Welcome to our new series, where we will learn together about important aspects of accessibility. In this edition, we will be discussing how blind people use their phones. There are many different accessible technologies that blind people use daily to meet their tech needs. Chief among them are screen readers, which translate various elements on a computer screen to either speech or braille, facilitating the interaction between a blind person and a machine. Below is a short video that perfectly explains how a screen reader works.

Try it out for yourself!

This is how you can use your phone's screen reader capabilities:

If you are an Android User: Follow the instructions provided here or watch this video.

If you are an iPhone User: Follow the instructions here or watch this video.