Wheres your accessibility kit, Apple?
The Surface Adaptive Kit is essentially a bunch of stick-on accessories for Microsoft’s latest tablets.
They’re sold as an accessibility add-on, and that’s exactly right.
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“I think this is one time that Microsoft got the jump on Apple.
Want to use one of those stick-on lid-opener brackets to add a wrist strap to your iPhone?
Maybe you keep hitting the volume keys instead of the brightness keys on your MacBook keyboard.
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Just use some of these bumpy stickers to mark the correct keys.
This brings us to a question.
Apple is recognized as a world-class provider of accessibility in its software, and rightly so.
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So why isn’t Apple making something like the Surface Adaptive Kit?
“Apple’s design ethos is pretty aggressively minimalist and integrated.
Could it be that Apple’s obsession with clean lines prevents it from making its devices more accessible?
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That’s a stretch, but a plausible one.
But its built-in apps are rarely more than competent, andsometimes not even that.
That leaves space for third-party developers and accessory makers to fill.
To gauge the overall availability of accessibility add ons, I used a simple trick: I Googled it.
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