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Accessibility features in iOS

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Accessibility features in iOS

- [Narrator] As I mentioned in the last video, Apple identifies four main classes of ability. Vision, hearing, motor, and learning. I'd like to walk through each area now, and talk about the ways iOS helps create a more accessible experience for all users. For users with partial vision loss, iOS provides a group of settings referred to as visual accommodations. These are preferences a user can set to tell the system how to provide a more comfortable experience. Users can set their preferred reading size, request bolder fonts and darker colors, and even ask the system to reduce the amount of motion used in animations and transitions. It's important to understand that these are only preferences. It's up to us as developers to respect these preferences and adjust our apps accordingly. We'll be learning how to do that in a later video. Users with total vision loss can use VoiceOver, a powerful feature built into iOS that helps someone use their device without being able to see the screen.…

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