Hi all,
First off, if I selected the wrong category for this, my apologies, I don't know where else to put this.
With that out-of-the-way,
I'm a chess player and play on lichess.org. As of a few days? About a week? Not sure but, if you have the accessibility enable blind mode enabled, when you make a move i.e, weather on the virtual board i.e, going to say e2 square where there's a white pawn, then mooving one square above it or 2 e3 or e4 doesn't matter which but, no matter if I enter move via notation via the text box or via board... I'm not getting anything. Usually what would happen is voiceover or insert screenreader will announce move i.e, e4, nf3, etc depending on what notation stile you prefer. Point is, moves would get announced. However this is no longer happening.
As of now i've only tested this on safari on ios tried chrome but at least on ios pressing the accessibility enable blind mode does well, it doesn't work.
Before this worked without a problem but, maybe they did an update to lichess or something but things are just... all out of wack, bad.
If there are any other chess players, can you give me a hand testing this and reporting back if you experience this? I don't care if its windows, mac, ios, which browser nvda, jaws, narrator... I don't care I just, anyone else experiencing this?
To test do the following.
go to,
Lichess.org
Enable the, accessibility, enable blind mode if itβs not enabled, itβs the first button you'll see on site.
With item chooser look for play against computer or alternatively via heading navigation look for the, play heading and ten below it if you swipe or arrow 3 times to the right you'll find the play against computer button, press it.
Now, just press play. Weather your blck or white won't matter, if white, after you make any move assuming its legal, i.e, e4, d4, c4, nc3, nf3 etc, you should hear screen reader announce the move, i.e, night f3, e4, d4, etc.
If your black same thing, but you should hear computer's move.
If any here could test this out i'd be very greatful, i'm trying to pinpoint this to report but, without time to test as i'm not in front of computer now, I want to nip this in the bud sooner rather than later, or at least, t!ry to.
If yo'll could just do a test or 2 i'd appreciate it immensely. Am I the only one experiencing this?
I don't think it matters but, running latest version of ios26.
For those who are able / willing to test, thanks a bunch. By the way, you don't need a account to play, so that should make things easier.
By Igna Triay, 3 August, 2026
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Live regions?
Any chance this has been disabled for that website?