Simon Jaeger on Nostr: Update: This morning there was an update to PalChat. It resolves several of the ...
Update: This morning there was an update to PalChat. It resolves several of the labeling problems but more importantly, it resolves an issue with swipe order, which must have been a bit more of an involved fix than adding some labels. This is one of those times when I was wrong and I'm glad of it. Last night this was what sounded like a dismissive developer response. This morning it was one of the fastest accessibility fixes I've seen in a long time.
ORIGINAL POST:
I've been using an app called PalChat, which interfaces with a lot of common large language models in a single app. It's very powerful, but has some VoiceOver issues. Namely, the swipe order is wrong in some places, and a few buttons are unlabeled. So I wrote a very detailed message explaining all of these issues in what I thought was a pretty clear way. The developer replied to that message—which contained three separate issues—with a couple of sentences, essentially saying "I didn't change anything, and I don't know enough to fix it, sorry."
And honestly, I'm unreasonably annoyed about this. I took the time to report #accessibility problems that clearly do affect me, one of which is just a labeling problem, and all I got back was "I don't know how to fix that."
Well then *LEARN* how to fix it! Do I have to Google docs for you so you can figure out how to label a button?
I'm not sure the dev could have said "I don't care about accessibility" any more loudly. And maybe I'm just expecting too much of a single developer, but it doesn't seem like these fixes would be rocket science. This basically tells me I'll be able to use the app until something breaks.
There's a subscription, which I would have been happy to pay for if I'd gotten anything above 0% interest in actually working with me, but now I won't.
I'm tired.
ORIGINAL POST:
I've been using an app called PalChat, which interfaces with a lot of common large language models in a single app. It's very powerful, but has some VoiceOver issues. Namely, the swipe order is wrong in some places, and a few buttons are unlabeled. So I wrote a very detailed message explaining all of these issues in what I thought was a pretty clear way. The developer replied to that message—which contained three separate issues—with a couple of sentences, essentially saying "I didn't change anything, and I don't know enough to fix it, sorry."
And honestly, I'm unreasonably annoyed about this. I took the time to report #accessibility problems that clearly do affect me, one of which is just a labeling problem, and all I got back was "I don't know how to fix that."
Well then *LEARN* how to fix it! Do I have to Google docs for you so you can figure out how to label a button?
I'm not sure the dev could have said "I don't care about accessibility" any more loudly. And maybe I'm just expecting too much of a single developer, but it doesn't seem like these fixes would be rocket science. This basically tells me I'll be able to use the app until something breaks.
There's a subscription, which I would have been happy to pay for if I'd gotten anything above 0% interest in actually working with me, but now I won't.
I'm tired.