The new preview includes a huge range of new features and improvements, including additions to Cortana, a new Share UI, better high - DPI support for desktop apps, enhancements for Windows Defender, the first signs of
braille support in the OS, and lots more.
Announcing
braille support in Narrator: We love getting feedback from our visually - impaired Insiders and implementing features to support your needs.
NOTE: There are coexistence issues with
braille support and third party screen readers.
Not exact matches
There is also special equipment being provided with learning material, such as glasses, white canes, and
braille machines to
support children through their learning.
The iOS app also allows users to read character - by - character, word - by - word and line - by - line and
supports the usual iOS accessibility features like zoom, assistive touch and
support for peripheral
braille displays.
The device can also be used with an electronic
braille display and the audio book player also
supports accessibility.
First, we are adding
braille input and output
support to Fire tablets.
Today,
supported braille displays include BAUM, Humanware, and the new Orbit Reader 20.
VoiceView
supports a rich set of
braille chord commands, including commands to navigate by character, word, control, HTML Link, HTML Section, HTML list item, and HTML form control, as well as jump to key parts of the Fire tablet user interface such as Home, Back, App Switcher, and the Notification / Quick Actions Shade.
Accessibility • VoiceOver descriptions
support for images • VoiceOver tables and lists
support in PDFs • Type to Siri
support for basic search queries • Spoken and
braille caption
support for videos • Dynamic Type increases text and app UI to larger sizes • Redesigned Invert Colors make media content easier to view • Highlight Colors improvements in Speak Selection and Speak Screen • Switch Control typing can scan and type whole words at a time
The Narrator
supports braille displays from 35 manufacturers.
To learn more about what
braille displays are
supported, including specific key commands for each display, visit this page.
Accessibility Adds BraillePen14
support to VoiceOver — Fixes an issue where the
braille table could switch unexpectedly with VoiceOver — Fixes an issue where sometimes Siri enhanced voices were unavailable to VoiceOver — Fixes an issue where VoiceOver users could not re-order items in lists — Fixes an issue where Switch Control was sometimes unable to delete Voicemails