it has been 0️⃣ days since I had to send a corporation a nastygram about disrespecting my “reduce motion” and “do not autoplay videos” accessibility settings

@0xabad1dea do they ever do anything

@whitequark I assume they almost never do anything about any one complaint in isolation, but if I don’t send the complaint, it can’t count towards “we’re getting a lot of complaints about…”

@whitequark @0xabad1dea ive had a lot of success with everyone ive contacted for improving accessibility, at least for apps that have been updated in the past few years
majority of apps on our phone support this and is one of the few reasons why we have to use iphone because the android equivalents of accessibility settings we need are trash

@0xabad1dea @whitequark i always hope i can make a complaint that lets somebody on the other end say "see!" and then be allowed to fix it

@whitequark @0xabad1dea though with the amounts of emails we've sent we might as well be a full time volunteer accessibility consultant, esp re: voiceover, but we don't mind doing that and even give code snippets to help app devs out
improving ios apps one app at a time

oh and everyone on android we've tried to report major accessibility fails to incl aosp and google? no reply or #wontfix every time..

@whitequark @0xabad1dea to this day there are still certain strings that if talkback tries to read it'll crash the entire OS or kernel panic

android honestly feels more like a tech demo than an actual accessible os

@0xabad1dea Mastodon seems to be an offender now. No autoplay gifs or whatever seems to at least sometimes be ignored when they're inside a quoted toot.