Since Apple uses Gemini to power its AI, are those features actually powered by Google Gemini?

Most apps have terrible accessibility labels because developer don't bother, which breaks every screen reader pipeline downstream. The Voice Control "say what you see" feature routes around that by letting users describe a button in plain language. That's a real fix for a problem caused by humans being lazy about ally.

this is such a great use case for the technology

Can Apple “unveil” Touch ID as a “new” accessibility feature because Face ID is an accessibility nightmare?

I feel that if we build the UI for blind users first, we would get much more powerful systems, rather than building UI for the seeing users and then slapping a CV to text model of what's shown on the screens.

Did not test it yet, but blind users may be more prone to dominate Command Line Interfaces, which are becoming increasingly popular due to its easy integration with LLM

Her phone in the thumbnail has oval camera bumps. It is also extra long. Mine has round camera bumps. Is that a new iphone?

Kudos to apple for providing some of the best accessibility features across their devices. I’ve always appreciated the consistency of reduce transparency, increased contrast, reduced motion, reduced white point, touch areas, color blindness support. And they work well across third party apps. That demands a lot of effort on the API and UI framework to have broad support for something that is mostly a non-sellable feature.

And this is why androidlets will never win. They’re too busy selling your data to ever think of disabled people or usability.

iOS is just painfully good. I can pause a video, put my finger on text inside the video, and copy it. Until they added it, I didn’t even know how much I needed that.

Now we know why the new AirPods will have cameras!

I'm super glad that they're doing this, but once again unexcited for another decade of Apple self-privileging on this stuff so they're the only ones allowed to touch or improve any of this surface, or UX outside an app's tiny box.

People talk a lot about how MacOS has gone downhill but I feel like it would have been a good start if developers could continue to patch over Apple's shortcomings like they used to be able to.

I imagine that we would be a few years into a spectrum of tools like this if they didn't lock it down like they do.

Totally aware that plenty of HN commenters are very glad that Apple keeps this locked down. I'm just the other opinion, that's all.