In this podcast, Thomas Domville gives us a whistle-stop tour of some of the notable new features and enhancements in iOS 16. These include new features such as Lock Screen customization; new settings; enhancements to existing features; and improvements for many of Apple's apps such as Mail, Messages, News, and Music.

In this podcast, Thomas Domville gives us short looks at some of what's new and notable with Accessibility features in iOS 16.

Topics include:

• Door Detection
• New Voices and locales
• Live Captions
• Hover Text
• Apple Watch Mirroring
• Sound Recognition customisation
• End call with Side or Lock button
• Sound and haptics feedback for VoiceOver users to identify the starting point for walking directions in Apple Maps
• Themes and customisation in Apple Books
• Magnifier Activities
• Automatic CAPTCHA skipping
• Screen Recognition item focus
• Use Siri to end calls, set auto-answer, and restart your device
• Configure Siri's pause time
• Custom spellings for Voice Control
• Startup chime on iPhone 14 Pro

In this podcast, Thomas Domville, Dave Nason, and Tyler Stephen get together to discuss Apple's 'Far Out' event (September 2022).

In this month's edition of AppleVis Unleashed, Thomas Domville, Randy Rusnak, and Mike Malarsie discuss recent Apple news and other topics of interest. Topics featured in this podcast include:

• AppleVis Updated Policy for Beta Discussions (00h:10m:49s)
• The Potential Fall of the Wall Garden in the Latest Blow to Apple (00h:12m:47s)
• Apple Continues to Push in to the Sport World (00m:24m:16s)
• Apple Releases iOS 15.6 and 15.6 .1, Bringing a Fix for a Braille Focus Issue in Mail (00h:29m:24s)
• Get Ready as iOS 16 is Coming Soon (00h:30m:57s)
• Latest News and Rumors on the Upcoming iPhone 14 and Apple Watch Series 8 (00h:43m:23s)
• What's in this month AppleVis News (00h:59m:41s)

Links:

• Announcing Changes to Our Guidelines Regarding Discussion of Beta and Preview Versions of Apple Software
• EU Passes Legislation Forcing Apple to Allow App Sideloading, Third Party Payment Services, More
• How the EU's new big tech antitrust laws will hit Apple
• Apple the ‘most likely winner’ of $3 billion NFL deal, UEFA Champions League could be next
• Apple restarts talks with Big Ten following USC, UCLA news
• Apple Releases iOS 15.6 and iPadOS 15.6, Bringing a Fix for a Braille Focus Issue in Mail
• Apple Releases iOS 15.6.1 With Security And Bug Fixes
• iOS 16 development wrapped up, macOS Ventura & iPadOS 16 coming in October
• Apple may hold its iPhone 14 event on September 7
• Everything Rumored for Apple's September Event: iPhone 14, Apple Watch Pro and More
• iPhone 14 Pro will be more expensive than 13 Pro, says prolific insider
• 'Apple Watch Pro' Extreme Sports Model Could Cost Nearly $1,000
• Creating a more accessible Envision
• BARD App Not Working

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To help start off a new school year, Tyler gives us a podcast demonstration covering some of the aspects of Pages for macOS using VoiceOver. Topics covered in this demonstration include:

• Pages versus Microsoft Word (high-level comparison)
• recommended settings
• navigating the app
• creating a blank document
• applying paragraph styles
• navigating documents
• text alignment
• fonts and line spacing
• saving, sharing, and converting documents to alternate formats

For information on more advanced formatting functions in Pages, the following additional guides may be helpful:

• Designing a Decent Looking Document in Pages for macOS
• Using Style Shortcuts and Creating New Styles in Pages
• Even More Formatting Fun with Pages

In this podcast, Thomas Domville gives us a full walk-through of Envision AI, a free iOS app that allows you to use your iPhone's camera to scan and recognize short text, documents, your surroundings, objects, people, products, and colours.

Key features of Envision AI include:

• Instantly read any piece of text in over 60 different languages.
• Easily scan your paper documents (single or multiple pages) with the help of audio-guided edge detection. All content is spoken back to you and is ready for export and edit.
• Import PDFs and images to get a description of the image and recognition of all the text within it.
• Quickly read handwritten postcards, letters, lists and other paperwork.
• Effortlessly describe visual scenes around you.
• Detect colour on your clothes, walls, books, you name it.
• Swiftly scan barcodes to get extensive information about the products.
• Find people around you; the names of your family and friends are spoken out whenever they are in the frame.
• Find objects around you; selecting common objects from the in-app list to find them.
• Share images or documents from your phone or other apps like Twitter or WhatsApp by selecting Envision from the share sheet. Envision can then read and describe those images for you.

In this podcast, Thomas Domville shows us how to customize the email signature that appears automatically at the bottom of every email you send from your iPhone.

In this podcast, Thomas Domville shows us how to add a website bookmark to the Home screen of your iPhone or iPad. This enables you to access the website with a double tap on a Home Screen icon , instead of having to open a browser and then select a bookmark or type in a website's URL.

It doesn't matter if you prefer using iCloud, Dropbox, or even OneDrive, or any other cloud storage service, there's a way for you to save email attachments on the iOS with Mail. Listen in as Thomas Domville shows us in how to save email attachments in the iOS Mail app.

In this edition of the AppleVis Extra, Dave Nason and Thomas Domville are joined by Sarah Herrlinger, Director of Global Accessibility Policy and Initiatives at Apple; and Dean Hudson, Accessibility Evangelist at Apple. Topics covered in this podcast include a look at some of the new accessibility features coming later this year to Apple's platforms, as well as a broader look at Apple's approach to making their products accessible to as many people as possible.

Please note, This transcript was created solely for communication access. It is not a certified legal transcript and is not entirely verbatim.

Audio: An AppleVis original.

Dave: Hello and welcome to the AppleVis Extra Podcast. My name is Dave Nason, and I am joined by Mr. Thomas Domville. How are you, Tom?

Thomas: I'm doing great, Dave. It's good to be with you again. This is going to be a fun podcast,.

Dave: Yeah, this is one of our more exciting podcasts that we get to do every now and then. We didn't do it last year, but we did it two or three years before that, and they're back. It's Sarah Herrlinger and Dean Hudson from Apple's accessibility team. Great to have them back.

Thomas: I know, right. It's been a couple years, so I can't wait to see what they have to say and offer to us in terms of accessibility for this year. I'm pretty excited.

Dave: Is there anything in particular that stood out for you before we jump into it?

Thomas: I know everybody in the community has been talking about the new voices, especially, Eloquence. But voices, I think that's probably the biggest hit out there to date. Would you agree with that?

Dave: Yeah, I think so. I think it's definitely been the biggest news of this year's cycle, so yeah. Let's see what they have to say about that. Should we go ahead and jump into it?

Thomas: Yeah. Let's do it.

Dave: Sarah and Dean, you are so welcome back to the AppleVis Podcast. Thanks for coming.

Dean: Thank you.

Sarah: Well, thank you guys very much. It's wonderful to be here.

Dave: Yeah, it's been two years, I think. We missed last year, but it was great. So it's great to have you back and talking about everything that's new in the accessibility world with Apple.

Dean: Wow. Two years-

Sarah: Yes. I-

Dean: ... that's very quick.

Sarah: I know. I was just thinking the same thing. It feels like the tumultuous nature of the last two years through a wrench into everything down to even doing podcasts. So it's great to be back with you guys.

Dave: Absolutely. And I'm guessing this was probably the first WWDC this year at a few years where you actually had people as well.

Sarah: It was, we had a hybrid model this year, but did kick it off with the keynote and the state of the union. And some of those major things, the design awards that go on on day one were done in a way to have more people available on campus. So it was a great opportunity to reconnect with a lot of developers and share the message of accessibility.

Dave: Yeah. Amazing. And there is lots to talk about in accessibility. Thomas, I think you'd agree with me here that one of the biggest stories that's happened since voiceover itself even launched, all those…