Creating a Petition for Telegram to be made fully accessible to VoiceOver users

By Ramy, 25 December, 2020

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Accessibility Advocacy

Hi my friends:
AM thinking of creating a petition for making telegram more accessible on IOS, they made some small progress from a long time, but they stopped, and this app became so. important because it has some features that even Whatsapp does not have it.
but my Language may not help me, also to find a good accessible site for making a petition, so, if anyone here can create a petition for making Telegram accessible, and i can spread it out, and let's see what we can do to convince the Telegram company to help us more.
Thanks in advance for your help

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By Dennis Long on Wednesday, December 30, 2020 - 16:22

I agree this is needed. Maybe those that use Voice over should message their Support and ask them to implament support for Voice over and tell them what it is.

By Ramy on Wednesday, December 30, 2020 - 16:22

I do not know where to go now, Hope someone can take this into second LVL and try to do sommething

By WellF on Wednesday, December 30, 2020 - 16:22

See this. They aren't willing to make telegram accessible at all, as it seems.

By Unregistered User (not verified) on Wednesday, December 30, 2020 - 16:22

Frankly, you're better off learning the Telegram API and building something yourself. I'd pay money for an accessible client.

By KE7ZUM on Wednesday, December 30, 2020 - 16:22

I already tried to do this, and have been trying since 2016. their support has never once ansered any of my emails. In fact I get no convormation they even make it but a "thank. We'll get back to you" deal.

By Ramy on Wednesday, December 30, 2020 - 16:22

I bought a cheap phone just to use Telegram on it, and Telegram is somewhat accessible on Android 10, so strange really

By Matthew Whitaker on Wednesday, December 30, 2020 - 16:22

Hi. I've already contacted the support team and still haven't gotten a response. This was about a month or so ago.

By KE7ZUM on Wednesday, December 30, 2020 - 16:22

good luck. you will never hear from them. I've never gotten emails even after 3 years or so. It's beter making an app via their API.

By Ramy on Wednesday, December 30, 2020 - 16:22

I tried the Bright guide and NiceGram, nice gram is better, but also not so accessible, if you will try Telegram on android you will know that this app is really great

By Darren Hartland on Wednesday, December 30, 2020 - 16:22

Hi,

I actually don't find the iOS app too bad.

It has some quirks but like some websites, once you get used to the quirks, it's pretty good.

Now, if you want to get into administering groups and such, then it gets much more fiddly.

but, using the iOS app in combination with Unigram for windows 10, it does pretty much what I want it to do.

Does accessibility need improving, yes of course, but to say it's unuseable is an exhageration.

I took it off my phone as I access links etc. That part is 100 percent inaccessible. Also the way it reads out time displays. I don't need to know I've ben talking for 600 seconds. also, it used to crash when I would delete a message. Btw, all of this has already been sent to the telegram team since about 2017-2019 .

By Dennis Long on Wednesday, December 30, 2020 - 16:22

How is bright guide? if there are problems has anyone reached out to the Bright guide developer?

By KE7ZUM on Wednesday, December 30, 2020 - 16:22

Yes, we have tried. The app just over all is not good, hardly works,is too basic for my needs, etc. give me unigram any day.

By Vsevolod Popov on Saturday, January 30, 2021 - 16:22

Yeah, as others have already said, it is useless. You will never get any response. And also others said that unigram is acessible. Yeah, of course it is, but we also have lots of mac users, for me it is not convinient to switch from mac to windows only to use the telegram app. The accessibility issues are also that you cannot switch the language of the telegram app when you switched the language of the phone. So I believe the petition is needed.

By KE7ZUM on Saturday, January 30, 2021 - 16:22

There is a github thread and I might have some good news. Basically someone is taking accessibility over and you might se a change.

By Ramy on Saturday, January 30, 2021 - 16:22

please give us details if possible, and when it will be true?

By Ramy on Saturday, January 30, 2021 - 16:22

I respect this, and i hope it will be soon

By KE7ZUM on Saturday, January 30, 2021 - 16:22

it will be when it is. Let's give the guy some time to work through all of the issues we have so far posted.