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Dynamic Type

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- [Instructor] As we've seen in previous videos iOS ships with powerful assisted technologies, like voiceover and switch control that enable users with severe disabilities to use their phone. From the developer's perspective supporting these technologies requires us to think about semantic accessibility. Supporting semantic accessibility will be the focus of the next chapter. In this chapter we're going to focus on visual accommodations, settings that users with low vision or certain sensitivities can configure in the Settings app to improve their experience while using the apps they love. An extremely important setting we can support as developers is dynamic text, a feature that allows a user to adjust their preferred reading size. Adjustments can be made by going to the Settings app and going to General, Accessibility, Larger Text. I'll go ahead and enable Larger Accessibility Sizes and bring this slider all the way up so we can see the dramatic effects in our app. If we head over…

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