New Features Accessibility to iPads and iPhone users by Apple is introduced. These features include the ability to control the device with eye-tracking, create custom shortcuts with voice, and experience music with a haptic engine, among others. The company displaced these announcements ahead of Global Accessibility Awareness Day on Thursday.

Apple previously introduced eye-tracking in iOS and iPadOS. Still, it required the use of additional eye-tracking devices. For the first time, Apple has announced the ability to control an iPad and iPhone without needing extra hardware.

Vocal Shortcuts, a new feature, improves on Apple’s voice-based controls. It permits users to assign different types of sounds or words to launch shortcuts and complete tasks. For example, Siri will launch an app even if the user says something as simple as “Wow!” The Apple company has also developed Listen for Atypical Speech, which uses machine learning to recognize unique speech patterns.

For Apple users who are deaf (handicapped) or hard of hearing, Music Haptics is a new feature that allows users to experience the millions of songs, and news in Apple Music through the series of taps, textures, and vibrations. It will also be available as an API, so music app developers can soon provide users with a new and accessible way to experience audio.