iPad Accessibility Features

Learning Styles

● What challenges / barriers have your

students faced when using iPads to support

their learning?

● How have you managed it?

Accessibility Overview

Select ‘Settings’ > ‘General’ >

‘Accessibility’

iPad in Education: Accessibility tools, including speak

selection and guided access

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.

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

Assistive touch for students with physical challenges

Assistive Touch

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

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

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

How will you cater for all learners?

Attribution: Slides from 3-10 from Fionna Wright

Core Education