I may set aside 30 minutes each week to browse with something like a screen reader
Every week I personally do a kind of morning activity called #金朝ツメトギ (I will write about that someday too). In a similar way, I have started thinking about setting aside about 30 minutes on the morning of a certain weekday each week to browse with something like a screen reader.
The reason I deliberately declare these things with a hashtag on Twitter is partly to increase the pressure on myself, and partly because I hope that someone who sees it might feel even slightly inspired to try it too.
I want to spend some time using it normally, not only for accessibility checks. I do not want to think of this time as work; it can be a time when I happen to use Twitter or anything else.
Right now I am learning the iPhone VoiceOver feature for work, but perhaps even limited regular use of something like NVDA will reveal things I would not otherwise notice. I also think it is a useful skill if something happens to my own body.
That aside, after starting to use it I thought again that maybe a physical home button really should exist. More broadly, I feel like there could be buttons for previous, next, select, and cancel. It is hard when the screen itself has so few tactile clues.
Returning to Home was especially hard to understand. Apple's site explains how to return Home with VoiceOver, but I felt that the action for returning Home and the action for showing the list of running apps are similar, making mistakes likely.
This is an old example, but devices running the Palm OS had up, down, left, and right buttons near the bottom of the device, plus two physical buttons on each side.
With something like that, it might be easier to operate an iPhone relying only on the sense of touch in your hand.
In fact, I bought a Kindle Oasis solely because it has physical buttons.
If haptic technology evolves, even the boundaries of buttons may eventually feel vivid and real, so I have expectations there too.