First, once I submit my prompt, voiceover starts to read aloud ChatGPT‘s response before that response is finished, so I will hear the first few words of the response followed by voiceover reading aloud the “stop generating” button, which isn’t super helpful. I would have given this review five stars but I have just a couple minor quibbles. I applaud the inclusivity of this design – I only wish they would give the same attention and care to the accessibility experience of the desktop app.
The UI seems really clean, uncluttered and designed well to be compatible with voiceover, the screen reader built into iOS. Well, the good news – the iOS app pretty much addresses all of those problems. I have submitted numerous feedbacks to open AI about this but nothing has changed on that front. While it’s doable, screen reader navigation is pretty difficult on the desktop site and you really have to be an advanced user to find your way through it. Up to this point I’ve mostly been using ChatGPT on my windows desktop using Google Chrome. Much more accessible for blind users than the web version