Apple Introduced Its New Accessibility Features For iPhone And iPad Users

Apple introduced it’s new accessibility feature, live speech and magnifier feature to help it’s iPhone and iPad users. This new features aim is to making technology that accessible to everyone.

This new iPhone and iPad accessibility feature is assistive access for cognitive disability, that means this new update is a customizable experience for the user of iPhone and iPad with cognitive disabilities like Autism, Alzheimer’s and so on who are usually find difficulties while navigate an element on their phone. The accessibility feature also includes live speech and personal voice for people those who are unable to speak or the person who are at risk of losing speech over time. This feature will clean up applications and operating system components to only keep the core functionalities intact. Apart from this Apple also introduced point and speak, new powerful feature built in to the magnifier app. It makes easier for the iPhone and iPad users those who are with vision disabilities, they can read text labels on physical objects.

Assistive Access

It includes customized experience for phone and Face Time that combined in to a single call app. It includes camera , messages, photos and music. This feature will work with the phone, camera, face time and other daily drivers app. When the user turned on this feature they will be able to connect with high contrast buttons and enlarged text labels and just the functionalities that matter. This is based upon the information and feedback gathered from people with the cognitive disorders and their trusted supporters.

Live Speech

Live speech feature is designed to support people with speech disorder, those who are unable to speak or the person who are at risk of losing speech over time globally. This feature will enable users to receive audio prompts for elements with texts in them. With live speech on iPhone and iPad users can type what they want to say and have that text to be spoken out loud during phone calls and face time calls. User can also use it as well as during in person lively conversation with family friends and colleagues.

Personal Voice

iPhone and iPad users those who are at risk of losing their ability to speak can use this personal voice feature to create their voice that sounds like them only. The person with condition that progressively impact speaking ability can now simply securely create their own sound voice. They can record 15 mins of audio in their iPhone and iPad. This feature keep users information secure and private.

Point And Speak

For those users who have vision problems or are losing their capacity to see, Apple has introduced an accessibility feature Point and Speak for Detection Mode in Magnifier. iPhone and iPad users can now interact with physical objects that have text labels. This feature is built into the magnifier app on iPhone and iPad with LiDAR scanner.