I think I mentioned the colony of cormorants hanging out on the coast near my house in winter before.
Here they are:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uH7g0VjJG44

#SetoInlandSea #birds #cormorants

Did I tell you about the colony of #cormorants that hang out near my house in winter?

YouTube

I would have loved posting on #Loops instead, but my app still crashes every time I try to upload a video to it.

@dansup the latest update didn't fix the problem.

@David @dansup I'd love to post there at all but the dev has refused to engage around discussion of accessibility from myself and other blind users, so nothing we can do... Sigh

@FreakyFwoof @David Huh? Accessibility is a priority and we've been working on improving it, but do remember we are in beta so we have to balance our progress carefully.

Is there anything specific you'd like to see improved in terms of accessibility?

@dansup @FreakyFwoof @David Yeah, the buttons for liking, commenting and sharing don't say like, comment and share, they just say 1 button, button, and so on. Also some buttons in the headers don't say anything unless Voiceover's recognition feature kicks in, so using Native headers and stuff would help. I don't really know much about coding JavaScript, but my experimentation with getting AI to assist me in making a Mastodon app with Expo has given me some insight into how it is possible to use native controls in React Native, at least on IOS, Android is having some issues. What version of the Expo SDK is Loops on, I think a lot of the native functionality is in SDK 54, and soon version 55 is coming.

@alexchapman @FreakyFwoof @David I really appreciate your feedback and want you to know that I'm currently adding the proper accessibility labels to these buttons.

I apologize for this, and will make a point to ensure we do better going forward.

❤️

@dansup @FreakyFwoof @David Thanks a lot, much appreciated. Can we expect a Testflite release to make sure that it works as intended, and if all is well it gets pushed out to the App Store?
@alexchapman @dansup @David It's weird I'm not seeing these posts in my timeline and I definitely didn't block Dan. I was under the impression that accessibility was a dirty word.
Have send a few testflight feedback messages about loops, and even responded to a few threads here and Dan, so far as I was aware you'd seen but never responded. Looks like I owe you an apology. Something weird going on though, even though I was mentioned, your messages do not appear in my mentions at all...
Even when I pull thread, it's like Dan's messages are just MIA.
@FreakyFwoof @dansup @David That's so odd, I've also mentioned accessibility in the Loops official Discord server, and I think the reason Dan didn't respond much is due to how busy he has been, juggling Loops and Pixelfed, getting Loops into the App Store and all that, it can be very stressful.
@alexchapman @dansup @David I'm not sure if Dan blocked me because I literally cannot see his replies.
@FreakyFwoof @alexchapman @dansup @David I've seen this issue on Mastodon a few times where a follow request doesn't get fully through the system and it puts the user you are trying to follow in a weird state where you don't see their posts. If you go to try and follow the user again it may show pending follow. If you cancel the follow request and wait a while and try again it usually clears it.
@David I just uploaded a vid. I am on an iphone on a prerecorded video. I have never tried the live thing 😬@dansup
@SeaFury I know it works for most people (well, I assume it does). It's a bug I had already contacted him about.
@David Are you on android or ios?
@dansup Android. The app always crashes when I reach the page where I enter the title and the rest of the video settings.
I've had the same problem for months, kinda given up on Loops because of that