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"Assistive Access distills experiences across the Camera, Photos, Music, Calls, and Messages apps on iPhone to their essential features in order to lighten thei

"Assistive Access distills experiences across the Camera, Photos, Music, Calls, and Messages apps on iPhone to their essential features in order to lighten their cognitive load for users." I might use this myself even though I'm not disabled.

xattt 3y ago
> I might use this myself even though I'm not disabled. Also see curb cuts (1) (1) https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/curb-cuts/ https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/curb-cuts/
- teddyh 3y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Curb_cut_effect&oldid=1151107972 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Curb_cut_effect&o...
sparsevector 3y ago
Agreed. Presenting this feature solely as a tool for users with cognitive disabilities might undersell its potential. There's a significant number of smartphone users who only utilize a small fraction of the available features and would prefer a simpler interface focusing on the 10% of features they actually use. Interestingly, this demographic includes both less tech-literate users, who might feel overwhelmed by the complexity, and extremely tech-literate users who know exactly what they need and prefer clean, distraction-free tools.
- Corrado 3y ago
  My 84 year old mother does remarkably well with her suite of Apple products. However, it would be nice to simplify some things. She only calls or chats with a limited number of people. Reworking the phone and messenger apps to use large pictures of the people would be a benefit. Something similar for the camera / photos app would be great as well.
  - dfinninger 3y ago
    You can pin messages in iMessage, which turns it into a big photo. Also when you hit the search button in Photos it’ll show you big images of people’s faces if you want to see photos of a particular person (if you’ve trained your phone on those faces). I do wish the “favorites” view in the phone app made the headshots big like iMessage, though.
KyeRussell 3y ago
Time to rethink your understanding of disability.
pimlottc 3y ago
Not all disabilities are permanent! Sometimes you're just situationally disabled, i.e. you're in the car, or carrying a child, or sleep-deprived, or just stressed out. Accessibility features can help everyone.
matwood 3y ago
Accessibility is for everyone.

xattt 3y ago

> I might use this myself even though I'm not disabled. Also see curb cuts (1) (1) https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/curb-cuts/ https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/curb-cuts/

teddyh 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Curb_cut_effect&oldid=1151107972 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Curb_cut_effect&o...

sparsevector 3y ago

Agreed. Presenting this feature solely as a tool for users with cognitive disabilities might undersell its potential. There's a significant number of smartphone users who only utilize a small fraction of the available features and would prefer a simpler interface focusing on the 10% of features they actually use. Interestingly, this demographic includes both less tech-literate users, who might feel overwhelmed by the complexity, and extremely tech-literate users who know exactly what they need and prefer clean, distraction-free tools.

Corrado 3y ago
My 84 year old mother does remarkably well with her suite of Apple products. However, it would be nice to simplify some things. She only calls or chats with a limited number of people. Reworking the phone and messenger apps to use large pictures of the people would be a benefit. Something similar for the camera / photos app would be great as well.
- dfinninger 3y ago
  You can pin messages in iMessage, which turns it into a big photo. Also when you hit the search button in Photos it’ll show you big images of people’s faces if you want to see photos of a particular person (if you’ve trained your phone on those faces). I do wish the “favorites” view in the phone app made the headshots big like iMessage, though.

KyeRussell 3y ago

Time to rethink your understanding of disability.

pimlottc 3y ago

Not all disabilities are permanent! Sometimes you're just situationally disabled, i.e. you're in the car, or carrying a child, or sleep-deprived, or just stressed out. Accessibility features can help everyone.

matwood 3y ago

Accessibility is for everyone.