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The YouTube app on iOS is getting so bad that I'm seriously considering canceling YouTube premium. The number of swipes required for a single video listing is increasing, not decreasing; and there's a swipe trap in the title section of the video player now, so you have to explore by touch to get past a certain point. Anyone know the best way to give accessibility feedback on Google apps? I can't imagine they are somehow unaware of how stunningly awful this app has become, but I can at least write to them and say I did my part.

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I don't know, but there's also issues on iOS, like I can't go through the track, like double tap and then slide does not work, and I am glad I don't have premium.
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Nikola Jović
Nikola Jović
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It's truly sad. I tried to write to the Google disability support and then they kept convincing me that everything is absolutely fine and it all reads with VoiceOver, even though I never said it doesn't read something. For some reason they went into let's remove all the rotor actions mode, no idea what's up with that.
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Oh yeah, they did. And you haven't been able to like, go through a video using the track slider and dragging it. Like, why do I have to stop voiceover to do it exactly? I don't know, but nothing I did mad that slider go forward. Except swiping like a madwoman.
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André Polykanine
André Polykanine
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I'd suggest either live chat or email with Google Disability Answer Desk.
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Drew Mochak
Drew Mochak
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Follow these easy steps to give accessibility feedback to Google!

Step 1: contact Google's Disability support center.
Step 2: explain the issue to the agent, in terms that can be understood by a sighted, non-screenreader user.
Step 3: Hope that your information gets forwarded to the right Google team.
Step 4: hope that the right Google team also understood and took action.
Step 5: wait. Forever.
Step 6: Ambush someone who works for the app in question at a tech conference.

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Mike Breedlove
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The fact that I have to swipe thrice per video is fucking absurd. The bad thing is we let google have this kind of power.
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Marie Bayar
Marie Bayar
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@stirlock I genuinely don't understand. So, I have to swipe a bit more. What's the big deal?
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Simon Jaeger
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@SapphireRose91 @stirlock I think on the home screen the swipes are relatively normal still, but anywhere else where videos are listed, there's one control for the entire video listing, one for just the title, one for the channel, etc. It's super broken.
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Marie Bayar
Marie Bayar
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@stirlock oh, I'm sure, but I wouldn't cancel my YouTube premium subscription over it. I think that's just a little extreme.
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to be fair, I totally would cancel my subscription over this. If they can't fix accessibility and complaints have been submitted, and nothing has been done, I have the right to do that. Since I have no youtube premium subscription, at all, everyone has the right to do it if the service isn't up to their satisfaction, even if it's for accessibility, especially, if it's for accessibility and you struggle with it, and it impares your watching experience, browsing experience etc. For me, on iOS, the gripe is the track slider, can't adjust that, if I can't adjust that, I don't need that subscription so I can suffer through that inaccessibility, which happened on youtube for years, and they haven't fixed it. so, no, it's not extreme, I am in full support of cancelation.
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