The Ongoing Battle for Vestibular Accessibility
I vividly remember getting a wonderful surprise on the sole WWDC I was flown out to, on attending a developer session on accessibility and seeing someone on stage proudly noting that slide transitions in menus had been added to Reduce Motion.
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But what I find disappointing is that, all these years after that Guardian piece broke, vestibular accessibility remains reactive rather than proactive. Nothing illustrates that better than Apple breaking Reduce Motion in Safari of all apps. When Reduce Motion is on, the zooms in the tab view should be replaced by crossfades. They were for a long time. But that went away in iOS 18. I dutifully mentioned this to Apple. It looks like this might be fixed in iOS 18.2. But the problem should never have come back in the first place – and it wouldn’t have if there was even the most rudimentary of testing by someone with Reduce Motion active.
Previously:
- 2023 Apple Vision Accessibility Report Card
- Automatically Pausing Animated Images
- Reduce Transparency and Reduce Motion in macOS Mojave
- El Capitan and tvOS Criticized by Vestibular Disorder Sufferer
- iOS 7.1
- Reduce Motion in iOS 7.0.3
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I mean, "TBD: a11y" is pretty much the current state of affairs with Apple, and has been for some time now. Just ask VoiceOver users, especially on macOS. It's shameful, really. But PR is precious, so ...
