This will impact the blind community in a pretty serious way.
In countries where Android is popular and iPhones are expensive, Commentary (Jieshuo) screen reader is a popular and arguably much better alternative to TalkBack, the built-in Android screen reader. Because it's a Chinese app and there's no major conglomerate behind it, it's not on the Play Store.
Because it needs to be able to read all screen contents and drive the entire system UI (that's literally what a screen reader is for), the permissions it requests are quite intrusive. Blocking it from accessing sensitive apps would entirely defeat its purpose, after all, if you need a screen reader in the first place, one that doesn't work in banking apps will be pretty useless to you.
Googlers will probably point to Webaim[1] and say that nobody uses the app so it's not a problem, entirely forgetting that Webaim is mostly filled out by well-off English speakers. If you look at data sources that better represent the global population at large, like the Yandex user survey, you will see something very different.
In countries where Android is popular and iPhones are expensive, Commentary (Jieshuo) screen reader is a popular and arguably much better alternative to TalkBack, the built-in Android screen reader. Because it's a Chinese app and there's no major conglomerate behind it, it's not on the Play Store.
Because it needs to be able to read all screen contents and drive the entire system UI (that's literally what a screen reader is for), the permissions it requests are quite intrusive. Blocking it from accessing sensitive apps would entirely defeat its purpose, after all, if you need a screen reader in the first place, one that doesn't work in banking apps will be pretty useless to you.
Googlers will probably point to Webaim[1] and say that nobody uses the app so it's not a problem, entirely forgetting that Webaim is mostly filled out by well-off English speakers. If you look at data sources that better represent the global population at large, like the Yandex user survey, you will see something very different.
[1] https://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey10/