Apple highlights Accessibility Awareness Day with new section in App Store

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Apple tends to launch new sections within its App Store quite frequently, especially when they’re trying to highlight something with the apps available within its store.
Now, to highlight the Global Accessibility Awareness Day, which “raises the profile of and introducing the topic of digital (web, software, mobile app/device etc.) accessibility and people with different disabilities to the broadest audience possible,” Apple has highlighted several different apps that aim to help the cause.
There are 15 different apps within the new section, ranging from use with the iPhone, the iPad and the Apple Watch as well. Apps like Instapaper are included, as well as Workflow and djay 2.
The dedicated section can be found below.
[via Apple]

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