Apple unveils iOS and macOS accessibility features: App Store Accessibility Nutrition Labels, Magnifier for Mac, Accessibility Reader, Braille Access, and more
Apple unveils powerful accessibility features coming later this year
The best part of this company. Will they directly profit from this? Maybe but maybeee not. There’s a chance someone actually cares there, someone with some sort of power I mean. (Obvy you can easily argue this is in their longer term financial interests)
Yeah they’re anticompetitive etc. but damn this is cause for a smidge of celebration.
These are some of the most inaccessible seeming accessibility features I've ever seen. They updated visionOS for blind people, for fucks sake. And who decided to put the word "nutrition" in an accessibility feature that has nothing to do with nutrition? Braille on a smartphone screen? A magnifier app with normal sized UI controls? Who is in charge of this?
Braille on a smartphone screen?
How cool is it that someone figured out some digibraille?
A magnifier app with normal sized UI controls?
Guess they’d be huge if the person had their display settings blown up. Maybe farsighted folks would want it normal sized.
nutrition
Lil bit of a stretch huh
I’ve heard folks stretch it before, wonder if it’s a thing now but IDK
Blind doesn't always mean no vision at all. Wearing a device that's always looking where your head is pointing means having a device that can describe your surroundings to you. And as they pointed out, it can magnify what you're looking at so you can read it.
Not massively useful for the current vision Pro, I'm sure, but future devices, smaller devices could be very cool.
Great point that it’s a start
Ya we don’t all learn very early about blind not being absolute maybe unless specified
Gosh imagine profound deaf + totally blind, glad someone cares to design for folks
