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I got a call from apple.. They want me to change the app icon, apparently that was the issue. I don't believe it thoughh, the appeal responder actually said that "your app has voiceover but the rejection still applies". It doesn't make any sense, they still said oh I'm sorry and we will handle it better in the future blah blah.. Let's see if changing the app icon does something. Anyway the game is back with the iOS 15 update, so if anyone wants to try it out... https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1528856181

Apparently we don't have many blind developers in Apple's platform, otherwise this would have been solved a lot before I came in.

It used to be very bad until I contacted support about a slew of accessibility problems. can you believe that the little dropdown to create new app/new bundle was inaccessible? So was testflight......

I think XCode is great, you just need to be patient. I also use my friend's indentation report thing https://github.com/pitermach/IndentBeeper I made a VSCode extension which solves the same problem but obviosuly this does not apply to xcode. https://github.com/ogomez92/indent_reporter_vscode

There is also the aria-expanded role which could be added to a button if this [] were only changed to a button...

Hi, I'm using the site, what do you need indentaiton here for? NVDA can beep when it finds a space before the beginning of the line, not sure what you mean with the gifs thing. IO'm new to this site anwyay I signed up when a friend told me this thing was #2.

Hi all. this is Oriol the developer of the accessible game in question here. I do agree with some of your points guys, I mean, I'm not against reviewing app updates at all, but in this case, if the review board really considered the app to be spam or whatever, they should have said so in the first version of the app, when it was first posted in september 2020, not after like 6 updates. That was the main problem here. I have more than 200 users who have spent money on the app, and the new version was just an iOS 15 fix which rendered the game unplayable without this update. Luckily though yesterday the new update was pushed, they still want me to have a call with them because apparently my app does not comply with their guidelines but let's hope I can clarify this. I am a blind developer and I know that my apps aren't super nice, I mean I can't make wonderful icons and whatever and while I do pay for logos I just don't earn enough from making games for the blind to have icons everywhere, my players will appreciate sound effects and music etc much more than they will cool icons. Being blind myself I think I know very well what the needs of my users are, hence the reason why I wanted to make a game for the blind, and it just makes me sad that Apple will consider that this is spam when I know perfectly well there aren't any other hangman games out there made with the blind in mind, and. I know someone said in a previous comment that with SwiftUI the app should be made accessible automagically. While it is true that the interface is accessible if it is properly made with SwiftUI and its accessibility features, this isn't everything. For hangman for example, I have gestures to announce the current word for example if the word was 'hang' it should say h, 2 blank, g. Then there is the sounds, music, etc which other apps of its kind do not do as well simply because they're made with a mainstream audience in mind.

I hope this clarifies a bit what some of you were thinking, if you would like to you can try some of my other games, they are also made with accessibility in mind of course. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/choose-your-face/id1537309376

Thanks all for the support.

Hi, I am the developer of the app in question, accessible hangman, as well as the other games I hve made for iOS. I am a blind developer myself, that is why I thought htat making games for the blind would be the best approach for me. I chose Apple's platform, instead of Android, because of the way that SwiftUI lets me write the UI via code and change visual appearance of buttons, etc just by adding button shapes, icons, etc.

Now, I do understand that every app needs to go through review every time it is updated, of course. But this is verion 2.5 of the app, this is in no way the first or second version. So yes, Apple seems to find a new issue when someone just finds a little light in their brain clicking into place, the first version had no such issue. But after 4 or 5 versions, oooooh wait, your app does not comply with blah blah blah. So, yes, I think this is unfair. Anyway, I have some news regarding this whole hing, the update was pushed through and approved finally so I'm a bit less worried, they still say I should talk to them on the phone so they're going to schedule a call with me. Let's see how this turns out. Thanks all.