Learning Difference Convention
What do all these people have in common? They all had Dyslexia!
Henry Winkler, Walt Disney, Orlando Bloom, Steve Jobs, Keira Knightly, Richard Branson, Erin Brokovich, Steven Spielberg, Tom Cruise, Whoopi Goldberg.
Henry Winkler, Walt Disney, Orlando Bloom, Steve Jobs, Keira Knightly, Richard Branson, Erin Brokovich, Steven Spielberg, Tom Cruise, Whoopi Goldberg.
Download from the iBooks Store: Dyslexia: Supporting Students
https://itunes.apple.com/au/book/dyslexia/id888163809?mt=11
https://itunes.apple.com/au/book/dyslexia/id888163809?mt=11
Dictation
To Setup:
- Settings > General > Siri.
- Settings > Keyboard > Enable Dictation (Turn on)
- In any text enabled App, tap the Microphone key (to the left of the Space Bar)
- Start speaking.
- You will see a wavy line indicating it is working, tap Done when finished.
- You will see your spoken words appear in your text enabled App.
Text to Speech
To Setup:
- Settings > General > Accessibility > Speak Selection.
- Turn Speak Selection On.
- Choice a Voice.
- Choose a Speaking Rate.
- Turn on Highlight Words.
- Tap and hold at beginning of text.
- Take finger off and move the blue dots to cover the amount of text you wish to have read aloud.
- Tap Speak.
- The Speak button changes to Pause while speaking.
Speak Screen
- Settings > General > Accessibility > Speech
- Turn Speak Selection On
- Turn Speak Screen On
- Choose a Voice
- For new devices (iPhone 5S, iPad Air, iPad Mini Retina and above), you can choose the Alex Voice.
- Choose Speaking Rate
- Highlight Content
Wherever there is significant amount of text, using 2 Fingers swipe down from top of screen
A floating toolbar will provide you with options to personalise your listening
Speech enhancements (new in iOS 10)
Highlight by sentence: (Settings > General > Accessibility > Speech > Highlight Content)
Added to the previous 'highlight by Word' you can now activate 'highlight by Sentence' or 'highlight by Words and Sentences. Select Highlight and configure to suit your needs including whether to highlight with a background colour or underline.
Typing Feedback: (Settings > General > Accessibility > Speech > Typing Feedback)
For those who find they are entering the incorrect text, you can now choose how you wish to hear the last character or word you typed (or both).
- Character Feedback: specify a delay after which the character will be spoken (including the ability to hear a hint ("xxx")
- Hold to Speak Predictions: Tap and hold on a word to hear it spoken if you're unsure whether you are choosing the right word.
Added to the previous 'highlight by Word' you can now activate 'highlight by Sentence' or 'highlight by Words and Sentences. Select Highlight and configure to suit your needs including whether to highlight with a background colour or underline.
Typing Feedback: (Settings > General > Accessibility > Speech > Typing Feedback)
For those who find they are entering the incorrect text, you can now choose how you wish to hear the last character or word you typed (or both).
- Character Feedback: specify a delay after which the character will be spoken (including the ability to hear a hint ("xxx")
- Hold to Speak Predictions: Tap and hold on a word to hear it spoken if you're unsure whether you are choosing the right word.
Safari Reader
Safari Reader will be invoked when enough text is displayed on the page, such as News sites, Blogs.
The Reader strips the visual clutter from webpages of everything except text, images and embedded videos. Tap the three lines on the left side of the address bar and you're presented with a white page with black text and a button for controlling text size; tap it again and you're taken back to the original page. From iOS 9 onwards you’ll find another icon in the Address Bar on the right hand side (aA). Tap the icon and make further changes to the way you wish the text to appear. You are able to: - Change the Font size - Change the Font (include the new San Francisco Font) - Change the background colour. |