WHO ARE THESE DEVELOPERS?
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By June head
What are the only apps left among all the rest in the world that still have had Absolutely nothing done with them for screen Reading compatibility whatsoever?
Scribed and Everand!
Who turns a deaf ear to any mentioning of this, therefore, completely ignoring their customer’s most basic accessibility needs, no matter how many times any attempt is made to bring it to their attention? Sad to say it’s no one but the very purveyors of these two otherwise rather worthwhile good apps! What do you call that? Tech-nonsupport or how about customer no service for starters?
You won’t believe just how basic of a thing it actually is they failed so miserably to address (anyone Who would let this get by them? should be down right embarrassed!) All I’m talking about is making it so you can automatically scroll or page turn (read continuously) using voiceover. What’s voiceover? Nothing more than the stock built-in screen reader that comes included with all Apple devices. Even so, ubiquitous as it may be, getting their apps to do this thus far is apparently an unsurmountable task well beyond their capabilities.
Frankly, I don’t know of another reading app so limited (user unfriendly) the way they are. In others like Kindle, Apple Books, etc. this is a given. Just the way it works. So common and insignificant elsewhere. Such a major no-brainer. I’ve really never encountered such an asinine problem in all my years of experience with digital media whenever reading anything! Nothing could be more archaic these days. It’s absolutely ridiculous!! Appalling to the point of Ludacris absurdity to say the least. Just try simply navigating and reading anything in these apps with voiceover on. It’s hit and miss at best when attempting to turn a page, which can only be done manually. So tediously, one page at a time. That is if you manage to figure out A working hand gesture, which may or may not work at the time anyway.
Having to turn every single page yourself is alone an unnecessarily obnoxious stupid pain in the …. enough as it is. Having that itself not even be consistent, much less accurate or reliable in doing so, is a flat out reprehensible outrage!! Just imagined reading something and when a page ends, needing to use the device to go to the next. And then not knowing if it ended up there or if it skipped another, or if it even did anything at all. The unmitigated gull of this kind of negligence, is nothing but inexcusable! What kind of “developers,“ write an app that’s so lacking in what couldn’t be more assumingely essential? It’s hard to believe they’re that dense and unintelligent. So that leaves only one conclusion to make. That they couldn’t give less of a sh–t about who can equally use their products. So non-inclusive! How is this not discrimination? Possibly even a violation of the ADA. Definitely should be reported if so. Haven’t done that quite yet. Hope it doesn’t have to go there.
Mind you, this is after already leaving an ignored review. and contacting them numerous times, to which I only got at the most a form letter like response saying “I’ll forward your message to Support.“
Currently at this point, as a now longtime subscriber, it’s downright insulting. At the very least, feeling abandoned and left out in the cold. Once again, fixing this is really no big deal. Certainly not requiring any kind of genius to achieve it at all.
I can’t believe I have to write this today in 2025! What With all that is and ever so much more possible, accelerating every day in how fast things advance technologically, in a time of AI, AR, VR, Meta, and such, we’ll see what happens first to make this all no longer matter. The day I actually get a bionic eye, enabling me to no longer need a screen reader, or these guys finally get it together, catching up to the present and once and for all bringing their apps up to speed? One way or another, that is the day that I will finally be able to use scribed and Everand like I and everyone should, which is simply reading text with them like I can otherwise! That is if I’m ever to live so long. Perhaps, if no sooner, this will come into being by the time we get to the point of inhabiting Mars.
One last question. Will I be able to give this review a final positive update? If so, you can bet that starting with giving them five stars, these guys will have my fullest praise and support.
