{"id":498,"date":"2021-11-02T13:43:58","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T14:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogsfriendlytravel.com\/?p=498"},"modified":"2025-01-30T11:58:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T11:58:30","slug":"quadriplegic-apple-user-rates-ios-15-and-watchos-8-for-accessibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogsfriendlytravel.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/02\/quadriplegic-apple-user-rates-ios-15-and-watchos-8-for-accessibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Quadriplegic Apple user rates iOS 15 and watchOS 8 for accessibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/wp-content\/client-mu-plugins\/9to5-core\/includes\/obfuscate-images\/images\/9to5mac-default.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1500\"><\/div>\n<p>Quadriplegic Apple user and disability campaigner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aestumanda.com\/author\/colinhughes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Colin Hughes<\/a> last year <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2020\/08\/06\/apples-technology-helps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">shared his experiences of using Apple kit<\/a> as someone who uses a wheelchair and has only very limited use of his hands. He\u2019s now followed up with a look at the <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/accessibility\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">accessibility<\/a> improvements Apple made in <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/ios-15\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">iOS 15<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/watchos-8\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">watchOS 8<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He highlights the progress Apple has made, as well as the weaknesses in its accessibility support, including a couple of very surprising failings\u2026 <\/p>\n<p> <a data-layer-pagetype=\"post\" data-layer-postcategory=\"accessibility,ios-15,iphone-13,watchos-8\" data-layer-viewtype=\"taxonomy-ninetofive_guides\" data-post-id=\"766331\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2021\/11\/02\/quadriplegic-apple-user-accessibility-ratings\/#more-766331\" class=\"more-link\">more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quadriplegic Apple user and disability campaigner Colin Hughes last year shared his experiences of using Apple kit as someone who uses a wheelchair and has only very limited use of his hands. He\u2019s now followed up with a look at the accessibility improvements Apple made in iOS 15 and watchOS 8. He highlights the progress [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogsfriendlytravel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogsfriendlytravel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogsfriendlytravel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogsfriendlytravel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogsfriendlytravel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dogsfriendlytravel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":499,"href":"https:\/\/dogsfriendlytravel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions\/499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogsfriendlytravel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogsfriendlytravel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogsfriendlytravel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogsfriendlytravel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}