Hello everyone! I would like to report about the problems of Instagram accessibility, which have been observed for a long time. In the profiles of the users you are subscribed to, the notification setting button does not work, when you press it, nothing happens and you can click on it only with the help of screen recognition. Also, the back button in the profile is not voiced, but it's not so serious. I hope they will fix it. All the best
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My problems with Instagram
I’m not subscribed to anything on Instagram so I haven’t noticed the subscription issue, but what I have noticed is that we are not able to see our following and followers list anymore and this is really, really bugging me!
Wait, we cannot see followers list?
I use Instagram a lot and I feel like the interface is pretty accessible. I will have to try out accessing the people that you were following on someone’s profile. That would be disappointing if Instagram broke that.
Scrolling issue
I was really dissatisfied because of the Accessibility bug, where if we are scrolling reels with voice over it does not work properly
Yup...
Just because of the scrolling issue, I turn VoiceOver off whenever I want to doom-scroll. We can see the followers and following lists, but only with screen recognition enabled, or if you happen to have any mutual followers, you can tap on that indicator to see the list. Otherwise, VoiceOver can’t access where it shows how many followers or following you have. Even worse, the “more” button to expand the Reels description or caption doesn’t work, it opens the comments dialog instead. When the Reels tab is selected on a profile page, we can’t consistently view the Reels with VoiceOver. Flicking right or left doesn’t work most of the time. Sometimes tapping where the Reels would be listed makes VoiceOver focus on them, but most of the time that doesn’t work either. It’s annoying, and it seems to be only getting worse. I’m a content creator myself, so I’m not sure how long I’ll be able to put up with this s*ht
I use the app in my windows PC to check.
Since the NFB appears to be playing nice with facebook, maybe they need to reach out to them. If there is a member here share this concern with them. Long live cats.
Scrolling
Sometimes a reboot of app/phone is needed but to scroll back passed a certain blocking point just keep double tapping on the status bar,, not always but usually it does work for me even in very long chats, after we can use the scroll bar and gestures as normal to brows and also an unlabeled button at the left of the edit box of dm to scroll to the end.
Correction
Hello everyone! In this topic it was written that when using voiceover in the profile, you can't view subscriptions and subscribers if you don't use screen recognition. It was fixed in the latest version of the application and now it works as it should! About the button to set up notifications all the same