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Apple Makes Last Minute Accessibility Fixes to the App Store Ahead of iOS 6 Release

By David Goodwin👨‍🦯, 18 September, 2012

Member of the AppleVis Editorial Team

I am pleased to say that the major problems we reported with the App Store in the Gold Master release of iOS 6 have now been fixed by Apple.

This is great news, and our thanks go to everybody at Apple who has been busy working on these last minute fixes.

Those who said that this would happen have been proved correct, and I have no problem in saying that I am very pleased that they were!

When alerted to these problems, we had 2 choices - say nothing and hope that they were fixed before the public release, or give people a warning that there were potentially major problems that they should consider before updating.

As things have transpired, the former would have been the better choice. However, decisions are not made with the benefit of hindsight, and I would rather be saying now that we were proved wrong than have risked people only finding out after updating that the App Store had become inaccessible.

So, once again, many thanks to the developers and Accessibility Team at Apple for fixing these problems, and happy updating tomorrow to all VoiceOver users.

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Great news. Had a feeling it would work out

By Vash Rein

9 years 11 months ago

So does this mean that all

By alex wallis

9 years 11 months ago

thank you

By 780KixxFan

9 years 11 months ago

Thank You to All Involved

By Steve Holmes

9 years 11 months ago

In reply to thank you by 780KixxFan

Nice one AppleVis, handled

By Scottsdale

9 years 11 months ago

onward and upward

By Jeff Bishop

9 years 11 months ago

Well played!

By Scott Van Gorp

9 years 11 months ago

site support

By pammyj55kc

9 years 11 months ago

In reply to onward and upward by Jeff Bishop

Thank you Applevis and thank you David

By Nanda

9 years 11 months ago

In reply to onward and upward by Jeff Bishop

Thank you!

By marcus

9 years 11 months ago

I would also like to thank

By rdfreak

9 years 11 months ago

In reply to Thank you! by marcus

the phone bug people knew from iOS 5

By Santiago

9 years 11 months ago

wow, I thought that was just

By rdfreak

9 years 11 months ago

In reply to the phone bug people knew from iOS 5 by Santiago

Thanks to Applevis

By Unregistered User (not verified)

9 years 11 months ago

Excellent work

By Bingo Little

9 years 11 months ago

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