I posted a thread about this years ago when the app was first released and got a reply to say it would be considered in the next release, but I don't think this ever happened!
I am severely visually impaired and need to use the invert-colours accessibility function on my laptop/phone etc in order to be able to use them. This means the colours all change to the opposite - so that I am reading white text on a black background. I then turn the brightness up to maximum to make the contrast strong enough for me to see the letters. (If I did this with a white background the brightness would be too dazzling).
But the app is configured so that the 'Active Chats' screen has the opposite colour scheme to the 'Read a Thread' screen. (i.e. one of them is orange-on-blue and the other is blue-on-orange). So even when I invert colours, one of the screens is still inaccessible to me. I've tried all the colour schemes and they all force one of the screens to be dark text on a light background.
Please can you add a colour scheme that allows both screens to be the same. That way I can set my accessibility settings to work. It's too cumbersome to keep toggling accessibility settings every time I go from the 'active threads' screen into a thread and again when I go back out.
It's a small change, but it would go a long way towards making the app accessible for me and others like me who need to use that accessibility setting.
Another change that would help, although is perhaps more complicated, would be to allow the accessibility Zoom feature to work inside the app, so that we can magnify the text to a readable size. Yes, this would mean it no longer fits on the screen as well, but we're used to putting up with that.
Do the Mumsnet app designers consider accessibility issues at all when designing updates to the app? It might be good to have an area on Chat that gathers feedback on this. Mums net has a mixed record on disability as far as Chat goes, and perhaps this could be a step towards improving matters? Please consider this. It is so frustrating to be excluded from the discussion when it would not be so hard to include us.