iOS 8 Accessibility wishes

[deborah]

ATMac has been collecting iOS 8 accessibility wishes. Here are mine, focused on mobility limitations:

• A single tap for a page down / move down one full screen, and page up / move up one full screen, which works in all apps that follow a base iOS standard
• Hey, how about a base iOS standard widget / gesture set, which apps are encouraged to follow for consistent usability, just like on a desktop machine!
• Tap to go to the bottom of the screen, like we currently have tap to go to the top
• Improvements to Assistive Touch favorites, starting with better documentation; ability to reorganize favorites; more favorites; more consistent favorite functionality; and easier movement between Assistive Touch favorites and the rest of the UI. I would love a favorites bar dock I could place on the screen.
• A more functional way to use Assistive Touch with VoiceOver, maybe with a bank of predefined taps for the base VoiceOver gestures
• Integration with alternative keyboards -- if I could only use Flesky as my default keyboard!
• More comprehensive Siri or VR integration, especially more command-and-control
• At least some minimal VR in the absence of network, just a little command-and-control

Also, I keep hearing about the great accessibility features that would be available to me if I were to jailbreak my phone. I'm not going to, but why should I need to jailbreak the phone to be able to run f.lux to dim the screen with the time of day, or the ability to move mutiple icons at a time, or tie gestures to app activation, or half the stuff I mentioned above regarding a richer family of gestures. If jailbreakers can do it, Apple can do it, and I hardly see how having a "jump to bottom of screen" would be a security or stability hole.

Comments

[geekosaur]

If jailbreakers can do it, Apple can do it, and I hardly see how having a "jump to bottom of screen" would be a security or stability hole.

There are a lot of things Apple could do but won't because their UI designers have blind spots and on top of it have the architect "don't harsh My Great Vision" thing going on. For me, the "killer app" for jailbreaking (and which I no longer have to worry about because Android's got it built in) was quick access to settings via the "menubar".