Google hits abeyance on new Google Play accessibility casework enforcement

Google is demography a 30-day breach to "evaluate amenable and avant-garde uses of accessibility services" afore banishment updates to some accepted apps.

Last month, we told you about Google contacting developers for some of the best acclaimed apps in the Play Store. In their correspondence, Google let these developers apperceive that it would anon ban the wide-ranging use of accessibility casework in Android. Accessibility casework were to be acclimated carefully to advice disabled individuals. Developers would accept to amend their apps or accept them removed from the Play Abundance to accede with the policy.

It now looks like Google is walking that new action back.

Android Police is advertisement that several developers accept accustomed emails advertence that Google is pausing the administration of the action for 30 days. This gives it abundant time to “evaluate amenable and avant-garde uses of accessibility services”. Google goes on to say that it will acquaint the developers already the appraisal is complete. Developers will again accept 30 canicule to amend their apps if they are begin to be non-compliant afterwards the review.

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While we aren’t buried to Google’s thinking, it sounds to us like it now realizes this action could aching some huge apps. Everything from Nova Launcher to LastPass takes advantage of accessibility services. Forcing developers to decidedly adapt or abolish their apps could aching the Play Abundance as a whole.

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