Dear AppleVis Friends,
Every year, at its Worldwide Developers' Conference (WWDC), Apple unveils the next major updates to their software platforms during a live-streamed Keynote. This year's Keynote takes place on Monday, June 8, and I would like to cordially invite you to join AppleVis for coverage and analysis of the announcements.
At the WWDC26 Keynote, we expect Apple to unveil software version 27 for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Apple TV, Apple Vision Pro, and other platforms; with a public release coming in the fall.
For users of Apple's vision accessibility features, Apple has previously shared that improved image descriptions and recognition will be coming to VoiceOver and Magnifier on iOS, iPadOS, and MacOS, powered by Apple Intelligence. Other new accessibility features we are aware of so far include on-device generation of subtitles for uncaptioned videos, improvements to Accessibility Reader, and multilingual support for Name Recognition. We will almost certainly learn more about what is to come once the software gets into the hands of beta testers after the Keynote, and AppleVis will of course have in-depth coverage of new vision accessibility features when the software is released to the public later this year.
You can watch the WWDC26 Keynote live on Apple's Website at 10:00 AM Pacific Time / 17:00 UTC. Our past experience has been that the live stream on Apple's website offers audio description for Keynotes, making nonvisual information in these presentations accessible to everyone. On Apple devices, Audio Description can be enabled in Accessibility Settings.
After the event, AppleVis Correspondent Alex Hall will be returning to share his take on the Keynote, blending his mixture of detail, analysis, and humor into what promises to be both an insightful and informative blog post. Later in the week, the AppleVis Editorial Team will also be recording and releasing an in-depth roundtable podcast discussing all things WWDC26 Keynote and beyond.
The WWDC26 Keynote also marks the beginning of our busiest and most important time of the year at AppleVis. Since 2013, the AppleVis Editorial team has regularly published lists of bugs in Apple's annual software releases; we also have a longstanding tradition of creating podcasts and blog posts detailing what's new and changed in these updates. Over the next three months, our team will be hard at work learning and using the software, filing feedback reports with Apple, and creating great content for the public releases in September. Lastly, we are in the very early stages of planning an exciting virtual event for the September releases--and we can't wait to share more details with you as the time gets closer.
Wherever this coming week finds you, I wish you every good thing. Thank you for your continued support of AppleVis and the work that we do.
Sincerely,
Michael P. Hansen
Director, AppleVis