley
- ultrarunner 6y agoThank you, this is exactly what I was looking for.
- onion2k 6y agoI have no idea about accessibility on iOS, but on the web making a website more accessible will usually make it display faster simply because accessibility forces you down a road that stops you filling a site with bloat and rubbish. If people pushed for accessible websites everyone would benefit from lower bandwidth usage and faster rendering. It's not unreasonable to think pushing for an accessible OS makes the rest of it better as well.
- ddavis 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Center_for_Public_Policy_Research#Critics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Center_for_Public_Pol...
- scoot 6y agoJust curious, what's the non-accessibility use case for high contrast (black and white) on the iPhone?
- strawberrypuree 6y agoReducing phone addiction by making the phone less appealing to look at.
- coeneedell 6y agoUgh I tried this to keep off my phone before going to bed. Naturally I'm posting this before I go to bed, so that's about how well it works for me.
- zimpenfish 6y agoiOS 14 has some new Sleep stuff which semi-locks the phone at your "prepare for bed" time - you need to dismiss the "preparing for sleep" before you can unlock the phone.
- strawberrypuree 6y agoTry using NextDNS to block HN. This is what I do on mobile -- I bury the NextDNS app in a folder and it requires several steps to un-do it. iOS 14 allows you to set DNS without using the VPN setting.
- therealx 6y agoIt does a better job than the color shifting when preparing for bed.
- aries1980 6y agoLet's not forget how Google enforced good accessibility practice on websites through SEO.