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How Apple and Google are highlighting accessibility

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Apple's Assistive Access Updates for iOS and iPadOS

Apple announced assistive access, which changes the interface of the typical like iPhone or iPad layout into something that's simpler for people with maybe cognitive disabilities. It reminds me of those phones catering directly to seniors or elderly people and devices that are built with larger buttons and larger font and that sort of stuff. So if you turn on assistive access,. say on your iPhone, basically you'll get a choice of six bigger buttons that take up the screen - two by three layout.

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