Instagram reels unusable with VO on latest update

By inforover, 17 September, 2024

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iOS and iPadOS

Not sure if anyone uses it but instagram reels are now completely inaccessible with VoiceOver. What I usually do is turn it off to swipe through reels and then turn it back on to get to options such as share and save etc etc. However, on the latest few updates, it's not shown any controls for the current reel being watched and instead, VO has taken me to the first reel I watched.
Firstly, I'm writing this post to see if anyone's experienced this problem and has perhaps found a work around.
Second, to ask whether Meta or Instagram themselves have an accessibility team I can tell about this bug. I did try to go through the app, with no luck in the resolving of this bug.
Lastly, I doubt it but could this be a VO focus issue? Let me say quickly that the same thing does not happen on YouTube shorts.

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By Mlth on Sunday, September 22, 2024 - 03:13

Reels still seem fairly accessible to me on the latest instagram version (349 for me), though I sometimes have the issue that they loop back after scrolling for a while.
In stead of turning off VoiceOver, have you attempted to scroll with 3 fingers up and down? That gets me through reels, and I can still get at the controls, for the time being at least.

By TheBllindGuy07 on Sunday, September 22, 2024 - 03:13

I always scrolled 3 fingres on instagram. The bug of returning on the first element is only on tiktok as far as I know which is very very annoying. I'll have to retest instragram.