052 Siri tells you all - with Guest Allison Sheridan

In Touch with iOS - A podcast by David Ginsburg

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Guest Allison Sheridan from the Podfeet Podcasts returns to the show joining Dave to talk about Siri and accessibility on the iPhone. Show notes are at InTouchwithiOS.com 
Direct Link to Audio News: iOS 12 Now Installed on 83% of All Devices From the Last Four Years - MacRumors Apple Will Soon Let Developers Entice Past Subscribers With Discounted iOS, macOS, and tvOS Subscriptions - Macrumors Topics: Siri Basics We all know what Siri can do, let's talk about Siri and some of the basics. We first ask “what do we use Siri for?” What hardware does Siri work on? It’s really amazing how helpful Siri can be on all these devices. Here are a few Siri basics we talked about   Changing Siri’s voice and language Go into Siri Search and Shortcuts to make other changes You can now ask your device to find the other one. HomePod you can ask Hey Siri where is my iPhone and it sends a ping sound without the need for signing into Find my “iDevice” app.   Accessibility Features There are so many different accessibility features available for iPhone and iPad we could do a full episode on this alone. We reviewed some of the notable features for accessibility including Vision, hearing, and even literacy.    Accessibility for Everyone. The place to go is Settings> General> Accessibility Magnifier Change Text Size Speech with VoiceOver Quick On and Quick Off for Accessibility I use the magnifier to turn this on. Check out this great book on accessibility by Shelly Brisbin http://www.iosaccessbook.com Macstock Conference https://macstockconferenceandexpo.com/ About our guest:  Allison Sheridan hosts the NosillaCast podcast each week “A technology geek podcaster with an EVER so slight Macintosh bias!” at https://podfeet.com. You can also find her on twitter @podfeet and in her NosillaCastaways on Slack at https://podfeet.com/slack and the great NosillaCastaways Facebook Group

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