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: 4 Points: 4
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: 0 Average: 0 Points: 0
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: 0 Average: 0 Points: 0
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 is not on the roadmap
This app met several of my requirements. First, it is cross platform. Second, it's reasonably accessible. Third, it has cloud storage for syncing projects across multiple devices. They company also makes inventory management software which I haven't tested.
The free version is lackluster by design, allowing for creating projects, assigning billable time and generating time sheets, but not on the scale of the other apps I am testing. The reason for this is that the company wants to build tailored solutions for each customer. The free app has advertising all over it. The adds slow things down a tad, but don't really get in the way. Of course, they aren't accessible either in case we care. I will say though that as the company is toting custom designed mobile solutions for business, removing the adds from the free product would give it a much more polished look and feel.
On the accessibility front, the webviews in the app work very reliably. Since webviews are generally a huge hassel in kitkat, this represents a very strong starting point. Numerous graphics in the android app aren't labeled. Unfortunately, the controls are buttons, not standard graphic controls; As such, they can't be labeled using talkback. Each unlabeled button has a signpost beside it telling you what that button does. The signpost is also a clickable item, meaning you have two ways to access each task. This could be streamlined a lot better for everyone, disabled or not.
I found only one button so far that wasn't redundified by a proper control item and that is the youtube button. When clicked, this button takes you to the company's youtube channel. They have 50-100 videos up here for various things, but the videos have no audio what-so-ever. I was confused at first watching the play time seek control move and hearing nothing, but I tried on both my ITouch and my moto G and it seems in fact that the videos have no audio. Of course, no transcripts either.
The demo forms in the app are well designed for reading. All controls are clearly labeld though each one contains an unlabeled graphical button beside it. Granularidy works perfectly. Filling in the forms isn't so nice because the next button on the keyboard skips over many of the controls.
This puzzled me for a bit, but I know what it's doing now. Some of the controls are dynamic. Tapping on a time edit field for example brings up the very classic gingerbread time and date selecter controls which work just fine on my kitkat device, but which I find ratber clunky on a touch screen. The number of hours is input automatically once the times are selected requiring no input from the user. I still think the form would be enhanced by allowing the next button to activate the date and time pickers, but I get it.
The import contact feature appears to work, except that it doesn't seem to actually import the contact off the bat. I'm trying to find out where the imports are going, but am ot too concerned.
Finally, I made the app generate a report for me. The report comes in an untagged but more or less readable pdf format. PDF's are hopefully on the way out anyhow. I think I would prefer some kind of html5 format. Still, my main purpose was, could I get the information, and the answer is, yes, I could..
This app and it's output are plastered with information and commercials about how the app can be customized for any need. I've also gotten two promotional emails from them in the last week. In response, I sent two emails to the company asking about enhancing accessibility of the app, both of which went unanswered. I did then call the company and inquire about accessibility enhancements and I was told that this is, "not on the roadmap". I'm not expecting them necessarily to do a lot of work for free, but if the app is as customizeable as they say, then the answer to "can you make it accessible" can not be anything else other than, "absolutely, we can". I have a project simmering in the back of my brain that would be right in the scope of this company, but the focus is accessibility, and I feel that I can find some one with a similar product who is on board with that. I guess what I'm saying is, customer service and accessibility are "on my roadmap", and despite the promise of the app, this company isn't moving in the same direction I am.