Apple Launches New Website to Promote Accessibility Features

[MacRumors]

At the beginning of its "Hello Again" Town Hall event today Apple CEO Tim Cook announced that the company is launching a new accessibility website to help promote the accessibility features in its products.

Image via The Verge​

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It's all about the accessibility features that we've designed and built into our products. We believe that technology should be accessible to everyone, and we hope this website becomes a great resource that people can use all around the world.

Cook says that Apple believes that if people have access to its product they can help push humanity forward and "change the world in the process." Before Cook came to the stage, Apple played a short video showcasing customers using the available accessibility features.

Apple's accessibility website should go live once the event is complete. Currently, Apple's older accessibility website is still live.

Apple's October 2016 Special Event is ongoing.

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[NY Guitarist]

Good to know that Apple is doing this and I'll be looking at the new website as soon as it goes live.

I know a person who has recently lost all vision, and was hoping there is a way to use an iPhone, and iPad using only the home button and voice commands.

 

[nagromme]

Good to know that Apple is doing this and I'll be looking at the new website as soon as it goes live.

I know a person who has recently lost all vision, and was hoping there is a way to use an iPhone, and iPad using only the home button and voice commands.

Actually there has long been a really good built-in way to use the whole SCREEN without vision. I have my sight, but when I test Voiceover mode, even without practice I can get around apps and web pages really well. iPhone and iPad really revolutionized computing without sight.

 

[NY Guitarist]

Actually there has long been a really good built-in way to use the whole SCREEN without vision. I have my sight, but when I test Voiceover mode, even without practice I can get around apps and web pages really well. iPhone and iPad really revolutionized computing without sight.

Hey thanks for that info. I look forward to learning more about this and helping my friend reagin some sense of self-empowerment.

 

[miniyou64]

How about not adding or changing things just for the sake of change? iOS is devolving into something that used to be useful and is now just concerned with ways to share emoji. I know special needs people who are hindered by the unnecessary changes in iOS

 

[Svensk]

Ironically, Apple device accessibility (to the vision impaired, anyway) is getting worse, not better. The most obvious issue is the widespread use of "grey" instead of true black fonts. This has been a downhill trend since Mavericks. The problem is that low-vision users have trouble with low-contrast text. Currently, the skinny, "grey on light grey" font design style cannot be changed because the System fonts are sandboxed.
There are a few useless tweaks in the Accessibility system preferences (so Apple knows they are causing a problem), but they are no substitute for being able to have a true black font option (or white, when invered). I kinda wonder how the new, non-tactile vision-oriented Function key strip will fly with low-vision users. I worry that Jony Ives ha taken over Apple and skinny computers, skinny fonts, flat surfaces, etc. are going to truly leave the blind in the dark.

 

[Joy23]

Predictably useless accessibility even now 2020 that should read in 2020. Apple should not have a ties until I have actually saw today out until they have actually sorted out accessibility features that work with the coming years of acid test signal on disable people. Obviously trying to decipher this forced to use Apple dictation
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apple should not advertise accessibility features unless they want work, which as you can see they do not. Absolutely useless.