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On that note, the developer of the iOS lemmy app mlem has said that he’s focusing on blind accessibility every step of the process during development and will be hiring accesibility consultants to make sure he gets it right.
Plus, they made it so only non-commercial accessibility apps could use the API for free. So basically, reddit is saying: you can do our job for us and fix the shit we should have fixed on our end over 8 years ago, but you can’t get paid for it.
Most blind iOS redditors were using Apollo I believe.
You might like to explore the communities at mander.xyz, they’re a science/nature-focused instance. https://mander.xyz/communities
Edit: I want to note that, since one of the biggest sticking points with 3rd-party apps has been both accessibility for the blind and deaf and mod tools, they’re both on our minds as we design the interface. Getting both right will, of course, take time, but we want everyone to know that we fully intend to make our app usable for everyone.
This is excellent to hear. If you’re still on reddit, you should post this to r/blind, as they’ve been in limbo about whether their tools will be granted an “exception” to use the reddit API and they may be looking into alternatives for their community.
I still get that stupid “You broke Reddit!” screen all the time.
Yeah, the same concerns about the Lemmy devs are why I joined Beehaw instead of the flagship instance. I’ve poked around on kbin and it confuses me a bit, but I’m sure I’ll get more used to it as I use it. I am enjoying Beehaw itself though so this will probably remain my main reddit-alike, at least for now.
The main dev was harrassed off of the project, basically. He said he passed the source code on and it should be coming back to test flight under a different link soon, theoretically.