You can now dismiss Echo Show timers with a wave
accessibility features today. The company announced new gestures, text-to-speech features and caption settings using the device’s screen to help customers with disabilities.now let you dismiss timers with a gesture. If a cooking timer goes off while your hands are messy, you can raise your palm towards the camera to silence it.
Of course, Alexa already supported dismissing timers with voice, but the hand-wave accommodates people with speech disabilities ., an accessibility hub that uses the touchscreen instead of spoken commands, now lets you type phrases for Alexa to read aloud. Additionally, it can create shortcuts for commonly used phrases, which you can organize with icons and colors.
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