https://lanie.work/tags/apple/ Recent content in Apple on Lanie: Faith, Tech, and Advocacy Hugo en-us Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://lanie.work/technology/one-accommodation-at-a-time/ Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://lanie.work/technology/one-accommodation-at-a-time/ <p>Apple is supposed to be the gold standard for accessibility. They get praised for it. VoiceOver is genuinely good. Touch Accommodations exist for people who need help interacting with the screen. Both features are built by Apple, both are designed for disabled users, and both are mutually exclusive.</p> <p>I found this out by accident. I was setting up Touch Accommodations on my iPhone, trying to make the screen easier to use. I got everything configured the way I wanted. Then I turned off VoiceOver for a minute to show my mom something. When I turned it back on, I got a message: Touch Accommodations are disabled when VoiceOver is active.</p>