here are a number of iOS accessibility-related excerpts from last Thursday’s
Top Tech Tidbits, the newsletter produced and presented each week by Dean
Martineau in conjunction with Flying Blind, LLC, an affiliate and member of
The Paciello Group in the USA.
1) Ten Year Anniversary of Accessible iPhone
The main news from this week isn't news, but a recognition of the ten-year
anniversary of the revolutionary implementation of VoiceOver on the iPhone
3GS, making the device accessible. Listen to, or read a transcript, of a
thorough documentary by Shelly Brisbin:
http://www.36seconds.org/
2) Tech Doctor Commemoration
Here's a Tech Doctor podcast for the occasion:
https://www.dr-carter.com/
3) Demo of the First Accessible iPhone (MP3)
This is David Woodbridge's iPhone 3GS demo from nearly ten years ago:
https://s134.podbean.com/pb/6d92b6672bc417cad97f959f883fdb1d/5d0a6a17/data2/fs54/339150/uploads/001_orientation_to_the_iPhone_with_VoiceOver.mp3?pbss=376975a9-9c46-5e2b-91d0-a79202f51efc
4) New Accessibility Features Coming to iOS13
Here is a list of the VoiceOver-related changes seen in Developer Beta 1,
which we should all see in September:
https://www.reddit.com/r/iOSBeta/comments/c1cztq/feature_everything_new_with_voiceover_in_ios_13/
5) iOS 13 Shortcut Complexity
There will be a lot of power in Siri Shortcuts in iOS13, but how to make use
of it? This video may create more questions than it answers, but it's a
start:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAfVC3g4OTI
...
12) Voice OCR app for iOS
Development is resuming on the $4.95 Voice app, which can read handwriting
and print with voice or touch commands:
https://www.applevis.com/forum/ios-ios-app-discussion/ocr-app-voice-another-update-version-41
