ReticentJohn / Amaroq

A floofy Mastodon companion for iOS

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Improvement suggestion: Put toot actions (reply, boost, etc) in VoiceOver actions

pitermach opened this issue · comments

When using VoiceOver with Amaroq right now, you see the toot, followed by a couple of buttons to reply, boost, add to favorites and so on. If you use the flick right/left gestures to go through items on the screen in sequence, VoiceOver stops on all of these buttons before moving on to the next toot. This makes navigation through the timeline a bit slow. While if I'm using the screen directly I can slide my finger past the buttons, when using a Bluetooth keyboard or Braille display the only way to move is to the next and previous item and at that point going from toot to toot takes 5 keystrokes.

A good way to improve this is instead of exposing the buttons for every toot, just put them in as accessibility actions. Amaroq already does this for any links and hashtags in the toot, so it'd just be a matter of adding the options like reply, boost, add/remove from favorites and the more options menu there.

A good example of how to do this well is the Twitterrific app. Every tweet has accessibility actions that tap on any links, hashtags and usernames, something Amaroq also already does. In addition Twitterrific gives you actions to Reply, Retweet, Quote, like and view more options.
This makes navigation much faster because you can just keep flicking to the right to review posts, and if you find one that's interesting you start swiping down to take action on it.