iPhone Magnifier and Voice over

Why HN readers recommended it

HN recommends it to show what on-device accessibility features can do and how blind users actually use an iPhone.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Kristy Viers

Topic

ios accessibility

Format

tutorial

Level

intro

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

5

Recommendation years in dataset

2021–2022

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• Thanks for the link, super interesting to watch. Over the years as a programmer I've picked up knowledge about web accessibility from a mechanical, standards/implementation focused point of view, but this video is helping me realize that my understanding has been lacking a level of …

• The YouTube channel by Kristy Viers has been helpful in understanding how they use an iPhone and other devices. Here’s a video on VoiceOver in the Camera app: [VIDEO]

• I'll one-up this a bit: a blind woman called Kristy Viers demonstrates on YouTube how she uses various things, among them iPhone with the onscreen six-finger Braille keyboard. But also she uses the ‘magnifier’ app to tell her what is there around her, i.e. what …