The Blind Side Podcast 57, Apple’s VoiceOver design inconsistencies, and Jim Fetgather, the former phone phreaker

Published: Oct. 3, 2017, 1:06 a.m.

Jonathan Mosen begins by announcing the return of the accessible phones for the blind email group, where comparisons of phone types and operating systems are welcome. Subscribe to the Blind Phones list here.

 

In a call to action, Jonathan expands on his blog post, Cupertino, we have a design problem. If you’ve found since upgrading to iOS 11 that you’re deleting emails by accident, it’s not a bug, it’s a new idea from Apple. Jonathan describes why we should care, and encourages you to contact accessibility@apple.com with a respectful request that this change be reversed.

 

Before having computers to occupy ourselves with, many blind people were fascinated by the telephone, and the phone network. The process of delving into the secrets of the phone network was known as p [...]