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Apple unveils new accessibility features
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#172Apple loves to stealth test new tech in full public view by sneaking it into relatively mundane places, so debuting agentic AI via accessibility is very on brand. A few other examples: - The Touch Bar was much more than an OLED strip, it was Apple’s first move in the transition to Apple Silicon on macs. The Apple T1 chip in the 2016 Touch Bar MacBooks was the first solely Apple-designed processor to appear in a Mac a…
And their upcoming smart glasses are the best UX for almost everything they showed the user holding up her phone for.
I read their glasses when taking video or pics the lense will light up and or flash more prominently then Metas. Maybe that will help the whole privacy issue and also it's not Meta (do love my Meta or smart glasses as a whole will ditch Metas for Apple quickly as both pair of Metas broke & there's no store for support).
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#174Kudos to apple for providing some of the best accessibility features across their devices. I’ve always appreciated the consistency of reduce transparency, increased contrast, reduced motion, reduced white point, touch areas, color blindness support. And they work well across third party apps. That demands a lot of effort on the API and UI framework to have broad support for something that is mostly a non-sellable feature.
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#175One thing Apple really needs to get right is speech to text transcription. They've nailed accessibility in so many ways and yet it feels like they're a decade behind on properly transcribing voices. At least half a decade. Input on the iPhone is so dreadful nowadays. Their palm rejection is definitely worse than before, so mistyping is more frequent. Their text-correction algorithm for typing is worse than before, an…
Apple dictation on MacOS is actually pretty dang good. I've got it bound to a double-tap on fn and I use it pretty regularly.
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#176Earlier quoted context omitted.
That’s the app. Or vision-impaired, at least.
But in practice it could just be anyone whose outsourcing vision right? It's basically a free manual vision service.
Are you implying that it might be exploited by unethical tech bros looking to build data sets?
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#177> 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
I presume that calling customer support is at least as frustrating for people with disabilities as it is for anyone.
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#178One thing Apple really needs to get right is speech to text transcription. They've nailed accessibility in so many ways and yet it feels like they're a decade behind on properly transcribing voices. At least half a decade. Input on the iPhone is so dreadful nowadays. Their palm rejection is definitely worse than before, so mistyping is more frequent. Their text-correction algorithm for typing is worse than before, an…
Until siri can reliably handle "Navigate to ", offline and using pre-downloaded maps, I'm going to assume all the other, harder speech to text and conversational stuff is just vaporware.
I found another dreadful iPhone input "feature" yesterday. If you are browsing around in third party carplay apps, and ready to tap your selection, but instead press the accelerator first, it truncates the list to only a few items, and scrolls to the top.
Way to reduce driving distractions guys! What's next? If the car is moving, maps changes destinations?
I really wish human computer interaction research were more broadly applied, and if you do dumb stuff like all of the automotive / carplay world, then you'd be liable in court.
I once had a car that hid the backup cam behind a legal disclaimer every time you turned it on. I'm sure at least one pedestrian was hit by a car in reverse while that screen was on. The manufacturer should be 100% liable for the poor UI decision.
Re: Apple unveils new accessibility features
#179One thing Apple really needs to get right is speech to text transcription. They've nailed accessibility in so many ways and yet it feels like they're a decade behind on properly transcribing voices. At least half a decade. Input on the iPhone is so dreadful nowadays. Their palm rejection is definitely worse than before, so mistyping is more frequent. Their text-correction algorithm for typing is worse than before, an…
Apple dictation on MacOS is actually pretty dang good. I've got it bound to a double-tap on fn and I use it pretty regularly.
try wisprflow and then tell us it's good
Re: Apple unveils new accessibility features
#180One thing Apple really needs to get right is speech to text transcription. They've nailed accessibility in so many ways and yet it feels like they're a decade behind on properly transcribing voices. At least half a decade. Input on the iPhone is so dreadful nowadays. Their palm rejection is definitely worse than before, so mistyping is more frequent. Their text-correction algorithm for typing is worse than before, an…
It’d be amazing if speech-to-text could take into account context as well: Greek if I’m speaking Greek, Korean if I’m speaking Korean, or for (int i = 0; i if I’m dictating code.