TalkBack Experience
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| Button | Votes |
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| 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
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| 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
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| Button | Votes |
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| 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
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| Button | Votes |
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| 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
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| Button | Votes |
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| 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
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| Button | Votes |
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| 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
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| Button | Votes |
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| 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
My new favourite way to buy audiobooks
This is my new favourite way to buy audiobooks. Move over Emusic.
The downpour app is a downloader and audiobook player for downpour.com. Although the site has hard copy formats such as CD and mp3 CD, I plan to essentially ignore those in favour of the downloads. The audio quality of the downloads is excellent, even better than audible enhanced, and they distribute in your choice of m4a and mp3.
The downpour website has some issues. Particularly, the download buttons in the library don’t work for me in safari. This is of course, not a show stopper because I do my downloading in the app. Also, the browse icon pops up a list which foiceover simply ignores. Downpour customer service helped me around this issue by providing the following link:
Click here for downpour’s html format browse page
Most of the rest of the site works well for me. I’ve also had a very good response from the customer service person. Although I wish accessibility testing had been a consideration from the ground up, it seems some one there is aware and trying to iron out the bugs. Response time has been excellent and the information I got back in response to my queries has been exactly what I needed.
Moving on to the app itself, there are three menus at the top. On the left is an icon that says downpour downpour. This is actually a navigation drawer. Beside that is a dropdown list which has various menu options depending on what you’ve selected in the navigation drawer. Then on the right is the customary more options button. By default, library items are shown in a grid view. Grid view doesn’t show all of the information about each book to talkback, particularly the download status once you choose something to download. To see the download progress, tap more options. Then tap list view. When I restart my phone, the view changes back to grid. So, I have to do this step for each time I want to see the library.
I was also confused by the search initially, thinking I could use the search to find books on the downpour website and buy within the app. Not so. For another thing there is no search button. The go button on the keyboard works as a search button, but the search is only for finding books in your library. I thought it wasn’t working the first time I tried it.
Finally, the player controls in the now playing screen are not labeled. Because they are button controls and not graphic controls, labeling with talkback is not an option. I’ve reported this and hopefully it will be fixed in an update. Meanwhile, I’ve figured out that the first three in the swipe order are previous, play/pause, and next. That’s usually good enough for me.
I’ve noticed that as media players go, this app is amazing on battery life. There are only two usibility features I’d like to see:
a volume control, as some of the audio is a bit low compared to my speech volume in talkback and I’d like to be able to adjust it independently,
And placement of the downloaded books into the music folder under audiobooks in stead of the current default which is a bit berried in my phone’s file system. Users of devices that support SD cards may not notice this so much.
Overall, I’m not really enthusiastic about either the app or the site. On the other hand, The quality, price, selection and service have been very impressive. I can live with it for a while in the expectation of better things to come.
Is any one using downpour with lollypop?
Since I upgraded my moto G to lollypop I can't activate the play button in Downpour with talkback. The next and previous buttons are working for me, but none of the other buttons. I'm wondering if this is a common experience or if I should put it down to my phone being totaled by this horendous upgrade?