{"id":15143,"date":"2016-07-11T10:54:44","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T14:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=15143"},"modified":"2016-07-11T10:54:44","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T14:54:44","slug":"apple-and-the-blind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/11\/apple-and-the-blind\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple and the Blind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/07\/10\/apple-innovation-blind-engineer\/\">Katie Dupree<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2016\/07\/10\/apple-accessibility\">John Gruber<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/07\/10\/apple-innovation-blind-engineer\/\"><p>The company, for example, made the first touchscreen device accessible to the blind via VoiceOver. Recent announcements of Siri coming to Mac this fall, and of newer innovations, like a magnifying glass feature for low-vision users, have continued the promise of improving the Apple experience for those who are blind and low vision.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>The most recent example of community-driven innovation can be found on the Apple Watch. During a meeting, Herrlinger explains, a person who sees could easily peer down at their watch to keep an eye on the clock. A person who is blind, however, hasn&rsquo;t had a way to tell time without VoiceOver.<\/p><p>After confronting the conundrum, Apple solved the issue by making a feature that tells time through vibrations. The addition, Herrlinger says, is coming to watchOS 3 this fall.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>For Castor, Braille is crucial to her innovative work at Apple &mdash; and she insists tech is complementary to Braille, not a replacement.<\/p><p>&ldquo;I use a Braille display every time I write a piece of code,&rdquo; she says. &ldquo;Braille allows me to know what the code feels like.&rdquo;<\/p><p>In coding, she uses a combination of Nemeth Braille &mdash; or &ldquo;math Braille&rdquo; &mdash; and Alphabetic Braille. Castor even says that with the heavy presence of tech in her life, she still prefers to read meeting agendas in Braille.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katie Dupree (via John Gruber): The company, for example, made the first touchscreen device accessible to the blind via VoiceOver. Recent announcements of Siri coming to Mac this fall, and of newer innovations, like a magnifying glass feature for low-vision users, have continued the promise of improving the Apple experience for those who are blind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[930,992,31,1137,145,71],"class_list":["post-15143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-accessibility","tag-apple-watch","tag-ios","tag-ios-9","tag-ipad","tag-programming"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15144,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15143\/revisions\/15144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}