Pan Am Games app deemed failure by advocates for people with disabilities

Christina Stevens, Senior Reporter Global News, June 19, 2015
The official Toronto 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games app is not accessible to those who are visually impaired, according to advocates for people with disabilities. They said it wouldn’t have been difficult to implement the helpful feature directly into the design phase of the Toronto 2015 app. David Best said hundreds of mainstream apps work just fine, but not the app for the Panam/Parapan Am Games being held this summer in Toronto. He said the first time he opened the Toronto 2015 App, it was clear there were issues, whole pages don’t have any voiceover functions – so he showed the problem to Global News.
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