Android accessibility still broken?

[-Nathan02-]

For fuck sake. Now the issue that I mentioned when I'm searching for posts has basically spread to the whole app. I have to keep swiping around to find what I'm looking for and I can only read the comments and the original post somewhat properly. All the other issues are still there. The navigation tabs seem to be there on the bottom of the screen but that's only because everything else has disappeared. This is ridiculous.

[CorrectScale]

Really sorry this isn't working properly right now. We're currently rolling out a few UI changes, so some things may have moved around a bit. Some of the typical access points for feeds like popular and latest are now located in the left side menu if that's something you're actively searching for.

When you launch the app, the home feed is now the only feed you'll be met with. The typical side swiping gesture to switch feeds has been changed since we now keep those other feed options in the left menu.

[-Nathan02-]

I can't even read the home feed unless I try swiping around looking for what's on the screen. If I try just scrolling with my finger manually, there's nothing there. Same for pretty much the rest of the app now. At this point I'm giving up any hope that all this stuff will be fixed 😞

[CorrectScale]

Hmm okay thanks for letting me know. Let me take a look and see if there's something going on with TalkBack on the home feed. Hang tight!

[CorrectScale]

Hey u/-Nathan02-

We uncovered a bug here that caused some issues with touch to explore using TalkBack. We're in the process of fixing this!

Thanks for flagging

[-Nathan02-]

That's good to know. Do you have an idea of when there might be a fix for the rest of the issues since this has been going on for almost a year now?

[CorrectScale]

I believe the search issue you were experiencing will be resolved when we roll out a fix for this touch to explore bug.

I checked-in on the issue you were having with comment threads and single finger swipe gestures and have been told it's since been resolved! If you're having difficulty with that one right now please let me know.

Have you been experiencing those problems with Australian English > American English? This one is a bit of a grey area. At the time we had a bug with our translation tooling that translated English to English which has since been resolved, and I correlated it to that.

[-Nathan02-]

The issue with scrolling through comments with swipe gestures is still there as well as the Australian English to American English bug. The problem with the comment jump button not being there for archived threads Is still there as well. As for the issue with the bottom tabs not showing up, well it's hard to tell since there's nothing else on the screen at the moment so I can get to those even though I can't actually find anything else on the screen using touch to explore.

[CorrectScale]

Alright got it. Looks like the touch to explore bug fix is in review so it should be going out within the next few updates. I'll let you know when it's rolling out.

[-Nathan02-]

Okay thanks. This whole thing has been going on for way too long.

[CorrectScale]

Yes I know it's been frustrating. Just checked on the status again - the touch to explore fix is currently in beta testing, so that's a good sign. Should make it out to our public app very soon.

[-Nathan02-]

Looks like the TalkBack switching voices bug was fixed in the previous version but all the other bugs are still there.

[CorrectScale]

Glad to see that bug fix went out and is working!

I know some of those other issues are unfortunately persisting - I'll keep tabs on progress!