Published on: 2025-06-11 16:31:00
Jeff and Fernando talk about Apple’s impressive history with accessibility, including our favorite accessibility tips and tricks, and upcoming accessibility features in iOS 26! Sponsored by Bitwarden: Check out Bitwarden Password Manager, featuring an Apple Watch authenticator integration, secure autofill on Safari and iOS apps, and enterprise-grade security tools that help you manage credentials with confidence. 9to5Mac Overtime is a weekly video-first podcast exploring fun and interesting ob
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-12 12:00:03
Closed captions have become a staple of the TV- and movie-watching experience. For some, it's a way to decipher muddled dialogue. For others, like those who are deaf or hard of hearing, it's a critical accessibility tool. But captions aren't perfect, and tech companies and studios are increasingly looking to AI to change that. Captioning for TV shows and movies is largely still done by real people, who can help to ensure accuracy and preserve nuance. But there are challenges. Anyone who's watch
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-20 02:00:15
AI is revolutionizing digital accessibility in healthcare, making medical information and services more inclusive and user-friendly for people with disabilities. This article explores how AI technologies are enhancing web accessibility and improving healthcare access for all. AI-Powered Enhancements for Healthcare Websites Improved Communication and Interaction AI is breaking down communication barriers in healthcare by enabling more effective interactions between providers and patients with
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-27 04:00:00
Video game consultants like Laura Kate Dale came into 2023 with a lot of hope. Since 2020, accessibility in games had become a mainstream discussion, bolstered by high-profile releases like The Last of Us Part II, and it appeared things could only get better. Yet, as the year drew on, she says, “there started to be signs that, behind the scenes, accessibility advancement was slowing down.” Now, that momentum has come to a relative standstill. Consultants speaking to The Verge paint a picture of
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-04 08:00:00
Global Accessibility Awareness Day was Thursday, so it's fitting that both Apple and Google have announced a raft of new accessibility features for their devices this week, all slated to land in the coming year. Photograph: Apple First up, let's talk Apple. The headline is Magnifier support for Mac. This is integrated with Accessibility Reader, so you can use your iPhone camera to zoom in on a distant whiteboard or sign and magnify it on your MacBook screen, tweak contrast and colors to make i
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-07 00:40:28
Call of Duty is one of the biggest game franchises in the world, and its developers and publisher Activision have made strides recently in accessibility — ensuring that as many people can play the games as possible. GamesBeat got a chance to speak with several members of the development teams for Global Accessibility Awareness Day about how they’ve developed and launched the multiple in-game accessibility settings. Accessibility features are a collection of in-game settings designed to make tha
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-08 17:22:28
I recently saw somebody ask Is Fedora accessible now ? To which I want to say: yes! But this question does not really have a simple yes-or-no answer. There is lots of nuance to it. A better question would be: Is this system usable for *me* ? Accessibility is about making our software usable (and, ideally, pleasant to use) for as many people as we can. It has been a year since we last gave an update on accessibility (a11y) in and around GTK. Time to look at what has happened in this space si
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-10 12:00:04
TikTok is adding a batch of new accessibility features to make content more inclusive for people with visual and cognitive disabilities, the company said Wednesday. The updates aim to make alternative text easier to add and access, and to improve general text legibility. First, TikTok is testing a feature that uses AI to generate alternative text. Alt text is an image descriptor that can help blind or low-vision people who use a screen reader to better understand what's being shown in a photo.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-10 12:00:00
TikTok announced on Wednesday that it’s expanding its suite of accessibility tools by rolling out AI-generated ALT text for photos, a high-contrast mode, and support for device-level bold text preferences. TikTok introduced support for ALT text for photos a few weeks ago, allowing creators to provide descriptive text for photos to help users with screen readers understand the visual content through spoken descriptions. Now, the company is testing AI-generated ALT text to automatically describe
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-10 16:25:00
Kerry Wan/ZDNET If today's news is any hint of things to come, Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference 2025 should be packed with notable announcements. In advance of Global Accessibility Awareness Day on May 16 and three weeks ahead of WWDC 2025, Apple is previewing more than a dozen accessibility features across its product line that will be available in iOS 19. And these are significant upgrades, from a Magnifier for the Mac to Accessibility Nutrition Labels in the App Store. Magnifier for
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-12 08:15:00
Kerry Wan/ZDNET If today's news is any hint of things to come, Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference 2025 should be packed with notable announcements. In advance of Global Accessibility Awareness Day on May 16 and three weeks ahead of WWDC 2025, Apple is previewing more than a dozen accessibility features across its product line that will be available in iOS 19. And these are significant upgrades, from a Magnifier for the Mac to Accessibility Nutrition Labels in the App Store. Magnifier for
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-12 23:52:10
Apple is making progress on a standard for brain implant devices that can help people with disabilities control devices such as iPhones with their thoughts. As reported in The Wall Street Journal, Apple has plans to release that standard to other developers later this year. The company is partnered with Synchron, which has been working with other companies including Amazon, on ways to make devices more accessible. Synchron makes an implant called a Stentrode that is implanted in a vein on the b
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-13 04:15:50
is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Apple has revealed a new reading mode “designed to make text easier to read for users with a wide range of disabilities, such as dyslexia or low vision,” the company announced on Tuesday. The feature, called Accessibility Reader, is coming later this year and will allow users to customize a text’s font, color, and spacing in any app on the iPhone, i
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-13 04:54:01
In Brief Apple on Tuesday announced a range of accessibility features coming to its devices later this year. New Accessibility Nutrition Labels will provide more detailed information for apps and games on the App Store, while a new Braille Access tool will turn the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro into a braille note taker. Additional enhancements include Accessibility Reader, a system-wide reading mode designed with accessibility in mind; a new Apple TV accessibility app, Assistive Ac
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-13 08:00:20
Each year, on the same week as Global Accessibility Awareness Day, the accessibility team at Apple shares a slew of upcoming assistive features ahead of their public release. This time around, the company has a huge number of updates as it commemorates "40 years of accessibility innovation at Apple," according to a press release. This year's group of enhancements covers all its platforms and a variety of types of disabilities, and one of them is a new initiative that should make more apps more i
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-13 08:00:54
This Thursday is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), and as has been its custom for the last few years, Apple's accessibility team is taking this time to share some new assistive features that will be coming to its ecosystem of products. In addition to bringing "Accessibility Nutrition Labels" to the App Store, it's announcing the new Magnifier for Mac, an Accessibility Reader, enhanced Braille Access as well as a veritable cornucopia of other updates to existing tools. According to the
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-13 08:00:11
Apple on Tuesday shared a handful of accessibility updates coming to its range of products, which are designed to help with everything from reading text to following real-time captions to reducing motion sickness. The announcement comes ahead of Global Accessibility Awareness Day on May 15, with the features slated for release later this year. The tech giant is gearing up for its annual Worldwide Developers Conference on June 9, during which it's expected to share software updates across its pl
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-13 18:00:00
Ahead of WWDC kicking off in June, Apple today has officially unveiled this year’s new accessibility features for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple Vision Pro. The year’s features come as Apple celebrates 40 years of accessibility innovation, with the company originally starting its office of disability in 1985. “At Apple, accessibility is part of our DNA,” Apple CEO Tim Cook said. “Making technology for everyone is a priority for all of us, and we’re proud of the innovations we’re shar
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-19 19:20:00
The video game community is huge — and thus inescapably, splendidly diverse. That diversity should be a call to action for the game industry, to deliver characters and stories that reflect the global player community, which includes the players counted among 61 million Americans living with a mobility, cognition, hearing or vision disability. It means tapping into a huge audience that is ready, willing and able to hand out their money, time and enthusiasm to studios that offer them accessibilit
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-16 12:00:00
Art by Michael Zhang Apple has a strong culture of secrecy, so when it shares details about its behind-the-scenes projects and processes, it’s a special treat. Today the Twenty Thousand Hertz podcast has published one such treat. The latest episode features Apple staffers going in-depth on the company’s Accessibility and Health work, including AI and research developments that have powered recent features for AirPods Pro, Apple Watch, and more. Deep dive podcast features new Apple interviews o
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-05 15:13:35
Console makers and game developers like Microsoft, Nintendo and Electronic Arts have created a new initiative, managed by the Entertainment Software Association (ESA), that aims to make it easier to know what accessibility features games have. The new Accessible Games Initiative has defined a set of 24 accessibility tags that will appear in participating game storefronts and product pages so players can know what features a game has before they buy it. The tags have easy to understand definitio
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-05 23:15:00
is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Five major video game companies, including Nintendo of America and Microsoft, are joining a major new “cross-industry effort” managed by the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) to share clearer information about the accessibility features in their games. As part of the “Accessible Games Initiative,” the five “founding members” — Electronic Arts, Google, Microsoft, Ninten
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-16 12:30:00
Good Trouble unveiled AbleToPlay an accessibility-first games discovery platform. It will launch March 10 to help gamers with disabilities find accessible games. With the world’s-first Personalized Score system, AbleToPlay empowers gamers with disabilities and their families to instantly find games that fit their accessibility needs. Backed by the World Institute on Disability, AbleToPlay is pioneering innovative ways to find new favorite games no matter your needs, and it is available for sign
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