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Mobile App question #accessibility #app

 

I manage several groups.
I just downloaded the iOS mobile App.

I can't read any messages, or do anything in the mobile App - the display is all far too small for me to read.

Where is the setting to make the display larger in the mobile App (it doesn't follow the iOS text size setting, which I have right in the middle, nor can I zoom the page like I do in Safari). I must be missing something obvious.

I am planning to use the mobile App for communication at an outdoor event, to coordinate people. But if I can't read the messages, that isn't going to work.

Thanks.
 

On Mon, May 29, 2023 at 09:12 PM, stephanie j wright wrote:
Where is the setting to make the display larger in the mobile App (it doesn't follow the iOS text size setting, which I have right in the middle, nor can I zoom the page like I do in Safari). I must be missing something obvious.

I don't think that accessibility is fully there with the app.
I raised in Beta group, App Subgroup.



Perhaps a followup there?
The last post was February and asked for in part: ?"I.E. to be responsive to the iOS font size controls."

Frances

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On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 02:12 AM, stephanie j wright wrote:
Where is the setting to make the display larger in the mobile App
As Frances said, there is currently no function to increase the text size in the app.? You could always use a browser on your phone which should allow you to do that though. Check the subgroup for any updates and to raise further queries on the app.

Regards
Andy
 

I use the mobile all the time.? I have a iPhone 12 Pro.? It was a little wonky at first but if you go from portrait to landscape mode by physically rotating the iPhone, you are able to see everything in the window.? There are sometimes problems seeing member pages and trying to see when they "Joined" but overall, you can access all parts of the site.? At least I can with this particular iPhone.
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On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 04:23 PM, coprosowner wrote:
I use the mobile all the time.? I have a iPhone 12 Pro.?
Are you actually using the app or just the mobile version of the website in a browser?

The first image is the app on my iPhone and the second is the mobile version using Safari browser.



This next one is Safari browser - notice the option to open the app. With this I can use my fingers to zoom in or out. Not so with the app.


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Thanks folks - before I saw? your comments, I headed out of town for the morel mushroom foray I was helping coordinate - and where I was using the mobile App.

I was using the mobile App, not the web page in a browser.
[However, my experiments Safari, once logged in to groups.io, it pops me straight into the mobile App when I select a group that I belong to.]
The suggestion to turn my phone for landscape mode does help with better layout and general visibility - but the text is still too small. [I have chosen 12 pt for this message - that works for me, the 11pt is a strain.]
On a positive note - I can use the microphone to dictate a new message in the mobile App, which my hands appreciate. but it's not good for admin tasks liking adding someone since dictation of an email address isn't very pretty.

Just as note - I use an iPhone SE (3rd generation) and I think it is too large - I have arthritis and small hands, and find that it is painful to hold for very long. I wish it was smaller in width and height (I liked my iPhone 4 just fine, thought it was the perfect size) - but I know that most people like larger phones. I wouldn't be able to hold anything larger. Maybe the text does display larger on a mobile device with a larger screen (I need to do some research - not that I will ever have a larger device for my personal use, but out of curiosity).

I do hope that the accessibility improves.

I am in the "senior" category - along with a lot of other baby-boomers, many of whom have embraced their phones.
I do a bit of tech support for folks who haven't had a smart phone before, but got pushed into getting a phone by their grandchildren. Unfortunately a lot of Apps, including ones more likely to be used by seniors, aren't doing QA focus-groups with the Medicare crowd.
I think I need to figure out how to get paid to give advice to developers on that growing market segment.
Thanks again.
I just put up a page of Photos of our

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