TalkBack Experience
Vote count: 1 Average: 5 Points: 5
Total votes per button
| Button | Votes |
|---|
| 1. Talkback reads and can interract with none of the screen elements. | 0 |
| 2. Talkback reads and can interract with a few screen elements | 0 |
| 3. Talkback reads and can interract with some screen elements | 0 |
| 4. Talkback reads and can interract with most screen elements. | 0 |
| 5. Talkback reads and can interract with all app elements on all screens | 0 |
Labelled Buttons And Controls
Vote count: 1 Average: 5 Points: 5
Total votes per button
| Button | Votes |
|---|
| 1. No buttons or controls are Labelled | 0 |
| 2. a Few buttons & Controls Are Clearly Labelled | 0 |
| 3. Some buttons & Controls Are Clearly Labelled | 0 |
| 4. Most buttons & Controls Are Clearly Labelled | 0 |
| 5. All Buttons & Controls Are Clearly Labelled | 0 |
High Contrast Black Background With Bright Text Available
Vote count: 1 Average: 4 Points: 4
Total votes per button
| Button | Votes |
|---|
| 1. The app or game has no way to adjust it's look to high contrast black | 0 |
| 2. The app or game has no way to adjust it's look to high contrast black | 0 |
| 3. The App or game has a night mode or black theme available | 0 |
| 4. The App or game has a black theme by default | 0 |
| 5. The app or game allows you to set the color of all foreground and | 0 |
Font Sizes Are Sufficiently Large Or Adjustable To Be Large Enough To Read Comfortably
Vote count: 1 Average: 5 Points: 5
Total votes per button
| Button | Votes |
|---|
| 1. Font Sizes Are Insufficient For Me To Read | 0 |
| 2. Font sizes are difficult for me to read | 0 |
| 3. Some Of The Font sizes are large but most are still difficult for me | 0 |
| 4. Font sizes are large but some are still difficult for me to see | 0 |
| 5. Font sizes are large and easy for me to see | 0 |
App Or Game Usable Without relying on Hearing
Vote count: 0 Average: 0 Points: 0
Total votes per button
| Button | Votes |
|---|
| 1. No Audio Queues Are Available and the app is not usable without hearing | 0 |
| 2. No Audio Queues Are Available but aren't required to use the app or game | 0 |
| 3. Audio Queues and Captions are provided visually | 0 |
General Experience using this app or game with my accessibility tools and settings
Vote count: 1 Average: 5 Points: 5
Total votes per button
| Button | Votes |
|---|
| 1. It is a very difficult app or game to use | 0 |
| 2. It is a somewhat difficult app or game to use | 0 |
| 3. It is a somewhat usable app or game but has some issues | 0 |
| 4. It is a fairly easy app or game to use | 0 |
| 5. It is an extremely easy app or game to use | 0 |
Keyboard Accessible
Vote count: 0 Average: 0 Points: 0
Total votes per button
| Button | Votes |
|---|
| 1. Not Usable With A Physical Keyboard | 0 |
| 2. Most of the interface works With A Physical Keyboard | 0 |
| 3. Most of the app works With A Physical Keyboard | 0 |
| 4. All of the app works With A Physical Keyboard | 0 |
| 5. All of the app works With A Physical Keyboard and it has keyboard shortcuts for commonly used tasks | 0 |
Comments
Accessibility tradeoffs
I've been using this app for a couple of weeks, and I think it does a better job of rendering large pages than chrome, even though they use the same core engine. I was also excited to see the article reader. Unfortunately, the reader hasn't worked in preliminary testing. Either my articles aren't formatted properly or this thing is picky.
Because lightning is using google's web services, you get full talkback support for browsing elements. Unfortunately, this version of lightning has no keyboard shortcuts for app functions such as showing and hiding the reader, focusing the location bar, or bringing up the tabs list. I could not find a single shortcut by pressing likely key combonations and I was farely comprehensive about it. I emailed to request the feature. Maybe it will show up in a later version. Unfortunately, I do so much internet work on my phone that keyboard support is essential and so I'll be switching back to chrome.
I used the mac version of
I used the mac version of this about 7 years ago when I had some issues with safari and it was wonderful. I'm quite surprised said app has little to no keyboard interaction, this must change if you do use the keyboard a lot. I don't, but still.
More comments on keyboard support
I think I should add a few more things on the keyboard side of web browsing. If you read my browsing with chrome 2016 tutorial, you probably know that talk back has substantially more keyboard shortcuts for element navigation than it does with jesters. The two key things I am really missing in lightning are: I can't get directly to the address bar by pressing Ctrl L, and I can't do a screen search using Ctrl F. The screen search is absolutely essential for me when browsing large web pages which I do a fairly frequently. Inclusive Android is one of the places where screen search is especially helpful.