Helena Riojas

10/31/2019
TLED 430W Mod 7

5 Accessibility for the iPad running an IOS system

1. Guided Access –
How to access it: Go to Settings > Accessibility and turn on Guided Access.
*you will be asked to put in a passcode for this feature, so don’t forget to write it down.

What this will do:

If you have a wonderful free app that is covered in “free ads”, you can select a portion of your
screen that you do not want to respond to any touch from fingers. Or perhaps you have child
with some sporadic autistic hand gestures. This feature will allow them to accidentally touch
areas of the screen that would normally turn pages or leave the application they are in and go into
a menu selection.

Once you have left settings and turned your guided access on and chosen a pin, you can now
leave and open any app you want, and then to turn on your guided access you triple click your
home button – enter you pin and select the area of screen you want untouchable. As seen in the
picture you can shut off more buttons, make the motion of shake disabled and make the entire
screen unresponsive.

* Picture from http://osxdaily.com/2012/09/25/enable-guided-

access-ios/

When you make the entire screen “untouchable” you are basically turning it into a watch only
screen. Turning off the home button, so that you have to hit the home button quickly 3 times to
make it respond, which would be a great feature for young children or children with disabilities.
2. Zoom :Low Vision Options –
How to access it: Go to Settings > Accessibility > Zoom > turn on Zoom Region.

What this will do:

This will allow your students when in an app or reading an electronic book to tap the screen with
three fingers and it will zoom into and area as if they have a magnifying glass. This feature
would be great for students with poor eyesight, or even beginning readers who want to focus on
one word.

*Image from:
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/195932/magnifier-zoom-window

3. Speak Selection
How to access it: Go to Settings > Accessibility > Speech > turn on Speech Selection

What this will do:

Students can highlight any text in an app, and it will speak the word out loud for them! What a
great feature for beginning readers or English Learners.
 *Image from
http://www.wonderbaby.org/sites/wonderbaby2.perkinsdev1.org/files/speak-selection.png

4. Live Listen
How to access it: Go to Settings > Accessibility > Hearing Devices turn on and select your
students hearing aids then select live listen and place the iPad in front of the person you want to
hear better.

What this will do:

This will help your hearing-impaired students utilize their iPads as an extra magnifier for people
they are speaking with. For example, the class is broken up into reading groups and the
classroom is a little loud with all the groups sharing and talking. A child with a hearing
disability can pass around the iPad in their reading group to magnify the person that is speaking
to their hearing aids. It could be the teacher speaking, or maybe a fellow student reading out
loud and they group is doing a “following read a-long”. Great way to use the iPad for them and
keep them able to be engaged and not lose out due to a loud classroom.

5. Speech Screen
How to access it: Go to Settings > Accessibility > Speech > turn on Speech Screen

What this will do:

This will allow students to have an entire screen read to them. Once this feature is turned on,
they simply take two fingers and swipe down the screen. It will read the entire screen to them.
There is upper left button that will toggle off and on the features of the reader. They can pause,
rewind and even speed up or slow down the audible reader. Great uses for beginning readers, or
children with poor eyesight. Also great for English learners, to hear the words and then try to
read the text.