Apple's AI accessibility upgrades: Video captioning, eye-powered wheelchairs

Apple Intelligence is coming to the company's industry-leading accessibility tools, including upgraded vision, captioning, and mobility features now enhanced with machine learning. In honor of Global Accessibility Awareness Day, which falls on May 21, the tech giant announced a suite of new AI-powered capabilities for the Apple ecosystem, covering its most popular accessibility offerings like VoiceOver, Magnifier, Voice Control, and Reader. "Apple’s approach to accessibility is unlike any other. Now, with Apple Intelligence, we are bringing powerful new capabilities into our accessibility features while maintaining our foundational commitment to privacy by design," said CEO Tim Cook. Many of the new upgrades come to Apple's vision and voice control tools, designed for users who are blind or have low vision and those with various ranges of mobility. With Image Explorer, part of Apple's gesture-based screen reader known as VoiceOver, users can get more detailed descriptions of device displays and content. VoiceOver's Live Recognition feature can be activated by the iPhone Action button and respond to detailed follow-up questions. Instead of relying on memorizing specific commands or