i am pursuing a career in adaptive tech, specializing in ios for my local center for the blind so i am well aware of how the two finger swiping down gesture works. sometimes i skim through paragraphs or posts instead of reading the entire thing, mostly to skip over links or irrelevant info.

i am simply pointing out that the formatting is strange and maybe a bit unnecessary and voiceover treats it as new lines, which is annoying. especially when voiceover does not indicate that it is a change in formatting. i only found that out from a desktop client because it shows every asterisk in the post instead of saying a word is bold or italicized.

i’ve always used bacon reader on ios, have yet to find another reddit client that works as well or better.

and i made a short video of how the bacon reader client reads the post, where you can hear how it pauses after each format change and you have to swipe to continue. it’s only about a minute long and should help explain what i mean by having to swipe a bunch of times to finish a sentence.

https://youtu.be/LXqULm2bOng