ACCESSIBILITY

ASSIGNMENT
BY AMANDA NHEK
 ACCESSIBILITY ON THE
IPAD

• Apple has accommodated all kinds of users

with their innovative and assistive features
built into the iPad using IOS. Now users
with vision, hearing, motor skills, learning,
and literacy disabilities can be assisted in
using their iPad more easily. These
accessory features on the iPad allows
anyone regardless of their disability to use
all the same features that others use.
 VOICEOVER

• VoiceOver is a great tool for users that can’t

see the screen to still use their device. By
touching the screen with your finger, the
device will say out loud what you are
touching. Double tapping will allow you to
select an element and flicking left or right
will move you from one screen to the next.
The device is consistently talking to the user.
 SWITCH CONTROL

• Switch Control enables you to

interact with your iPad using
head movements and other third
party devices such as a joystick.
This is especially help for
individuals with physical and
motor challenges. By moving
your head left, you could go
from one application to another.
When you move your head
right, you can activate Siri.
Steps to
enable
Switch
Control
INVERT SCREEN COLORS
• IOS allows you to invert colors, reduce
white point, enable grayscale, or
choose from a range of color filters to
support different forms of color
blindness or other vision challenges. You
can also customize your display setting,
so that the color tint and hue of your
screen is to your liking. Once you make
these adjustments in your settings,
everything that appears on your iPad
will be modified.
AUDIO DESCRIPTIONS

Users with hearing disabilities can enjoy watching

movies, TV, and videos with detailed audio
descriptions of every scene on the iPad. Movies
with audio descriptions are displayed with the AD
icon in the iTunes Store.

iPad also lets closed caption and subtitle tracks

audibly or Braille displays while using VoiceOver.
 GUIDED ACCESS AND
SCREEN TIME
• Guided Access
People with autism or other attention and sensory challenges may
benefit from the Guided Access tool. This tool allows its users to
stay focus on the task (or app) at hand. Teacher and parents have
the ability to restrict the person from moving from one app to
another. Guided Access can disable the Home button and limit the
amount of time spent on each app. You can even restrict access to
the keyboard, so that wandering taps and gestures won’t distract
from learning. Safari Reader is also a great tool to help people
stay focus. It blocks ads, buttons, and navigation bars to allow you
to stay focus on the content.
• Screen Time
Screen Time is meant to help and monitor the time spend on the
iPad. Activity report give a detailed breakdown of how long the
iPad was used and what apps were used. This is helpful for
teachers, because they can block certain apps during the day, so
that students with attention challenges stay on task.