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Several early adopters at our firm have or know folks affected by this, would be happy to TestFlight. Most are on current iPhones or Watch, specifically for th

Several early adopters at our firm have or know folks affected by this, would be happy to TestFlight. Most are on current iPhones or Watch, specifically for the relevant sensors. Speaking of accessibility, Apple's “Assistive Access” mode that makes the phone into big buttons removes the answer for "What is today?" from the home screen, which makes no sense. Do you know any way to get that back, or are you connected to anyone at Apple that can correct this weird oversight? (Before anyone asks, no, the calendar icon isn't live in this mode like it is normally, and shows the wrong day date instead, which is even worse.) It's also weird the blue (NEW) badge on app icons isn't tappable, only the middle of the icon is tappable. It's as though Apple never watched anyone with cognitive challenges use this mode. To others who may be interested, Assistive Access makes the phone safe for users without memory or judgment. For example, the device can be set to disallow send/reply unless recipient is in an allow list. More: https://support.apple.com/guide/assistive-access-iphone/welcome/ios https://support.apple.com/guide/assistive-access-iphone/welc...

jph 2y ago
Thank you, I'll email you. Apple's Assistive Access is a good step in the right direction IMHO. Yet as you describe there's a very strange mismatch between the software and actual users. Disability researchers who are advising me are 100% that accessibility software and hardware really must be be tried much more thoroughly with real world users in real world settings. And the researchers feel strongly that there's no one size fits all. The best approach (currently) that they want is a kit of open source pieces that the researchers can combine and also can tune, to try many more hypotheses quickly. It's a great area for FLOSS.

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Several early adopters at our firm have or know folks affected by this, would be happy to TestFlight. Most are on current iPhones or Watch, specifically for th

by Terretta 2y ago

jph 2y ago
Thank you, I'll email you. Apple's Assistive Access is a good step in the right direction IMHO. Yet as you describe there's a very strange mismatch between the software and actual users. Disability researchers who are advising me are 100% that accessibility software and hardware really must be be tried much more thoroughly with real world users in real world settings. And the researchers feel strongly that there's no one size fits all. The best approach (currently) that they want is a kit of open source pieces that the researchers can combine and also can tune, to try many more hypotheses quickly. It's a great area for FLOSS.