Tandem app became practically inaccessible

By Vsevolod Popov, 19 July, 2023

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iOS and iPadOS

Hi all. Today Recently I started to find out that the app for language exchange tandem started to become less and less accessible. First profile page became inaccessible and now I found out that community tab stopped being like that, users are simply not read which is really disappointing. Do you have any alternatives to tandem? I used hellotalk, but it's accessibility really needs to be improved. It is usable. Or maybe you can share other methods how you find language partners, that would be also interesting to know. What dissapoints me the most is that Italki app is not accessible at it's most important part, pick a date for a lesson with the teacher. It is impossible to do that on website or with iOS app using VoiceOver and NVDA. Let's try to write to tandem at this accessibility issue that app becomes less and less accessible or if you don't have this issue it would be interesting to know. Also as I said it would be interesting to know the way how you find language partners, maybe there is something else except of these apps like tandem, hellotalk and italki.

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By Misty Dawn on Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 21:05

This is indeed very frustrating and I will be following this thread because I have the same questions. I have already written to the developer and I encourage everyone else who is having this issue to write to them.

By Misty Dawn on Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 21:05

I also recently discovered that someone here apparently works for Tandem, so it might also be beneficial to contact her directly about this issue. I have already done this.

Her personal profile link on this site follows: https://www.applevis.com/users/16806

By Sophie Alessandra on Monday, November 4, 2024 - 21:05

Hi all :)
Accessibility is now back on tandem, I mean, it is not perfect, but at least you can read the names of the community again. 😄