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View submission: Accessibility Improvements on iOS and Android
Surely, you understand this is what we call “mixed signals.”
Comment by DHamlinMusic at 26/07/2023 at 21:38 UTC
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Exactly this, and I personally will not be participating in this as I have more important things to do than do reddit’s work for them. I have less than zero faith in the ability or desire of reddit to make more than cosmetic changes as the platform has repeatedly shown itself to lack even the most basic ability to make good on promises or plans. The changes that were pushed in the last month for "accessibility" to the android app specifically consisted of nearly no actual improvements, the one noticeable fix was the status and state of the favorite/unfavorite button in the community's menu now works and is labeled. Every other change was either unneeded, unhelpful, or outright broke something, I have to hope a sighted mod is available now to mute or ban a user as the screens required for this are so unusable and broken as to take at least 7-10 minutes for a single event and this will is without trying to send a custom message, or select a rule or offending content meaning no explanation will be sent. The issues with reddit are systemic, widespread, and not something a focus group is either qualified or correct for addressing, not that I expect anything would be done regardless as reddit does not have the foundational support in place to undertake this task at this time.