Ice Cream Sandwich has a very useful accessibility feature that blind or low-vision users can enable. Once enabled, as the user slides his finger around the screen, various voice cues are given — app icon names, battery charge status and percentage, and number of unread messages from the notifications bar, for example.
Google has posted a couple videos, the first showing off how to enable the accessibility features and a first-use tutorial, and the other demoing how the accessibility features work in practice. You can watch the videos below.
Enabling accessibility and first-use tutorial:
Accessibility demo:
While it seems that the accessibility features are far from perfect (check out the comments on Phandroid’s article), it is nice to see Google thinking about features to help blind and low-vision users more easily use an Ice Cream Sandwich device like the Galaxy Nexus.
Via Phandroid
