Accessibility is hard. Setting mom’s new phone up and at the larger text sizes you can’t read what you’re supposed to say to Siri so you can’t progress 🥲
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@christianselig I just don’t think they bother testing this stuff. They’ll add the features, brag about them but never actually test them 🙃
@christianselig I wish this was the only time I had a similar scenario. It’s not.
@christianselig I don’t get it. As a small company in Germany working for the public administration, all our UIs need to be accessible and are accessibility-tested to the max. And a multi-trillion enterprise can’t even test onboarding processes?
@christianselig T%he number of icons on my hope screen that are like "Simple ..." or "Digital ..." or "Bozos ..." is ridiculous. Never tested, don't care, you're locked in anyway.
@christianselig Anyone enjoying a Linux phone? Would love to hear how that's going. #Linux #Mobile
@christianselig it’s not hard, it’s a system created by those who are never expected to be exposed to its results.
@christianselig i bet it wasnt tested or apple didnt care. i had to text largr dpi accessibilty for my previous emploers (not apple).
that's good for privacy and democracy... disable and uninstall siri and alexa and enjoy a free world
@christianselig such poor quality
@christianselig There is plenty of room on the screen to make that more than 2 lines, but I think we've all made that mistake before.
@christianselig if you tap and hold on the text it doesn’t show up in a big box on screen?
How could they miss that? There’s even a SwiftUI Modifier for that behavior 😂
@christianselig "iPho" heh, there's a joke that can be made here.
Accessibility improvements here should be made into a high priority.
@christianselig Same. My mom is almost completely blind and requires the biggest text size possible, and SO many apps break at those sizes. And they break in ways that’s not immediately clear that that’s the cause. Sometimes whole buttons are just not onscreen with no scroll view, so you’re left wondering whether you missed a step or if the text size is the problem this time. I almost wish it were possible to run iPhone apps on an iPad in mega-scaled-up mode to make the whole view bigger without breaking apps that don’t test at the accessibility extremes.
@command_tab Yeah I was surprised, quite a few rough areas
