[NFBCS] IOS 17 rolling out tomorrow

Brian Buhrow buhrow at nfbcal.org
Wed Sep 20 01:24:05 UTC 2023


	Hello.  I suspect the problem with these bugs is not that there isn't time to fix them,
but rather, Apple isn't able to reproduce them.  For example, there is a long standing bug in
iOS, since iOS 10 at least, whereby if one is playing an mp3 media file in Safari, one is not
able to move the playback slider by more than 5 or 10 seconds in either direction at a time;
yet that slider works perfectly fine if operated without VoiceOver.  When I opened a ticket
with Apple Accessibility, they said they couldn't reproduce the problem, even when I provided
videos showing them how to reproduce it.  The challenge is that, in my view, most folks,
including those people who develop them, don't know how to troubleshoot nonvisual access issues
because, as I say, even though they develop the tools, they don't use them regularly and don't
rely on them for their daily experience.  Many of these bugs are subttle and, unless you're
intimately familiar with the access technology, because you use it, you're going to miss the
bug when it occurs unless it's painfully obvious.  
	In short, it's not a time problem, but a resourcing issue in general.  And, no matter how
long one delays a software release, if access technology isn't given enough resources relative
to the project as a whole, the issues will never be addressed.

-thanks
-Brian



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