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by lolinder 1107 days ago
The trick is what does that even mean? If an app has great accessibility but is used by a lot of non-disabled people too, is it disqualified?

A quote from /r/Blind [0]:

> Apollo has without question been the most accessible social networking app I have ever used, or are even aware of. It allowed me to enjoy using Reddit, as well as become a moderator of multiple Disability focused subreddits like r/disability, r/epilepsy, r/EverybodyGames, and r/DisabilityPartyTime, among other communities.

> Apollo is and has always been a pleasure to use, and allowed me to leverage all manner of accessibility tools from UI Scaling, Magnification, VoiceOver, VoiceControl, Describe, and even just the app’s amazing searching, filters, and more that often don’t even exist in Desktop regardless of platform, and at any price. It is one of very few social networking apps that support iOS Braille Terminals.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/Blind/comments/1447ibp/what_apps_me...

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I assume that means "we'll allow a clone of Apollo that claims to only help blind people, because it will get little traction with a different name and wink-wink advertising and the number of users who use it will be orders of magnitude less". The problem was never the API, but the lack of ad revenue.