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  "path": "/forum/accessibility-advocacy/troubling-general-decline-screen-reader-accessibility",
  "publishedAt": "2026-06-14T16:49:03.000Z",
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  "textContent": "Since this isn’t about a specific product, OS or app, figured this would be the right place to share my general thoughts. Has anyone noticed, especially in the past year or so, a concerning general decline and screen reader accessibility? I’m talking apps, websites, just overall. I’m talking about things like more inaccessible elements on websites, regressions in apps that were previously more accessible, less responsiveness from companies and developers when screen reader accessibility feedback is provided, etc.\nOn one hand, devices, operating systems, apps and websites are constantly changing, doing more sophisticated things etc., so that could partially explain it. On the other, though, I kind of worry in the current winner-takes-all profit-driven tech environment of our present day, and with less regulatory pressure in some places to ensure accessibility, it’s something worse – the beginning of a larger corrosion of accessibility focus more broadly. I hope I’m wrong about that, but I was just curious if anyone else has noticed this trend, and if so, what do you think is going on?\nA couple of immediate examples, just to ground this in some specific examples YouTube – in your recommendations feed, when you choose to indicate “not interested“ using the rotor options, a panel would pop up that would allow you to specify the reason, “I don’t like the video“ or “I’ve already watched the video.“ Now that panel is inaccessible, and though it can be reached using OCR, to me that’s still broken. Then, Uber Eats – most of the controls for rating a Delivered order, including giving the restaurant a star rating, and the labeling for giving the driver a thumbs up or thumbs down, is no longer accessible. Also with Uber Eats, when you go through the help screens if something went wrong with your order, the labels of the different options – wrong items, order was late, problem with driver, etc. all just get verbalized as “list item“ now, again forcing the use of OCR to make any sense of them. Even in iOS itself, it seems like text boxes, buttons and other standard UI elements are harder and harder to find, like they are shrinking in size or something, to wear I find myself really fumbling around with my thumbs just trying to find the input box to type an iMessage now.",
  "title": "A troubling general decline in screen reader accessibility?"
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