Reddit app accessibility regression - any way to fix?

By Mlth, 16 March, 2025

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iOS and iPadOS

Hi!
A while ago, my official Reddit app for iOS became much more accessible, enabling proper showing of post formatting (links, lists etc), as well as line navigation in the rotor. Unfortunately, the interface has now reverted to the old, less accessible interface, where only paragraph navigation works well, and formatting isn't indicated or interactable.
Is there any way I can force it back to the interface with better accessibility? I tried reinstalling the app, but unfortunately that had no effect.
Thanks!

Best
M

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By Brian on Monday, March 17, 2025 - 02:26

Hi,

While I do not know how to make the official Reddit app work for you, I would offer an alternative application; Dystopia for Reddit. The app is a little outdated, but very accessible, and very easy to use, and works well with VoiceOver action rotor, and VoiceOver in general. Alternatively, if you do not want to deal with another app, you can use the old.reddit website. Basically, any Reddit page you go to, just add, old(dot), to the address, and you will get a more accessible webpage experience.
For example, the R/blind page could be viewed like this, https://old.reddit.com/r/Blind/

HTH.

By Mlth on Monday, March 17, 2025 - 02:26

Thanks for the excellent ideas Brian!
I really like using Dystopia and will go back to it, however it seems like it might not be under active development (though I'd love to be wrong about that), which was why I was hoping the official Reddit app's further accessibility improvements were here to stay, since they've already been coded it seems.

Best
M

By Brian on Monday, March 17, 2025 - 02:26

The way I understand it, the powers that be at Reddit charge an obscene amount for access to their API. So that is why a lot of Reddit apps are no longer in development. It's a shame, because I too love Dystopia for Reddit. Like I said I still use it, even though the app is not Up-to-date anymore. 🫤

By Brad on Tuesday, March 18, 2025 - 02:26

It'll be a huge shame if it goes down next year, we'll see.

The chat function doesn't work so if I need that I just download the reddit app and use it there but sadly reddit is quite bad when it comes to keeping up to date with its accessibility practises.