I'm going to be blunt and probably sound like an asshole in the process. Why are you switching someone who's losing their vision from iPhone to Android? IOS has better accessibility features in general. It also has much better company, developer, and community support than Android, especially for the blind.

As an Android user who is switching to iPhone this fall, there really isn't anything I can recommend you beyond Google apps. pretty much everything in the app store is a crapshoot as to whether it works with Google talk back or not.

Edit: I'm going to elaborate more on Android here so I don't sound like an Apple thumper. I've been a diehard Android user my entire life and I still believe in it. Can you use it without vision? Yes, absolutely, but there are strings attached. For starters, you can't just pick up an Android phone and expect it to play nice. Android hardware vendors (Like Samsung, Xiaomi, OnePlus, and more) are perhaps the worst thing that has ever happened to Android, as far as blind users are concerned. The vast majority of them don't give a damn about us, leaving unlabeled elements, broken apps, and sometimes straight up not even including the Android Accessibility Suite on their devices. Google Talkback also needs a fair bit of power to run properly. You can get it to run nice on mid-range phones and above. If you want to save a buck and get something cheaper, you'll be left with a borderline unusable mess. I daily a Galaxy s9+ which runs it fine, but I can't even get support from Samsung because the built-in app to get support doesn't work with Talkback. My Previous phone, the OnePlus 5t had a dialer that simply didn't work with Talkback. I had to add people to my contacts list to call them. Want a smartwatch or Braille hardware on Android? Not happening. Both of those features are awful and buggy.

Unless you're a phone enthusiast, you're probably going to have a bad time just picking a device. If you encounter problems on an iPhone, you can go to Applevis.com for community support. If you encounter a bug, you can report it directly to Apple. You don't get that kind of support on any Android phone.

Why is he switching from iPhone to Android, and which Android phone is he going to be using? It makes a big difference, a $200 Android is not going to perform the same, not by a longshot, compared to a $1000 Android.

I go with android specifically so I can have a blackberry keyone which has a physical keyboard. Apple stuff feels way too expensive to me but I'm a bit of a tech nerd anyway so maybe I'm not entirely normal. Well, what am I talking about, I'm not in any sense normal. Pumpernickel underside rumpelstiltskin!

As a teacher of the visually impaired and a former owner of android, I’d say that’s a bad decision and he’ll end up regretting it.

As others have said, especially if he's just losing his vision and transitioning to using assistive technology, switching away from ios is probably not the best decision at all.

What's his reason to switch?

Iphone and apple products in general are crap, androids definially the way to go plus u dont have apple trying to shove crappy subscribers and expensive phone repairs down ur throut or the rediculous price

Good move