iPhone Accessibility Features

A guide for all student inclusion

iphone 8 iOS 14.1

By Breiten Liebell
Accessibility features of iphone 8

● Voiceover
● Spoken content
● Hearing aid compatibility
● Subtitles & Captioning
● Assistive Touch
● Color Filters
Accessing accessibility

Go to the home Scroll down

screen and select until you see
the “settings” app. “accessibility”,
then select.

Explore the
various
accessibility
features.
 VoiceOver
This is a helpful feature in which a voice names and narrates what a person touches or clicks on, on their
screen. This is helpful for individuals with poor or no eyesight.

Tap the switch to

turn voice over on.
From this point, to
Within the
click on something,
Accessibility tab,
tap twice and a box
select “VoiceOver”.
will form around it,
then tap once
more.
VoiceOver (continued)
The narration voice
(Siri) can be
adjusted by the
amount of
punctuation
emphasis, speaking
speed, accent, etc.
 Spoken Content
This feature speaks any selected text, or the entire contents of a screen or page. For those of poor eyesight,
no eyesight, or reading disability, the phone essentially reads aloud to the user. Navigation is faster on
Spoken Content than VoiceOver.

Within the Accessibility Turn “Speak Selection”

tab, select “Soken on. Enabling “Speak
Content”. Screen” will provide a
much easier process in
terms of motion.
 Hearing Aid Compatibility
The acoustic settings are adjusted for optimum audio quality when heard through hearing aids.

Within the Accessibility Turn on “Hearing Aid

tab, scroll down and Compatibility” by
select “Hearing tapping the switch.
Devices”.
 Subtitles & Captioning
An additional feature for people hard of hearing.

Within the
Accessibility tab Tap the switch to
select “Subtitles & turn on closed
Captioning”. captioning.

The style can be

custom designed
(next slide).
Subtitles & Captioning (continued)
 Assistive Touch
This helps users with motor skill impairments to easily navigate an iPhone. Settings allow the device to
respond to specific amounts of pressure and react to certain movements.

Within the Accessibility

tab, scroll down and
select “Touch”.

A variety of setting
options will appear. The
user will be able to more
efficiently navigate with
movement of the device
itself.
 Color Filters
For users who have various types of colorblindness, color filters can make it easier to differentiate colors of
text and images.

Next, scroll down and

Within the Accessibility select “Color Filters”,
tab, select “Display & among several other
Text Size”. helpful features.
 Color Filters (continued)

Once within the Color

Filters tab, select the
type of colorblindness
most suitable for the
user’s needs.