Megan Short

Accessibility
Iphone 8: ios 14.4.2
Features covered in this presentation:
● Color Filter
● Magnifier
● Hearing Aid Compatibility
● Closed Captions + SDH
● Siri
 Settings

To perform any of the following

accessibility actions within this
presentation, you will first need to know
how to access the settings menu on
your iphone.
A way to get to settings would be to find
your search bar and type in the word
“settings”.
Clicking on the settings icon will
then bring you into the settings menu.
Settings
Once in settings you will scroll down to find
the option that says:
Accessibility .

This option should be located:

-under the Home Screen option

-above the Wallpaper option

 Accessibility Menu

Clicking the accessibility button

will take you into the accessibility

menu where you will see a number
of options titled under 4 different
categories. The categories are:

● Vision
● Physical Motor
● Hearing
● General
Directions: Settings > Accessibility > Vision

Vision

Under the vision category you will see

different options such as:

VoiceOver
Zoom
Magnifier
Display & Text Size
Motion
Spoken Content
Audio Descriptions
Directions: Settings > Accessibility > Vision

Vision
In the Vision category we
will be exploring the
following:

● Magnifier

● Display & Text Size

Directions: Settings > Accessibility > Vision > Magnifier
Magnifier
Magnifier display on
phone
When selecting the home
screen
Magnifier you will have
option to turn it on/off.

When turned on the Magnifier

display
magnifier will appear on the
when in
homescreen. use.

Magnifier lets you use the

camera on your device to
magnify your surroundings.
This could be helpful to a
student who is having
trouble seeing.
Directions: Settings > Accessibility > Vision > Display & Text Size

Display & Text Size

Within Display & Text Size
there are many options that
can applied to help assist
students visually.

One of the options we will

explore is: Color Filters.
Directions: Settings > Accessibility > Vision > Display & Text Size > Color Filters

Color Filters
Color Filters can be used to
assist students who are
color blind or students who
have difficulty reading text
on a certain display.
Directions: Settings > Accessibility > Vision > Display & Text Size > Color Filters

Color Filters
When in the Color Filters Option you will notice that there are three
images/diagrams that you can scroll through. These are used to show what the
colors will look like after applying your selected color filter.
Directions: Settings > Accessibility > Vision > Display & Text Size > Color Filters

Color Filters > On

Turning color filters on will
then bring you to the options
that may be chosen when
turning this filter on.
Your options will be:
● Grayscale
● Red/Green Filter
● Green/Red Filter
● Blue/Yellow Filter
● Color Tint
Directions: Settings > Accessibility > Vision > Display & Text Size > Color Filters

Color Filters (continued)

Clicking on Grayscale will put your phone in
grayscale mode.

Clicking on:

Red/Green Filter, Green/Red Filter or

Blue/Yellow Filter will open up an extra option will
change the filters accordingly, and also allow an
additional option for the filter called: intensity.

It will show up below the “ Color Tint” option.

Selecting the Color Tint option will also allow you

to adjust the intensity, as well as opening up the
option to adjust the hue.
Directions: Settings > Accessibility > Hearing

Hearing
Under the hearing category you will
see different options such as:

Hearing Devices

Sound Recognition

RTT/TTY

Audio/Visual

Subtitles & Captioning

Directions: Settings > Accessibility > Hearing

Hearing

In the Hearing category we will be

exploring the following:

● Hearing Devices

● Subtitles & Captioning

Directions: Settings > Accessibility > Hearing > Hearing Devices > Hearing Aid
Compatibility

Hearing Aid Compatibility

Within Hearing Devices
we can access the Hearing
Aid Compatibility option.

This is used to improve the

audio quality for students
who have hearing devices
(hearing aids).
Directions: Settings > Accessibility > Hearing > Subtitles & Captioning > Closed
Captions + SDH

Closed Captions + SDH

Within Subtitles & Captioning
we can access the Closed
Captions + SDH option.

Closed Captioning can assist

students who are deaf or
hard of hearing.
Directions: Settings > Accessibility > Hearing > Subtitles & Captioning > Style

Closed Caption Styles

Within this option there is
also the option to change the
styles of the closed captions.

Selecting Style will bring you

to the options that you can
select for the closed
captions.
Directions: Settings > Accessibility > Hearing > Subtitles & Captioning > Style

Style Variations
Directions: Settings > Accessibility > Hearing > Subtitles & Captioning > Style

Create New Style...

There is also an option
within style where you can
create your own style of
subtitles.
Directions: Settings > Accessibility > General

General
Under the general category
you will see different options
such as:

Guided Access

Siri

Accessibility Shortcut
Directions: Settings > Accessibility > General

General

In the Guided category we

will be exploring:

Siri
Directions: Settings > Accessibility > General > Siri

Siri
Siri is a voice assistant that Siri can be accessed by
allows you to use your holding down the home
button and then waiting
voice to navigate your for the “Siri” screen to
phone. appear.

Once the “Siri” speak

screen appears, the
user can talk to the
Siri can be helpful to
phone and give it
students who have poor directions as to what the
touch/motor skills where user would like to do.

they can use their voice to

use their phone instead of
their hands.
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