{"id":32499,"date":"2021-05-18T15:31:09","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T19:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=32499"},"modified":"2021-05-25T16:03:57","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T20:03:57","slug":"voiceover-image-descriptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/18\/voiceover-image-descriptions\/","title":{"rendered":"VoiceOver Image Descriptions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apple<\/a> (via Hacker News<\/a>, Dave Mark<\/a>):<\/p>\n

With VoiceOver and Image Descriptions turned on, you can hear a description of what you’re taking pictures of in the Camera app.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is pretty impressive, with much more detailed descriptions than seem to be available to the Photos app. It also works with images in apps.<\/p>\n

You can turn off VoiceOver with Siri or by triple-tapping the side button.<\/p>\n\n

Update (2021-05-25): Mattt Thompson<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n

Happy Global Accessibility Awareness Day! #GAAD<\/p>\n

To celebrate, I’d like to share my favorite a11y easter egg in iOS: the delightfully baroque VoiceOver descriptions provided for built-in wallpapers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Apple (via Hacker News, Dave Mark): With VoiceOver and Image Descriptions turned on, you can hear a description of what you’re taking pictures of in the Camera app. This is pretty impressive, with much more detailed descriptions than seem to be available to the Photos app. It also works with images in apps. You can […]<\/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":"2021-05-18T19:31:13Z","apple_news_api_id":"f087f32b-5d77-4d44-995f-e50714ef0d1d","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-05-25T20:04:00Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A8IfzK113TUSZX-UHFO8NHQ","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":[930,1351,152,31,1837,626],"class_list":["post-32499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-accessibility","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-camera","tag-ios","tag-ios-14","tag-wallpaper"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32499","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=32499"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32621,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32499\/revisions\/32621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}