Assessibilty features to support students with disabilities

1. iPad Accessibility Features

2. Learning Styles
● What challenges / barriers have your
students faced when using iPads to support
their learning?
● How have you managed it?

3. Accessibility Overview
Select ‘Settings’ > ‘General’ >
‘Accessibility’

4. iPad in Education: Accessibility tools, including speak
selection and guided access

5. Speech Selection
Enabling Speak Selection:
1. Launch the Settings app from the Home
screen of your iPhone or iPad.
2. Now tap on General.
3. Scroll down and towards the bottom, tap
on Accessibility.
4. Tap on the Speak Selection option and
turn it to On.
5. You can further customize the speed at
which your iPhone or iPad reads the text
and the dialect it uses. Once you're done,
just tap the Home button to return to
the Home screen.
Using Speak Selection:
1. Launch the app containing the text you'd like
your iPhone or iPad to speak back to you.
2. Hold your finger down on the text you'd like it
to read to pull up the copy/paste menu.
3. Highlight the text and in the text edit popup,
select Speak.
4. Your iPhone or iPad will now speak the text
back to you.

6. Guided Access
Guided Access: Select the following
links to find out how to enable and use
Guided Access:
1. How to use Guided Access:
http://voice4uaac.com/tips/guided-
access-ios6/
2. How to disable parts of your screen:
http://www.wikihow.com/Use-Guided-
Access-to-Disable-Parts-of-an-iPad-
Screen

7. Assistive touch for students with physical
challenges

8. Assistive Touch

9. Invert colours
Some people with a visual
impairment will magnify the
screen and invert colors so that
most text is white-on-black. This
helps improve contrast.
Also good for reading in the
dark.(link)
You can also increase the contrast
under the accessibility settings

10. Enable button shapes for visual accessibility
How to enable button shapes on iPhone and iPad: http://www.imore.com/how-
enable-button-shapes-visual-accessibility-iphone-and-ipad

11. Using Siri voice control
Using Siri in the context of
a disability
How to turn Siri on:
http://ipad.about.com/od/iP
ad_Guide/ss/How-To-Use-
Siri-On-The-Ipad.htm
The Ultimate Guide: http://www.imore.com/siri-ultimate-guide

12. How will you cater for all learners?
Attribution: Slides from 3-10 from Fionna Wright
Core Education