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Telegram is incompatible with VoiceOver
All non-native iOS components of the Telegram app, mainly the chat window, are incompatible with VoiceOver, and so unusable for the blind and visually impaired who are dependent on this accessibility feature. This should receive a fix ASAP.
Thank-you nkreer for bringing this up! I have tried contacting Telegram and they don't see to mind at all. Do you have any updates?
The new version 4.1 of the app seems to have made it even worse. Guess I won't be a Telegram user for long anymore.
I know it's annoying how ignorant they are toward the visually impaired. I am with you Peter!
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On 1 Jul 2017, at 08:52, Niklas Kreer [email protected] wrote:
The new version 4.1 of the app seems to have made it even worse. Guess I won't be a Telegram user for long anymore.
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i'm learning to implement voice over and would like to help, but the app is written in objective-c, i know swift, looks like we will have to wait.
A good friend is visually impaired, he has iPhone 8 and it's still doesn't work! I'm shocked that a big company like Telegram is not accessible. He cannot use the app.
Help!!
Telegram 5.0 (basically X for release) is out and although it is Swift, it still cannot use VoiceOver
Hi I am a blind person from China. When I was preparing to use Telegram, I found that voice over could not operate him at all. This surprised me. I have been exposed to foreign software for so many years. Telegram is the first time I discovered it. Voice over An app that can't be operated at all.
The Android app also don't handle VoiceOver. If I had time and knowledge I would fix it by myself.
Please fix it.
https://github.com/peter-iakovlev/TelegramCore/issues/46
Hi I am a blind person from China. When I was preparing to use Telegram, I found that voice over could not operate him at all. This surprised me. I have been exposed to foreign software for so many years. Telegram is the first time I discovered it. Voice over An app that can't be operated at all.
I just installed IM+ Messenger for enable a friend of mine to use Telegram on her OS X, it simply open a Chrome frame for Telegram web and she didn't liked it. The native one is way better.
Update
Related documentation: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/accessibility/uiaccessibility#//apple_ref/doc/constant_group/Accessibility_Traits
There's still no support in either Telegram Messenger for iOS (5.1.1) or Telegram X (5.0.17) for Apple VoiceOver: both apps are totally inaccessible to visually impaired people.
Other mainstream messengers have provided accessibility support for years and it's not particularly difficult to add basic support (e.g. accessible labels on buttons).
(https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/accessibility/supporting_voiceover_in_your_app)
@dw-b
The widgets are in another Objective-C project (https://github.com/peter-iakovlev/Display).
Someone could be assigned to give such accessibility traits on widgets, my friend is blind and we can test your developments.