I really feel like a lot of big companies are losing track of accessibility. Realistically, implementing these actions might not be a two-second job, but it feels like it should be a priority. YouTube is also getting worse on iOS, where it used to have perfect rotor action support. The feed has gotten more and more cluttered, and most recently, the comments view was changed so that each comment is no longer a single control with actions, but rather a cluttered mess of controls with separate like and dislike buttons. So either there was a redesign without thought to accessibility, or they intentionally removed them on iOS, and neither of those are good. Android is still playing catch-up because actions weren't added as a reading control / granularity option until recently, but Google should be leading the charge and they're clearly not.

Thank you so much for this very informative article. After having read the whole article, I am feeling very disappointed with Google as a company who claimed to care about accessibility but in reality, they seem to forget about us and we are pushed to the side. It is like standing in a checkout line trying to reach the front of the queue but people keep pushing you backwards. There’s nothing we can do because whenever you file accessibility feedback with Google, it is completely ignored and we are treated like second class citizens who do not matter to Google. What are the other frustrating points I wish to make is with the phone app. I really do not like the Phone app on the pixel eight device especially when trying to access the keypad and then if you do nothing with the keypad for awhile, that window goes away and you have to locate the keypad button again. It is a very clunky experience compared to the phone app on iOS. Sorry however, long live iOS in this instance.

someone needs to show this to google