This article is intended to give people insight into device and software settings that will assist learners with their learning.
Users can purchase app connected accessories (hearing aids, blood pressure, braille readers, etc.
Vision
- Braille – can have device that displays Braille, two hand keyboard to enter text
- Voiceover – screen reader – describes what’s on screen under your finger (gestures change), can even turn off the screen while using this mode, the Alex voice is best.
- touch display to find what you want
- double tap to tap
- 3 finger swipe to scroll
- 3 finger swipe to move between Home and Screens
- Twist – two finger spin on screen to change how voiceover works
- Magic button (two finger double tap) will do contextual things (shutter in camera, play/pause in Music app, etc.)
- Speak screen – two finger swipe down from top of screen to speak text on screen. Allows fast or slow talking, pause/play, rewind/fforward (anyone can use this as a way to check written work, can use to help learn language)
- Dictation – listens in language of the current keyboard
- Audio Descriptions – videos can have (packaged as an extra audio track) – use Subler to build a file with the extra tracks and information
Hearing
- Subtitles & Captioning – can customize the style,
- Live Listen mode for hearing aids – uses phone as a mic for the hearing aids, can change the audio sensitivity for different conditions
Media
- Reader button in Safari to show only the body text
- Font button in safari address bar allows user to change background color, font size, and font type
Physical & Motor Skills
- assistive touch
- Siri
- switch control – can have a single or double switch to control iPad.
- platform switching
- slow/sticky keys
- etc.
Learning and Literacy
- guided access – used to force user into one app, has several options when setting up a new app, uses