https://news.umich.edu/new-apps-for-visually-impaired-users-provide-virtual-labels-for-controls-and-a-way-to-explore-images/ New apps for visually impaired users provide virtual labels for controls and a way to explore images With VizLens, users can touch buttons while their phones read out the labels, and Image Explorer provides a workaround for bad or missing alt text  VizLens uses a smartphone’s camera to view control interfaces, such asContinue reading “New apps for visually impaired users provide virtual labels for controls and a way to explore images”
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11+ Secret iPhone Codes You Need to Try Type USSD codes on your iPhone to access hidden cellular features quickly. Here, we’ll list some of the most useful ones. The dialer on your iPhone is much more than just a place to enter phone numbers and place a call. You can use it to enterContinue reading
How Screen-Reader Users Type on and Control Mobile Devices
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/screen-reader-type-control/? How Screen-Reader Users Type on and Control Mobile Devices “I can do everything you do as a sighted person, but it takes me a little bit longer and it takes me an alternative way of finding it and getting to it. […] The biggest thing we try to help blind people understand is [that]Continue reading “How Screen-Reader Users Type on and Control Mobile Devices”
25 Smartphone Accessibility Settings You Need to Know About These accessibility settings will change the way you use your phone, whether you have a disability or simply want to make your life easier. We rely on our smartphones for just about everything, but most of us know only a fraction of what they can do.Continue reading
DoorDash charges iPhone users more than Android users, lawsuit alleges DoorDash charges iPhone users more than it charges Android users, at least according to a class-action lawsuit filed against the company. In the lawsuit, customers allege that DoorDash uses vague fees “delivery charges” fees as a way to mask the higher prices being paid byContinue reading
How for blind people, the iPhone significantly changed the world of cell phones even more than for the sighted
Source page In 1990 I had a conversation with my friend Aaron Levinthal about phones and we thought it would be cool if we could just take our phone put it on our belts and go out into public. Neither of us had seen a cell phone at that point yet. On a college trip the assistantContinue reading “How for blind people, the iPhone significantly changed the world of cell phones even more than for the sighted”
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