Accessibility Assignment

Rylee Toler
 What are Accessibility
Features?
With the advancement of technology, more tools and resources have been introduced to children with disabilities as
a means of communication, learning, and more. The features that give children with disabilities the opportunity to
use iPads and other mobile devices are called “accessibility features.” Accessibility features help people with all
kinds of different disabilities.
 1. Assistive Touch
One extremely beneficial accessibility feature is
called “assistive touch”. For people without well-
developed fine-motor skills, assistive touch allows
them to use the iPad a lot easier. This feature
can be accessed under iOS8 in it’s most recent
update.

One just has to simply go to

Settings>General>Accessibility>AssistiveTouch
and turn the AssistiveTouch on.

Essentially how this works is once turned on an

icon will permanently be found in the corner of
your screen. When touched, it opens a menu to
allow someone to complete the most simple
actions with just one touch. It has quick links to
different centers someone may need to access.
One of the coolest functions of this feature is
when you click on the gestures menu it lets you
tell the Ipad to read how ever many finger on the
screen, even if there is only one. Basically if there
is an app that requires a child to do a two-finger
swipe and they don’t have the motor skills for this
then this setting allows them to use the app with
no problems.
2. Guided Access
Another good feature is the “Guided
Access” feature. Parents of children with
disabilities often have problems with
them clicking on ads on the sides of
apps when using the iPad but guided
access is a way to avoid this stress of
them being led to sites they shouldn't be
on or even accidentally purchasing
something without the parents
knowledge.

If you go to
Settings>General>Accessibility, turn the
Guided Access on. It has remained the
same since the iOS8 update.

This allows a parent to draw a box

around what they want their children to
see and the ads or whatever is not in the
box will vanish from the child’s view.
 3. Voice Over
Voice Over is available on the iOS9
update of the iPad and allows you to
access a built in screenreader.

Multiple voices and dialects are

available.

Go to
Settings>General>Accessibility>Aud
io Descriptions and turn it on.

This is helpful for blind children

because they can use their sound to
access their device.
 4. Braille Displays

iOS9 devices support

Bluetooth wireless braille
displays so you can read in
braille whatever appears
on your screen.

Combined with VoiceOver,

this makes it really easy for
those who are deaf and
blind to use the feature.
 5. Hearing Impairments
On the iPad using iOS9, apple offers those
with hearing impairments a way to still use
their product.

Go to
Settings>General>Accessibility>Hearing
and you can manually mess with the
volume of the ear jacks of headphones.
This could be useful in the case that one
ear hears better than the other, thus
requiring only one ear’s volume needing to
be higher.

You can also go to

Settings>General>Accessibility>Subtitles
and Captioning. You can turn captions on
and also change the font, color and size of
the captions. You can also set different
vibration patterns for alerts and phone calls.
WORKS CITED

http://www.wonderbaby.org/articles/ipad-
accessibility