Freeform TV

The menus may be accessible, but once you click on a show or movie to play, the buttons on the player screen are not accessible. In order to pause the video, you have to interrupt it (I do this with a two-finger double tap to turn on music, then double tap again to turn that off, too). In order to start the video again, you have to turn Voiceover off and tap around on the screen until it hits the play button (near the center). Finally, I have yet to find a way to back out of a video once it has started, other than just restarting the entire app. Not to mention that, while some of the shows have audio description when viewed through cable, there is no option for audio description through the app, so anyone watching ABC Family shows through the app don't get that accessibility. Personally, I am very disappointed in ABC, both for this app and the broader ABC Player. Accessibility is obviously not on their list of must-have's.

Hello Jewel, Thanks for pointing that out to us! Quite a shame indeed. It has appeared that since 2.0 that it has lost many of the accessibility of the app. Looks like we need to inform ABC on this problem.

Hello, I think this app has been renamed from ABC Family to WATCH ABC Family. Also, this app doesn't seem to be accessible at all anymore. When I updated and installed the app this morning, it began by asking to use my current location. When I allowed it to use my current location, it went to a screen which was not usable with VoiceOver at all. I tried removing and reinstalling the app, and I received the same results.