Pro-life, practicing Catholic. Nearly 35 years working in the blindness technology space. I enjoy science fiction books and audio drama, with Babylon 5 and Doctor Who being my favorite franchises. I love puns, Catholic apologetics and audio theater. Currently the marketing director for Blazie Technologies, developers of the BT Speak and BT Braille. Opinions from this account are my own.
Pro-life, practicing Catholic. Nearly 35 years working in the blindness technology space. I enjoy science fiction books and audio drama, with Babylon 5 and Doctor Who being my favorite franchises. I love puns, Catholic apologetics and audio theater. Currently the marketing director for Blazie Technologies, developers of the BT Speak and BT Braille. Opinions from this account are my own.
For users of Lire on iOS:
I've been noticing that performming the two-finger scrub gesture from within an article in Lire is not moving back to the list of articles, as expected. I sent the following email to support@lireapp.com containing the following bug report.
Hello.
Running Lire 6.3.11, build 428 on an iPhone 14 Pro Max, iOS 26.3.1
When VoiceOver is enabled, performing a two-finger scrub normally invokes the Back button. This is done by moving rapidly with two fingers on the screen, moving to the left, right and left again, as though you’re “scrubbing” the screen.
This normally works flawlessly with Lire but this newest version produces unexpected results.
To be clear, double-tapping the Back button when VoiceOver is enabled activates the Back button and results are what is expected.
However, performing the two-finger scrub gesture from within an article in Lire does not take you back to the article list as it should. Instead, it takes you to a page containing just a few elements, including a grayed-out View Modes option, a grayed-out Change Appearance button, and an element labeled No Selection.
Steps To Reproduce
1. Enable VoiceOver.
2. Open Lire.
3. Double tap a feed to open the article list for that feed.
4. Doublle tap an article.
5. In the article text, perform a two-finger scrub gesture.
Expected Results
You should be moved back to the list of articles.
Actual Results
You are on a page containing a few elements. Performing a two-finger scrub gesture a second time moves you back to the article list.