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# Assistive technologies

Make sure your app provides a great experience for people who use assistive technologies.

## Overview

Everyone uses their devices differently.
Apple devices provide many assistive technologies
to support people’s vision, hearing, speech, mobility, and cognitive needs.
These assistive technologies provide alternative ways to navigate your app’s content,
interact with your UI, and input data.
When you design and build your app, it’s important to consider the full range of ways
that people might use it rather than optimizing for just one use case.

Learn more about building and testing your app with assistive technologies to create a
great experience for everyone.

## Topics

### Assistive technologies

[VoiceOver](/documentation/Accessibility/voiceover)

A gesture-based screen reader that provides an auditory description of the content onscreen.

[Voice Control](/documentation/Accessibility/voice-control)

An interface for navigating a device using voice commands to tap, swipe, type, and more.

[Switch Control](/documentation/Accessibility/switch-control)

An interface for navigating a device with a variety of adaptive switch hardware, wireless game controllers, or sounds such as a click or a pop.

[Assistive Access](/documentation/Accessibility/assistive-access)

A mode that tailors the iOS and iPadOS experience for people with cognitive disabilities.


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