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Re: Apple unveils new accessibility features

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Post by everforward »

Seems like everyone skipped over this part, but optical controls for motorized wheelchairs is a cool idea (at least to me, maybe that's an old idea).

Full VR hasn't done well, but it does continue to make me wonder if there's a market for a stripped and slimmed device. I'd maybe be interested in a device that does optical controls if it fit in regular-sized glasses. I'd be super interested if it had a HUD system (even a super basic one that can only show a handful of symbols). Better still if it had some basic audio, but maintaining the "regular glasses" form factor is more important to me than the HUD or audio.

Re: Apple unveils new accessibility features

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Post by ragazzina »

brador wrote: post #125
satvikpendem wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I listen to a lot of podcasts and YouTube videos at 3x or 4x speed now, having slowly built up the skill over a few years. It's pretty nice now and saves time, and it's remarkable how well the human brain can adapt to such input.

You recall nothing and you know it. You're just wasting time you could use for something useful or meaningful in your life. Kids call it "Anxiety cope" but I don't agree.

Can you recall 3 lines of dialogue from the latest movie you watched?

Re: Apple unveils new accessibility features

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Post by Washuu »

yreg wrote: post #83

It's a shame Apple removed the screen reader announcements ("the Apple logo") from the youtube version of the commercial. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3SmsSCvoss Those made the ad stand out in my opinion.

Change the audio language to "English descriptive".

Re: Apple unveils new accessibility features

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Post by martinflack »

runeks wrote: post #2

> The total amount due on the bill is $83.89. Please verify this amount with your utility provider or by using Text Detection before making a payment. 1. Use AI to determine how much a bill is for 2. Call up the people who billed you and ask them how much they billed you 3. Pay billed amount

It might be useful if it remembered a bill for, say, 60 days, and could also comment on percent difference since the last one. "The total amount due on the bill is $83.89 which is 4% higher than last month's bill from the same company."

Re: Apple unveils new accessibility features

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Post by thrownthatway »

RobMurray wrote: post #41
mohsen1 wrote: post #6

Fun fact: This video was made accessible to sighted people because no blind person would ever listen to voice at that speed. Honestly if you ever observe a blind person using computers you'd impressed how they can listen to audio at unimaginable speeds.

I know plenty of blind people who have their voice speed unbearably slow and barely scratch the surface of what technology can do for them. I think an interface where you can tell your phone what to do in natural language will really help a lot of less technical people. I'm not getting my hopes up though given apple's history with Siri, which is truly awful.

Being able-bodied and sighted is probably the biggest disadvantage for using iOS.

Twenty years and text input & manipulation on iPhone sucks a big fat hair pair of dogs balls still.

The last time I daily drove Android was over two years ago and it was immeasurably less God-damn-I-wanna-dig-Jobs-corpse-up-n-give-the-guy-a-piece-of-my-mind, only problem is his grave is unmarked. Arsehole!

Re: Apple unveils new accessibility features

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Post by Barbing »

bitwize wrote: post #40
mohsen1 wrote: post #6

Fun fact: This video was made accessible to sighted people because no blind person would ever listen to voice at that speed. Honestly if you ever observe a blind person using computers you'd impressed how they can listen to audio at unimaginable speeds.

I've heard textual description tracks on television programs before. They come fast, but not screen-reader fast. To the untrained ear a blind person's screen reader sounds like when you somehow get the TI-99/4A's speech synthesizer to read from invalid memory.

How did you come across those tracks? Never have myself.

Re: Apple unveils new accessibility features

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Post by webstrand »

kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #116
ebiester wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm so glad YouTube and other podcast players have moved to support 3.0 speed. As I get comfortable with one, I move it up some. For things like sports and "did you know" content, I can go 2.5 if I'm not multitasking. For technical content, sometimes I'm stuck at 1.0.

You can get browser extensions to do it for all media controls on any site. YouTube's "Premium" for 3x is laughable when it's an internal browser function.

Another fun thing is if you use an extension you can fast-forward through the advertisements too. For some channels I use around 3.5x playback speed.

Re: Apple unveils new accessibility features

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Post by matthew-wegner »

Darwins_Toffees wrote: post #28

"Vehicle Motion Cues come to visionOS, which can help reduce motion sickness for people who use Apple Vision Pro as a passenger in a moving vehicle. Vision Pro will also support face gestures for performing taps and system actions, plus a new way to select elements with one’s eyes while using Dwell Control." Maybe just don't wear them in a car?

From the article: "new features for controlling power wheelchairs with Apple Vision Pro"

Someone using this feature will want motion cues as well.

And in your quote: Dwell Control is a feature set to interact with an Apple Vision Pro using only your eyes. Lingering your gaze on a button will press it. An AVP is now more comfortable to use in more situations because of motion cues.

Maybe just rethink your "maybe just" comment...?

Re: Apple unveils new accessibility features

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Post by thrownthatway »

Barbing wrote: post #122
freedomben wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Indeed, and not just fast, but often heavily robotic (which many sighted people struggle to understand even at 1.5x). I remember reading about a blind person who learned how to do echo-location using sound, and it seemed like such a cool superpower, that one of these days I'm going to take the plunge and unplug my monitor and start learning how to really use the tools. I worked with a blind person a few years back wh…

> blind person who learned how to do echo-location using sound RIP kid https://youtu.be/fnH7AIwhpik

I’m not gonna watch that as I’d rather stick to my head-canon that he had an altercation with a dolphin.
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