Twitterific for Mac 4.0 Is Released Sans VoiceOver Accessibility
— ♣The IconFactory has released the much anticipated Twitterific 4.0 for Mac OS X. Though Twitterific was one of the first OS X Twitter clients to incorporate accessibility, the application has taken a huge step backward with this release. The message timelines are not exposed to VoiceOver, making the app unusable.
Interestingly, much of the app elsewhere is quite accessible, and accessibility tags have been used on many controls. We hope the the lack of accessibility of the timelines is only a temporary oversight by the IconFactory, and that full VoiceOver support will return soon. In the mean time, Twitterific users who rely on VoiceOver should continue to use the previous version and not upgrade to version 4.0.