Kitchen technology has moved on a great deal in the past few years, and much of what is now arriving on the market has a particular relevance for people living with sight loss. Voice control, once a novelty found only in smart speakers, is increasingly built into the appliances themselves.
Several new ovens and cooktops on show at recent trade events accept spoken commands and offer recipe-guided cooking, adjusting temperatures and times automatically as a dish progresses. For anyone who has ever struggled to read a tiny digital display, an oven that tells you what it is doing, rather than showing you, is a welcome development.