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Apple’s accessibility features add more AI-powered processing

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Richard Lawler is a senior editor following news across tech, culture, policy, and entertainment. He joined The Verge in 2021 after several years covering news at Engadget.

Apple’s annual update about accessibility features on its platforms has new additions for the iPhone, Mac, and especially Vision Pro, with a focus on how on-device AI processing is being used in features like VoiceOver, Magnifier, Voice Control, and Accessibility Reader.

One addition that jumped out to me is the ability to use on-device speech recognition for uncaptioned videos, which will be available on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, and Apple Vision Pro.

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Other changes coming later this year will use AI to add more details to VoiceOver’s Image Explorer in descriptions of images (with a warning that they should not be relied on in any number of risky or potentially dangerous situations), and the ability to ask questions about what...

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