Stevie Wonder Thanks Steve Jobs For Making The iPhone Accessible To The Handicapped [Video]

John Brownlee (10:11 am PDT, Sep 15 2011)

This is a pretty wonderful video. Soul king and all around beautiful person Stevie Wonder made an appearance last week at a nightclub in Los Angeles and gave a little speech on helping people with disabilities.

One company that Stevie Wonder specifically highlighted? Apple. Wonder personally thanks Steve Jobs and Apple for making the technology of their iOS devices accessible for everyone, saying “There is nothing that you can do on the iPhone or iPad that I can’t do.”

I’m not so sure about that: I’m pretty sure I can beat Stevie Wonder’s score in a game of Plants vs. Zombies for example. That said, Apple has made wonderful strides towards accessibility with iOS, and once voice recognition comes to iOS 5, they’ll be trail blazing yet again. It’s astonishing that iOS is as usable is it is by the handicapped, and it’s all thanks to Apple’s ingenuity.

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10 comments »

  • http://twitter.com/matzomg knock knock

    Did you guys see Stevie Wonder’s new iPad? 

    Neither did he.

  • http://twitter.com/matzomg knock knock

    Did you guys see Stevie Wonder’s new iPad? 

    Neither did he.

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_DEM5N5C4FQBLBYZAQERN3MIT2A Sniffer

      What an ignorant comment.

  • http://twitter.com/matzomg knock knock

    Did you guys see Stevie Wonder’s new iPad? 

    Neither did he.

  • Pdxeditor

    It’s an interesting story, but please refrain from the use of the word “handicapped.” It refers to a time when people with disabilities (the people-first preferred usage) were forced to beg with cap in hand to survive. Handicapped is a direct derivative of the phrase “cap in hand” and also implies that a person is less able to work or do other activities as people who do not have a disability.

    This is not meant as a rebuff of you helping to bring attention to the technology that is improving accessibility for people with disabilities. As a fellow journalist, we try to use language that is consistent and accurate for describing persons and events. Thanks for the posting, it is a good video to help promote.

    • Spaccaboy

      What’s wrong with the term handicapped again? All people are not equal, period. We live in a unfair world where difference abounds. Some people are clever some are dumb. Some people are physically superb, others are fat couch potatoes, some have two legs some have been crippled by unfortunate events or genetic deficiencies. There’s nowt wrong with being handicapped – it’s just the way life deals the cards. If we universally use language which continues to camouflage, water down and otherwise pc-ificate difference then we end up in a world where we everyone is the same. We’re not. Get over it. My gay mates are gays, my fat mates are fat, my black mates are black and my handicapped step brother is handicapped.

      • Rogelio Rogelio

        I can not agree more with you … look at the following quote that I pasted (the title is mine):

        Politically
        Incorrectness

         

        To show what happens when strong writing (or speaking) is
        deprived from its vigor, George Orwell once took a passage from the Bible and
        drained it of its blood. First, is Orwell’s translation; Second, the verse from Ecclesiastes (King James Version).

         

         

        Objective consideration of contemporary phenomena compels
        the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no
        tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable
        element of the unpredictable must inevitably be taken into account.

        I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to
        the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, not yet
        riches to men of understanding, not yet favor to men of skill; but time and
        chance happeneth to them all.

         

         

        (pages 22-23, William
        Strunk Jr. and E.B. White “The Elements of Style”, fourth edition)

         

  • Churchpharter

    “There is nothing that you can do on the iPhone or iPad that I can’t do.” – Really, how about watch a video???

  • Anonymous

    unbelievable it I just got a $829.99 iPad2 for only $103.37 and my mom got a $1499.99 HDTV for only $251.92, they are both coming with USPS tomorrow. I would be an idiot to ever pay full retail prices at places like Walmart or Bestbuy. I sold a 37″ HDTV to my boss for $600 that I only paid $78.24 for. I use http://lu2su.net/h5c

  • Anonymous

    unbelievable it I just got a $829.99 iPad2 for only $103.37 and my mom got a $1499.99 HDTV for only $251.92, they are both coming with USPS tomorrow. I would be an idiot to ever pay full retail prices at places like Walmart or Bestbuy. I sold a 37″ HDTV to my boss for $600 that I only paid $78.24 for. I use http://lu2su.net/h5c

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