Apple announces new accessibility features, including support for brain implants

Apple connected Tuesday announced a scope of accessibility features coming to its devices aboriginal this year.

Accessibility Nutrition Labels volition supply much elaborate accusation for apps and games connected the App Store, portion the caller Braille Access instrumentality volition crook the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro into a braille enactment taker. Additional enhancements see a caller system-wide speechmaking mode designed with accessibility successful mind, Accessibility Reader; a caller Apple TV accessibility app, Assistive Access; shareable accessibility settings; and updates to Live Listen, Background Sounds, Personal Voice, and Vehicle Motion Cues.

The upgrades get arsenic Apple partners with startup Synchron to assistance disabled users navigate its software. The Wall Street Journal reports that the institution is processing a caller protocol, Switch Control, to alteration radical to power their iPhones arsenic good arsenic different devices with neural signals captured by encephalon implants.