The story behind Apple's wheelchair Activity app

WWDC 2016 and Apple made many moves to improve accessibility across its products, but the introduction of a version of the Apple Watch Activity app for wheelchair users was a particularly big deal. You see, there’s never been an accurate fitness tracker like this before, and Apple has been working on it for at least a year.

'We wanted to do something'

“Apple has always led on the accessibility features. Even when we were finishing watchOS 1.0, we knew we wanted to do something for wheelchair users,” Ron Huang, Director of Software Engineering for Location and Motion Technologies explains.

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