IOS for the visually impaired?

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Kirill Sidorov2013-03-01 10:08:27

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Kirill Sidorov, 2013-03-01 10:08:27

A few years ago, my friend almost completely lost his sight, but since he is an active person in life, he did not give up and continued to run his small businesses and is now still involved in a charitable foundation, which, in turn, is heavily dependent on the Internet. A person has to spend more and more time online, but this is not very convenient for him now, the help of a seeing person is required.
He is increasingly inclined to use Apple technology, as he has heard about their accessibility features for the visually impaired. I plan to let him try my iPad mini.
I would like to ask the habra community, what programs can make his life easier?If Siri worked on our great and mighty, then in conjunction with Voice Over it would be enough for the eyes, I think, but, unfortunately, according to Apple, we were born in the wrong country ...

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madmaxcorp, 2013-03-01
@madmaxcorp

iOS has an "accessibility" section that looks like this:

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In fact, speaking out what's happening on the screen will already help a lot.
Video how a person uses Instagram

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An, 2013-03-01
@Flanker_4

Have a look at these documents
general information
iphone
ipad
Although this is a developer section, it starts with a description of the main features of the platform.
A separate plus is that these features are available in the sdk for third-party developers. True, there is a minus, as a rule, developers score on these features.

I am interested in typing, sending SMS, mail and searching for contacts by voice

When you're typing text, such as an email message or a note, VoiceOver echoes each character on the keyboard as you touch it, and again to confirm when you enter it. You can also have VoiceOver speak each completed word instead of or in addition to individual characters as you type them. A flick up or down while typing moves the insertion point cursor left and right within the text so you can edit a word just as easily and precisely as typing a new word.
Although there are Russian analogues of Siri (I skipped articles on Habré a couple of times, but now I couldn’t find it and I don’t know about the capabilities of these programs), and there is also a Russian “Siri” for jailbreak devices
www.prostomac.com/2012/03/russkaya -siri-vyshla-jailbreak/