Apple brings admired MACS and introduces a new access reader mode

This Thursday The day of awareness of global accessibility (GAAD), and as usual during the past few years, appleThe access team takes this time to share some new auxiliary features that will reach the environmental product system. In addition to Bring “accessible feeding stickers” to the application storeThe new Machifier of Mac, which is the accessible reader, is declared an improved Braille access in addition to a real abundance of other updates of the existing tools.

According to the company’s press statement, this year is in particular “40 years of creating access to Apple. 20 years have passed since the company’s first reader launch on the screen, and a large amount of this year updates has been designed to help those who suffer from vision impairment.

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One of the most prominent is the arrival of the enlargement on Mac devices. Camera auxiliary feature It was available on iPhone and iPads Since 2016, people allow people to refer their phones to things around them and obtain audio readings of what is in the scene. Machifier can also make things that are difficult to read, by giving you the option to increase brightness, enlargement, add color filters and set perspective.

With Machifier Mac, you can use any USB camera or your iPhone (via continuity camera) for comments about the things around you. In a video clip, Apple explained how a student in a large lecture hall was able to use his iPhone, attached to the highest MacBook device, to create what was written on a long white board. Machifier for Mac also works with Desk View, so you can use it to read the documents in front of you more easily. The windows of the direct session will be multiple, so that you can keep up with a presentation through your webcam while using the office’s offer, for example, read a textbook at the same time.

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Machifier for Mac also works with another Apple tool today – accessible reader. It is “a new reading mode at the system level designed to facilitate text reading for users who have a wide range of disabilities, such as dyslexia or low vision.” The access reader will be available on iPhone, iPads, MacS and Apple Vision Pro, a part of the amplifier that allows you to customize your text, with “wide options for lines, color and spacing”. It can help reduce deviations by eliminating chaos, for example.

The reader also supports access Speeded contentAnd since it is built into the Machifier app, it can be used to make a real text like signs or menus as well as reading as well. You can also run it from any application, because it is available at the operating system level.

Braille arrival

For Braille’s most comfortable people, Apple has supported Braille input for years, and recently started working with Braille screens. This year, the company allows Braille access to iPhone, iPads, MACS and Vision Pros, which is designed to facilitate notes in Braille. It will come with a custom applic launch that allows people to “open any application by writing using a Braille screen or a connected Braille device.” Access Braille also enables users to write down notes with Braille format and use the Nemeth icon for mathematics and science accounts. Braille Access can open files in Braille Ready (BRF), so that you can return to your current documents from other devices. Finally, “an integrated form of direct illustrations allows users to copy conversations in the actual time directly on Braille screens.”

Supporting the Brain computer interface (BCI) Support devices with your mind

In a previous version of this story, I noticed the following:

When talking about connected devices, the Apple also adds a new protocol to switch control that enables the support of the BCIs (BCIS). In theory, this means Brainwave -based control in your devices, and recounts Apple iOS, iPados and Visionos as trees on the deck to support this new protocol. Again, it is not certain whether we can go to the point that the Brainwave -based control is coming, and I also asked Apple to obtain more information on this topic.

As it turned out, Wall Street Journal Published Exclusive This morning, it explains in detail how “Apple wants to control the devices with their ideas.” Basically, the company works with Synchron, starting the brain’s computer interface, to bring in a bci -employing entry support to its products. More in our article here: Apple cooperated with Synchron to develop technology that allows people to control its devices with ideas.

Apple Watch gets direct illustrations. Vision Pro gets a direct grade

The conclusion of vision updates is the expansion of accessories in Visionos. The zoom function, for example, is strengthened to allow the victim to enlarge what they see in both virtual reality, as well as the actual reality. This uses Vision Pro cameras to find out what is in your surroundings, and Apple will provide a new application programming interface “The approved applications will enable access to the main camera to provide live and personal assistance for visual interpretation in applications like Bei Eye.” Finally, direct recognition of Voiceover comes in The Vision Pro, using machine learning on the device to determine things in your surroundings and describe them. Flerts or invitations can also be read, for example, and tells you what it is.

For those with hearing loss, the direct listening feature that already on iPhone will be completed by Apple Watch controls, as well as some reward features. When the direct hearing begins on your iPhone, which would flow what its microphone picks up to the connected AirPods or outperforms the headphones or compatible hearing tools, you will soon be able to see the vital illustrations on the associated Apple Watch. You will also get control tools for your wrist, so that you can start a session, stop it or get back. This means that you can stay on the sofa and start direct listening sessions without having to go to the kitchen to capture your iPhone and hear what your partner may say during cooking. Live Lister also works with hearing and hearing health features presented on AirPods Pro 2.

The background sounds, personal sound, vehicle movement signals and eye tracking, get updates

While we are in the sound theme, Apple updates the background sounds feature that can help those tinnitus by playing white noise (or other sound types) to combat symptoms. Later this year, the background sounds will provide automatic time settings to stop after a specific period of time, automatic operating procedures in new EQ shortcuts and option to customize sounds.

Personal voice, which helps those who are at risk of losing their voice in maintaining their vocal identity, also gets a significant improvement. When I tested the feature to write an educational program How to create your personal voice on your iPhoneI was shocked because you asked the user to read 150 phrases. Not only that, the necessary system for leakage overnight to create a personal voice. With the upcoming update, personal sounds can be created in less than a minute, with only 10 phrases. The resulting sound also looks smoother, with the least scraps and artifacts. Apple also adds the Spanish language support to the United States and Mexico.

Last year, Apple presented Track the built -in eye in iPhone and iPadsAs well as vehicle movement signals to relieve car disease. This year, it continues to improve these features by bringing movement signals to MACS, as well as adding new ways to customize points on the screen. Meanwhile, eye tracking gets an option to allow users to populate or use a key to confirm the selections, among other keyboard writing updates.

More via Apple TV, CarPlay and Head Tracking and Letters

The Apple ecosystem is so vast that it is almost impossible to list all changes related to individual access to all products. I will quickly shout the head tracking, which says Apple will enable people to control more easily in iPhone and iPad by moving their heads “similar to eye tracking.” Not a lot has been shared on this topic, though Currently track the head on iPhone and iPads Supported through connected devices. It seems that the idea that it is similar to eye tracking involves integrated support, but we do not know if this is true yet. I have asked Apple to get more information and you will update this piece with what you discovered.

For those who use Apple TVAsSistive Access is to obtain a new dedicated Apple TV app characterized by a “simplified media player”, while Music Haptics will provide the iPhone option to run a Haptics for a full or only singing path, as well as general settings to control the intensity of taps, materials and vibrations.

The audio recognition feature that alerts those deaf or difficult to hear the sounds (such as warnings or children crying) will add names to inform users when summoning them. In particular, the proper recognition of CarPlay will inform users when children determine crying (as well as current support for external noise such as pods and alarm). CarPlay will also get support for the large text, making obtaining inflammatory information easier.

Other updates include greater support for language in direct illustrations and audio control, as well as the ability to share access settings quickly and temporarily via iPad and iPhone so that you can use a friend device without the need to customize it with your needs.

There are a lot of access from Apple access through retail sites, music playing lists, books, podcasts, television, news, fitness+ and application store, most of them are about more representation and insertion. There is not much by the fine version window for most of the new features and updates that you covered here, although it usually appeared in the next version of iOS, iPados, MacOS and Visionos.

We will have to wait for the audience to be offered from iOS 19 and iPados 19 and more to try these things on our own, but for the time being, most of this is very useful. As always, it is good to see companies designed comprehensively and consider a wide range of needs.

Update, 13 May 2025, 12:28 pm East time: This story has been updated to create a new section to enter the brain’s interface and add details from a Wall Street Journal I report the previous indication of this feature to this section.

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