The award-winning Apple feature you've never seen: VoiceOver

Here’s a test for you. Take out your smartphone, close your eyes and try to perform a few simple tasks: send an email, read and respond to a text, take a decent picture. I’ll do the same.

Okay, that was impossible. But now you know just a little bit of what the iPhone and other touch screen devices are like to use for the visually impaired.

“It’s just a black piece of glass,” said Greg Jozwiak, Apple’s VP of iPhone and iOS Product Marketing, describing what it’s like for the visually impaired to use visual, touch-screen-based devices like the iPhone, iPad and recently released Apple Watch. Jozwiak, known as Joz, was about to accept The Hellen Keller Achievement Award from the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Thursday night. Read more...