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iPhone Magnifier and Voice over

Kristy Viers · tutorial · Watch on YouTube

UX & UI designConsumer devices & gadgets

What it is

Kristy Viers demonstrates the iPhone Magnifier combined with VoiceOver to describe the user's surroundings. She shows how the built-in feature reports scenes, faces and lighting.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN recommends it to show what on-device accessibility features can do and how blind users actually use an iPhone.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2021, last 2022

What HN commenters said

  1. “I found this demonstration of camera-to-speech in the iPhone pretty awesome”

    Demo of camera-to-speech on iPhone, deepening accessibility empathy.

    macNchz, 2021-09 · Strong recommendation · in “A different kind of keyboard”

  2. “The YouTube channel by Kristy Viers has been helpful in understanding how they use an iPhone and other devices.”

    VoiceOver in the Camera app, from a helpful channel.

    mimischi, 2021-05 · Recommendation · in “Apple Support: How to hear image descriptions in the Camera app”

  3. “she uses the ‘magnifier’ app to tell her what is there around her”

    Blind woman demonstrates the magnifier app describing surroundings.

    aasasd, 2022-08 · Recommendation · in “What’s the strangest thing you ever found in a book?”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: voiceover, iphone magnifier, blind users, accessibility, ios

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