As it does every May for Global Accessibility Awareness Day,
Apple has announced a number of new accessibility apps, features, and initiatives. Apple's App Store listings will now include "
Accessibility Nutrition Labels", showing which major accessibility features each app supports. This includes VoiceOver, Voice Control, Larger Text, Sufficient Contrast, Reduced Motion, captions, and more. Apple is also introducing
Braille Access, a Braille "experience" that can be used to take notes, perform calculations, read books, transcribe conversations, and launch other apps.
Accessibility Reader is a new iOS feature "designed to make text easier to read for users with a wide range of disabilities, such as dyslexia or low vision". It gives users "extensive options" for how text is displayed in any app, as well as text in the real world via the Magnifier app and iPhone camera. Apple is also adding many smaller new features across its existing accessibility features, such as
Head Tracking, adding new gestures to control your phone, and
Name Recognition, "a new way for users who are deaf or hard of hearing to know when their name is being called."