If they're only using it for leisure and not work. then I'd suggest going for an Ipad.

However, keep in mind that the only benefit of an ipad compared to an iphone is the large screen. So, if they don't really use the screen. Then you might want to go for an iPhone and a Bluetooth keyboard.

Is this person using this computer for work, education, or leisure? If they are just using the device for leisure, I would just get an iPad since they are easier to use. While I can only speak to my own experience, iPads don’t last as long as computers. I suspect that the software of mobile devices just doesn’t keep up with the device hardware. If they have work and education needs, get a computer. I have always been a Windows user. JAWS and NVDA are great screen readers.

Hi :) if they are familiar with touch screens, then an Ipad is best. A bluetooth keyboard would be helpful, though.

Personally I’d recommend a laptop, if they can use jaws; then NVdA should be quite easy.

For a phone I’d recommend an IPhone.

in addition to what other mentioned, editing documents on a laptop much easier and faster than on an iPad, but consuming intertaining content; youtube, netflix etc, great on the ipad. also the smart case with iPad is even better than the bluetooth keyboard.

I don't currently own an iPad, and the last time I tried a Bluetooth keyboard on iPhone was in 2019 while my Windows computer was having warranty service and I was waiting for a brand new iMac to arrive, so the experience might have changed. However, as far as my experience is concerned, VoiceOver on iOS isn't well suited to be used with a keyboard. The controls are similar to those on MacOS, but since the devices themselves are touch-oriented they assume you can comfortably tap the screen on the general location where you wish to position the cursor, so unlike on MacOS there's no container hierarchy to make navigation with a keyboard easier, which means that, if you wish to highlight an element in the middle of the screen with the keyboard, and the element you wish to focus isn't easily accessible using the rotor, you'll have to skip half of the elements on the screen that come either before or after that.

I advise against using an iPhone as a desktop machine for browsing the web because all websites that have a mobile version offer that to iPhone users by default, and sometimes it's not trivial to request the desktop version, which in many situations means you end up missing features. The iPad used to have this problem as well, but as far as I know it does request the desktop versions of websites now.

As for laptops, I think that, for the purpose of navigating the web, a Windows laptop is more appropriate, and I say that as a Mac user, because VoiceOver on MacOS is very quirky as far as web browsing is concerned. It doesn't really matter what kind of laptop you get, as I ran Windows 10 with NVDA perfectly fine on a very low-end laptop with a 1.2Ghz dual core CPU, 4GB of RAM, and a 128GB SSD, after Apple stopped supporting my late-2011 MacBook Pro and before getting this iMac in 2019.

I disagree much of the internet isn’t accessible more of it is actually I find that most places I can at least navigate if not really well. I am a very proficient technology person though and may even go in to teaching it. But I disagree that the internet is not blind friendly.


Also I think it’s a choice. I use a combo of both but recently because of taking a break from school I find I am mostly using my iphone and such. So yeah.

I think that using NVDA would work for just that kind of thing, because one it's free. and two there is a lot of helpful people out there. It works with windows10 as well so i hope this helps.

This would be a great idea, indeed. The self-service checkouts are tricky, as are ATMs.