Settings app on the iPad.
Built-in Accessibility features.
VoiceOver: Apple’s gesture based screen reader
Zoom: Which provides full screen magnification up to 500%
White on Black: reverses the screen for higher contrast
Zoom. (Turn Zoom on by clicking on it) When Zoom is on, you can use a three finger double tap gesture to immediately increase the screen magnification by 200% or you can double-tap and drag three fingers to dynamically adjust the magnification between 100% and 500%. E
Turn Zoom off
(Triple click home, turn off Zoom and then turn on VoiceOver)
Voice Over
Default English Voice
9 languages to help with ESL
At Home Screen, drag to hear what's on it. With VoiceOver on, tapping on an icon doesn't open an app, it just announces what is under your finger.
To open an app, you double-tap.
VO remembers the last thing you touched and you can double-tap anywhere on the screen to open it.
So now that we have a basic understanding of how VO works, what do you think are some things that any student might want to do on the iPad? How about surf the web? Let’s try that with VoiceOver.
Go to: http://www.apple.com/accessibility.
Read a paragraph or use a two-finger swipe to read the whole page.
iBooks.
Read a line or a whole page (two finger swipe down), pause and play (two finger single tap), and move from page to page (three finger swipe).
Turn off VO using Triple Click Home.
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