New Accessibility Features Coming to Apple Devices — from .lifewire.com by Cesar Cadenas; fact checked by Jerri Ledford
Helping people with disabilities navigate the world
Excerpt:
Door Detection is a new mode coming to Apple’s Magnifier app. As the name suggests, the feature helps people find the door and how far they are it, and describes various attributes of the door. These attributes include if the door is open or closed as well as how to open it.
?? Periodic Table of Chrome Extensions to help meet students’ needs including speech to text, text to speech, readability, writing, productivity, brain breaks & more! From @dhorndorffhttps://t.co/G4aeHuiciq#edtech #GoogleEDU #accessibility pic.twitter.com/w0reUdUdg9
— Eric Curts (@ericcurts) May 13, 2022
Addendum on 5/19/22:
Addendums on 5/20/22:
- For people with disabilities, AI can only go so far to make the web more accessible — from protocol.com
AI and automated software that promises to make the web more accessible abounds, but people with disabilities and those who regularly test for digital accessibility problems say it can only go so far. - Accessibility and the Intangibles: How 2 Students With Disabilities Chose a College — from chronicle.com by Eric Hoover