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Apple adds live captions to iPhone and Mac, plus more accessibility upgrades to come

Apple has released a bevy of new accessibility features for iPhone, Apple Watch and Mac, including a universal live captioning tool, improved visual and auditory detection modes, and iOS access to Wat

Instagram adds TikTok-like Text-to-Speech and Voice Effects tools to Reels

Instagram added two features to Reels yesterday: text-to-speech and voice effects. These features are popular already on TikTok, but now, creators can use them on Instagram too. This marks yet another

The red flag meme is a red flag for accessibility

If you’ve been on Twitter lately, you’ve probably seen the red flag meme that’s going around — you quote a phrase that would be a “red flag” for someone to say to y

AI voice, synthetic speech company LOVO gets $4.5M pre-series A funding

“Voice skins” have become a very popular feature for AI-based voice assistants, to help personalize some of the more anodyne aspects of helpful, yet also kind of bland and robotic, speaking voices

iPhones can now automatically recognize and label buttons and UI features for blind users

Apple has always gone out of its way to build features for users with disabilities, and VoiceOver on iOS is an invaluable tool for anyone with a vision impairment — assuming every element of the int

What Apple’s education announcements mean for accessibility

Steven Aquino Contributor Share on X Steven Aquino is a freelance tech writer and iOS accessibility expert. More posts by this contributor MrBeast’s blindness video puts systemic ableism on disp

Accessibility was all around this year’s WWDC

Accessibility, conceptually, is much more than just the discrete "accessibility options for people with disabilities". At its heart, accessibility is about just that: access. You don't need to have a

Apple’s Holiday Ad Features Andra Day, Stevie Wonder And VoiceOver

Named 'Someday at Christmas,' Apple just shared its holiday video ad ahead of Thanksgiving in the U.S. and the holiday season. Surprisingly, it doesn't showcase Apple's latest and greatest products. I

Appington Raises $1.2M In Seed Funding To Give Voice To The World Of Mobile Apps

Mobile startup Appington today announced its $1.2 million seed funding round, which founder Risto Haukioja says will be used to help the startup better deliver on its goal of making it easy for mobile

Just how does Apple's VoiceOver work?

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/voiceooover.jpg" />Apple is really promoting VoiceOver, a new feature found in the just-announced iPod Shuffle. As you may already know,