All Apple functions for people with vision problems

Today we are going to see all the functions that the iPhone and the rest of the brand products have, so that if you know someone who needs something like that, you can recommend it, or, in case in the future, unfortunately, it happens to us, that we know what we have available thanks to Apple.

Voiceover

Possibly the most famous, powerful and useful tool of Apple. It is an integrated screen reader on all Apple devices (iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and Apple TV) which provides the necessary information for people who cannot visualize the screen, explaining, at every moment, the place of the menu where they are, as well as by reading them messages, notifications and any text that they cannot see.

On iPhone or iPad, it is used with tactile gestures. For example, slide your finger to move on the screen and Voiceover is reading each element. In Mac, it works with the keyboard or trackpad.

One of the biggest advantages of this tool, is that you are available since you turn on the phone for the first time, without having to install anything or wait to be on the main screen, which is very useful for the blind, who can configure everything without help from another person.

How to activate it?

• Tell Siri to activate or deactivate the Voiceover function.
• Press the side button three times (on an iPhone with Face ID).
• Press the start button three times (on an iPhone with start button).
• Use the control center. To do this, go to Configuration> Accessibility> Voiceover and active or deactivate the option.

Zoom (magnifying glass)

Zoom is a tool that is integrated in iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch, and functions as a digital magnifying glass. It serves to expand any part of the screen, something very useful for people with low vision. On the iPhone or iPad, it is easily activated with a gesture (for example, playing twice with three fingers) and then you can move the extended part dragging with your fingers. You can also adjust how much you want the image to be enlarged, according to what you need.

In Mac, it works with the trackpad or with keyboard shortcuts, and you also have the option of using a kind of “floating magnifying glass”, which expands only part of the screen while the rest look normal. It is a practical way to focus on details without losing sight of the rest of the content.

Colored color and investment filters

For people who have visual sensitivity or some type of daltonism, Apple offers several adjustments. For example, you can invest the colors so that the screen is less bright or apply filters according to the type of daltonism you have. You can also reduce the intensity of whites, something that helps quite if the strong light bothers you. All this is easy to set up from accessibility settings.

• Can Invest colors (Black ↔ Black) to reduce glare.
• Wear Personalized filters for different types of daltonism (red-green, blue-yellow, etc.).
• White to reduce the intensity of the brightest colors.

Bigger and bold text

In Settings> Accessibility> screen and text sizeyou can activate options such as:

• Bigger textadjustable with a sliding bar.
• Bold textto make it easier to distinguish. This applies throughout the system: apps, menus, messages, etc.

Siri assistant

Siri's own virtual assistant allows us to perform many actions quickly without having to read or see the screen content, ideal even in emergency situations without having any disabilities. Among them we are:

• Hey Siri “calls X person with the speaker on.” It will allow us to make a call to a contact without having to look for it or even have the mobile nearby.
• Hey Siri “Where are you.” It is another of the most popular, especially when we do not find the phone, since it will not be necessary for anyone to call us, and the assistant himself will guide us, for his voice, to him.
• Hey Siri “how much is 10 x 10”, “what time does”, etc. Functions that facilitate any task without having to use it physically.

Description of images

Although this tool is included in the Voiceover, we must talk about it individually, and it is very powerful, since it allows:

• Describe images (“a person smiling outdoors”).
• Read text within photos or images (such as posters or signs).
• Identify buttons that are not labeled by the developer.

Thanks to this, and without the help of other apps such as Chatgpt, we can know what they have sent us, in general, or differentiate between a photo of a cat, and another from a car, for example, not to make mistakes when sending something to a person.