Well, to be fair I have found screen recognition to be especially helpful in one specific app, the GlocalMe app, which was only partially accessible beforehand, though really only to the extent of making a single element containing multiple elements accessible so that they can now be independently accessed without having to turn off VO and guess where you think the elements are to tap before restarting VO to discover if it worked or not, a stupidly frustrating process made necessary in the first place by a pointless update to the UI that broke what was a mediocre but usable app, but which was not actually impossible to workaround, just annoying. But, you’re right that it’s really, really shaky, and the real trick lies in having recognition only when you absolutely need it, and turning it off the rest of the time, which happily is easy to do in the rotor. Of course, anywhere my GlocalMe goes, I'll have my iPhone, so this example is moot. I'll be interested to see if any other apps benefit--games with text-based content, for example. The cynic in me thinks that these features mostly serve as an excuse for Apple not to use its curation powers in the App Store to offer proper accessibility ratings and testing, which is of course the real fix.
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