Phone Accessibility

Features
Group Work & Discussion
TASKS:
Complete the following in groups, add your findings to the Phone Accessibility
Slides, and add it to your DLP (course website). Be prepared to discuss in class.
Group 1: Vision
Group 2: Physical and Motor
Group 3: Hearing
Look at the 7 Principles of Universal Design.
1. What features and settings are in your group’s accessibility category and what
do they do?
2. How does the feature make the device more accessible? Who might it benefit?
3. Which principle of universal design does it fall under?
Group 1: Vision Settings
1. What features and settings are in your group’s accessibility category and what do they do?
- Voiceover
- Zoom: Zoom magnifies the entire screen. It is easily accessible because once the setting is turned on, the zoom
control is friendly, helpful and easy to use. With various touch controls to activate zoom, follow focus and smart
typing, zoom controls allow for visually impaired persons to access all features of the iPhone.
- Display and text size

- Motion
- Spoken content
- Audio description
- Colorblind settings
2. How does the feature make the device more accessible? Who might it benefit?

3. Principle 4: Perceptible Information

Provide compatibility with a variety of techniques or devices used by people with sensory limitations.
Group 2: Physical & Motor Settings
1. What features and settings are in your group’s accessibility category and what do they do?
- Touch:
Allows you to use your phone if you have difficulty touching the screen, if you can't reach the top of your screen you can swipe down to bring the top
into reach,
- Face ID:
Look at your phone to unlock it, plays a vibration when face ID successfully unlocks

- Voice control:
allows you to use your voice to control your phone, instead of touch.
- Side button:
Changes the clickspeed of the side button, to assist with dexterity issues. It also changes what function the side button has, if any.
- Apple TV remote: changes the touch style of the Apple TV remote.
- Keyboards: changes keyboard settings to help with dexterity
- Vibration
- Gestures
- Find My Iphone
Group 3: Hearing Settings
1. What features and settings are in your group’s accessibility category and what do they do?
- Hearing devices
- You can add bluetooth hearing aids to your phone
- Improves audio quality
- Sound recognition
- It will listen for certain sounds and on device intelligence and it will notify you when sounds are recognized
- TTY
- Allows the user to make and receive TTY phone calls. Also allows you to connect an external TTY device to make and receive calls.
- Subtitles & Captioning
- Closed captions or subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- Flash notifications
- The camera light flashes when you receive a notification

1. How does the features make the device more accessible? Who might it benefit?
- Hearing accessibility settings makes devices more accessible to those who are hard of hearing through catering to their specific disabilities. Ex. bluetooth
enabled headphones/hearing aids can make important auditory info and sounds louder for those who cannot hear as well.

-Any media being delivered auditorily (i.e. music, podcasts news/radio, movie/TV scores and dubs) can become accessible to those with hearing
loss/disabilities.

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Group 3: Hearing Settings
3. Which principle of universal design does it fall under?
Equitable Use for many reasons relating to each feature and setting:

- The phone’s audio being usable by people with hearing impairments after connecting their phones to
hearing aids.

- The phone’s cellular calling function is enabled through the use of text to speech (TTY)

- Subtitles and captioning allows for videos and audio to be experienced by everybody

- Flash notifications can alert people without audio cues as well