Regarding my last couple of reboosts regarding the latest WhatsApp, this is sad, and really brings home once again the frustration of perfectly working apps that have worked well for us for years, just breaking on a whim. Why is this so common, why is it so fucking hard to keep apps fully accessible? I enjoyed WhatsApp, and now it looks like my days of using it may be over. I really wish App developers would quit doing this. It shouldn't be hard to make an app accessible and keep it that way. Pardon me, but I'm mad and livid. In the last two weeks alone, I've now seen two apps I've used on a regular basis for years go from perfectly accessible, to not nearly as nice of an experience. And for no other reason than because developers fill this urgent need to update all the time, when the app is functioning perfectly well! I'm sorry but this is getting old very fast. We may be a minority, but dammit we are still humans and deserve to have a pleasant app using experience regardless of what app we use. If a sighted person lost a portion of the app that they needed, it would be fixed in three seconds. How can we get this across to these major developers that not every single damn day requires an app update that's going to break things! How was this allowed to get out of the beta phase? That's the whole point of a beta test, if there are issues, fix them before public release, that ain't a hard concept. OK I think I'm done ranting for now.

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