7 Little Words and More

I have become accustomed to the format in place for 7 Little Words as it has been since September 2021. However, as a blind person, I still find navigating it a bit cumbersome. I especially don’t care for the fact that numbers, symbols, and especially accented letters are not truly readable. As soon as you’re on one of those characters, it automatically reads the next letter. At least the letters I can stop to find out what letter it is phonetically. I’ve also had times when I haven’t understood my screen reader when it’s reading the Sunday puzzle theme, for example. There doesn’t seem to be a way to actually read that character by character. It appears to be hidden text. I tried using the tutorial once, when I got a new phone and had to unlock the puzzles. I didn’t find it helpful at all. This puzzle used to be the most accessible app that I knew of. It was the first app I was really able to figure out how to use on my own without the assistance of a sided person, or even another blind person or a tutorial. I’ve addressed this issue with you all before, but never really got anywhere, but only to receive replies that came across as dismissive and belittling. I know that it has almost been five years since the last major format change, but I would like to see some kind of improvement. I understand the need for uniform apps, however, I don’t believe plug and play is necessary for this app. Thank you.

Thought the problems I had been having were fixed but today it’s back to the ad being on a black screen and therefore I can’t access the ad supported puzzle. I did get to do the daily puzzle. If the black screen is there tomorrow I won’t be able to do either puzzle. Love this game!!! Having problems with the ad supported puzzle that appears with the free daily puzzle. It’s either a black screen or a circle signaling that it is downloading the puzzle. I just tried to access it and its still trying to download after 22 hours. Having the same problem with the ad supported puzzle. It is doing the circle signaling that it is downloading the puzzle. When this happens you can’t do the daily puzzle or the puzzles that I have purchased. Did the daily puzzle and the ad supported puzzle today and it is still doing the downloading thing. Same problem again. Did daily puzzle and the ad supported puzzles will not download. All I get is the circle signaling that it’s downloading. Can only do one, two, or three puzzles of the daily puzzles before the downloading icon appears. Once that occurs I can’t do anything until the next time the daily puzzles appear. There seems to be a glitch of some sort. Same problem as above. Downloading icon appears and can’t do anything until it goes away. Sometimes this takes 24 hours or more. Getting frustrated, as this seems to occur more and more. Shouldn’t be having the same issue this much. Haven’t been able to play the daily puzzle or the 10 little puzzle also for the past three days. The app will not fully load. It says handshake complete and that’s as far as I can get. There’s is also a number in the left hand corner. It corresponds with the number of times I have tried to open the app.

I have been playing this game for years, there was a time when I put it down but didn’t delete it because I enjoy the puzzles. I enjoyed guessing from the clues and if that wasn’t possible, guessing from the tiles sometimes I have even challenged myself to only guess from the tiles and not even use the clues, because I didn’t like to use the hints. When I came back to the game I noticed the drastic game changes. I am a blind player using Voice Over and I loved how the game was when I first started playing. Now when I go in to the game it has a delay when it only says direct touch area and then it sort of starts to recognize the screen elements and randomly while playing it will not read the screen and go back to just saying direct touch area. Another issue is I am unable to go through each clue letter by letter, which is helpful because sometimes I can’t tell what Voice Over is saying, when I try to use the rotor and swipe down it says something like read clue by word but it doesn’t do that. Lastly is how much I get booted from the game or I will randomly get booted to another app right in the middle of game play. It is just so frustrating playing the game now if you are a Voice Over user, I used to play multiple puzzles a day in one sitting but now I get so frustrated I just do the daily ones and give up. It would really be nice if you guys can do what another player asked for and have a toggle to play using the classic version so that Voice Over users can play without all of the current incompatibilities.