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Good question!

"IDs" (or "Image Descriptions") are mostly meant to make posts with drawings or pictures more acessible to those who can't really enjoy them otherwise, ie. blind people who use screen-readers to read what's in the screen for them! These can't read to you what's in an image. But if they have a description, the screenreader can read that and voilá.

You know when you have really shitty wi-fi and sudenly every tumblr post has that annoying fuckass gradient. Sometimes the entire post is just images and you see people laughing in the notes or just sharing "this is important!!!! everybody pay attention to this!!!" but you can't have any idea of what everyone is even on about. IDs are meant to correct that issue; no matter if you can't see the image due to a bad internet connection or disability, you are still able to be a part of the conversation.

Blind/Low vision people aren't the only ones who usually benefit from IDs, either! Some people just have a hard time processing visual input even though they can technically *see* it somewhat fine, so IDs also help. If youre looking at an image in that case it might be hard to figure out if it's a yellow blob of a lemon or Kagamine Rin fanart. An ID gets rid of that issue; there's a clear, straightforward description that will help you figuring out the image. That's what they're there for.

Plus sometimes images may have cursive or tiny handwriting or words that are too light against a background and even non-visually impaired people can't really understand them. If the person who uploaded the image adds an ID, you don't have to struggle to read it, you can just see it in the description!

So I like to dig around the accessibility menus of the iPad:

So you don't have to (WoooAAaaAAAAH /Hippyotech)

Because sometimes they're useful to me

Because sometimes they're useful to someone else, if only they knew those options were available!

Bored

So anyway, a little feature Apple didn't bother to mention: Face tracking as Input.

See, all those Neural Engines and AI Cores that are the Good AI (The ones that do image recognition so you can OCR your scanend docs and handwriting, and do high speed face tracking for MeMoji animation and Snapchat filters) are really great at recognising faces.

OK. So what? Face recognition rant incoming?

Noooo! OK scenario: you have limited mobility for whatever reason. You wanna use your iPad without your hands, keyboard, or mouse.

Would it be helpful to be able to scroll up and down by doing a big blink or scrunching your nose? Move the mouse cursor around by pointing where you wanna go with your nose? Turn on Dictation by sticking out your tongue?

Well yeah OK you get it, that's what the head tracking option does. There's also eye-tracking but that's not as useful unless the iPad doesn't move and your head is held in place.

Say the Word

There's also Vocal Shortcuts. That turns the Mic on and listens for phrases. E.g. Scroll-up, Go-Back…

You get to define the trigger and what it does..

Fun fact: You can activate other accessibility options using this or Siri. e.g. "Make it Rain" to turn on the Background Audio, or trigger the option for throwing a grid over the screen so you can talk the iPad through what you want, using the grid squares…