The accessibility features on the iPhone are constantly improving with each update to the iPhone OS and are quite impressive for what is an all-touch interface.

The accessibility features on the iPhone are constantly improving with each update to the iPhone OS and are quite impressive for what is an all-touch interface. While there are bugs and inaccessible applications, I have talked to and worked with visually impaired folks that love the iPhone as an alternative accessible phone to whatever else they were using before it. Obviously they can't just go and play whatever game or use any app they want, but for many apps the general interface is predictable and fairly simple to navigate and discover. For the author of the above-linked article to claim that Apple's purposefully making voiceover suck to annoy the blind is a bit rich and ill-informed, given Apple's accessibility team want to help, are very helpful if you ever email them about issues (accessibility@apple.com), and could probably address most of those issues as best they can if they were informed of them. A true "fuck you" to the blind would be to not have included voiceover on the iPhone 3GS in the first place.