How I, as someone who is visually impaired, use my iPhone (2020)
Have been discussing with a visually impaired friend how to rethink Accessibility. Over the last 20 years, I&#x27;ve seen him use Accessibility on Windows and then moving over to the Mac and finally the iPhone. The main problem is that VoiceOver is a speech+touch interface slapped onto a visual+touch interface. So, roughly 1&#x2F;3rd speed. Moreover, 3rd party developers need to label elements, which they rarely do.<p>I remember walking out of an Accessibility meetup at SalesForce waiting for a ride and seeing an attendee struggling with hailing an Uber. She was an experienced user but still struggling with her new iPhone. It had a larger screen, so all her muscle memory was foiled; the buttons had shifted.<p>So, my friend and I are looking into rethinking the interface starting with 1st principles, like Fitt&#x27;s Law. My guess is maybe a 9X improvement for visually impaired and 3X for folks with regular vision. Reserved the name touch.ai for that purpose.