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Google is updating Maps , Search and Assistant with unexampled availableness features . The company is also let go of a new Magnifier app to aid users read text edition in unlike place .
Google Maps is add screen reader support for the “ Search with bouncy View ” feature so user with ocular constipation can hold their headphone out to identify position like ATMs and public transport stations around them .
Search with springy View featurewas introduced last yearso user can use the tv camera in function to look for nearby ATMs , grocery shops and coffee shops with overlay and markers . Currently , this feature is only available in London , Los Angeles , New York City , Paris , San Francisco and Tokyo .
to boot , Google Maps will now permit exploiter to search for wheelchair - friendly shopping routes . Google is also working on marking disabled - owned businesses on Search and Maps .
Google is also updating Maps for Android Auto to admit information about wheelchair handiness for piazza like restrooms and parking . Wheelchair - favorable places will have a wheelchair icon to indicate a step - liberal entry .
Android devices already haveAction Blocksfunctionality to provide soft access through widget - similar blocks on the home screen to unremarkable actions like calling a person or gain the room warm . The company is now extending its ability to create customizable blocks for Assistant Routines . Users can set an simulacrum to a crosscut or exchange the size of the shortcut on the home projection screen .
Earlier this year , Google wander out a new feature film for Chrome on background to auto - suggest URLs even if users had typos in the search phrase . The company is now extend this functionality on Chrome for Android and iOS .
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The company is introducing a few Pixel - specific accessibility updates today . The hunt giant launcheda new magnifier app — developed in partnership with the Royal National Institute of Blind People and National Federation of the Blind — that will aid exploiter well read text like menus and street house .
Users can modify the contrast or luminousness of an image , shift direct contrast or rapid climb in to make school text more readable . Google said that the zoom feature is also useful in see at performers on a faraway concert stage . The app also aid you translate continuously change signs like flight info at drome by freezing the image . The app is available for Pixel 5 and up .
Plus , Google is update itsGuided Frames app , which facilitate visually impaired users take selfies by usingaudio guides , high - line invigoration and haptic feedback . The company originallyannounced the app last year at the Pixel 7 event .
The in vogue update recognizes object like pets , food and text . So people can take photos of dissimilar picture using the new app with a front or rearward camera . This update is already uncommitted for Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro exploiter and will roll out to Pixel 6 and above by and by this twelvemonth .
