ITSC+2010+-+Accessibility

=ITSC 2010 - Accessibility=

Mac mini

Garageband - recording sentences, student can record after Look at the waves - what does he/she need to do

Turning accessibility on for students with accessibility issues. Low vision - keyboard options to leave lights on

Mac's assume that when you turn it on for the first time, if you do not do anything - it automatically switches accessibility on and guides you through the process.

Closed captioning.

For iPod/iPod touches etc you can change it to mono so it plays in one ear.

Apple doesn't support pdf/microsoft word for voice over.

Apple accessibility forum - launching at the end of May.

=Alex= [|Alex - voice over tech] - cognitive voice. Using Textedit - type text -> //Edit -> Speech -> Start speaking.// Students type the story and listen to it play back - check punctuation through listening to it.

Go //Apple -> System Preferences -> Speech to choose voices//

//TextEdit -> Services - > Import as a sound to iTunes// You can set this up through services - it then links in to iMovie/Keynote etc

Set it up through Services -> Services Preferences and tick the boxes you want to have available. You can automatically do that from blogs/safari etc ANYTHING!!

It dumps it into your recently added and then can be thrown into any area.

To change the speed etc of your system voice //Utilities -> VoiceOver Utility// Or you can search for //VoiceOver Utility//

Command + F5 -> VoiceOver on or off

=David Woodbridge= [] Navigon - GPS App for the iPhone Can't use voiceover and zoom at the same time on an iPhone/ITouch but you can on a laptop. Accessibility -> Only on 3Gs iPhone and only on iTouch 32Gb and higher.

=**Seeing -> Universal Access**= =**Screen Magnification**=

Apple -> System Preferences -> Universal Access -> Zoom Option Command + Magnify Option Command - Mini



Options for moving around with the pointer



=Display Options=



=Easy access to Universal Access through the menu bar=



=Hearing -> Universal Access=



=iTouch=

[|David's Website] -> Steps on how to do all the below. //iTouch -> Settings -> General -> Accessibility -> Turn Triple click on//

VoiceOver Flick -> moves to another app Double tap -> Opens an app Reads it all out

Zoom Using three fingers zooming and moving around.

Black and White

Mono Audio

=Hearing=

Screen flash

[|Closed Caption] content through the iTunes store.

=Physical & Motor Skills=

Slow keys - accept the first entry Turn on through //Universal Access//

Sticky Keys - holding down a few keys - will keep those keys on for a while before they come off

On screen keyboard

Dictate - keywords that you can speak to the computer so that it does what you want.

=Other Tips=

Built in dictionary - red line underlined through all applications Control + Click word to get spelling suggestions

Spotlight - Apple, Wiki, Dictionary and Thesaurus

TextEdit - type part of a word then hit Escape and it brings up a list of words that it can use/it may be.