One of the greatest qualities of Apple has been its user-friendly interface; it does not matter whether you are a beginner or have been using devices for a long time. Here’s some exciting news for those who rely on accessibility features: Apple is in the process of developing a few awesome widgets that will be worth the iOS 18 and macOS 15 (code-named Glow and Crystal).
Speak Your Commands: Being familiar with adaptive voice shortcuts will enhance your overall listening experience.
With your VoiceOver becoming available just by saying your phrase and with no need to zoom in, “Just picture this”. That is however their power of Adaptive voice Shortcuts. This new feature will help you to assign a speech command that represents a particular instruction of accessibility. If you need to use the Voice Control, here it is. With your words, you can make someone’s day better, and they will be happy that you gave it a try.
Organize the Living Activity by Categories
With speech-to-text transcription, a feature that is getting better, and support for multiple languages adding to its strength, everybody’s Live Speech is improving! On iOS 18 and macOS 15, you will be able to select the options for creating the Live Speech transcripts for you to pick out what you want. It then becomes small because you can gather phrases by topic, thus you can quickly find the information anytime. Visualize it as a digital replacement for old-school note-taking with those speech-to-text files categorized into digital folders. As a language teacher, one of the challenges I face regularly is the need to constantly adapt my teaching techniques to be more engaging and effective for my students.
Bigger is Better: Apps Might Be Designed In Such A Way That Font Sizes Will Be User Adjustable.
The readiness of Apple is to empower font size for more comfortable reading though it’s adding the option. At present, there are few built-in applications where font sizes can be adjusted on the macOS operating system. As opposed to this, in MacApple 15 the “Continue in” option will become accessible across books, news, weather, and other apps.
Oddly though, it’s even rumored that Apple may add an option to adjust the Display’s font size of menu bar, but who knows if it is true.
The Future of Accessibility: Artificial Intelligence plays an important role in on-device eye tracking.
Apple exerted itself in that area as well. Hearsays says they are developing an accessibility app that possesses on-device eye-tracking so as to track the position of the eyes. Although the specifics are not clear, it might allow us to deal with our Apple devices more freely with an amazing new way to interact with them.
These are just some of the exciting accessibility features in the pipeline for iOS 18 and macOS 15. With WWDC 2024 approaching, we can expect to learn more about these and potentially even more innovations coming our way.
