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How the 2023 API pricing decision broke the third-party and screen-reader tools disabled users depended on.
Reddit's official apps have long been poorly suited to screen-reader and other assistive use, so blind and disabled users relied on third-party clients like Apollo and RIF. The 2023 API-pricing decision priced those apps out of existence overnight, stripping away accessibility tools with no equivalent replacement — a documented harm the company acknowledged only partially and belatedly.
This hub gathers the accessibility record: the API decision, the tools it killed, and the moderation and archival tooling that collapsed alongside them.
Every record elsewhere in the archive linked to the issues above — the convictions, lawsuits, regulatory actions, breaches, and bans that make this a systemic problem rather than a series of isolated events.