In the United States, 1990 was a historic year for the social inclusion of people with disabilities. The Americans with Disabilities Act aims to protect them against discrimination in their daily lives. The law also imposes conditions of accessibility in public housing and assistance for entering the labor market.
On the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of this founding text, Apple has chosen to publish on its site a series of portraits of disabled people who benefit from the accessibility features it initiated. Audio description, voice control, keyboard, and hearing aids are among these.
VoiceOver, a great step forward for blind people
There are many of these and one of the speakers is well placed to talk about them. Dean Hudson works at Apple and notably contributed to the development of VoiceOver, a screen reading software intended for people who are blind or severely visually impaired. He gives the history of this innovation which is a game-changer for many people and for himself:
In the late 1970s, my siblings read computer manuals to me and I typed the programs. I was really curious to make things happen on screen. (…) I came to Apple in 2006. When my team started working on VoiceOver for iPhone, there was a lot of exploration around things like what happens when you touch things on your iPhone screen. (…) Several iterations led to Safe Explore, where if you want to activate something on your iPhone, you can double-tap anywhere on the screen. When the iPhone 3G S was released with VoiceOver in 2009, little by little, people really started to get interested in it, and now it's amazing to see blind people and all kinds of people with disabilities using it. the device.
You can find the othersexciting portraitsof these men and women who each in turn demonstrate how technology has made it possible to concretely improve their lives.
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