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iOS 8 and Hebrew, a first true out-of-the box accessibility experience.

By Adi Kushnir, 18 September, 2014

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iOS and iPadOS

Hello all,
As some of you know, yesterday's update brought with it a huge feature for Hebrew speakers - TTS and Braille support. The TTS being used is a voice from Nuance, named Carmit. This is really the first time in Israel that a blind person can go to a phone store, pick up a phone and have it accessible out of the box, thanks to Apple for there hard efferts on this subject. As one who hav worked a bit on this project, I ask you to please send me any feedback, bugs or questions you have to my email address:
adikushnir@gmail.com
I am not talking about the Macintosh, just about iOS. I want the experience of iOS users to be as good as possible. Thank you.

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IOS 8 and Hebrew

By Sarah LaRose

8 years 4 months ago

I am not sure if this is a US-only issue or related to an IOS upgrade. I don't use my phone with braille display very often, and perhaps this is a good reason to test more frequently. I have finally got my phone up to date with IOS 8.3, and I went in to test Hebrew with braille. If I set braille to US unified, I can see Unicode characters. If I set it to US English, I see truly strange things. There is one other English option available to me. There are no other braille tables available at all, which I fear means I cannot read any other languages in braille. This is a problem since I read six languages! I will have to go back to computers for my language access needs and reading options, which means things I dislike.

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