From ‘door detection’ to scanning braille, phone accessibility keeps expanding | TimBiggs
From making sure everyone can read and understand the information being displayed on screens to solutions for specific problems that might keep a person from using live map directions or voice assistants, accessibility has become a major push for all big tech companies.Apple’s, include the ability for iPhones to detect and give information about the location and design of doors, which it had heard was an issue for some users.
The feature, which can determine the distance to the doors, whether they are push or pull, what kind of handle they have and any writing that’s on them, uses the LiDar sensors on recent iPhones and iPads, which was also used for a recent feature giving information about how close people were standing nearby.“Day to day that might be used when I’m standing in the queue at the grocery store, and I need to know if it’s my turn to move up to the teller.
“Speech recognition technology can potentially change people’s lives around the world, but if you have difficulty speaking, then those voice-activated technologies may not always work well,” said Google Australia’s Disability Alliance lead Lucinda Longcroft. And development tools mean solutions can come not only from big tech in collaboration with disability communities, but independent app developers as well.
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