The positives far outweigh the negatives for me personally. The audio could be louder and the price more accessible for those with sensory impairment and reliant on the sort of accessibility features Apple offer.
I am now very happy to own an Apple Watch and look forward to making it work well for me.
Molly Watt has Usher Syndrome, a rare genetic disorder that causes deafblindness. Her first few days with the Apple Watch are probably unlike that of any other reviewer, considering her situation. Quite insightful.
Apple has been good at accessibility lately, even providing very good APIs and docs for developers (who doesn’t always care enough about this aspect.)
Well done Apple!
Much as I don’t like some things Apple do, this is one area where they have been consistently good for the past decade. Well done, indeed and is one of several reasons why Macs are still my preferred computers.
It’s a pity most developers don’t bother with accessibility concerns. Although I have no imparement, I sometimes try out accessibility features out of curiousity, and most often I find it very difficult to set things up. Eg. the last time I tried to enable accessibility features on my [Android] phone, the only thing that worked at least somehow was large font, albeit I’ve got many words trimmed and some widgets broken completely. It’s a pity that impared people have no choice but to use iProducts, which are pretty much financially unaccessible to such people.
We’re not forced to use iProducts, at least for phones and tablets. Androidware at the moment, however, still doesn’t have Talkback which is the screen reader you would use. Personally I’ve no interest anyway, as my devices already talk too much. The nice thing about my old-fashioned tactile watch is that it doesn’t talk.
Under Windows 7 I have had real problems trying to use larger text in browser when going to those stupid web site that insist on putting ads on both sides of a web page.
Even if you can scroll down enough to get to where there no ads (no even possible on many of these pages) the text I want to read is still forced into a narrow band in the middle of the page.
So it is not just the program developers at fault, often it seems the media suppliers don’t think of the people using their services.
We are just eye-balls to sell to it seems.
[I haven’t seen an ad on a webpage for years. Maybe you need Adblock or a similar product.