AccessWorld #34 -- Happy GAAD and Battling Isolation

Apple had some major, uh, sort of announcements to announce around their, uh, O- O- you know, AI intelligence, Apple Intelligence.And things are doing voiceover, and for mobility, and like eye gaze, and uses of the Vision Pro that I thought were just wicked amazing in terms of leveraging technology.

Uh, were, were you keyed into that at all? Did you see any of the voiceover stuff?

I saw...

Yeah, I saw the video you mentioned where the person's using the live recognition through voiceover, and you can...

It, like, reads out text messages, and it also will tell you where, like, where things are, and like, uh, kind of the way you were talking to Claude, but, like, it's, uh, describing things to you, and it was really, really snappy.

I'm not sure if that's just for the video and, like, how that was edited, but, um, it looked very seamless b- both, uh, using the...

Like, it seemed like it was seamless in, like, using voiceover to navigate the phone, and then also getting that instant feedback.

Um-

Yeah.

Yeah.

I, I, I'm excited.

I, I teared up during the video a little, just to think that we're at this point.

And I, I think it's...

Um, you know, these updates will come later in the year.

Uh, Apple will have some major announcements, it sounds like, in the fall.

Uh, one I heard, uh, some leaks on the internet that I'm excited about, but we won't...

We don't, we don't wanna, we don't wanna-

We don't wanna [laughs]

... promote false information at the time.

Yeah, just in case.

But one thing was so cool in hardware, I'm like, "Oh, man." Um, but, but if, if these things come true, and where, where Apple Intelligence is going, and with voiceover and the accessibility team in Apple, it really is...

You know, it's like I, I, I've thought for years, and I realized this, like, when I started really jumping in the blindness space 15 years ago now, um, that we had, you know, it was everything was making the device accessible, right? How can we make this phone just talk to me if I want-

Talk in the first place, yeah.

Android Jelly Bean, or the OS, or, you know, early days of Apple iOS.

You know what they...