hi everyone aaron here for Zollotech and quite a few people have asked me
recently to cover all of the accessibility features within ios 14.
now ios 14 will be released to the public in
late september or maybe october this year based on delays
or maybe it's out by the time you're watching this video but either way
those that have difficulty as far as visual impairments or maybe hearing
impairments quite a few people have actually asked
me to do some sort of video covering the accessibility features of ios 14.
and so whether or not you have an impairment or not these features can be
helpful to you either way if you want to navigate your
device a little bit differently and so let me first go over the new voiceover
accessibility options so in order to access those what we'll
do is we'll go to settings under settings scroll down and go to
accessibility and everything we'll talk about
is under accessibility now the first thing is
voiceover recognition now you can see that we have
voiceover here at the top if i tap on voiceover
we now have voiceover recognition about halfway down
and so voiceover recognition gives us four new options
and the first one is image descriptions if we have image descriptions turned on
it will actually explain what's in the image based off of
ai that the device recognizes it also has
screen recognition so it says your iphone will automatically make apps more
accessible by recognizing items on the screen
we also have text recognition so it recognizes texts and will speak that
back or text and speak it back and then we can select the feedback
style that we want such as play a sound speak or do nothing and so if i go back
and i turn this on it will start speaking everything on the
display so let me turn it on you also have practice but it also gives
you visual cues as to what you're selecting so
whether or not you're hearing impaired or visually impaired
you can use this either way to to better help select what you want
so i'm going to go home will slide up i wait for it to jiggle and give me haptic
feedback and then we'll be on the home screen now
if i turn the volume up you'll hear that it's actually describing everything i'm
doing so i'm going to go through each one of
these things to show you exactly how it works
to scroll with voice recognition turned on or voiceover turned on you use
three fingers so it's a little bit hard to navigate you double tap
on an object to open it or tap on it to understand what it is so let me turn up
the volume so you can hear and then we'll go through some of the
new features doc safari double tap to open
safari address solid edge.com secure and validated connection
double tap to show controls so it's explained to me what's on my website
what website i'm at and whether or not the website is secure
and how i can access controls now what we'll do next is have it recognize
what's in this image right here so take a listen to this
iphone 10s max one year later image a cell phone on a wooden surface e
year so it understood that there's a cell phone on a wooden surface
i didn't tell it that that's not the name of the image or anything just
understood that's what's there we'll slide down or scroll down
and now that we've scrolled down we have some text so let's see if it can
recognize the text i've been using iphone 10s max for an
entire year i share my experience with the iphone xs
max over the past year and talk about its durability
performance cameras and more now that we've heard that it actually can
understand images understand text let's go back
home and see if it can understand what's on
the screen double tap page two of three siri suggestions widget stack
create new direct message swipe siri suggestions
app store wednesday july 29th apple arcade five through page two of
eight and uh page three of eight apple arcade
this week on apple arcade so if you're visually impaired you can see how this
can help you better navigate around an iphone so for
those of you that actually are visually impaired hopefully
this helps out you've got voice over recognition
that now recognizes images texts and screen recognition
as well as gives you audible and visual and also a haptic feedback as
well now i've turned voiceover off so we can
take a look at the next accessibility update and that has to do
with audio or headphone accommodations so again
under accessibility if we scroll down to where we see audio
slash visual under the hearing section tap on that
and then you'll see audio accommodations or headphone accommodations
now specifically you need apple or beats headphones for this to work
so i've got my air pods too here you can use air pods air pods pro
beats headphones but let's go ahead and use this one and then go into headphone
accommodations now under accommodations you'll see that
we have the ability to customize the audio for supported apple and beats
headphones by adjusting the settings below or through custom audio setup
and the settings are things such as balance tone
better settings for vocal range or brightness and then you can adjust
the amount it will be boosted so slight moderate or strong
and then you can apply it with only the phone only the media or both
so let's go ahead and go to custom audio setup
and here you can see you can adjust speech for phone calls
hear more musical detail and dialogue in movies
and then audiogram use an audiogram from health to customize your audio
so we'll go ahead and hit continue and it says before getting started
look for a quiet environment and then connect your headphones to continue
so we'll cancel that for now and if we want to adjust this
maybe we want to change the vocal range so it has a little bit of a different
sound maybe we want it moderate or strong and then we can play a sample if
we want to so you can set this up however you'd
like whatever works best for your hearing ability
and if you're having difficulty hearing voc voice for example
boost the vocal range within different movies or just in your surroundings
so we'll go ahead and turn that off and take a look at the next update now the
next new feature has to do with recognizing sounds or sound
recognition it's under the same heading under
accessibility you'll find it under hearing
and if you go to sound recognition and turn it on what it will do
is alert you when it hears sounds so maybe your hearing impaired
and you want your iphone to recognize when it hears a different sound and let
you know it can now do that with ios 14. so if we go into sounds
you'll see all of the different things that it can recognize
so under alarms we have fire siren and smoke
for animals it will recognize a cat or dog under household it will recognize
appliances a car horn doorbell door knock water
running and then under people it can recognize a
baby crying or shouting and it will recognize that and
then let you know via notification now i actually have do
not disturb turned on so you won't see this if you just
actually leave that on but if you turn that off or look at our notifications
here and i play the sound of a doorbell so we'll play that
the phone will actually recognize it and it pops up a notification saying a sound
has been recognized that may be a doorbell
and so it lets you know that it heard a sound so it will let you know that
visually on your phone and if you have it turned on as far as your
notifications you'll see that pop up on your phone so
it's a really helpful way to let you know that there's something going on if
you're having trouble hearing it now the next function
got a lot of attention when it was first discovered and that's called back tap
back tap allows you to tap the back of your phone to activate a function on
your phone and what you can do with it is set a
double tap or triple tap to activate that feature
now this feature works specifically with the iphone 8
the 8 plus the iphone 10 the iphone 10s the iphone 10s max iphone 11 iphone 11
pro iphone 11 pro max and the 2020 iphone se
at least at the time of this video whether or not they bring that to older
phones by the time you're watching this is hard to say but that is what is
currently supported at the time of this video
now in order to take a look at these settings what you want to do is go again
into accessibility go to physical and motor and then tap on
touch scroll all the way to the bottom and
you'll see back tab go ahead and tap on that and if you turn
it on you'll have different options so currently you'll see that i have
flashlight on and flashlight off depending on the function
so if i flip my phone over tap the back twice
it runs a function and turns on the flashlight
tap it three times it turns it back off i created a shortcut to do that
but you can tap on this and select different system functions anything from
the app switcher to shaking the phone to accessibility or anything else you'd
like to do that you can do within shortcuts
so you have the option to turn that on if you don't want it
simply turn it back off and tap on none and it will turn off those features so
if you don't want back tap on you can have it on or off but it's nice to have
it there as a little way to activate a function
very quickly now the final thing they've updated has
to do with facetime now unfortunately i can't really show this
to you so i'll describe it but if you have a facetime group call
and you use sign language it will actually make the person
speaking using sign language more prominent or it will make them closer to
the screen so you can see them better it works the exact same way as if you
were in a conversation and the person speaking is enlarged
within that window it does the same thing now with sign
language so it actually recognizes that you're using sign language
and makes that person more prominent so it's a great feature to have
and apple is always adding great accessibility functions but this year
those are what they've added to ios 14. now if you're using accessibility
functions regularly to navigate your phone i'd love to hear from you if
there's any other videos you'd like to see
or anything else you'd like to learn how to do so let me know in the comments
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