Been Trying To Get Anyone At All On Staff To Take This Issue Seriously Since 2012 - Tumblr Posts

I’m pretty sure someone on @staff has a grudge against the vision impaired at this point. It’s impossible to even read text with a screen reader in the app.

I miss being included in social media. We’re an afterthought at best these days. It’s damn lonely.

Anyway. ..

By the way, @staff is changing the video player and photo viewer on the mobile app to the one from Tumblr TV. As a result, they have made the abhorrent decision to remove an important accessibility feature in order to TikTok-ifying Tumblr. You can no longer zoom in on photos. Or so I though. Because the visually impaired are now second-class users to the Tumblr Staff, they just decided to make it harder to zoom in on photos.

So, for all of you who, like me, find the pinch-to-zoom feature on Tumblr invaluable to read and view photos, you now have to:

Tap the Photo > Tap the “more” button in the description > tap the photo again

This will open the old photo viewer (for now, anyway) which was formerly one tap away. It will grant you all the former features of the old photo viewer, including the ability to zoom in.