According to an article on 9to5Mac,
“ This year’s Web Summit Lisbon kicks off next week, and guests will have the chance to attend a talk by Sarah Herrlinger, Apple’s current global head of accessibility. Unsurprisingly, the presentation will discuss how Apple considers accessibility when building its products.”
Here’s the link:
https://9to5mac.com/2024/11/05/apple-accessibility-web-summit-lisbon-2024/
I am quite interested to see what Apple has to say, and I may attend this conference (if it’s virtual) to see what Apple says.
I highly doubt it, but who knows if we’ll hear anything related to upcoming voiceover improvements or changes, or any other accessibility features.
By Levi Gobin, 5 November, 2024
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Accessibility Advocacy
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Apple
Mostly how wonderful their accessibility is tean is and what apple is doing. Nothing new to report.
Holger
If it’s vertual, you could always join and tell them about your concerns, no? As could anyone here who's unsatisfied with x or y bugs not getting fixed.
This is awesome. Remember…
This is awesome. Remember guys that to put things into prospectives, nintendo completely ignore even the concept of a screen reader while that of ps5 has exactly 0 web browsing support. We have to acknowledge the amount of effort and money put just for a 20% segment of the market with actually no return expected, if not only losses. I am the one to rant every once in awhile about macos and VO for example, but we must acknowledge that as a community. Otherwise we are literally underappreciating developers' incredible niche, hard work put into screen readers which is very possible to create conditions for burnout in worst cases if these efforts are not recognized. The sighted community does not or cannot care enough for the incredible over engineering under the hood of screen readers so we are literally the only positive feedback they can ever hope to get. Plus we have to recognized that compared to a graphic designer for example, a developer working at accessibility in any company or software will never have the same social impact in the public's eyes.
Just food for your thoughts.
At least here in the west we can even use digital devices at all, and fortunately many emerging countries are only starting to follow this example now. Being disabled, and especially blind, is hard enough by itself with lots of social stigma and what not so moaning for everything and anything will not help anyone and just increase the negativity.
Feel free of course to share your opinion.
In any case though, I am not saying that it justifies the terrible implementation of iphone mirroring on macos with voiceover, for example.
Interesting
This should be an interesting experience. Kinda agree with Holger though, sorry if that is upsetting to read, but truth is often upsetting. Side note, I sure hope Nintendo reconsiders accessibility in their next iteration of the Switch, or whatever their next gen system will be.
*Pets Xbox lovingly* 😇