Microsoft and IBM have adapted their technology to make it accessible for people with visual disabilities. The positive reason for doing this is to respond to the visual problems suffered by an aging population. The negative reason is the fear of falling foul of the disabilities lobby who will nail them using accessibility legislation and “naming and shaming” tactics.
This week at the Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference in Los Angeles, Apple will launch a "Spoken Interface". This will vocalise and make audible everything that visually happens on a desktop, just like screen-reading software.
Whatever the motivations it is good news for older consumers, dreading transferring from their dearly loved Macs to Windows.
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