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In an anticlimactic end to a flurry of contradictory rumors, it turns out Apple on Tuesday didn\u2019t release updated iPads. The company did, however, announce a new Apple Pencil which sports a USB-C port tucked away beneath what they\u2019re calling a \u201csliding cap.\u201d Apple says the new accessory costs $79 and starts shipping sometime next month.<\/p>\n

My pal Jason Snell posted a thoughtful piece on Six Colors earlier today about what the new Pencil\u2019s existence says about Apple\u2019s product strategy, particularly in context of iPads. I have nothing more along those lines to add\u2014in fact, I was dead wrong last night that Apple wouldn\u2019t release a new Pencil without<\/em> new iPads to accompany them\u2014but Snell\u2019s story inspired me to pen my own spin-off piece on the news.<\/p>\n

Most interesting to me about this is, as ever, accessibility.<\/p>\n

I have the second-generation Apple Pencil, the latest version, attached to my iPad mini. While I don\u2019t use it much\u2014how I yearn for any semblance of artistic ability beyond stringing words together\u2014I nonetheless appreciate it on one, arguably undervalued, metric. From an accessibility perspective, my Apple Pencil\u2019s strongest attributes is not what it does as a tool\u2014it\u2019s what it does in terms of maintaining itself. The magnetic attachment for storage and charging is perhaps Apple\u2019s greatest materials triumph; you hold it close to the tablet\u2019s edge and let physics (and software) do its work. I needn\u2019t worry about pairing or plugging it in to charge\u2014in a quintessential Apple way, it just works. That mantra, however oft-cited, is grossly underused in terms of its applicability to the disability community. Most in the tech press and other pundits claim the Apple Pencil\u2019s pairing and charging is cool and convenient\u2014and they\u2019re absolutely right\u2014but convenience and accessibility aren\u2019t the same.<\/p>\n

A dead Apple Pencil does good to no one, after all.<\/p>\n

Compare and contrast the accessibility benefits of my Apple Pencil with the experience of using the Lightning and USB-C versions. What\u2019s most striking about the latter models is they, regarding charging, require a level of hand-eye coordination many disabled people simply don\u2019t have. Again, the broader tech press takes this for granted, but the reality is it\u2019s not<\/em> necessarily easy to fiddle with the caps on either of these Apple Pencils and then<\/em> finagle a cable to charge the thing as needed.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s the Mt. Everest of fine-motor skills.<\/p>\n

I have an original Apple Pencil floating around my office. It\u2019s nice for what it is, but I don\u2019t miss the rigamarole of slipping off the cap, putting it someplace it won\u2019t get lost, and try to plug the Pencil into a Lightning port to charge. Once again, convenience is decidedly not accessibility.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t a trivial matter. To wit, it\u2019s entirely plausible someone with disabilities of this sort may be eyeing, say, the forthcoming USB-C Pencil due to its lower cost (and functionality, obviously) but is reticent to buy it due to its fiddly charging mechanics. The caveat applies Apple dropped today\u2019s announcement as a press release on its Newsroom site and no one outside of Apple Park has reviewed it, let alone seen it in real life. Nonetheless, as a lifelong disabled person with both significant visual and motor disabilities, the speculation here is clearly informed even sight unseen. The fact is, the USB-C Pencil isn\u2019t a tenable choice if you\u2019re someone with certain conditions\u2014but there\u2019s a ripple effect to that.<\/p>\n

Cost matters. It\u2019s likewise highly plausible the $129 Apple Pencil that I have isn\u2019t affordable to a disabled person even though it may be the best option for them in a functional sense. The $79 USB-C edition is easier on the wallet and does have stuff like tilt sensitivity, low latency, and more\u2014and yet be a bad choice based on charging alone. That it uses magnets for storage is good, but solves only half of the equation for users.<\/p>\n

Put simply, the USB-C Pencil presents quite the conundrum that go beyond the normal scope. As ever, accessibility is found in everything<\/em>.<\/p>\n

All of this analysis is meant not to berate or disparage Apple for its design choices. As I wrote at the outset, Snell does well to reasonably hold the company\u2019s feet to the fire. As always when discussing accessibility and assistive technology, what I\u2019ve argued here is steeped in nuance. I have little reason to doubt the USB-C Apple Pencil is a nice product\u2014certainly convenient by jumping on the USB-C bandwagon\u2014but it\u2019s nonetheless important to point out the potential problems.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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