As first reported by Forbes, this functionality, which is opt-in, will be “helpful to those who have a speech impairment” and “will make Alexa feel more useful and more inclusive.”
At the beginning of the year, the company brought dark/light mode settings as well as compatibility with Apple’s system-wide Dynamic Type feature, which allows users to set a system-wide text size that works across iOS apps. Here’s how users can benefit:
The accessibility benefits are twofold: The Alexa app is more accessible for users who need considerably larger text, and they needn’t have to adjust text size in the app itself any longer because Dynamic Type bows to a user’s global setting. This is not only a feature of convenience for visually impaired users, it also helps those with fine-motor and/or atypical cognition. Having to tediously go through every app on one’s device(s) to alter text size requires a lot of excess tapping, as well as increases cognitive load for people who may have trouble remembering where and how to tweak the setting.
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