ATIA 2014 ACC11: Out of the Box: What iPads can Do

ACC-11:
Out of the Box:
What Can the iPad Do?
Donna Schneider
Assistive Tech Specialist
info@iteachitech.com
January 30, 2014
4:40 -5:30PM

Handouts are available at: www.atia.org/orlandohandouts

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Overview
• Session to learn about the iPad, it’s
Accessibilities and what it can do before an
app is downloaded.
• The rotor in VoiceOver will be
demonstrated, explained and demystified
• Accessibilities will be compared across iOS
5, iOS 6 and iOS 7

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IOS 5

IOS 6

IOS 7

VoiceOver
Zoom
Large Text

VoiceOver
Zoom
Large Text

VoiceOver + large cursor
Zoom
Dynamic Type (works on any app that
supports it)

White on Black

White on Black (Invert Colors)

White on Black

Speak Selection
Speak Auto Text
Mono Audio
Balance Controls
Assistive Touch
Triple Click Home

Speak Selection
Speak Auto Text
Mono Audio
Balance Controls
Assistive Touch
Triple Click Home
Highlight Words when spoken

Speak Selection
Speak Auto Text
Mono Audio
Balance Controls
Assistive Touch
Triple Click Home
Highlight Words when spoken

Guided Access

Guided Access (enhanced)

Home Button Speed

Home Button Speed
Bold Type
Increase Contrast
Reduce Motion
Enable on/off labels
Closed Captioning
Built in Dictionary that
supports additional languages


Switch Control

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Accessibility Integrated in iOS 6
• iOS 6 accessibility features work with one
another instead of independently and only
one at a time.
• Triple-Click Home 3 times to activate
Guided Access, VoiceOver, Invert Colors,
Zoom and Assistive Touch.
• Multiple Accessibilities can run at the same
time

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Accessibility iOS 7
• iOS 7 Accessibility has moved up in the
General Menu
• Triple Click Home is now Accessibility
Shortcut


5

VoiceOver Rotor
• With VoiceOver on, turn the rotor by rotating
two fingers on the screen as if you were turning
an actual dial
• You can change the way VoiceOver moves
through a web page or document based on the
setting you choose.
• You can customize the rotor elements from a
variety of options, including language, speech
rate, volume, zoom, vertical navigation, etc.

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Voiceover Rotor

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VoiceOver Rotor in iOS 5
• The Rotor command includes a greater number of
functions that you can control with the Rotor
gesture.
•

Adjust speech rate

•

Volume

•

Hints

• Vertical Navigation
•

New spoken languages are now available from within the
Language Rotor list—Irish English and South African English

• You can also now choose different feedback when navigating
images with VoiceOver—Always, With Descriptions, and Never

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VoiceOver Rotor iOS 6
• Additions to the Rotor
• In the mail app, “actions” was added to the
Rotor. Allows you to choose the default action
to open up the mail message or a single finger
flick up to delete a message when one is open
• Also added to the Rotor is an option to adjust
the amount of punctuation spoken by
VoiceOver. Options are none, some and all.
(option will not read the punctuation at the end
of a sentence but will in a web address or email address)

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Voiceover Rotor iOS 7
• Can now add the option for turning
sound effects on and off
• Handwriting option which allows you to
enter text by using your handwriting


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Voiceover iOS 5
• To activate an item double tap it
• To scroll a page flick 3 fingers
• Screen Curtain double tap with 3
fingers
• Speak hints can be turned on/off
• Speaking rate can be adjusted

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VoiceOver iOS 5
• Typing feedback allows the device to
indicate what you typed. Settings are typed
characters, words or words and characters
spoken.
• Use phonetics
• Use pitch change
• Use compact voice
• Braille command supports contracted Braille
and the Status Cell option and support for 8dot Braille devices

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Voiceover iOS 6
• Works with Zoom
• Multiple accessibilities such as Braille. Speech and Zoom
can be on at the same time
• Gestures have changed when using VoiceOver and Zoom
together
• If on together, double tapping with 3 fingers will zoom in
on an item. If VoiceOver is only on, 3 fingers will mute
the speech.
• If on together, triple tap to mute the speech
• To turn Screen Curtain on tap with 3 fingers 4 times.
• With Zoom and VoiceOver on, single finger double tap
will activate the item which has the VoiceOver cursor
focus.

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Voiceover iOS 6
• Onscreen keyboard enhancement for text
input. To activate the More button, or the Shift
key, single tap with one finger which will
activate the item. Previously, it was a double
tap.
• Assistive Touch is now compatible with
VoiceOver and a user can set up custom
gestures.

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Voiceover iOS 7
• Large, thicker cursor option
• Setting can be found at the bottom of the VoiceOver
screen
• Enhanced voices and language support
• Language Rotor replaced with Languages and Dialects on
the VoiceOver screen
• Select default dialect on the screen and can add
languages to the Rotor for access while using VoiceOver
• Each dialect or language can have an enhanced version
downloaded as well as being able to adjust the speaking
rate separately for each

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Voiceover iOS 7
• Phonetics option has more than just on and off,
you can select off, character and phonetics, and
phonetics only
• Sound effects can be turned on or off on the
VoiceOver screen. These are the sounds you
would hear when you get to the end of the page,
etc.
• Enhanced voice and language support settings
where a user can install more than one speech
synthesizer and select the dialect (e.g. U.S.
English, Australian English)

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Voiceover iOS 7
Web content on Safari
•Accessibility improvements with the announcement of
various ARIA roles
•MathML support https://eyeasme.com/Joe/MathML/
MathML_browser_test


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Voiceover Gestures iOS 7
• 4 finger double-tap starts or stops VoiceOver Help
• 3 finger quadruple tap copy last spoken text to the clipboard
• Tap the status bar and swipe up with three fingers to start the
control center (to exit do a two finger scrub on the home
screen)
• Press the home button and tap on the screen to unlock the
screen
• Double tap with two fingers (when in a form field) to allow the
user to dictate in the edit field, performing the gesture again
will finish the speaking

• For more gestures, go to:
http://www.brownsburg.k12.in.us/technology/TrainingDocs/Appl

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Handwriting VoiceOver option iOS 7
• Option when selected in the VoiceOver Rotor
allows you to enter text by handwriting. This
will work in the Notes app and e-mail.
• Gestures supported in the handwriting mode
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•
•
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Two finger swipe left deletes
Two finger swipe right adds a space
Three finger swipe right adds a new line
Can switch between uppercase, lowercase,
punctuation, and numbers by swiping up with three
fingers


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Handwriting VoiceOver option iOS 7
• Navigate on the Home screen and search for
apps by the first letter of the app name. If there
are several apps that start with that name
swipe up or down with two fingers to navigate
the list and then double tap with one finger to
open the app you want
• Handwriting option works in Lock Screen. Use
it to enter the numbers for your passcode.

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Braille iOS 6
• iOS 6 supports the following Braille displays
• The new generation of Focus displays from
Freedom Scientific
• The Perkins mini
• The Braille Edge made by HIMS
• The Braille Sense note takers that run firmware
Version 7 which are made by HIMS

• There is also a new keyboard command, Space
with “l”, will launch the Item Chooser

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Braille iOS 7
Math input support using Nemeth Braille in
VoiceOver


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Zoom iOS 5
• Zoom –magnifies entire screen
• Double tap 3 fingers to zoom in and out
• Drag 3 fingers to move around the screen


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Large text iOS 5
• Large Text – text can be enlarged from
20pt to 56pt. Works in:
• Mail
• Contacts
• Calendars
• Messages
• Notes


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Dynamic type iOS 7
• Large Text is now called Dynamic Type
• Works in any app that supports the
feature
• Text size is controlled using a slider
rather than choosing from a list
• Live preview which shows you what the
type will look like

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White on black iOS 5
• Use the White on Black option to invert the iOS
device’s screen colors making it easier for
someone with visual impairments to see
• Also great for reading in sunlight


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Invert colors iOS 7
• White on Black now called Invert Colors


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Speak selection iOS 5
• Speak Selection can be switched off and
on.
• When on, select on-screen text by
touching it, highlight what you want
spoken and then tap the “Speak” button
to hear the text spoken


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Speak Selection iOS 5
When “Speak
Selection” is turned
on, any text that
can be highlighted
can be read aloud.
This includes web
pages, emails,
documents, iBooks.
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In addition to speaking the selection,
each word can be highlighted as it is
spoken


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• Enhanced language support including
different speaking rates for supported
languages
• Additional voices can be downloaded
that are more natural sounding and
easier to understand
• If apps allow, app can tap into the built in
voice support of iOS

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Speak Auto-Text iOS 5
• Speaks any auto-corrected and autocapitalized text when turned on.
• Helpful for visually impaired and those
who do not pay attention to the
substitution of words when the device
detects an alleged mistake


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Mono Audio iOS 5
• Individuals with difficulty hearing
struggle with stereo sound
• Individuals have the option to alter the
stereo signal through the headphone
ports so both sides of the stereo stream
are broadcast through each earpiece


33

Balance control iOS 5
• If hearing in one ear is better than the
other, the Balance Control slider can be
used to make one channel of the stereo
signal louder


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Subtitles and captioning IOS 7
• Closed captioning support can now be found under
Accessibilities instead of in videos where was
previously found.
• The setting will control closed-captioned throughout
the apps in IOS, when available.
• Style that closed captioning is presented in can be
adjusted to meet the users needs. There are three
presets and can also create your own style where
you can change Font, Size, Color, background color,
background opacity, text opacity, text edge style and
text highlight.

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Assistive Touch


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Assistive Touch iOS 5
Valuable for those who have difficulty touching the iPad’s
screen
•Switch it on and a target-like icon appears on the screen
•Tap it and a gray overlay window appears which allows you
to select Gestures, Device, Home and Favorite icons
•Tap Gestures and control your device with 2 to 5 fingers.
Great for those with poor finger dexterity.
•Tap Device and commands of Mute, Rotate Screen, Lock
Screen, Volume Up, Volume Down and Shake appear on the
screen. Tap your selection.
•Tap Favorites to access gestures you created

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Triple-Click Home iOS 5
• Shortcut for individuals wanting to use the
accessibility options of the iPad
• Makes accessibility options available instantly
instead of going out of app into Settings
• In Settings, you can configure what you want the
Triple-Click Home button to do.
• Options include Off, Toggle VoiceOver, Toggle
Black on White, Toggle Zoom, Toggle Assistive
Touch and Ask

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Guided access iOS 6
• New feature allows ” locking” a user into an app
• Especially helpful with young children or those using
the iPad as a communication device. Also beneficial to
those with motor impairments
• With Guided Access on, you basically disable the Home
button, thus eliminating the quitting of an app
• Before activating Guided Access, you need to enter a
four digit passcode. You do this at Settings/ General/
Accessibility/ Guided Access menu. Here you can turn
on guided access and also enter a passcode.

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GUIDED ACCESS iOS 6
• Guided Access can also be activated by
selecting it in the Triple-Click Home
option
• Caveat for this feature is that you need
to make sure you choose to allow the
iPad to go to sleep if Guided Access is
not closed and you also need to set the
volume before entering Guided Access
• Can disable touch in certain areas of
the screen

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Guided access iOS 7
• Can Disable/Enable Sleep/Wake buttons
• Can Disable/Enable Volume buttons
• Can access other Accessibilities through the
Accessibility Shortcut and use multiple
accessibilities in combination to meet the users
needs. Allows you to use VoiceOver, Zoom,
Invert Colors, Switch Control and Assistive
Touch at the same time.
• Developers can hide parts of the screen to
reduce distractions in apps, which builds on the
disabled touch in certain areas of the screen.

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Guided access iOS 7


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Home Button Speed iOS 6
• You can now adjust the speed which the
Home button will register a double-click
or triple-click
• Slower and Slowest were added


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Built in Dictionary iOS 7
• Additional languages can be downloaded
• Support for foreign languages


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Switch control iOS 7
• Items on screen are highlighted with the
cursor sequentially and when the desired
item is highlighted it to be activated by
tapping the screen or separate adaptive
device connected via Bluetooth
• Users can connect one or more switch
devices and set the desired action for the
switch
• Three different types of switches: external
switches, screen and camera for head motion

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• Camera can be set to recognize your head
movements as an action
• Different actions can be assigned to either right
or a left head turn
• When a head movement is added as a switch
source an option for adjusting the head
movement sensitivity will be available
• Caveat if using this option, best to use the
device on a stand to have the detection be more
accurate

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Switch Control iOS 7

• Desired scanner or system action for the
switch can be set by the user
• Auto scanning can be enabled and the timing
parameters adjusted including the number of
times it will loop or how long you have to hold
down the switch to activate an item (hold duration)
• Scanner options: select item, scanner menu,
resume auto scanning, move to next item, move to
previous item, and stop scanning
• System options: tap, app switcher, home button,
notification center, Siri, decrease volume and
increase volume

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• Visual appearance can be adjusted
• Choose cursor size
• Select number of colors for the scanning
cursor

• Audio control
• Hear an audio cue when the cursor
advances
• Enable speech
• Adjust speaking rate

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Miscellaneous iOS 7

• Make text bold (requires restart)
• Contrast can be increased when text appears
against certain backgrounds to increase
legibility
• Reduce the motion, or parallax motion effect.
This motion makes the screen look as if it’s
moving and may cause some issues for certain
people
• On/off labels can be enabled. What this means is
that the words on and off can be found on the
button instead of the green color indicating A
feature is on. This is helpful for those with visual
impairments or who are colorblind.


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Miscellaneous iOS 7
• Use swipe gestures to go back a screen, rather than
pressing the back button on the display. In Messages for
instance, if you’re in a thread, simply swipe from the left
corner towards the right and you’ll be taken to the main
Messages window. This works pretty much throughout
iOS 7, like Mail, Settings, Contacts etc.
• Use an app frequently but don’t like it to refresh in the
background. Go to Settings > General > Background App
Refresh and enable all the apps you wish to update
themselves in the background. Note: this feature really
takes a toll on battery, therefore select the apps which are
most relevant for you to be updated or set parameters for
when it updates.

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Miscellaneous iOS 7
• Don’t want to mistakenly launch Control
Center on the lock screen or running apps?
You can disable it. Go to Settings > Control
Center and enable or disable access to Control
Center on the lock screen or apps.


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Reader iOS 6
Reading on
the web can
be visually
overloading.
Once a page
loads, in the
address bar
look for
“Reader”. All
excess info is
removed and
the article is
shown.
Font size can
be altered.
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Safari reader iOS 7
• Navigating the web can be a sensory overload for
some individuals
• Safari Reader reduces the visual clutter on a web
page by removing distractions.
• Ads, buttons, and navigation bars are removed
allowing focus on just the content you want
• Safari Reader works with Speak Selection and
VoiceOver, to provide auditory reinforcement for
what you're seeing.

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Safari reader iOS 7

After page loads,
click here


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Safari reader iOS 7
Here is the same
page minus ads,
other articles,
etc.


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Spotlight Search iOS 5/6
To get to
Spotlight
Search, swipe
to the right as
many screens
as necessary
to get the
Search page.
Start typing
the name you
are looking
for and
choices will
begin to
appear.

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Spotlight search iOS 7
• To access Spotlight Search swipe down with
one finger on any screen
• One thing you can't do from Spotlight is
search the web and Wikipedia — Apple
removed that feature in iOS 7


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Keyboard iOS 6
You can set the
keyboard to do various
functions.


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Split keyboard iOS 6/7
• Keyboard can be
split in half
• Hold down on the
keyboard icon or
pinch apart the
keyboard with 2
fingers.
• Close by selecting
keyboard icon and
selecting “Dock
and Merge or
pinch closed with
2 fingers.

Note: touch gray area next to “T” and “Y” will
type. Same for other letters.

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Docking/undocking keyboard
iOS 6/7

• Keyboard can be
moved up on a page by
undocking it.
• Hold the keyboard icon
and select Undock.
• To Redock (bring the
keyboard back to the
bottom of the page)
hold the keyboard icon
and select Dock


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Double Click Home Button iOS 5/6
• Double click the Home button
• App row appears at the
bottom.
• This allows you to easily
toggle between 2 or more
apps.
• Swipe to the left to access
more apps.
• To close an App, hold it until
a red minus sign appears and
it jiggles. Select the minus
sign
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Double click Home/
swipe up 4 fingers iOS 7
• Double click the Home button or
• Swipe up with 4 fingers
• Apps preview show in middle of
the screen and in a row at the
bottom.
• Toggle between apps by swiping
right and left
• Close an app by flicking up on the
preview in the middle of the
screen. You also can use three
fingers to quit three apps at a time
with the same swiping motion.

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iPad controls iOS 5/6
• Double click the
Home button
• App row appears at
the bottom.
• Swipe to the right
and you can access
your music, volume
and iPad orientation.
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iPad controls iOS 7
From the bottom of
the screen, swipe up
with 1 finger to
access the iPad
controls


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Toggling apps iOS 5/6
• Toggle between apps by the Double-click
home or by swiping with four fingers to
the right or to the left when an app is
open.
• If you have a number of apps that you
were working on a different app will
move on to the home screen and you
can then use that app.

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Creating Folders iOS 5/6
To create a folder of
common or favorite
apps, press down on
any app until an “x”
appears in the top left
corner of all the apps
and they jiggle.


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Creating folders iOS 5/6


If you have no folders on
your iPad, simply choose
an app that you would like
to put in a folder with
another app.
Making sure the apps are
still jiggling, with your
finger, press down on the
app you want to move and
drag it on top of an app
that you want in the same
folder.

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Creating folders iOS 5/6


If this is a new folder, once you
merged the apps, a box will drop
down and you can name the
folder.
Touch anywhere on the screen
off the black box and it will
collapse. You will see the apps in
the folder.
You can add up to 20 apps in a
folder.
To remove an app from a folder,
simply touch the folder, it will
open and drag the app to another
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spot on the screen.

Creating folders iOS 7
• Creating folders in iOS 7 is the same as
the previous iOS
• Difference in iOS 7 is if you can put an
unlimited number of apps in a folder
• This will reduce the number of home
screens that you will have.

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Deleting Apps
To delete an app, press down on
the app until an “x”appears in
the top left corner and it jiggles.
Touch the “x” on the app you
want to delete, a box will appear
asking if this is what you want to
do, select delete and the app will
be removed from the iPad. It is
not removed from your account,
only the device. If you wish to
put it back on, either use iTunes
or iCloud to place it back on
your iPad.

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Improving iOS 7 Readability
• iOS 7 has thin fonts in the new design and are hard to
see especially when they're in front of bright
backgrounds
• If you have trouble reading the fonts in iOS 7, go to
Settings > General > Accessibility, then touch the
switch for Bold Text and also the Increase Contrast
switch right below it. It will require a restart
• Another suggestion would be to make the background
screen as dark as possible. This helps the folder be
more visible.

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Automatic app updates iOS 7


• Tired of having
numbers show up on
the App Store icon?
• Now in iOS 7, you can
have apps
automatically update.
• Go to Settings>iTunes
& App
Store>Automatic
Downloads>Updates

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Siri

On iPad with Retina display and iPad
mini just use your voice to dictate what
you want to say. Instead of typing, tap
the microphone icon on the keyboard.
Then say what you want to say, tap
Done, and the iPad converts your
words into text. Use dictation to write
messages, take notes, search the web,
and more. Dictation also works with
third-party apps. You do need internet
access for Siri to work. So, if you have
a Wi-Fi model, make sure you are
connected to the internet.


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iBooks
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Free
Different fonts
Different text sizes
3 Different backgrounds
Read books and PDF’s
Text to Speech capability in books and
most PDF’s
Highlight passages
Share quotes
Define words
Take Notes
Search text for specific words, quotes,
etc.


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iBooks


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iBooks
Notes can be
taken and then
found in the
Table of
Contents


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iBooks
Select the
note and it
will take you
back to the
page where
the note is.


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iBooks

Copy text, paste it in writing app and it annotates it for you78

iBooks
Annotated text
from iBooks


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iBooks and PDF’s

Will read most pdf’s with limited options.

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Housekeeping
• Please remember to go to the “Sessions Evaluation”
tab in the mobile app and evaluate this session
• Session code: ACC-11
• Session Title: Out of the Box: What Can the iPad Do?
• Session Presenter: Donna Schneider
• Session Presenter email: info@iteachitech.com


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