Disabling Swipe for Menu?

[Paul Reader]

I recently replaced my never-updated Kobo Clara SE with a new Kobo Clara BW ... and along with that came the latest firmware (4.44 from 2025-11-13). Sometime over the last many years Kobo added a feature whereby swiping up or down while reading brings up a sort of menu (really more like top and bottom control panels).

I need to disable this feature. Kobo is interpreting 25% of my tap-for-next-page gestures as swipes. It's maddening. This thing is overly sensitive as to what is considered a swipe, or my hands are too shaky, or whatever. This is an absolutely awful usability problem, and I can't imagine how anyone with a physical problem (or even my older mother) could ever hope to use this reader.

Unfortunately, there is nothing in the menu to disable the feature or alter the required distance to qualify a swipe. Gemini isn't finding any simple config file item. There is no "Accessibility" menu that I can see, either.