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…