All Articles Tagged Visually Impaired

Julie Jacobson | 07/20 04:54 AM, 0 Comments

Touchscreen-based controllers can be challenging for the visually impaired. No hard buttons? How do they know what they’re pressing? Built into newer iPhones, the iPad and Mac OS X computers is a feature called VoiceOver, which makes it relatively easy to navigate through menus without seeing them. Apple has adjusted the touchscreen (and mouse) gestures and added voice feedback so users can simply tap the screen once to initiate reading, and tap twice – anywhere on the surface -- to activate the button just recited by the virtual help-mate. Users… View this story