{"id":341291,"date":"2017-05-18T11:42:10","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T03:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/05\/17\/apple-ceo-tim-cook-accessibility-meetings\/"},"modified":"2017-05-18T11:42:10","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T03:42:10","slug":"apple-ceo-tim-cook-talks-accessibility-with-three-accessibility-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/apple-ceo-tim-cook-talks-accessibility-with-three-accessibility-activists\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple CEO Tim Cook Talks Accessibility With Three Accessibility Activists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[unable to retrieve full-text content]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of <a href=\"http:\/\/globalaccessibilityawarenessday.org\">Global Accessibility Awareness Day<\/a>, which takes place tomorrow, Apple CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/tim-cook\/\">Tim Cook<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tim_cook\/status\/865027444041932801\">sat down with three YouTubers<\/a> to discuss the Accessibility features built into Apple&#8217;s iOS and Mac devices.<\/p>\n<p>Each of the three YouTubers, who met Cook at Apple&#8217;s campus for coffee, have shared their conversations with the CEO on their respective YouTube channels. All three, including legally blind filmmaker <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JamesRath\">James Rath<\/a>, deaf advocate and vlogger <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rikkipoynter\">Rikki Poynter<\/a>, and actress <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PintSzDiva\">Tatiana Lee<\/a>, who was born with Spina Bifida, talked about the Apple products that they use in their daily lives. The three interviews can be watched below.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kXy8KcONTSs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t6_iOVSavdE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/58ZZFUDIM0g\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><br \/>\n<br \/>\nDuring his meeting with Poynter, Cook explained Apple&#8217;s stance on accessibility and why the company goes to great lengths to make sure its devices are available to everyone.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Apple is founded on giving people power to create things, to do things that they couldn&#8217;t do without those tools. And we&#8217;ve always viewed accessibility as a human right. And so just like human rights are for everyone, we want our products to be accessible for everyone. And so it&#8217;s a basic core value of Apple. We don&#8217;t make products for a particular group of people. We make products for everybody.<\/p>\n<p>We feel very strongly that everyone deserves an equal opportunity and equal access. So we don&#8217;t look at this thing from a return on investment point of view &#8212; I&#8217;ve been asked that before. The answer is no, I&#8217;ve never looked at that. We don&#8217;t care about that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In addition to Cook&#8217;s meetings, Apple also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/05\/17\/apple-accessibility-video-series\/\">recently published<\/a> a series of &#8220;Designed for&#8221; accessibility videos, highlighting the different ways Apple&#8217;s Accessibility features are used to make Apple devices available to everyone, and there&#8217;s currently an Accessibility feature in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/app-store\/\">App Store<\/a> promoting Accessibility apps.<\/p>\n<p>Since October, Apple has had a detailed Accessibility website that demonstrates and promotes the extensive Accessibility options built into Apple products.<\/p>\n<div class=\"linkback\">Tag: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/accessibility\/\">accessibility<\/a> <\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forums.macrumors.com\/threads\/apple-ceo-tim-cook-accessibility-meetings.2046163\/\">Discuss this article<\/a> in our forums<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.macrumors.com\/~ff\/MacRumors-All?a=Yhio1Dm4gGk:G1sweKLGFVI:6W8y8wAjSf4\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/MacRumors-All?d=6W8y8wAjSf4\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.macrumors.com\/~ff\/MacRumors-All?a=Yhio1Dm4gGk:G1sweKLGFVI:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/MacRumors-All?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/MacRumors-All\/~4\/Yhio1Dm4gGk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[68,69,59,26],"class_list":["post-341291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-macrumors","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}