Shame on you, Google!
Well sorry first for this offensive Title but that is my current opinion about Google, and while i didn't knew a better place to speak this out i try here , maybe someone will be interested, i tried at the Google Forums as well, but hey no chance, but i will explain later...
So whats the Problem?
Well, the biggest problem you have is when you are a visually impaired User with an iPhone and you try to access each kind of Google Services, no matteer if it Serach, YouTube, GMail or even now, Wave...
Well Apple have included such things like Pinch&&Zoom into Mobile Safari and Google is not worring about any Accessibility Guidelines so they turn this Feature off everywhere, and that is the Problem, i understand if a Dev wants his Page to be perfect looking to disable this but hey do alway think about Users like me, the iPhone is the first Device which cares about Users who are impaired, so the new iPhone 3Gs has separate Settings for this, and yes i have an iPhone 3Gs and i use the Zoom Fuunction a lot, but what the Problem with it?
Well to activate Zoom you have to double tap with 3 Fingers which is ot so accurate as u think, you sometimes hit the edge of the Device and just launch an App you did not wanted to lauch ...
Other thing is when you zoom in, you see only the part which is Zoomed, things like Navigation bars for Back/Forward and more are off your Site and you have eitther to turn this off or navigate with 3 fingers to it but first you need to know they are there where you expect them to be, as you can see, it is working but not that usable as it might be, but hey i am glad to have this inside my iphone, this makes life with iPhone easier..
The Pinch&Zoom Fail is coming over and over, so nearly none of iphone App FDevelopers care about this, the most Mails about Apps i sent to Devs care about the question: Is there a Pinch&Zoom Feature inside?
And the best are News Apps which do nothing else than displaying iPhone Optimized Web Sites which have trurned Pinch&Zoom off also, so this sucks a lot...
Other Question: Why you are not using Voice Over:?
Why because i am from Germany but as you can see a am going a lot into English spoken Web Contet and my iphone cannot detect languages live so if a german voice tries to read an english tesxt it becomes very funny...
Well as i mentioned above about the Google Forums, this is very annoing that Google is not reachable to explein my requests and if you post it into the Forums you have no chance to be heard because Users like me have no Lobby so the most ppl do not care about such things...
i guess there is not even 1 Employee at Google with nearly the same problems like me so if there would be one he already had long mentioned that the Google Pages on the iPhone have huge lags of Accessibility, so maybe someone who reads this has some possibility to contect Google to tell them thios issue it woulld be great if he would do thisfor Users like me, i likee Wave e.g. a lot but without Pinch&Zoom it will be something i will use only oon my Mac not on the iPhone , no matter how good the iPhone App is....
But realy i don't expect anythjing anymore, i guess that even this post will sink into the Forum Nivana without any reaction on this Topic, but hey , how do we germans say: the Hope is the last thing that dies ^^
So move on and lleave me a comment if you like to let me know you have an opinion...
So whats the Problem?
Well, the biggest problem you have is when you are a visually impaired User with an iPhone and you try to access each kind of Google Services, no matteer if it Serach, YouTube, GMail or even now, Wave...
Well Apple have included such things like Pinch&&Zoom into Mobile Safari and Google is not worring about any Accessibility Guidelines so they turn this Feature off everywhere, and that is the Problem, i understand if a Dev wants his Page to be perfect looking to disable this but hey do alway think about Users like me, the iPhone is the first Device which cares about Users who are impaired, so the new iPhone 3Gs has separate Settings for this, and yes i have an iPhone 3Gs and i use the Zoom Fuunction a lot, but what the Problem with it?
Well to activate Zoom you have to double tap with 3 Fingers which is ot so accurate as u think, you sometimes hit the edge of the Device and just launch an App you did not wanted to lauch ...
Other thing is when you zoom in, you see only the part which is Zoomed, things like Navigation bars for Back/Forward and more are off your Site and you have eitther to turn this off or navigate with 3 fingers to it but first you need to know they are there where you expect them to be, as you can see, it is working but not that usable as it might be, but hey i am glad to have this inside my iphone, this makes life with iPhone easier..
The Pinch&Zoom Fail is coming over and over, so nearly none of iphone App FDevelopers care about this, the most Mails about Apps i sent to Devs care about the question: Is there a Pinch&Zoom Feature inside?
And the best are News Apps which do nothing else than displaying iPhone Optimized Web Sites which have trurned Pinch&Zoom off also, so this sucks a lot...
Other Question: Why you are not using Voice Over:?
Why because i am from Germany but as you can see a am going a lot into English spoken Web Contet and my iphone cannot detect languages live so if a german voice tries to read an english tesxt it becomes very funny...
Well as i mentioned above about the Google Forums, this is very annoing that Google is not reachable to explein my requests and if you post it into the Forums you have no chance to be heard because Users like me have no Lobby so the most ppl do not care about such things...
i guess there is not even 1 Employee at Google with nearly the same problems like me so if there would be one he already had long mentioned that the Google Pages on the iPhone have huge lags of Accessibility, so maybe someone who reads this has some possibility to contect Google to tell them thios issue it woulld be great if he would do thisfor Users like me, i likee Wave e.g. a lot but without Pinch&Zoom it will be something i will use only oon my Mac not on the iPhone , no matter how good the iPhone App is....
But realy i don't expect anythjing anymore, i guess that even this post will sink into the Forum Nivana without any reaction on this Topic, but hey , how do we germans say: the Hope is the last thing that dies ^^
So move on and lleave me a comment if you like to let me know you have an opinion...