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Amazon Echo Show 8 extends the power of Alexa to people with disabilities

• An article from last November, reviewing the accessibility of Amazon’s Echo Show 8. It highlights a bunch of accessibility features I’d never considered the Echo devices to have:
  • Like phones and tablets, it has a pinch-and-zoom feature to allow you to magnify the screen.
  • Using VoiceView – Echo’s built in screen reader – information on the screen can be swiped through and interacted with by a blind person.
  • Screen colours can be inverted, providing higher contrast, and there are colour correction modes for colour blindness too.
  • Finally, Alexa Captioning shows subtitles for Alexa responses, making the devices viable for deaf users.

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