Apple’s new Accessibility Reader can customize text across apps — and in real life

Apple has revealed a caller speechmaking mode “designed to marque substance easier to work for users with a wide scope of disabilities, specified arsenic dyslexia oregon debased vision,” the company announced connected Tuesday. The feature, called Accessibility Reader, is coming aboriginal this twelvemonth and volition let users to customize a text’s font, color, and spacing successful immoderate app connected the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Vision Pro, arsenic good arsenic person it work aloud.

Users tin adjacent usage Accessibility Reader to alteration the quality of substance connected carnal objects, specified arsenic menus oregon books. That’s due to the fact that Apple is gathering the diagnostic into its Magnifier app, which already lets users usage the camera connected their instrumentality to zoom successful connected and observe the objects astir them. With the integration, users should beryllium capable to usage the Magnifer app to modify substance successful the existent world, too.

In summation to iOS and iPadOS, Apple has announced that it’s bringing Magnifier to macOS arsenic well. This volition fto users usage their Mac’s camera — oregon connected devices similar an iPhone oregon webcam — to zoom successful connected surroundings and modify text.

The update is coming arsenic portion of a wider rollout of accessibility tools, which includes “Accessibility Nutrition Labels” that item accessibility features successful apps and games connected the App Store, on with a caller mode for users to instrumentality notes successful Braille.