Voiceover
VoiceOver doesn’t just tell you what’s happening, it helps you make things happen. It tells you what’s on your screen, and walks you through actions like selecting a menu option or activating a button using your keyboard or trackpad. VoiceOver gives you complete control of your Mac, with no need to see the screen. And it’s already built in.
http://www.apple.com/au/accessibility/osx/voiceover/ |
Basic VoiceOver gestures
In VoiceOver settings, you can enter a special area where you can practice VoiceOver gestures without affecting your iPad/iPhone or its settings.
To Practice VoiceOver gestures. Go to Settings > General > Accessibility > VoiceOver, then tap VoiceOver Practice. When you finish practicing, tap Done. If you don’t see the VoiceOver Practice button, make sure VoiceOver is turned on.
Navigate and read
Activate
Double-tap: Activate the selected item.
Triple-tap: Double-tap an item.
Split-tap: As an alternative to selecting an item and double-tapping to activate it, touch an item with one finger, and then tap the screen with another.
Double-tap and hold (1 second) + standard gesture: Use a standard gesture. The double-tap and hold gesture tells iPhone to interpret the next gesture as standard. For example, you can double-tap and hold, and then without lifting your finger, drag your finger to slide a switch.
Two-finger double-tap: Answer or end a call. Play or pause in Music, Videos, Voice Memos, or Photos. Take a photo in Camera. Start or pause recording in Camera or Voice Memos. Start or stop the stopwatch.
Two-finger double-tap and hold: Change an item’s label to make it easier to find.
Two-finger triple-tap: Open the Item Chooser.
Three-finger triple-tap: Mute or unmute VoiceOver.
Three-finger quadruple-tap: Turn the screen curtain on or off.
To Practice VoiceOver gestures. Go to Settings > General > Accessibility > VoiceOver, then tap VoiceOver Practice. When you finish practicing, tap Done. If you don’t see the VoiceOver Practice button, make sure VoiceOver is turned on.
Navigate and read
- Tap: Select and speak the item.
- Swipe right or left: Select the next or previous item
- Swipe up or down: Depends on the rotor setting. See Use the VoiceOver rotor.
- Two-finger tap: Stop speaking the current item.
- Two-finger swipe up: Read all from the top of the screen.
- Two-finger swipe down: Read all from the current position.
- Two-finger scrub: Move two fingers back and forth three times quickly (making a “z”) to dismiss an alert or go back to the previous screen.
- Three-finger swipe up or down: Scroll one page at a time.
- Three-finger swipe right or left: Go to the next or previous page (on the Home screen or in Stocks, for example).
- Three-finger tap: Speak additional information, such as position within a list or whether text is selected.
- Four-finger tap at top of screen: Select the first item on the page.
- Four-finger tap at bottom of screen: Select the last item on the page.
Activate
Double-tap: Activate the selected item.
Triple-tap: Double-tap an item.
Split-tap: As an alternative to selecting an item and double-tapping to activate it, touch an item with one finger, and then tap the screen with another.
Double-tap and hold (1 second) + standard gesture: Use a standard gesture. The double-tap and hold gesture tells iPhone to interpret the next gesture as standard. For example, you can double-tap and hold, and then without lifting your finger, drag your finger to slide a switch.
Two-finger double-tap: Answer or end a call. Play or pause in Music, Videos, Voice Memos, or Photos. Take a photo in Camera. Start or pause recording in Camera or Voice Memos. Start or stop the stopwatch.
Two-finger double-tap and hold: Change an item’s label to make it easier to find.
Two-finger triple-tap: Open the Item Chooser.
Three-finger triple-tap: Mute or unmute VoiceOver.
Three-finger quadruple-tap: Turn the screen curtain on or off.
Sensory Sun
Sensory Sun provides lots of resources (including Apps) to support children who are blind.
More info here |
My Talking Picture Board (App)
Little Bear Sees and Western Pennsylvania School for Blind Children proudly present their first collaborative app for those with cortical visual impairment (CVI). This innovative app allows the user to create two-dimensional object identification tasks using their own photos and voice.
Once you’ve uploaded a photo or image, you can choose what kind of reward will occur when the object is selected; a voice recording, movement or both. Arrange images on the play screen and then ask the student with CVI to touch a particular object. When touched, the object will respond with the reward action you’ve set. Customize the experience by arranging your photos into groups and selecting background images of varying levels of complexity to make the task more or less challenging. Identifying two-dimensional images can be particularly difficult for those with CVI and this app is the perfect format to offer customized practice in this area! $30.99 https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/my-talking-picture-board/id586535395?mt=8 |
Ballyland Magic App
Sonokids (Australian company) has built on the foundation of their two previous games to create a fun app that teaches kids how to interact with the VoiceOver options on their iPad through a game... which means they will be learning how to use assistive technology and they might not even realize it! Ballyland Magic app reintroduces the adorable Ballyland characters as they rehearse, prepare and put on a magic show. The flow and story of the app is engaging (including original music!), which helps to keep kids interested even while learning how to access the apps on their home screen.
$4.49 https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/ballyland-magic-app/id1077697759?mt=8 |
I Love Fireworks
iLoveFireworks — For children with no vision the joy is in the sounds. The pops, bangs and explosions are exciting and with the sound turned up to maximum you can actually feel the iPad vibrate a little with each bang. For kids with some vision, the lights of the fireworks are bright and contrast perfectly with the all-black background.
$1.49 https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/ilovefireworks/id301027080?mt=8 |