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In this episode, Luigi and Ravi embark on an immersive journey to uncover the intricacies of the enhanced visionOS documentation. With a keen eye for detail and a passion for user experience, they explore the fundamental design characteristics that define visionOS. They showcase the limitless canvas provided by Apple Vision Pro, where virtual content seamlessly blends with the physical world. They shine a spotlight on the revolutionary Spatial Audio capabilities of visionOS. They guide viewers through captivating sound design explorations, such as opening a window with a touch of realism, and creating a serene and immersive soundscape. They emphasize the importance of maintaining a balance between providing meaningful feedback and avoiding overwhelming users, suggesting techniques like randomizing sound elements to enhance the overall experience. Luigi and Ravi highlight the integration of inclusive design and accessibility within visionOS. They delve into features like VoiceOver, Switch Control, and Guided Access, which empower users to personalize their interactions based on their specific needs. Support Design By Us: Follow designbyus on Twitter: https://twitter.com/designbyus_fm Find more content and support us on Patreon: https:/www.patreon.com/designbyus Where to find Luigi and Ravi: Check out: byus.design Follow Luigi on Twitter: https://twitter.com/luigi_dintrono Follow Ravi on Twitter: https://twitter.com/raviisoccupied Referenced: Principles of Spatial Design video: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2023/10072 Designing for VisionOS: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/designing-for-visionos Design considerations for vision and motion: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2023/10078 Design for spatial user interfaces: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2023/10076 Explore immersive sound design: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2023/10271/ Meet Reality Composer Pro: ********https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2023/10083/ Create accessible spatial experiences: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2023/10034/ Plan your visionOS app: https://developer.apple.com/visionos/planning/ Materials: ********https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/materials --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/designbyus/message

Are Smart Phones That Hard to Access and Use for Blind, Low Vision or for anyone?   I'm thinking of all the accessibility options that a person has to access a Smart Phone, all the accessible apps one can use, and plugging in or accessing external hardware to extend the functionality of the computer in your pocket.   In fact, I think we should just call it the smart device in your pocket, what other custom device come close.   Have a look at the following.   Accessibility Changes   VoiceOver *customising Voiceover. *Hand /writing Mode. *Quick Nav. *hardware keyboard support. *customised keyboards support: Hable One, Orbit Writer, RIVO. *Braille Input. *Braille displays input/display.ys. Zoom *Customising Zoom settings.   Display and Text Size settings. *Bold Text toggle. *Reduce Transparency toggle. *Contrast toggle. *Differentiate by Colour toggle. *Smart Invert toggle. *Classic Invert. *Colour Filter settings. *Reduce White Point toggle. *Auto Brightness toggle.   Spoken Content *Speak Screen toggle. *Typing Feedback togle. Physical *Assistive Touch settings. *Touch Screen Accommodations settings. *Tap to Wake. *Shake to Undo toggle. *Prevent Lock (Side button) to End Call. *Switch Control. *Guided Access.   Back Double Tap and Triple Tap settings   Side Button (Click Speed settings).   Voice Input *Voice Control. *Voice Dictation. Siri   *Type To Siri Toggle *Always Listen For Hey Siri toggle *Siri Pause Time settings. *Announce Notifications on Speaker toggle. *Spoken Response settings. *Siri Shortcuts. *Type to Siri.   Hardware Keyboards *Key Repeat Toggle. *Sticky Keys toggle. *Slow keys toggle.   Software Keyboards *Show Lower Case Keys toggle. Calls *Call Audio Routing *Auto Answer Calls.   Biometric *Face ID. *Finger Print.   Consistent interface in using apps.   turn your smart phone in to any device using an app.   Access Cellular, WiFi, Bluetooth, Camera, NFC, GPS, Accelerometer, Gyroscope, barometer, and Wireless Charging.   External Displays, Stands, Storage, Printers/Scanners, and Smart Home Devices.   Or, Use the Smart Phone with just one or two apps on the Home Screen. It can be as easy or advanced as you want to make it.   Apple Working on How to Read Back iMessages in the Senders Voice   I'm not sure why Apple would even want to do this, why doesn't the person simply send send an audio message. sometimes that there is no problem to be resolved.   https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/02/16/apple-working-on-how-to-read-back-imessages-in-the-senders-voice?utm_medium=rss   How to Fix Siri Suggestions in Launching the wrong iOS 16 Features   How to fix that annoying Siri suggestion or starting the wrong app which Siri most confidently basis its response on the last time you made a similar request.   https://appleinsider.com/inside/siri/tips/how-to-fix-siri-suggestions-launching-the-wrong-ios-16-features?   Don't Wait for AI Search, Get Better Results with What you  Have Now   What problem is AI-search technology trying to solve? One seems to be giving a single pat answer to what is traditionally multiple time-consuming searches, letting you ask questions naturally instead of using existing search shorthand and tricks. They also build on something search engines have already been doing.   https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/15/search-tips/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_business-technology    AI Chat Bots got Big, and Their Ethical Red Flags got Bigger   There are financial incentives to rapidly commercialize AI outweighing concerns about safety or ethics. There isn't much money in responsibility or safety, but there's plenty in overhyping the technology as this article explains.   https://www.wired.com/story/chatbots-got-big-and-their-ethical-red-flags-got-bigger/Support this Vision Australia Radio program: https://www.visionaustralia.org/donate?src=radio&type=0&_ga=2.182040610.46191917.1644183916-1718358749.1627963141See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this podcast, Thomas Domville gives us short looks at some of what's new and notable in iOS 15. Topics covered include: Live Text Exploring images with VoiceOver Voice image descriptions with markup New navigation method for VoiceOver - Grouped VoiceOver Quick Settings Sound Actions for Switch Control Background Sounds Per-app settings Audiograms Standalone Magnifier app Accessibility Memoji New Voice Control languages Siri on-device speech processing Neural text-to-speech voice in more languages for Siri Maintaining context with Siri Refer to contacts onscreen with Siri Siri Offline support Sharing with Siri Home screen page management Focus modes Add Recovery Account for iCloud Legacy Contacts (coming in a later release) iCloud Private Relay and Hide My Email Redesigned start page for Safari Safari tab bar Safari tab groups Support for extensions in Safari New pull to refresh VoiceOver gesture Secure browsing for Safari Temporary iCloud storage Notification summary Notification options New and improved Weather details Rain and snow alerts Live Locations Find My separation alerts Find My network Request a refund for in-app purchases Improvements to AirPrint New widgets Health sharing Walking steadiness Photo stacks, collages, and pinned content in Messages 'Spatialize Stereo built-in password authenticator Skip gaps in Voice Memos FaceTime links and Join FaceTime calls from the web on Android and Windows Portrait mode for videos in FaceTime Mute alerts in FaceTime Voice Isolation and Wide Spectrum modes in FaceTime

On this weeks episode we blab about the following Games and topics: Whatcha Been Playing? Flight Simulator Ghost of Tsushima News: Cross Platform / PC Fortnite teases a mysterious Marvel crossover that seems to involve Thor Epic snaps up Hitman 3 as another PC store exclusive Judge rules Apple can’t block access to Epic’s Unreal Engine The biggest announcements out of DC FanDome Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Out November 13 Chinese action game Black Myth: Wukong is taking the internet by storm Wonder Boy: Asha in Monster World announced for PS4, Switch Control publisher refuses to budge despite next-gen upgrade backlash Gamescom Opening Night Live to feature 38 games, run for two hours Bungie reveals everything going away in Destiny 2: Beyond Light PlayStation Fall Guys Is the Most Downloaded PS Plus Game Ever Sony Is Offering PS5 Pre-orders, Only You Don't Know How Much It Costs Nintendo Nintendo Switch Pro rumors resurface, this time expected in Q1 2021 Nintendo Direct Mini showed off 12 games coming to Switch PSA’s: PlayStation Plus free games for September 2020 announced Epic Games Store Freebies: Hitman and Shadow Run Collection Free 4 All: Charlie's Angels Dark Phoenix, X-Men and X2 High Score Remember to please review the show (bit.ly/geekoholics) on iTunes, Apple Podcasts and to share with your friends. Reviews help us reach more listeners, and the feedback helps us to produce a better show. Join our Discord server: CLICK HERE Don't forget to follow our Social Media Feeds to keep up to date on our adventures: Youtube TwitterInstagram Facebook Thanks for listening and have a great weekend! You can reach me on Twitter @RicF

Colonel Gables and Tyler get together again to break down the Walls of Derecho, NWO Souled Out, missing football and everything else going on in gaming this week. This week the nerds discussed: Tyler played Fall Guys, Tony Hawk demo and Marvel's Avengers Beta Gables gives a Destiny 2 update and beat Street Fighter 5 Halo Infinite delayed to 2021 Zelda Skyward Sword coming to Switch? Control's BS next gen upgrade July's crazy NPDs list

Apple filmed their annual keynote for WWDC in Apple Park, not in front of a live studio audience, where many upcoming changes were announced for software and hardware. J.J., taking time out from gathering requests for Orbit Writer Braille Keyboard Smartphone Companion Preorders, and Joe, trying to steal back the PS4 controller from Ricky so he can play the Blind friendly The Last Of Us 2 , asked Jamie Pauls, who was editing a new episode of the Eyes Free Sports Podcast , to join them in this summary of the event s big news. Expect there to be info dumps a plenty as this is a wrap up show after all. And be sure to learn more about what was discussed in the copious pile of links down below. Enjoy these additional resources from the internet on the subject of WWDC 2020. WWDC 2020 Apple TV page Apple WWDC 2020 keynote in 18 minutes WWDC 2020: New Software and Fresh Chips Apple's exceptional WWDC 2020 keynote should be a model for future shows After virtual WWDC, Apple should never go back to live keynotes Comment: I d like pre-recorded WWDC keynotes every year, but we won t get them IoT sensors, machine learning and chips were the real stars of Apple s WWDC 2020 Six ways the pandemic was on display at Apple s WWDC Boot Camp Is Dead on New Macs and 8 Other Things Apple Didn't Say at WWDC Here s everything Apple didn t announce at WWDC WWDC: VoiceOver Gains New Image Description Capabilities among other Changes New Apple accessibility features coming this fall make technology usable and more accessible to all Apple packs iOS 14 with new accessibility features, like AirPods Pro audio tweaks VoiceOver efficiency with custom rotors Creating an Accessible Reading Experience Create a seamless speech experience in your apps Make your app visually accessible App accessibility for Switch Control iOS and iPadOS 14: The MacStories Overview iOS 14 beta: It's complicated finally iOS 14 accessibility feature performs actions by tapping your iPhone Here's how to assign a shortcut to iOS 14's new Back Tap feature New iOS 14 feature lets the iPhone alert you if it hears sounds like a doorbell or fire alarm Sound Recognition is a powerful new Accessibility feature in iOS/iPadOS 14 Apple details hand and body pose detection in WWDC 2020 session iOS 14: Developers can now take advantage of the U1 chip thanks to new 'Nearby Interaction iOS 14 s new Home screen widgets aren t as powerful as you might think Phone Calls Will Finally Stop Taking Up the Entire Screen in iOS 14 Apple s new iOS 14 home screen brings Windows Phone Live Tiles back to life Several new iOS 14 features take inspiration from Samsung s One UI If iOS 14 was Android 11, it would be coming to the Samsung Galaxy S6 With iOS 14, Apple once again crushes Android makers on software update support App Library is here to help you sort through your app clutter Apple gives in: iPhone and iPad users can finally change their default mail app and web browser this fall iOS 14 will let you change your default email and web browser apps Someone, Please, Explain: WTF Are App Clips Exactly? App Clips could be a Trojan Horse for Sign In with Apple App Clips could be just the start of a new approach enabled by 5G iPhones First take: With iOS 14, Apple changes the very idea of an app Messages is so much better in iOS 14 and here's why Siri Suggestions might just be iOS 14's greatest widget Apple adds encrypted drive support to Files with iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 Apple gets it write with Scribble on iPadOS Why Apple still refuses to give the iPad a calculator iOS 14 protects your privacy in important new ways TikTok to stop reading user clipboards after being exposed by iOS 14 privacy feature TikTok and 53 other iOS apps still snoop your sensitive clipboard data iOS 14 includes revamped Podcasts app with curated suggestions AirPods and AirPods Pro Updates Coming With iOS 14 iOS 14 and tvOS 14 bring all-new Game Center, expanded Xbox and Playstation controller capabilities iOS 14: HealthKit expands ECGs with new API, new symptom tracking and mobility types Video: 9to5Mac Watch Time 26: What s new in watchOS 7? Sleep tracking, face sharing, hand washing watchOS 7: Hands-on with native Apple Watch sleep tracking Apple is killing Force Touch on the Apple Watch with watchOS 7 watchOS 7 now supports DRM audio streaming, opening the door for music apps You can run Shortcuts locally without your iPhone in watchOS 7 macOS Big Sur: The MacStories Overview The Mac s iconic startup chime is back in macOS Big Sur macOS Big Sur improves battery insight, retires Network Utility tool macOS moving from skeuomorphism through flat design to neumorphism designer Apple Silicon Mac mini dev kit looks like a desktop iPad Pro How fast are Apple s new ARM Mac chips? It s hard to tell The Mac s future is on a collision course with the iPad WWDC 2020: the iPadification of the Mac is coming, no touchscreen required Accessibility design for Mac Catalyst If Catalyst Apps Are the Future of Mac Software, the Future Currently Doesn't Look Too Bright for Voiceover Developers must opt out if they don't want their iOS apps on Mac Messages looks different yet familiar in macOS Big Sur Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak Discuss Apple Silicon Transition, Lack of Boot Camp Support, and More Apple's Rosetta won't support virtualization software like Parallels Here s what s happening to Boot Camp amid the Apple silicon transition Apple s new ARM-based Macs won t support Windows through Boot Camp Tech Tent: Apple says goodbye to Intel Microsoft vague on the future of Windows virtualization on Mac following Apple Silicon transition Losing Boot Camp for Arm Macs is no great loss Intel promises to support two-year transition to Apple Silicon Former Intel Engineer Explains Why Apple Switched to ARM Intel s Skylake Processors Was The Tipping Point For Apple To Finally Transition Away From Intel Apple's new tools can help developers port Chrome extensions to Safari Apple is bringing Face ID and Touch ID to the web with Safari 14 Apple adds WebP, HDR support, and more to Safari with iOS 14 and macOS Big Sur What's new in HomeKit in iOS 14 DOJ 'taking the first steps towards' Apple antitrust probe in the U.S Department of Justice Takes Hard Look at Apple's 30% Tax Apple approves Hey email app, but the fight s not over Hey founder on Apple's app approval process following fee backlash Hey opens its email service to everyone as Apple approves its app for good The App Store is coming under increased scrutiny in U.S. antitrust probe Apple will soon let developers challenge App Store rules Comment: This week s keynote quietly tackled five of Apple s antitrust issues Apple Just Castrated The IDFA, Sending An $80 Billion Industry Into Upheaval Apple's new Find My accessory program goes beyond iPhones and tracking fobs Fleetsmith customers unhappy with loss of third-party app support after Apple acquisition Gaming on Apple platforms is set for some big changes here are a few Five of the best new features coming to Siri Launch Google Assistant on Your iPhone as Quickly as Siri You Can Saddle Up Your Mac Pro For $400 but You Still Can't Ride It Sound Off: Here is a couple of comments from Twitter captured from our BBQ feed during recording. @pitermach From the event itself? Home screen widgets are cool. Running iOS apps on a Mac might be if they give more care to the platform's accessibility as a hole. What excites me more is the stuff that was revealed later. Stereo recording on iPhones, the watch getting rotor and Braille... @ed_edwardson Not being able to run VM s on their new CPU s is going to be a major productivity killer for me. I hope Apple will finally put serious resources into improving Mac VoiceOver. It s way overdue. Last Word: Shout outs to our friends over at ACB Main Menu for turning 20 years old. Check out their earlier festivities commemorating this milestone over at the Main Menu Archive

Points from the WWDC 2020 Keynote today June 23 2020   I guess most exciting announcements for me in a nutshell:  - New touch accommodations allow a double tap or triple tap on the back of the iPhone to enable over 23 actions including Accessibility features or enabling Shortcuts - New FaceTime feature will recognise people using Sign Language and make their screen bigger in chats - New AirPods feature to enhance verbal sounds around you - Microsoft’s Adaptive Controller will work with Apple TV - VoiceOver Recognition: On-device intelligence recognises key elements displayed on your screen to add VoiceOver support for app and web experiences that don’t have accessibility support built in.   But there is so much more I am going to unpack in the area of Cognitive over the coming time period as well.    Links below - love your thoughts.  No doubt more to share soon!   Kind regards,  Jessica   ----------   iOS 14:https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/06/apple-reimagines-the-iphone-experience-with-ios-14/https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-14-preview/https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-14-preview/features/Accessibility: Accessibility features include Headphone Accommodations, which amplifies soft sounds and tunes audio to help music, movies, phone calls, and podcasts sound crisper and clearer, and sign language detection in Group FaceTime, which makes the person signing more prominent in a video call. VoiceOver, the industry’s leading screen reader for the blind community, now automatically recognizes what is displayed visually onscreen so more apps and web experiences are accessible to more people.FaceTime: Sign Language Prominence: FaceTime can now detect when a participant is using sign language and make the person prominent in a Group FaceTime call. Picture-in-Picture: With Picture in Picture for FaceTime, you can continue viewing your call while multitasking.AirPods: Headphone Accommodations: This new accessibility feature is designed to amplify soft sounds and adjust certain frequencies for an individual’s hearing, to help music, movies, phone calls, and podcasts sound more crisp and clear.10 Headphone Accommodations also supports Transparency mode on AirPods Pro, making quiet voices more audible and tuning the sounds of your environment to your hearing needs. Audio sharing for Apple TV: Connect two sets of AirPods to your Apple TV 4K so you can enjoy movies and shows with someone else without disturbing others. Automatic Switching: Seamlessly move between devices without manually switching your AirPods.11 If you finish a phone call on your iPhone and pick up your iPad to watch a movie, AirPods automatically switch over. (Also works w/macOS Big Sur).iOS 14 Accessibility: VoiceOver Recognition: On-device intelligence recognizes key elements displayed on your screen to add VoiceOver support for app and web experiences that don’t have accessibility support built in. • Image Descriptions: VoiceOver Recognition: Image Descriptions: VoiceOver reads complete-sentence descriptions of images and photos within apps and on the web. • Text Recognition: VoiceOver speaks the text it identifies within images and photos. • Screen recognition: VoiceOver automatically detects interface controls to aid in navigating your apps, making them more accessible. - New accessibility feature in iOS 14 that can perform quick actions through taps on the back of an iPhone. The Back Tap feature, which can be found in accessibility settings, be used to instantly pull up Control Center, summon Siri, or even run Shortcuts. There are currently 23 actions in total (aside from any user created Shortcuts), and users can assign two separate tap actions to invoke the run the assigned action. Both double and triple taps are available, and can be used at any time, although it is currently limited to when the device is unlocked. The Home app makes smart home control even easier with new automation suggestions and expanded controls in Control Center for quicker access to accessories and scenes. Adaptive Lighting for compatible HomeKit-enabled lights automatically adjusts the color temperature throughout the day, and with on-device Face Recognition, compatible video doorbells and cameras can identify friends and family. The Home app and HomeKit are built to be private and secure, so all information about a user’s home accessories is end-to-end encrypted. Adaptive Lighting: Supported lighting accessories can now automatically adjust color temperature throughout the day to maximize comfort and productivity.4Ease into the morning with warmer tones and remove blue light in the evening as you wind down for the night. Face Recognition and Activity Zones are part of HomeKit Secure Video, the feature that brings video from your camera accessories right to your Home app. It’s secure and private, with all video analysis done on the Apple devices in your home — not in the cloud.Cycling Directions: Maps takes elevation into account to let you know if you’re in for an uphill workout or a leisurely, flat ride. You’ll be alerted if there are steep passages along the route or if you’ll need to carry your bike up stairs. You can also choose a route that avoids stairs or busier roads altogether.Translate Automatic language detection transcribes the original and translated text on the appropriate sides of the screen, followed by translated audio. Translate uses advanced on-device machine learning and the powerful Apple Neural Engine to enable natural-sounding conversations.Attention mode: Enlarge translated text in landscape view, making it easier to read and more effective at getting someone’s attention.watchOS 7:https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/06/watchos-7-adds-significant-personalization-health-and-fitness-features-to-apple-watch/https://www.apple.com/watchos/watchos-preview/ • Customers can now use Siri to translate many languages conveniently from the wrist, dictation is handled on device with the power of the Apple Neural Engine for faster and more reliable processing when dictating messages and more, and Apple Watch now supports Announce Messages with Siri. • The Shortcuts app is also now available on Apple Watch and can be accessed as a complication. • The bold X-Large face now has an option to add a rich complication.Hearing: Following the introduction of the Noise app in watchOS 6 that measures ambient sound levels and duration of exposure, watchOS 7 adds further support for hearing health with headphone audio notifications. Customers can now understand how loudly they are listening to media through their headphones using their iPhone, iPod touch, or Apple Watch, and when these levels may impact hearing over time. When total listening with headphones has reached 100 percent of the safe weekly listening amount, Apple Watch provides a notification to the wearer. This amount is based on World Health Organization recommendations that, for instance, a person can be exposed to 80 decibels for about 40 hours per week without an impact to hearing abilities.Customers can also see how long they have been exposed to high decibel levels each week in the Health app on iPhone and can control the maximum level for headphone volume. No audio from the headphone audio notification feature is recorded or saved by the Health app or Apple Watch. (See image at bottom)iPadOS 14:https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/06/ipados-14-introduces-new-features-designed-specifically-for-ipad/https://www.apple.com/ipados/ipados-preview/https://www.apple.com/ipados/ipados-preview/features/Scribble: With Scribble, you don’t have to put Apple Pencil away to do other things. Now you can write by hand in any text field across iPadOS, and your words automatically convert to text. Use Apple Pencil to write a quick message or search for something in Safari. Your handwriting will automatically transform to typed text, so you can get back to what you were doing without interrupting your flow.Notes: Powered by advanced machine learning that distinguishes writing from drawing, Smart Selection lets you select handwritten text using the same gestures you’ve always used for typed text. Paste handwriting as text: Simply select your handwritten notes and copy them as text. When you paste them into another app, like Pages, they’ll be converted to typed text.macOS Big Sur:https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/06/apple-introduces-macos-big-sur-with-a-beautiful-new-design/https://www.apple.com/macos/big-sur-preview/https://www.apple.com/macos/big-sur-preview/features/Control Center for Mac: Designed just for Mac, the new Control Center consolidates your favorite menu bar items into a single place to give you instant access to the controls you use most. Just click the Control Center icon in the menu bar and adjust Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, AirDrop, and other settings — without opening System Preferences. Add controls for the apps and features you use most, like Accessibility or Battery.Apple TV Adaptive Xbox Controller support with Apple TV https://www.windowscentral.com/apple-tv-getting-xbox-elite-controller-series-2-adaptive-controller-support   Shortcuts Shortcuts got some very cool updates in iOS/iPadOS 14: - Folders - Disable confirmation for automations - New compact UI for lists, input dialogs, running shortcuts in share sheet - Automatic categories for share sheet/Watch - Copy & paste actions (!) - New automation triggers On Apple Watch       WWDC Accessibility Developer Sessionshttps://developer.apple.com/news/?id=xpew8919Make your App Visually Accessible When you design with accessibility in mind, you empower everyone to use your app. Discover how to create an adaptive interface for your app that takes a thoughtful approach to color, provides readable text, and accommodates other visual settings to maintain a great experience throughout. We've designed this session like our user interfaces — to be accessible to all. If you'd like to learn even more about accessibility and design, you may also enjoy “Visual Design and Accessibility,” “Accessibility Inspector,” “Building Apps with Dynamic Type,” and “Introducing SF Symbols.”https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2020/10020/Create a seamless speech experience in your apps Augment your app's accessibility experience with speech synthesis: Discover the best times and places to add speech APIs so that everyone who uses your app can benefit. Learn how to use AVSpeechSynthesizer to complement assistive technologies like VoiceOver, and when to implement alternative APIs. And we'll show you how to route audio to the appropriate source and create apps that integrate speech seamlessly for all who need or want it. To get the most out of this session, you should be familiar with AVFoundation and the basics of speech synthesis. For an overview, watch “AVSpeechSynthesizer: Making iOS Talk.”https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2020/10022/Accessibility design for Mac Catalyst Make your Mac Catalyst app accessible to all — and bring those improvements back to your iPad app. Discover how a great accessible iPad app automatically becomes a great accessible Mac app when adding support for Mac Catalyst. Learn how to further augment your experience with support for mouse and keyboard actions and accessibility element grouping and navigation. And explore how to use new Accessibility Inspector features to test your app and iterate to create a truly great experience for everyone. To get the most out of this session, you should be familiar with Mac Catalyst, UIKit, and basic accessibility APIs for iOS. To get started, check out “Introducing iPad apps for Mac” and "Auditing your apps for accessibility.“https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2020/10117/VoiceOver efficiency with custom rotors Discover how you can integrate custom rotors and help people who use VoiceOver navigate complex situations within your app. Learn how custom rotors can help people explore even the most intricate interfaces, explore how to implement a custom rotor, and find out how rotors can improve navigation for someone who relies on VoiceOver. To get the most out of this session, you should be familiar with general accessibility principles and VoiceOver accessibility APIs on iOS and iPadOS. For an overview, watch “Making Apps More Accessible with Custom Actions.”https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2020/10116/App accessibility for Switch Control Switch Control is a powerful accessibility technology for anyone with very limited mobility. The feature is available natively on iOS, and you can create an even better Switch Control experience in your app with tips, tricks, and a few APIs. We'll walk you through how people use Switch Control, as well as provide best practices for supporting it in your app effectively. To get the most out of this session, you should be familiar with general accessibility principles and VoiceOver accessibility APIs. Check out "Making Apps More Accessible With Custom Actions," "Writing Great Accessibility Labels, and "VoiceOver: App Testing Beyond The Visuals" for more information.https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2020/10019/ Meg Frost using a Whillhttps://twitter.com/WHILL_US/status/1275132806671273984https://whill.us

Learn to work with switch statement, a powerful control flow statement in swift and learn about its various features, including what points we need to remember before we begin to learn various statements that seem to be present in every programming language.

The long road trip with no bathroom breaks that was 2019 has reached its destination in the form of our annual wrap up show. This year s panel included J.J., Joe, Shelly Brisbin, Scott Davert and Rookie of the Year Lisa Salinger. Read on, and tune into the podcast, to discover what trends and stories the group found to have the biggest impact on the year. Also, if you want a good laugh, see how right or wrong we were with our 2018 predictions Conventions At A Glance The entire panel attended at least one of the major Blindness and Low Vision A.T. events in 2019. You can hear what we thought were the big stories at CSUN And the Summer Conventions To gauge if those introduced products had an impact on our discussions for this episode. But we ll let you in on a little secret. What you, the readers and listeners of this site, peruse from our coverage often determines who we interview the following year. Therefore, behold the top 5 downloads of our various coverage in order of their event calendar appearances in our podcast feed. ATIA 2019 1 #ATIA19 Audio: Command Multiple Devices With The HIMS QBraille XL 2 #ATIA19 Audio: Humanware s New Braille Note Touch Plus Is One Tough Cookie 3 #ATIA19 Audio: Aces Are Hight For The Acesight And Zoomax 4 #ATIA19 Audio: IRIE-AT Is Totally Your Braille Buddy When It Comes To Phones And Video Magnifiers? 5 #ATIA19 Audio: Point Your Finger At The Books You Want To Read With BraiBook CSUN 2019 1 #CSUNATC19 Sponsored Audio: APH Is Bringing The Community Together To Impact The World At Large 2 #CSUNATC19 Audio: LS&S Would Like To Report A U.F.O. Sighting Over Anaheim 3 #CSUNATC19 Audio: A Deeper Dive Into The Process Of Updates And NV Access 4 #CSUNATC19 Audio: Feel Books And More With Feelif 5 #CSUNATC19 Audio: Row, Row, Row your Code Jumper Summer Conventions 2019 1 #NFB19 Audio: Humanware Flips The Card To Reveal Updates For Keysoft And Victor Reader Trek 2 #Sponsored Blind Bargains Convention Coverage: AIRA with Big Deals, Big Presence at #NFB19 and #ACB19 3 #Sponsored Convention Audio: APH Creates A Fun Pathway To STEM With Code Jumper 4 #NFB19 Audio: Seeing The World Wirelessly With OrCam 5 #ACB19 Audio: There Is Always Something New Over At Guidelights And Gadgets Our listeners landed on a story that we didn't cover during our look back at the past 365 days. With new products, and a new direction, APH had an abundance of announcements and our audience noticed. We additionally saw some new names make the list as well as a real interest in what Humanware brought to the Exhibit Hall tables. Off The Shelf Growing Pains A lot of the conversation that powered this discussion came from stories featured in our Mainstream Mayhem article. Of course, iOS 13 dominated the talk and Joe said with all sincerity that he admired Shelly for her work on iOS Access For All and the plight that comes along with so many updates to this year's version of the operating system. J.J. and Scott felt like Apple has too many operating systems these days to support and they should look to our friends at Apple Vis for a better understanding of what is and isn't working along all the various product lines. Even new features like Dark Mode are breaking on a system level when Smart Invert is active. And Scott noted that issues with Bluetooth audio, Switch Control and wireless Braille Displays made him glad he kept a device back on iOS 12 for employment access concerns. But Apple Park wasn't the only company with some setbacks in 2019. Joe and J.J. steered the group into the aspects of what disappointed them about Google this year. J.J. felt like Talkback regressed, Scott noted that if BrailleBack support was better he would have considered a serious switch to the Android platform and Joe talked about how Google's culture war seemed to be an underlying theme of the lack of focus for the company. Joe also stressed that the way Google releases features into the wild had him spending more time troubleshooting his Google services than enjoying them. Perhaps the easiest way to summarize the year in Google was how many in the tech press declared the Pixel 3a as their choice for Android phone of the year after the release of the 4 series of phones. Audio Description On The Rise On a much more positive note, as emphasized by our AD news article, 2019 was the year where we became Audio Described Couch Potato aficionados. A lot of titles that took flight in pop culture this year happened to have AD tracks. However, as Shelly stated, Amazon Prime Video has been steadily adding support for older titles that you might not have realized needed description. Lisa also said that it's surprising when a new movie or show isn't described these days. And she urged that we need to support these legal ways of obtaining the content we want in order to foster more content in the future or support Blind/Low Vision creators and actors with their projects. Here's an email from BBQ Crew Member Jamie Pauls that places the substantial jump for AD in context. Hello, all. JJ and I were talking last evening about adding the huge influx of audio-described content in 2019 to our end-of-year show. With JJ's blessing, I reached out to the AD project for some stats comparing the end of last year to now. They actually gave me some stats comparing the first of this year until now which is probably close enough. I am sharing the information with everyone. Copied tweets follow: 1/1/19 SUMMARY: 2418 unique described videos and TV Series. 985 videos were duplicated in more than one service. Titles From: 41 Current Movies; 1029 DVDs; 926 iTunes; 811 Netflix; 440 Prime-Video; and 197 TV Series, broken down as follows: 30 ABC, 13 CBS, 25 FOX, 20 NBC, 23 DISCOVERY, 10 HGTV, 25 HISTORY, 18 TBS, 11 TNT, 22 USA. 12/16/19 SUMMARY: 3534 unique described videos and TV Series. 1719 videos were duplicated in more than one service. 31 Current Movies; 1194 DVDs; 12 Apple TV+; 291 Disney+; 65 Hulu; 1178 iTunes; 1080 Netflix; 1508 Prime-Video; 5 Other; 228 TV Series: 35 ABC, 16 CBS, 2 CW, 24 FOX, 21 NBC, 25 DISCOVERY, 18 HGTV, 34 HISTORY, 18 TBS, 13 TNT, 22 USA. When Cameras Took More Than Pictures 2012 saw the splashy debut of Google Glass at Google i/o. So, it seems fitting that the Explorer Edition finds itself entering the Graveyard in 2020 just as others begin to really lean into smart glasses technology. AIRA and Be My Eyes both gained more partnerships and expansions into the services they provide. Seeing AI and Envision AI were joined by the addition of VoiceDream Scanner in the field of On Device OCR apps. We summarize many of these stories in our Visual Assistance article in the news section of the site. And Lisa gives us an idea of how helpful many of these tools were to her when adjusting to life in a new apartment. Scott lays out the pros and cons of using many of these tools as a Deaf Blind person. J.J. notes, as you can read below, that there are some things you must consider if you rely on these methods of viewing the world through a camera lens. Keeping Private Things Private As cool as many of these new ways to access the environment are, they do have some serious aspects to consider while using them. Lisa describes a situation she came across in a public area in her apartment building and Shelly talked about data storage and where it resides if a company is sold or acquired. J.J. illuminated upon some misgivings that could come about with public transportation adopting more open policies towards the Visual Interpreter services as seen in Boston and New York. And Joe mentioned about how some visual concepts are becoming more apparent to the community as they encounter these access options in more settings. Here are links to some of the specific items discussed during this portion of the show. Dark Patterns in Accessibility Tech The next Big Tech battleground is your ears Hey Alexa: How can we escape surveillance capitalism? An Update About Face Recognition on Facebook Stalker 'found Japanese singer through reflection in her eyes Oh, What A Tangled Web We Surf Our conversation about hacking our disabilities came about from each panel member noting a barrier to web access they met recently. Relying on one Screen Reader and one web browser seems like an illusion of the information superhighway s glory days as a combination of tools may work better for shopping, banking or even searching the web. Plus, don't even get us started on various mobile browsers on iOS or Android. J.J. noted that the latest Web Aim survey seemed to reflect the changing trends in web access and how players like NVDA are changing with the times. Lisa and Scott compare Windows Narrator to a gawky teenager growing into their own and that's a good thing for the built in technology moving forward. Joe thought it was interesting that JAWS was rapidly gaining more support for Google Chrome and G Suite products to stay relevant in the Enterprise sector. Additionally, Shelly and Scott mused how some have made the switch from mac back to Windows as a result to the modifications made to the Mac OS through the annual upgrade cycles. Pizza and music played a huge role in web access this year. Beyonce.com Lawsuit Reminds Us How Shitty the Web Is for Users With Visual Impairment BIG WIN FOR WEB ACCESSIBILITY IN DOMINO S PIZZA CASE Browser vendors win war with W3C over HTML and DOM standards The internet's accessibility reckoning Mozilla to release a new Firefox version every four weeks starting next year Here are the results of the latest Web Aim Survey The US Supreme Court Domino s Pizza delivery case rejection, dished out Accessibility, the future, and why Domino s matters What Domino s Pizza got wrong about internet accessibility Add Vimeo to the Growing List of Large Websites Taking Accessibility Seriously Miscellaneous Musings Just as some may not be aware of some of the technical aspects of using a camera for access, others are becoming more familiar with other disabilities outside of Blindness that come with aging. Lisa and Scott engage in a lively conversation about the cost of Hearing Aids and how many of their companion apps are not Screen Reader friendly. Joe expanded upon that and offered that this lack of access also falls onto apps that control the Smart Home and various appliances that tout their connectivity. Lisa found that there is a need for individual research for major purchases in that arena, over buying whatever everyone else in the community is snagging up. Tailoring your expectations, as well as concentrating on your specific needs for access, can possibly bring about a better solution than "following the herd". Joe added that apps are constantly being updated and that could break or fix access from month to month. Relying on reviews may not be the best course of action either because appliance makers are manufacturing products in smaller runs in order to offer new features at a faster rate. J.J. said that the push for outreach is still needed to bring about awareness and change with products that add Voice Assistant and app related features. And the group all noted how more televisions are coming with Speech on board, how the Instant Pot made their apps more Screen Reader friendly after Community advocacy and we do have more powerful technology on hand for navigating the gaps in access than we did in 2018. Shelly and Joe touch upon the rise in off-the-shelf tablets being used as the display on many portable Video Magnifiers. Shelly followed that up with how some in the press enforce the narrative on how well the big mainstream companies are doing with their access solutions and what impressions that can send to those who are unfamiliar with other Assistive Technology. Joe noted that some in the Community also misconstrued these messages to a point where they shun traditional technology that was designed by A.T. makers. He specifically noted discussions he heard at various events for the desire to not use something like AIRA's Horizon in favor of a possible future set of Apple created smart glasses. Finally, and ending on a high note, Lisa and Scott celebrate the fact that more people had the opportunity to compare the Braille me to the Orbit Reader in the battle of the low cost Braille Displays. Additionally, now that phones cost more and iOS is constantly influx, the traditional note taker may still have a place in being a more stable option for some tasks. Sound Off We asked trepidaciously on Twitter for ideas about what the big stories were and Jim Denham sent along his feelings in the below email. Hey guys: Just wanted to chime in with what I believe is the biggest news story of 2019. That would be, the Amazon Echo Show identifying products. This is a big deal b/c its not using the bar code, it is just identifying the product by visual appearance. Amazon is obviously using individuals who are blind or visually impaired to help develop this feature, with the long term goal to provide people the ability to reorder products just by holding them up to the Show. In this case, all involved win, as it is a great and really useful feature for individuals with an Echo Show. I also believe this is just the starting point. As machine learning continues to develop at a mind blowing pace, this will certainly grow much bigger in 2020 and beyond. Thanks for all the great audio and podcasts in 2019, you guys do an awesome job and your work is truly appreciated. Jim Last Word 2019 saw the BBQ Crew cross the 200th episode mark and place our 750th audio program into our vast archives. We have been thrilled, honored and humbled to bring you our brand of news and entertainment on a weeklyish basis for 5 years. This would not be at all possible if it weren t for our guests, interview subjects, sponsors, and most of all you, the listeners. We are not sure just what 2020 holds in store for us all in A.T. news. However, we look forward to bringing it all to you in the upcoming year! Thanks for listening!

The Permobil PushTracker E2 & SwitchControl for SmartDrive will allow more people to do more things with a SmartDrive. The PushTracker E2 is the new wearable, designed to bring modern, everyday technology to the SmartDrive experience. People who choose to use a SmartDrive now have the option to use a smart wearable to control their SmartDrive. Improvements such as a stronger and more reliable Bluetooth connection and an easy to read touch screen make interacting with the SmartDrive easier than ever. SmartDrive also now has the ability to be controlled through switches. What used to be known as the Thumb Throttle now comes standard with every SmartDrive. Switch control can be set to a momentary or latched mode, and the speed is programmed separate from the PushTracker controls. There is also an option to integrate any switch through a mono jack port. Please join us for a preview to see how the PushTracker E2 and Switch Control work to improve the SmartDrive user experience.

The Permobil PushTracker E2 & SwitchControl for SmartDrive will allow more people to do more things with a SmartDrive. The PushTracker E2 is the new wearable, designed to bring modern, everyday technology to the SmartDrive experience. People who choose to use a SmartDrive now have the option to use a smart wearable to control their SmartDrive. Improvements such as a stronger and more reliable Bluetooth connection and an easy to read touch screen make interacting with the SmartDrive easier than ever. SmartDrive also now has the ability to be controlled through switches. What used to be known as the Thumb Throttle now comes standard with every SmartDrive. Switch control can be set to a momentary or latched mode, and the speed is programmed separate from the PushTracker controls. There is also an option to integrate any switch through a mono jack port. Please join us for a preview to see how the PushTracker E2 and Switch Control work to improve the SmartDrive user experience.

In this edition of the AppleVis Extra, Dave Nason and Thomas Domville are joined by Sarah Herrlinger, Director of Global Accessibility Policy and Initiatives at Apple; and Dean Hudson, Accessibility Evangelist at Apple. Topics covered in this podcast include an in-depth look at new accessibility features coming later this year in Apple software for blind and low vision users, as well as a broader look at Apple's approach to making their products accessible to as many people as possible. Full transcript of podcast Please note, This transcript was created solely for communication access. It is not a certified legal transcript and is not entirely verbatim. [music] Announcer: This is the AppleVis Extra. Dave Nason: Hello, and welcome to AppleVis Extra. This is episode number 67 coming hot on the heels of episode number 66 which was our round-table about WWDC keynote on Monday. Today, myself, Dave Nason, and my colleague, Thomas Domville, also known as Anonymouse, are delighted to be joined by two people from Apple live from WWDC conference this week. We have the head of accessibility at Apple, Sarah Herrlinger, and we have one of the accessibility technicians called Dean Hudson. Thomas, thanks for joining me. We're delighted to be getting the chance to interview these guys today. Thomas Domville: Definitely! I am so excited to meet with these two. I know that we are going to learn a great deal of things today, and I hope our listeners will, too. It's going to be a lot of fun. Dave Nason: Yeah, it was a big keynote, wasn't it? We talked about a lot on Monday. People can listen to that podcast for the full details of what we talked about in our immediate kind of aftermath, but there was a lot there. Thomas Domville: Definitely! A lot to soak up, and even today I'm still soaking things up, and hearing things that we didn't really pick up on on the WWDC day itself. As we're starting to get our hands on these betas, more and more things are starting to pop up. This makes this even more exciting of a podcast to listen to. Dave Nason: I think we all know that iOS 12 was a performance update. I think whether you had accessibility needs or not, it wasn't a feature-rich release last year. This year, I think there's a bit more there in the accessibility world as well, and in general when it comes to features. I think we're going to have plenty of questions. Thomas Domville: Definitely! I think that what I came away with from Monday was a lot of people were saying "Is that all?" "Is that it?" I was like oh, my gosh, are you kidding me? There was a lot there. I think for every 1 thing they mentioned, there were probably 20 things they didn't mention. There is so much under-the-hood. Like you said, this is a vast difference, a stark difference, between last year's iOS 12 to this year iOS 13. That is the same for those with accessibility. There are quite a few small changes, and new things that we can expect which I'm very excited to talk about. Dave Nason: Indeed! Let's welcome our two guests! We have, all the way from California in the middle of WWDC week ………………they've taken the time out to talk to us. We have Sarah Herrlinger, and Dean Hudson. Do you guys want to tell us a little about yourselves? Dean, do you want to go first, and tell us who you are, and what you do? Dean Hudson: Yeah, sure. Thanks for having us. This is a real honor. I am Dean Hudson. I started here at Apple probably 2006 where things were starting to roll. I've been here in the accessibility engineering team when there were three of us. It has now expanded greatly, but it's been a real fun ride all the way through advent of iOS making that accessible up through Apple TV, Watch, and HomePod. It's been a really fun ride. I now, the last few years, have worked for Sarah, as the Accessibility Evangelist at Apple. Really really fun times. Sarah Herrlinger: I'm Sarah Herrlinger, and I lead our efforts in the Global Accessibility Policy and Initiatives team. I get to work with Dean which is always a lot of fun. Our team really focuses on accessibility as a core corporate value for Apple. We look holistically at all the ways that we can infuse accessibility into the Apple ecosystem. Whether that be through products, or services, or stores, or anything that we do, just making sure that every employee at Apple understands what accessibility means to us as a company, and that all of our users know about all of the amazing things that we are working to do, so that they take advantage of those, and get more out of their devices. Dave Nason: Cool! I guess your job is making sure that accessibility is there on the ground floor of every project. Is that kind of an idea? Sarah Herrlinger: Yep. Absolutely! Through both Dean and I, we look at all those different areas. We get, early and often, into all of the different projects here to make sure that everybody thinks about accessibility in what they do. Thomas Domville: What an exciting job to have! That is like a dream! It's amazing to hear you guys have been there for so long especially Dean since 2006 when he was part of a team of three. That just totally blows my mind where we are today in terms of what we have gone so far with both of you. That's-- Dave Nason: When you think-- Thomas Domville: --amazing. Dave Nason: --to join one year before the iPhone launched. Everything that's happened since. Dean Hudson: Yeah. Well, I should say I am a VoiceOver user, totally blind. It was just very fun. The thing that you have to keep in mind, and it really takes a lot of character, but you have to be patient. People want things to happen tomorrow, and it just doesn't work that way. In the end, we took some time to develop and get things right, and it has paid off. We kind of lead the industry now in accessibility, and it's because we start at a ground level as Sarah was saying. Before even any lines of code are written, we get in there with the teams, and get people to think about accessibility early. Dave Nason: That's cool! That's such an advantage for you in a sense in what you do because you're both an expert in being a blind customer, and you're an expert in Apple, and what's going on on the inside of the company, I guess. Sarah Herrlinger: That's exactly why I stole him away from the engineering team, and brought him over to become our tech evangelist because he is so good at being able to go to every team in the company, and really express to them the importance of the work that we do, and get them to really think about not just the blind community, but every community that we support. [laughter] Thomas Domville: Educate. That's the key word is to educate everyone, and explain how to dive in, and do it the right way. Dave Nason: I've seen in my own work the difference the passion can make. You know what I mean? It's not just dryly telling them this is the features, but when they can actually see a human being using those features, and the difference. I'd say I think that goes a long way when you're speaking to an executive or a project manager or whatever. Dean Hudson- Yeah. Yeah. No, there were a few times when I would just bring my device to an engineer on the audio team, for example, and say this is wrong, this doesn't work. Can you guys do something about this? They're like oh, my gosh, you've been using this? We should fix this. [laughter] Thomas Domville: That's awesome! Sarah Herrlinger: A lot of years of great work being done. Dave Nason: Fantastic! Of course, we're in the middle of a very busy time of year for you guys. We had the keynote on Monday. I would say one of the highlights of the show was the announcement of Voice Control, and that demo that we saw. Do you want to kind of tell us a little about? We saw highlights. There's probably plenty to talk about around Voice Control. Sarah Herrlinger: Yeah, we're really excited about Voice Control. One of the things that has been important to us as an accessibility team is to continually look at new user groups that might not otherwise be able to use our technology. How do we keep pushing forward, and making sure that everyone who wants to use an Apple product has the opportunity to do so, and has the tools available to make that simple and easy and fun? Voice Control is a feature that was built with individuals with extreme physical-motor limitations in mind. It is individuals who wouldn't be able to use their devices unless they were able to use their voice. What Voice Control does is give them full access to their devices. It is built into both Mac OS and iOS platforms, so for any iOS device or Mac, being able to really control and use your device with just your voice. That would be all elements of navigation, opening apps, opening menus, moving around on the different devices, as well as things like dictation, text editing, and doing those things in a seamless fashion, so moving from one to the next, saying open Pages, dictating text, then saying open Photos, and doing something in your Photos app. Things like that all sort of moving through seamlessly, and not having to kind of move from one to the other in a more stunted way. We wanted it to be something that was really useful and efficient for those users who rely upon their voice. Dave Nason: I sort of speculated on Monday that maybe it was built on the same framework--if that's the right terminology--as VoiceOver and Switch Control, so that if you designed for one you design for the other. Is that the case, or is it a whole different... Sarah Herrlinger: It does take advantage of the accessibility API that's built into our software developer kit. One of the messages that we really try to express out to developers this week is how important it is to use that accessibility API, and how when you do it, you get so much from it. With all three of those utilizing that, if you are someone who... It's sort of the well, if you're concerned about one group, hey, you're going to get the other ones for free. We definitely want everyone to use this, and to really be good digital citizens when it comes to accessibility because this is the foundation for so much of what we do. Thomas Domville: That's so intriguing because it makes me think in my mind. I'm trying to grasp how that framework work, as in so the elements you see on the given page, is that the same as the VoiceOver? Are you able to go into more specifics like go right four? Sarah Herrlinger: Well, so, to give an example. When you think about how important it is in VoiceOver to label elements on the screen, to label images and buttons and things like that, one of the things that then both Switch Control and Voice Control does is it hooks onto those individual elements as well. For example, with Voice Control, one of the features to it is being able to say Show Numbers. Then any of those elements, anything that would be tappable or clickable--depending on whether it's an iOS or Mac device--becomes something that shows up on the screen, so that you could, for example, in the Photos app, say Show Numbers, and then say tap 14, and it is that specific photo that you're trying to get to which really improves the efficiency for someone using voice. Underneath it's also using that same framework to it. Dean Hudson: I think even Eric gave an example in the keynote the other day--or not the keynote, sorry, the state of the union--where he tried to click on an element, and it didn't work. He said "see, it didn't work because it doesn't have an accessibility label." It definitely hinges upon the accessibility underneath the API. Dave Nason: That's cool. I was actually thi-- [crosstalk] Dave Nason: Sorry! Sarah Herrlinger: It's all the same foundational API, but we also allow even more specific APIs, so developers who want to create even better experiences for Voice Control and such, or for a Voice Control-only experience, they can do that, too. The API is the common base, but it allows very detailed customization to make really great experiences for each one of these types of assistive technology as well. Thomas Domville: Wow! That is amazing! It really does going to kind of bring, in a roundabout way, you're also bringing up VoiceOver accessibility issues up. Like you just mentioned, elements or buttons that are not labeled correctly, and that has definitely to bring up to forefront with the developers if they want to take advantage of this-- Dave Nason: Exactly. Thomas Domville: --control. What if you had, I know a lot of these elements sometimes just like to have just pictures. How do they know what to say for that particular picture? Sarah Herrlinger: Well, actually, we have a new feature that we've added in this year that I think will be very helpful in that area. I'm gonna let Dean grab this one 'cause he's-- [laughter] Dean Hudson: We're trying to wait 'til we get to the features, but you guys have pulled it out of us. [laughter] Dean Hudson: One of the features--and I'm going to get loud because talking about features I get excited--that we're introducing for iOS is to auto label buttons. If a developer puts this hamburger menu or just puts a picture on the button, we will, through machine learning-- you probably heard a little bit about that during the keynote--determine what that button might be labeled. Having tested it, it works pretty good. I've used some crazy applications, and it does a pretty good job. That's sort of how if someone does give a picture, we sort of auto label it, and that's how it would get picked up. Thomas Domville: That's interesting because you have somewhat of a feature like that now when sometimes it will predict what it thinks it is. That works-- Dean Hudson: In text. Thomas Domville: This is more enhanced. Dean Hudson: This is more, yeah, in images. Thomas Domville: Oh, wow! Sarah Herrlinger: Yeah. Dave Nason: Now, it's reading text, isn't it, that's visually on a button? Sarah Herrlinger: Yeah. I think one of the things that we always try and do is build on from what we've done, but never stop working on any of these features. We have had this available for text. Now, we are using machine learning as it continues to grow and grow, and use that to be able to, as Dean said, try and figure out what that is an image of, and give you that information. It might say button, possibly Home, or whatever it might be, so that as best we can, we are trying to add that additional information for you, so that you have more context. As always, we try and work with every developer, and tell them the more important thing is that you do actually go through and label all of these, and that's why we have tools like the Accessibility Inspector in Xcode with its auditing capabilities that give you information along the way as an app designer to know what you can do to be a better accessibility citizen. on top of that, we know that when people don't, we want to try and make sure that we are improving that situation, and really using tools like machine learning to make that better for the community. Dave Nason: Cool! I kind of have this idea that maybe even people who don't have any motor issues, but maybe they just have their phone on a charging stand at their desk, and rather than picking the phone up, they just look over at their phone and use voice control. Have you found yourself doing that, Sarah, at all? Sarah Herrlinger: Just start using voice control as its own even as someone who is not in the community? Yeah, I think voice control has it does have applicability that can go beyond the specific audience for which we kind of looked as at the sweet spot. I think one of the things that we will find as time goes by is the number of people who use this in many other circumstances. I've certainly had members of the media and such thus far say things like "This will be great for me as I'm driving in my car", or all different kinds of possible use cases. We look forward to seeing how people use them. It's been interesting even for us to see how people who are not members of the blind community turn on VoiceOver for things here and there. We know that a lot of these types of assistive technologies can be used for other use cases, but first and foremost, we want to make sure we're making the best tools for the communities that rely on them. Dave Nason: Yeah. Absolutely! I was just thinking, I suppose, in the context that it can really help to drive use of the accessibility API if a larger group of people in the media are talking about it. Dean Hudson: Uh-huh. Sarah Herrlinger: Yeah. Dave Nason: Dean, you alluded to other accessibility features, or other new features. Is there anything else that you want to-- Dean Hudson: Yeah. I'd first like to say WWDC was remarkable this year. We unleashed a ton of features that we're really excited about. Another piece of that is being at WWDC, we just saw developers one after another very excited about making their apps accessible. I just wanted to put that out there. We did a couple of events--just sort of mingle events--where we had tables set up, so people could see some accessibility features. It was just packed, and you could just feel the excitement when engineers came up and asked making my app accessible. What do I do? You have these long conversations. Well, you could do this, and try this. It was just very very cool. I'll start with VoiceOver because that's what I use on the Mac. One of the things that we were very excited to bring to the Mac this year is LibLouis. That gives us more than 80 languages for braille, and that's really really cool. As you guys know, LibLouis's open source, and so it's continually growing, so we're continuing to get more languages. Also, we've had a lot of requests for VoiceOver and braille to bring sort of a single-word mode. For iOS users, you'll know this. When you use your braille display, you've probably got maybe an 18 or 12-cell braille display, iOS only shows 1 item at a time to sort of help you maximize that little space that you have. Well, on the desktop, we brought that option there as well, so that if you have an 80-cell braille display, you turn on this option, you will see one item at a time. You can go back-and-forth between either of those modes. That was really cool. We've also improved braille input typing. We know that there are some people in the blindness world that use braille, but they are very very fast typists. We know those folks are out there. We've made it now, so that you can type as fast as you need to to get what you need done, and it'll just work great. Thomas Domville: Bravo! Bravo! Dean Hudson: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We definitely listened to all of you guys, and all of you. We've improved braille support on pages that support ARIA. There were some issues even in Mail that we addressed, so now when you paste text, we don't jump to the top of the email. We keep it right there. There were some issues with Messages. We fixed that, and in FaceTime. Some really really great braille improvements. We think you guys are really going to love it! Dave Nason: That's cool! I know some braille users are going to be very happy to hear that! [laughter] Dean Hudson: Yeah, oh yeah. Thomas Domville: Definitely! Dean Hudson: Yeah. Dave Nason: Has much of that made it to iOS as well, or was that Mac-specific? [cross-talk] Dean Hudson: That's all both iOS and Mac. Dave Nason: Wow, that's cool. Sarah Herrlinger: Yeah, including LibLouis which is also on Apple TV, too, so all of our braille-supported platforms we've brought those LibLouis tables to expand what you are able to access. Even when you think about things like the fact that on apple TV you can get captions through your braille display, if those captions are provided in one of the LibLouis languages, great way to be able to get that information, too. Dean Hudson: Some other things that we've done for VoiceOver on the desktop is custom punctuation. This is very big if you are a coder. When you're reading email, that's fine, you can have different levels of punctuation. When you're reading code, it’s very important to customize your punctuation, so that you see the symbols that you need to see. That will be sort of like activities. It will be sort of built-in. You switch between Mail, you switch between Xcode, you'll get your right punctuation level. Dave Nason: You can kind of say okay, I'm in Xcode, I need to hear the colons and the semicolons-- [cross-talk] Dean Hudson: Yeah. Dave Nason: --the brackets. Dean Hudson: Right. In Mail, I don't necessarily need to hear that. Sarah Herrlinger: Rather than just having that some, most, all, it gives you a lot more granularity in how you can do that customization. This is another one that is also on iOS. One of the other cool things about it is that through CloudKit, you can sync those preferences from one platform to the other. That which you set up as a custom punctuation on Mac OS will automatically be available to you on iOS. Thomas Domville: That's beautiful! Any improvement in Xcode especially code-reading capabilities, that's a big improvement. Dave Nason: The cloud bit. I have to say that as someone who uses both Mac and iOS, the ability to even with things like keyboard shortcuts, you don't have to set them up again. The same with punctuation, just having it sync is-- Thomas Domville: Mmmhmm, mmmhmm. Sarah Herrlinger: Absolutely! Thomas, I heard you mention Xcode. Dean, I know you have been really excited about Xcode as a coder yourself. Dean Hudson: Yeah, Xcode is really huge. It's a big big application. What we wanted to do is focus on where you spend most of your time, and that's in the editor. We've improved, for example, code completion. As you're typing in the name of a function or method, hit Tab, and it autocompletes. You can now access that. Another point that we improved on is if you set--I'm going to get this wrong, I want to say landmarks, it's not landmarks--where you need to debug code, you set these markers. Those markers are now accessible. We've also added some rotors now that will allow you to navigate between methods and between scope. If you've had nested if loops, you can now navigate between those. Makes it really easy for you to jump around in your code. Many many fixes around editing. We think that's going to make that experience a lot better. Thomas Domville: That's beautiful. Dave Nason: That's cool. We do get a lot of questions on applevis.com about Xcode. It pops up every now and then, as people looking for help with it. Dean Hudson: We're continuing to work on that. One of the projects that you guys have probably heard of is Everybody Can Code. We've done that with Swift with the iPad, but we know there's more there. Eventually, you going to get to some levels that you need to use Xcode. We really want to focus on that to make that a fantastic experience. Sarah Herrlinger: Yeah. To stick with VoiceOver, but to jump platforms and go to iOS real quick. Couple of things to bring to your attention, one of which is just that when you go into Settings, you're going to find Accessibility in a different place. That is that it's been upleveled in Settings, so rather than having to drill in from tap on Settings, then go to General, then go to Accessibility, it's now at that top level of Settings just below General in the flow, in the chronology there. That was really important to us because we wanted to make sure that it becomes that much more discoverable for people, and that they use these features more. One of the other things we've done with it is we've also built accessibility into the sort of setup flow, what we call Buddy, as you get a new device. While for a VoiceOver user, you may already know that doing the triple-tap on the Side Button will turn VoiceOver on, for some of those other accessibility features that people may well have felt oh, I can't get to this until after I get through setup, we wanted to make sure that those were ready right up front, so that if you need to invert colors or increase your font or things like that, you can find those earlier in the process. Dean Hudson: Another one is customizable gestures for iOS. Dave Nason: You got my next question. [unintelligible] [laughter] Dean Hudson: Think about things like Control Center, Home Screen, App Chooser--App Switcher, pardon me. You can now assign those to, say, two-finger quadruple tap. Thomas Domville: Oh, that's nice. That's going to be a game changer! Dean Hudson: Yeah, yeah, we think so. Sarah Herrlinger: Yeah, you can even assign Siri shortcuts to VoiceOver commands. Dave Nason: Oh, fantastic! [unintelligible] Thomas Domville: Yeah, that's going to be amazing right there, customizable VoiceOver gestures. I love that! Dean Hudson: Yeah. In fact, both platforms are now we have full keyboard access. If you have your iPad now, and you have it connected to a Bluetooth, even gestures--say the Rotate gesture or the two-finger double tap and hold--you can now assign those to a keyboard command. You can perform those actions on your keyboard. [crosstalk] Thomas Domville: Oh, wow! Dave Nason: I read a bit about there being new keyboard shortcuts across the platforms. Could you tell us a little bit more about what's been kind of added there? Sarah Herrlinger: iPad OS has more commands in apps. I think that's connected to the full keyboard access that's now available. Thomas Domville: Okay. I really love the new Siri voices, by the way! [unintelligible] Thomas Domville: That was beautiful. I liked hearing that! I'm guessing we will be able to use that as a VoiceOver voice? Sarah Herrlinger: Mmmhmm. Dean Hudson: Yes. Thomas Domville: Awesome! Have we gained any new voices like Eloquence or anything like that? Sarah Herrlinger: No Eloquence voices, but that... The new Siri voices are also available on the Watch, so that's another one-- [Unintelligible] Dave Nason: We heard the U.S. one. Are there international new Siri voices, or at the moment is this U.S.? Sarah Herrlinger: My understanding at this stage is it is starting with U.S., and I think we'll have to see where they go from there. Dean Hudson: Yeah. Thomas Domville: Well, making accessibility down to the root of Settings, that is a big thing, as in terms of that Apple recognized that this should be up front to everyone that's sighted or not, they're going to come across this, and be curious, and jump into that. I'm really excited that you guys finally put that up in front and to the main section with the main components. Dave Nason: That's been a step-by-step process, hasn't it? I remember when it moved from the bottom of the General up towards the top of General, and now it's into the-- [crosstalk] [laughter] Sarah Herrlinger: Our evangelism has worked! [laughter] [Unintelligible] Thomas Domville: Good job, Dean, good job! [laughter] Dean Hudson: We haven't talked about some of the low-vision features. Dave Nason: Yeah, I was going to ask that. Dean Hudson: On the Mac... Do you want to talk about the Hover? Sarah Herrlinger: Yeah, on Mac OS, we have a couple of great new features we've added. The one that I'm most excited about as someone who is a glasses wearer and who does struggle with small text is a feature called Hover Text. It's a new way to make it easy to view text on your Mac display. What you do is if you hover over any text with your cursor, and press down on the Command key, you get a dedicated window with a large high-resolution text field which gives you whatever is the text that's underneath that cursor. You can blow it up to 128-point, you can choose the font type that works best for you or that you prefer. You can also change the color of both the text and the background, and the cursor that surrounds the text showing up on the screen. Lots of customization available, so that whatever your vision needs are as a low-vision user, you can be able to sort of customize that to work best for you. One of the other things that I love is... For a long time, we've had a feature, and that is Say Text Under the Pointer. When you turn that on, you not only get this giant text customized in the way you want it to look, but it will also speak that out as it's going over the element as well. Text that would be in a menu or in a dock that might be smaller than what you would want it to be, you now have the opportunity to be able to take any text, and just blow it up on the screen. Dave Nason: That's actually huge because there's some people who are not quite at full screenreader level. They don't need that, but they need that little bit of help sometimes with a bit of speech, and I think that's huge. Also, I have an application at work which doesn't support screen readers very well in terms of keyboard commands, so I can use it with the mouse by rubbing the mouse over certain sections, and it'll read what's under there. Sarah Herrlinger: Yeah. We have another feature called Zoom Display which is for multi-display users. If you're someone who uses two screens, Zoom Display will let you keep one screen zoomed in close while the other one remains at standard resolution. It could be great for everyday work when you are just on your own working on two monitors in an office, but also one of the other applications for it that we've seen thus far is in terms of doing a presentation. Maybe you want your audience to see the screen in that standard resolution, but you want to blow up something on your own device, so that you can zoom in on areas, and get more information as you are presenting out to the world. A really cool way to think about multi-display users, and how low-vision users might use them differently than someone else. Also, we added in Color Filters in the same way that we have them on iOS. These are filters that support things like color blindness, and we have filters that are specifically built for different types of color blindness, but also being able to do just a straight colored tint over the screen. We've received feedback from individuals with Irlens Syndrome and other types of vision challenges where just being able to have the screen tinted to a specific color to do any kind of work on the device has been really helpful. We're excited that that has moved over to the Mac, too. Dean Hudson: I know you guys had a question about--I'm going to get the name wrong--but a feature that allows a developer to develop their iPad app, but then move that over to the desktop. Dave Nason: Project Catalyst. Dean Hudson: Catalyst, yes. Thank you! The question was will accessibility be intact, and happy to say that yes it will. Thomas Domville: Oh, wow! Dean Hudson: If the developer does accessibility work on iOS, that will transfer to Mac OS. Dave Nason: That's going to open a huge opportunity for a whole range of apps. Thomas Domville: We were both talking about that how when we saw that demonstration where you were able to click that little checkbox for Mac. We were wondering if that part of that system to analyze your code would be able to take that accessibility along with it, or improve on it, and point it out to them in certain areas. We had thought about that. Dave Nason: Will that then, I suppose, automatically change from the hint text, for example, which might be double tap to select on the iPad app, and that's VO Spacebar to select on the Mac. Dean Hudson: Yeah, some of those little things we have to work through, but for the most part, they look exactly the same. Some of the sounds we've brought over to the desktop. Sarah Herrlinger: The nice thing for the developers, they can use that iOS accessibility API, and it just ports over to the Mac. The time and effort and energy that someone puts in on one pays forward over into the other. Dave Nason: It's a really interesting project. There was mention onstage Twitter is back suddenly. There was a lot of talk-- [unintelligible] [laughter] Thomas Domville: Yeah, definitely. Can you say, Dean, if the developers have tools of any kind that can analyze their code, and let them know where they lack in the accessibility areas, and where to focus on to make improvements? Dean Hudson: Yes. The Accessibility Inspector is where to go, and we've made, over the last few years, several improvements to it. One is really cool is that you can audit an application. The developer can have their application up on their iPad, target that iPad, and change accessibility right there. If they see a button that's not labeled, they can label it there. They can touch on their iPad, and suddenly it has the label. We highly recommend, at the very least, that the developer runs that audit tool, so at least they know the areas they need to go and fix. Dave Nason: have you ever considered--people will ask this on the site sometimes--have you ever considered requirements along those lines, as opposed to recommendations, or is that something that's possible? I know accessibility is such a broad thing, and every app is different, but we kind of wondered that. Sarah Herrlinger: Yeah, that is one of the things that we... We look at this issue a lot. It's not something that goes unnoticed, but it is a very complex issue. I think as we look at how many things fall under the term accessibility, and as well the levels of accessibility of something. Even if you look at just VoiceOver, what is the stamp that says seal of approval? We're constantly trying to look at new ways--including things like doing the machine learning automatic label detection--to try and make it easier, and to build these tools to be more comprehensive, and to be simpler and easier for developers, so that they have fewer reasons to not do it. We want everybody to just do it, and make it so that it's not even necessary to have a listing, but mostly we just want to try and do everything we can to make everything as accessible as possible. One of the other things to note as well in terms of auditing, we also now have a new accessibility audit tool for web content in Safari. That's another area where we've tried to look beyond apps, and into web content as well. Thomas Domville: Oh, that's nice. I appreciate you being up front because you're right, Sarah, the complexity. I can't imagine defining the word what is accessible. For a blind person, that's one thing. For low-vision is one thing, those with dexterity or motor issues is another thing. It's not a clear-cut and dry scope that we could just stamp it, and say you guys got to do this. I can't imagine the complexity to have to be behind something. Obviously, we can't just say this is VoiceOver-accessible because then you're singling out all the others that have other accessibility issues. Dave Nason: Even accessibility is connected to usability, and I might find an app very intuitive and you may not, or... Dean Hudson: Yeah. I mean, I have plenty times where someone says "is this accessible", and say it's accessible for me, I can use it. Someone else may go I don't like that-- [unintelligible] [laughter] Dean Hudson: It's a really really gray area, but it's something that we're striving to make easier as Sarah said, and I think we're going to get there. Thomas Domville: That's awesome. Now, one of the things you guys were talking about in the keynote, and I had wondered, the new gesture to do a three-fingers pinch to copy and three-finger spread to paste. I thought oh, that's so brilliant. I suppose that can be used as a VoiceOver custom gesture? Dean Hudson: We have accommodated that, yes. Thomas Domville: Awesome! Dean Hudson: We have some gestures that you can use to do that, perform those actions. Sarah Herrlinger: yeah, I think as with everything. Our goal even for things that would be considered general mainstream elements of the OS, we always do try and be thoughtful in how a VoiceOver user could navigate that or use it, and also how someone using Switch Control could or how someone using Voice Control. I mean, we look at all of these different elements, and try and be as thoughtful about each as we can. Dave Nason: That does bring us back actually to a related question that I guess I forgot to ask earlier was Voice Control and VoiceOver. Can they play together, or are they distinct in terms of features? Sarah Herrlinger: I would say at this stage, much in the way that VoiceOver was initially built as a feature for the blind community, our goal with Voice Control was to be able to support those with extreme physical-motor limitations. We look at that first and foremost. If you use headphones with Voice Control and you're a VoiceOver user, you may be able to get functionality out of it. When we do these, we often sort of look at let's build out one thing, make sure we've got it, and then we continue to iterate from there, and do more. In the same way, that initially the way that Zoom and VoiceOver work together that's improved over time, the way other things have happened, I think we want to come out of the gate with something that's really a great feature for the community that needs it most, and then figure out from there how we expand. Dave Nason: Absolutely! It's got to be one of the most complex features you've built in a long time, I would imagine. Thomas Domville: No doubt. I'm thinking, too, is that just yesterday somebody revealed how there's a new feature within Accessibility for those on iPad that can use their little mouse. They can actually use that as a cursor pointer. Sarah Herrlinger: Yeah. We do now have mouse support for iOS. It is a part of Assistive Touch. Just to give that little bit of background on Assistive Touch. Assistive Touch is another one of our features that we created specifically for individuals with physical-motor limitations which allows them to be able to use the device when they may have very limited dexterity, but some. For example, if you can only use one finger, and one finger alone, to work device then when you start thinking about things like how do you do a four-finger swipe, or a pinch, this is something was built in to support those users. A logical extension of that is someone who may need--they aren't using their finger itself on the screen, or on their devices, even on computers--but they use something like a joystick or an assistive mouse that allows them to be able to use the device, and navigate in an alternative fashion. Adding in mouse support on iOS is really, first and foremost, meant to make sure that another community that might not otherwise be able to use a product has that opportunity to do so. We're getting feedback that other people are appreciating it as well, and that's fantastic. We really initially look at how we make sure that we continue to widen the users who are able to use our products in their own individual unique ways. Thomas Domville: oh, no doubt. I do have clients that will use that mouse, and they will hover over something, and it will speak back to them what they're hovering it over, so little things like that that I've seen in the desktop realms is... We always try to wish for things on iOS and iPad iOS and things like that, so any new features like that is very welcome to all line of disabilities. Sarah Herrlinger: Yeah. I think one of the key things with this is what we wanted to do was figure out how to use a pointing device like you would use your finger. Not so much reimagine how an iPad and a mouse would work, but really focus on how you can get that sort of touch functionality, but using a mouse. Thomas Domville: Now, that we're getting to kind of wrapping things up, I am curious if you guys have any other comments or further features that you would like to reveal to our listeners that may have not been discussed at the keynote, or into the mainstream in terms of iOS, iPad, or the Mac? Dean Hudson: Well, one we haven't talked about that was not in the keynote, but was in another presentation, is the Apple Card. I know that there's been some concerns about how that would work for people who are blind. I've been using it here, testing it, and it's fantastic. One of the things that I've experienced with credit cards is you get this bill, paper bill, and I have no idea what that thing says. I can scan it, and even then it doesn't tell me where I'm spending my money. Now, having that all accessible on iOS is amazing. Just thought I'd put that out there. Sarah Herrlinger: Yeah. I would say just sort of in the bigger picture around things, we didn't even get to all of the things even just for the blind and low-vis communities that we've done over the course of this set of updates. To add in one more, just a quick one. Zoom went through a pretty big re-design on TV OS to just make it easier for individuals or low-vis to be able to control and navigate their devices. I think we could pull out a few more, but in thinking about time, well... Part of it, I would say, is just go in, and start exploring because I think really in all the nooks and crannies, you're going to find different settings, different new things that are there that are helpful. We want people to take advantage of it. We want people to give us feedback. To give the plug for the accessibility@apple.com email address, that is our customer-facing email address. We appreciate that we get a lot of great feedback every day from our users on how things are working for them whether it's asking us questions, reporting bugs, whatever it might be. We would love to get your thoughts on the work that we've been doing, and helps us to figure out what we keep doing into the future. Dave Nason: Great stuff! Well, I think that about does it for us today. Thank you guys again for joining us! We really appreciate it on what is a really busy week, I'm sure. Sarah and Dean, thank you so much, and Thomas, thank you for joining me today! Sarah Herrlinger: Absolutely! Thank you so much for having us! Dean Hudson: Yeah, thank you! Dave Nason: Thomas, interesting conversation. Thomas Domville: Oh, indeed! I'm sure I'm like everybody else. I was just ready for the next thing, ready for the next thing, ready for the next thing, but yet I'm so focused on what they had to say. I really love the time that we had to spend with them in details, but as always it's never enough time. I'm so blessed to have these two people that probably are so busy in their life already! We were just so honored and blessed to have at least a half hour with these folks. In general our listeners is that for every single thing they discussed here today that is new and revealing to you, there's probably 10 more new things under the hood that we going to see when iOS 13 comes out. This is the exciting part about this year, Dave, is this is not like iOS 12 where we had a few things, and that was it! This sounds like we have a lot of little changes coming our way along with some big changes that were not announced like-- [crosstalk] Thomas Domville: Oh, yeah. Dave Nason: I think we hit the highlights, but there's definitely a lot of little hidden gems hopefully. I think-- [crosstalk] Thomas Domville: I thought the low-vision people got a huge boost in the Mac area-- Dave Nason: I think that was overdue as well. I think Zoom and some of those users probably had felt a little neglected versus VoiceOver users in recent years. It looks like Apple have really put an effort in this year to make sure that they really caught up to where they want to be. Thomas Domville: It tells you the significant because they made a point of that. Not only just on the Mac, but as Sarah was saying and she made a point of it, they revamped it in iOS which is long overdue, but especially... The first and foremost of everything that's even new if they came out hard and heavy on the braille stuff, that was huge. Dave Nason: I had Scott Davert speaking in my ear the entire time while they were talking about braille. [laughter] Thomas Domville: All the millions of questions I'm sure that a lot of people have, but just knowing the fact that they're focused on braille this year is, forward and foremost, it was way way overdue, and I'm so ecstatic and excited to hear that. Dave Nason: Crossing all our fingers and all our toes that the performance is there. Thomas Domville: Yeah. Speaking of crossing fingers with toes, what did you think about the VoiceOver gestures customized? Dave Nason: That's really cool! Really really cool! Thomas Domville: I mean I'll have to see how deep- Dave Nason: See which gestures? Yeah. Thomas Domville: Yeah. How deep can we get with it? It sounded like the keyboard is going to be where it's going to really take hold. You can re-do some of the gestures with the keyboard. If it's complicated already for us to do a four-finger double tap on something, oh my gosh, we can now make that easier, but if we can intertwine this with a certain thing that I want to use day-in-day-out, that's a game changer. Dave Nason: Yeah. Absolutely! Even like iPhone 10 and above that don't have the Home button, and maybe some people struggle with those new swipe, the new Home gesture and the new App Switcher gesture, so maybe they could replace that with a two-finger double tap or whatever it might be that they will find easier to perform. Thomas Domville: Mmmhmm. I like the fact that the Voice Control, as a whole, it was meant for a specific people with disability. In a whole, it does cover with the VoiceOver API which means that you're going to knock out two birds with one stone really because-- Dave Nason: That's why I love the media attention Voice Control is hopefully getting because this drives the developer to go I'm going to actually put the effort in to do that, we'll get VoiceOver support for free alongside that. Thomas Domville: Exactly. Boy, I'm going to have to have a label on that, so that they can say something or whatever now. I think it works hands-in-hands. On top of that, Dean was really getting excited about that we now finally have more accessible means to code now with Xcode where Xcode was so alien, and a lot of things just didn't work the way we want to. They put an emphasis in coding, and so those I've always dreamed to be a coder can now have that reality come true. Plus, I love how when they analyze the code for iPad to move over to the Mac, that includes the accessibility with it. Dave Nason: Mmmhmm. Yeah. Yep. I think that was a question a lot of people would have had... I think they renamed it. That was Project Marzipan last year. Thomas Domville: Correct. Dave Nason: It wasn't an overwhelming success, I think. Even Craig said onstage "look, we learned a lot. That was 1.0, and this is 2.0 now." They've given it a new name, and a new lease at life, I think, hopefully. [laughter] Thomas Domville: Well, Catalyst in itself is a whole different separate topic because then we can go on forever because there's a lot of things we want to know. How's this going to work? How's it going to feel? How's it going to smell? Everything about it, Marzipan which is now Catalyst, is going to be very interesting. I can't wait to dive in! I'm excited that they finally put Accessibility under Settings. I heard that rumor before this cast, and I was excited to hear that they put that upfront and foremost with other important buttons under Settings. Dave Nason: Yeah, and it's not down at the bottom. She said it was right underneath General, so that's-- Thomas Domville: Right underneath General where you find Display and Brightness. Dave Nason: Mmmhmm. I think it is positive, and it's good to see that. As you said, we're looking forward to getting stuck into iOS 13. Hopefully, the whole team will be, as usual, beta testing over the summer. [Unintelligible] Thomas Domville: Stay tuned. Dave Nason: Hopefully. Thomas Domville: We will have more information for you. Whether it's in terms of podcasts, or on the website, come to applevis.com to check out in-between during the summer, and definitely check back in the fall when iOS 13 and everybody else gets dropped along with Catalina, the new Apple TV, the new iPad OS, and check out AppleVis for all the latest and greatest and what we've found, and what you can expect in terms of accessibility and other many things. Dave Nason: Thomas, I think that about wraps it up. Thank you again for joining me! Thomas Domville: It was quite an honor. I enjoyed it so much! I hope you did, too, Dave. It was an amazing experience to talk to those two especially Dean now that we now introduced Dean, I think he's coming in as blind and been working there since 2006 was an awesome awesome awesome input on the show. I loved this! Thank you! Dave Nason: Thank you so much! My name is Dave Nason. This is the AppleVis Extra. Thanks for listening! Bye-bye! [music] Announcer: Thank you for listening to this episode of the AppleVis Extra. To learn more about us, visit our website at www.applevis.com. Follow us on Twitter @Applevis. Like us on Facebook.

dimostrazione di Elena Brescacin sull'utilizzo del sistema operativo iOS 10, con il controllo interruttori. Si tratta di una funzione presente sulle impostazioni di accessibilità, che permette ad utenti con gravi disabilità alle mani, di utilizzare degli accessori adattivi, chiamati switch, o interruttori; questi switch sono venduti in varie aziende di ausili, ma anche su apple store, nella sezione accessori per l'accessibilità, e si consiglia di utilizzare quelli che funzionano con Bluetooth. Di per sé, la funzione controllo interruttori non è accessibile con VoiceOver, ma configurata opportunamente consente di navigare l'iPhone anche da una persona con grave disabilità visiva e motoria, grazie all'output vocale attivabile dalle opzioni di switch control.

This we are joined my Tammy Coron. We follow up on follow up on Omni Group's innovative pricing model, as well as, on Storyboard bugs fixed in Xcode 8.1 beta 3 and IGListKit is now live on github. We discuss the removal of Dash from the App Store(s) and some disappointing history revealed on the MacRumors forums. We also talk about the removal of Phoneys sticker pack. Picks: Day of the Tentacle Remastered, Swift Playgrounds Demo with a Twist, 3D iOS Games book and PDF Sponsored By BuddyBuild Correction: Scanning across the screen in possible with Point Scanning in Switch Control. Episode 114 Show Notes: Introducing OmniGraffle 7 Release Notes - #178: An Unofficial Wink and a Nod Xcode 8.1 beta fixes some IB issues: Losing changes after quitting / reopening is fixed IGListKit - A data-driven UICollectionView framework for building fast and flexible lists Apple: Dash developer had two accounts, 25 apps, and almost a thousand fraudulent reviews Gather round, folks, let me tell you a story. Dash and Apple: My Side of the Story Lynard Skynard - Simple Man The Dignified Death of Phoneys Just Write Monsters Grammar Snob Party Parrot Christopher Hills Cerebral Palsy Switch Control AssistiveTouch 3D Apple Games by Tutorials Updated for Swift 3 and iOS 10 Chris Language on Roundabout Creative Chaos (coming soon) 2D Apple Games by Tutorials Updated for Swift 3 and iOS 10 Creating Stickers and iMessages Apps in iOS 10 Using Swift 3 Apple Talk (podcast) SceneKit SpriteKit GamePlayKit Fantasy Death Match Sounds of the Orchestra Look Again! Episode 114 Picks: Day of the Tentacle Remastered Swift Playgrounds Demo with a Twist 3D iOS Games book and PDF

A Review Of the Switch Control Bar V2...in short we like!!!

Outside Learning: The saying from photographer Chase Jarvis that the “best camera is the one you have with you” captures the power of mobile devices as tools for documenting our lives through photography in ways that were not possible before. Today’s mobile devices, including the iPhone and the iPad, have the ability to capture images that rival the quality of those taken with traditional cameras, but in a package that is portable and easy to use for many students who would not otherwise be able to use a camera. For students with disabilities, these devices support a number of accessibility features that make photography more accessible than ever. For example, students with visual disabilities can use facial recognition along with the VoiceOver screen reader to take an image even if they are not able to see what is shown on the iPad or iPhone’s screen. Similarly, students with cognitive and motor impairments can use adaptive devices along with the new Switch Control feature in iOS 7 to interact with their touchscreen devices. This presentation will include a number of ideas for incorporating photography into the curriculum to engage all learners, tips and tricks for how to get the most out of the camera on your mobile devices, and demonstrations of how to use the camera with the built-in accessibility features of the iPad and other iOS devices. The presenter will share his workflow for mobile photography as well as photos from his own collection that show how someone with a significant visual impairment can be a photographer with the right tools and supports.