Kakao Talk's message reader was disabled for days, inconveniencing visually impaired users

KakaoTalk, the most popular mobile messenger platform in South Korea, had its text-to-speech service disabled for three days on Aug. 12-14, it reported Sunday. The messenger application's operator Kakao Corp. confirmed that the iOS version of the app distributed on Aug. 12 had a critical error when using this function, and the problem was fixed two days later. It said the function is available with the latest update for the app. But the momentary flaw in the system had severely hindered users wi