Amaya Toman In its latest series of how-to videos on YouTube, Apple introduces the Accessibility feature on iPhone and the benefits that come with it. In a total of four new spots, Apple will gradually show AssistiveTouch, VoiceOver, magnifying glass, and color inversion.
The iPhone, like other Apple devices, offers a number of functions facilitating its use by users with various handicaps or health impairments. Thanks to Accessibility, even disabled users can practically use their iPhone or iPad to the full. A series of recent videos on Apple's official YouTube channel show how to use some of these settings.
The first of the videos explains how to use AssistiveTouch. This can be used not only by disabled users, but also by owners of iPhones with a Home Button whose home button has stopped working for any reason. AssistiveTouch creates a virtual button on your iPhone's display, whose functions and reactions you can easily program to your liking.
Another feature that Apple introduces in its videos is the magnifying glass. In iOS, this is not limited to simply enlarging the captured object, but allows the user to take a photo of it or set the colors so that they are as pleasing to their eyes as possible. In the iPhone, you can set the activation of the magnifier by pressing the desktop button three times (for models with the Home Button) or the side button (for newer models).
VoiceOver is a useful feature in which the contents of the iPhone's screen are read aloud to the user. Thanks to VoiceOver, even visually impaired users can almost fully use the iPhone. After VoiceOver is activated, it will read to its owner everything that is happening on the screen of his iOS device, and it can also name the icons or functions that the user is pointing at at that moment.
The last introduced feature, color inversion, is also aimed at visually impaired users. This has several forms in iOS and generally consists of switching to a dark background with content displayed in contrast. The colors of media files such as videos and photos are preserved even when color inversion is activated.
Apple cares a lot about the accessibility of its devices, and the way it tries to accommodate users with special needs is often emphasized in its commercials and at conferences. For example, Apple participates in World Accessibility Day.
Source: AppleInsider
