Apple and Accessibility

Apple’s mobile products are opening up new opportunities for people who are customarily denied at least some of the chances many of us take for granted.
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Researchers are using Apple’s mobile products to run electronic speech generation apps; testing these beside sign language and use of images to comminicate.
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It wasn’t so long ago visually-impaired folk were completely locked-out of the technology revolution: now, armed with [an Apple] smartphone they have many more options than before.

Apple, changing the world one accessible product at a time - Computerworld Blogs