Coming soon to a phone near you: A new wave of accessibility tools
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Help Desk: Technology coverage that makes tech work for you Google was up first, showcasing this month accessibility updates that will be folded into some of the support apps the company maintains. Apple followed suit with a bevy of accessibility feature announcements, too, which are widely expected to appear in the new iOS 16 software update due later this year. You might think that a wearable like the Apple Watch would have to be poked and prodded to operate it, but thats actually not true — you can actually interact with one by clenching your hands and making pinching motions with your fingers. But even those gestures aren’t manageable by some of Apple’s users, so the company built a feature that mirrors the action on the Watch’s tiny screen onto a connected iPhone. Deaf users and the hard of hearing have been able to use their iPhones and Android devices to receive visual alerts when they detect certain sounds — think breaking glass, crying babies or fire alarms.
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