Telegram Messenger
Description of App
Pure instant messaging — simple, fast, secure, and synced across all your devices. Over 400 million active users.
FAST: Telegram is the fastest messaging app on the market, connecting people via a unique, distributed network of data centers around the globe.
SYNCED: You can access your messages from all your devices at once. Start typing on your phone and finish the message from your tablet or laptop. Never lose your data again.
UNLIMITED: You can send media and files, without any limits on their type and size. Your entire chat history will require no disk space on your device, and will be securely stored in the Telegram cloud for as long as you need it.
SECURE: We made it our mission to provide the best security combined with ease of use. Everything on Telegram, including chats, groups, media, etc. is encrypted using a combination of 256-bit symmetric AES encryption, 2048-bit RSA encryption, and Diffie–Hellman secure key exchange.
POWERFUL: You can create group chats for up to 200,000 members, share large videos, documents of any type (.DOCX, .MP3, .ZIP, etc.), and even set up bots for specific tasks. It's the perfect tool for hosting online communities and coordinating teamwork.
RELIABLE: Built to deliver your messages in the minimum bytes possible, Telegram is the most reliable messaging system ever made. It works even on the weakest mobile connections.
FUN: Telegram has powerful photo and video editing tools and an open sticker/GIF platform to cater to all your expressive needs.
SIMPLE: While providing an unprecedented array of features, we are taking great care to keep the interface clean. With its minimalist design, Telegram is lean and easy to use.
100% FREE & NO ADS: Telegram is free and will always be free. We are not going to sell ads or introduce subscription fees.
PRIVATE: We take your privacy seriously and will never give third parties access to your data.
For those interested in maximum privacy, Telegram offers Secret Chats. Secret Chat messages can be programmed to self-destruct automatically from both participating devices. This way you can send all types of disappearing content — messages, photos, videos, and even files. Secret Chats use end-to-end encryption to ensure that a message can only be read by its intended recipient.
We keep expanding the boundaries of what you can do with a messaging app. Don’t wait years for older messengers to catch up with Telegram — join the revolution today.
Version
Free or Paid
Apple Watch Support
Device(s) App Was Tested On
iOS Version
VoiceOver Performance
Button Labeling
Usability
Other Comments
It seems that developers are not responsive. Anyway, it is a great app also because there is a Mac Version that is accessible, so you can chat both with your idevice or with your mac.
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Developer's Twitter Username
Recommendations
1 people have recommended this app
Comments
Not good
Give this a miss unless you really need to use it for file-sharing. I've just downloaded it and spent a few minutes on it, and you are still not able to enter the text edit box with Voiceover running, or read the messages from left to right in a chat as with iMessage, Messenger or Whatsapp. To write a message, you have to go from the main screen to compose message each time, find the person you were talking to and send the text that way. I think the rating remains accurate: it is usable in the sense that most of its features can be half-used, but to be honest it's such a slow process that you probably needn't bother. I shal persevere but continue to use my charms to persuade people of the merits of Whatsapp for group messaging instead.
what can we do?
Telegram is becoming really popular.
The app is terrible speaking about accessibility, and developers seem not interested. Perhaps if Applevis team can consider to write them...
sign petition for Telegram
Study Group
Telegram has not improved its accessibility for years! There are many helpful study groups on Telegram, but I fail to access them. There are not so many study groups on WhatsApp though. Very frustrated...
Current version of Telegram for iOS seems to support voiceover.
Confirmed by Telegram owner/founder: https://twitter.com/alisonc42/status/1100439055320444928 support for Voiceover due in March - Download the latest version - basic messaging works in VoiceOver for iOS!
Telegram VoiceOver support
Telegram VoiceOver support has dramatically improved in terms of navigation but there are still glaring issues with the app, in particular one button with no label on the main window of the app, and it seems impossible to manage existing chats after tapping the edit button. does anyone know the procedure for engaging with telegram on accessibility? I assume if I email normal tech support they probably won't have a clue what I am going on about or my report will just be lost in the system.
with the latest update
with the latest update telegram has improved there accessibility again, there is still an unlabeled button or two, e.g if you get sent a website link, but now deleting messages marking as read and all the other usual things you would want to do with a messaging app is now accessible, as VoiceOver offers an actions rotor for managing chats and messages within chats. the main accessibility rating and information for this app is totally outdated.
that's good to know! hope
that's good to know! hope the next version can be more better
Hi everyone.
Hi everyone.
I do not think we can now define Telegram now as accessible. yet
You cannot scroll through messages within a group, you cannot read the unread messages counter, you cannot read the comments of a message within a group,
you cannot change many settings, etc etc .
Greetings
Sauro
I've sent all of that and
I've sent all of that and more including the files and now the scheduling messages to telegram.org/support and no go. They don't respond, they don't even say they got the issue. They don't respond on twitter. I'm thinking of leaving this app, but for the fact I run 2 troups on there and I have a podcast channel on there. The app sucks balls on iOs and it appears they don't really care. Oh and they still have not fixed the crashing when deleting a voice clip issue. I sent them a sis diag file and no response.
new update, still no joy
Well, there was an update today, but, scheduling messages are still inaccessible, the files area is atrocious and don't even get me started on links. They are not taking us seriously. and also removing audio messages what the actions rotor still causes telegram to crash. I sent in my reports in ios 12 when this happened in June, but no go, and it looks like they don't care.
I just got telegram and it's...
Hi,
I just got telegram today and it's accessible with VoiceOver. they've made some more enhancements with the UI and you can now delete messages using the actions rotor. I don't use the scheduling feature, I just leave it alone. all in all, very simple and easy to use.
Yeah, I have to see if I
Yeah, I have to see if I can remove audio messages with out it crashing. Also the files area is still inaccessible last I looked a few weeks ago.
Still inacessible appp
Dear Everyone!
Personally, I still rate telegram as an inaccessible app in comparison to other major social network out there, at least for now. Unlabeled buttons are still lingering around, while the interface is hard to navigate. I think the telegram should be ashamed for ignoring improving accessibility despite telegram's popularity.
can we change the original post?
Hi all:
Am using the app from more than 3 months, and all i can say that they are working in improving accessibility, so, it's not fair to say that it's not accessible, do not know if we can change the rate etc according to it's current status?
any other app designed for blinds?
I need to find a secret chatting app that deals only with blind persons, or at least not known to sighted ones, need to talk to my GF which is totally blind.
Secret chats are not
Secret chats are not accessible. Use telegram and unigram on the pc. By the way I've reported all the issues we are having to telegram's support and they don't even take the time to answer our emails. We even are part of a telegram group with those folks and they ignore us there as well.
Accessibility Comments
AppleVis Editorial Team Update Note:
Changed the accessibility ratings to reflect on users comments.
Original Poster Note:Unfortunately, I'm very near to define this app a disaster, because it is impossible reaching the text field for opening the chat and write.
A work around is disable voiceover, then tap on the low part of the screen until we listen to the classic sound of written characters, then re-enable voiceover, delete what you wrote and write the message.
Really frustrating, also because Voiceover doesn't read message in the chat window!
On the other hand, you can send vocal messages, with an unlabelled button, and it works quite well.
I'm really sorry that developers didn't answer to my requests. if you can, try write to info@telegram.org, or go to settings, make a question, and you will be prompted to chat with someone of the staff, that never answer to me.