New Accessibility Features Coming!

[Randy B. Singer]

We've had several discussions recently about users having trouble reading stuff in the Mac OS. I thought that this might be of interest.

Apple Announces New iOS 19 and macOS 16 Accessibility Features Ahead of WWDC

Apple Announces New iOS 19 and macOS 16 Accessibility Features Ahead of WWDC

Apple today previewed a wide range of new accessibility features coming later this year on the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple Vision Pro....

www.macrumors.com

Edited to fix url

 

[RadDave]

We've had several discussions recently about users having trouble reading stuff in the Mac OS. I thought that this might be of interest.

Apple Announces New iOS 19 and macOS 16 Accessibility Features Ahead of WWDC

Apple Announces New iOS 19 and macOS 16 Accessibility Features Ahead of WWDC

Apple today previewed a wide range of new accessibility features coming later this year on the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple Vision Pro....

www.macrumors.com

URL fixed - Dave

 

[Slydude]

It's always good to see improvements to these features. Some of them may/may not be significant changes -- we'll have to wait and see. As usual the results will be successful for some individuals and not so successful for others.

I'm going to need to see some of these features in action to see how useful they will be.

 

[pm-r]

I'm going to need to see some of these features in action to see how useful they will be.

I certainly hope Apple's attempts improve greatly over some of the offerings that have been offered in the App Store some of which are almost useless even though their description sounds good and maybe Apple could start advertising what they call free as trials because they're free offerings or almost useless in many cases until you pay some crazy in application upgrade price. Sure a strange way of offering a free product that's useless until maybe paid for uneven then it's questionable for many offerings.

Nice practical accessibility features that work well would probably be very well accepted and appreciated.



- Patrick
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[Slydude]

I certainly hope Apple's attempts improve greatly over some of the offerings that have been offered in the App Store some of which are almost useless even though their description sounds good and maybe Apple could start advertising what they call free as trials because they're free offerings or almost useless in many cases until you pay some crazy in application upgrade price. Sure a strange way of offering a free product that's useless until maybe paid for uneven then it's questionable for many offerings.

Nice practical accessibility features that work well would probably be very well accepted and appreciated.



- Patrick
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There is a lot of software, accessibility and otherwise, in the App Store that seems to follow this model. Of course the accessibility/augmentative communication software that uses this model. Some of it is very good and well worth the money. The problem is that this stuff is vertical market software so the upgrade price is often rather high.

I think some of the most successful accessibility features are those that are built into the device/OS. The same dictation features built into the iPhone as a convenience feature for most users are great accessibility tools for other users. Those built-in features are likely to have the most impact.