Transcript eXplore2 with the iPad2

eXplore2 with
the iPad2
Accessibility & Apps for…
• Students who are Blind, and
• Students with Low Vision
• About the presenters…
Niels Nicolajsen
• Educational Consultant for
Students with Visual Impairments
• Orientation & Mobility Specialist
• Assistive Technology Specialist for
the visually impaired
Richard Svekla
• Assistive Technology Specialist for
multiple disciplines
• UBC Masters of Education student
in visual impairments
Please note that this file is an amalgamation of two separate
slideshow presentations on the iPad’s accessibility features
Accessibility &
Apps for Students
with Visual
Impairments
• Retina display at 2048×1536
resolution
• rear 5MP iSight camera with
illumination
• 1080p HD video camera with
video stabilization, temporal
noise reduction
• Dictation feature built into the
onscreen keyboard
• 10-hour battery life
• 4G LTE (Long Term
Evolution)
• From $519 (16 GB WiFi) to
$849 (64 GB WiFi + 4G)
Note: shipping began March 16, 2012
iPad 3:
What’s
new?
How many Apps?
• As of the Apple announcement of the
iPad 3 on March 7 (2012)…
• over 585,000 apps!
• over 25 billion downloads!
• Hard to be an “expert” on
apps…
• At times, too many to choose
from
• New ones always added
• Existing ones updated /
improved
• Non-popular ones removed
• Easier to be an “expert” on
the built-in features
• Better yet, share “expertise” in
a community of learners
Accessibility &
Apps for Students
with Visual
Impairments
The Evolving
World of Apps
for the iPad
and iPhone
REMEMBER: the iPad is
COOL… but it’s NOT the
only tool in the ‘learning
toolbox’ for the student!
Accessibility &
Apps for Students
with Visual
Impairments
Accessibility & Apps for Students
with Low Vision
Tip #1: apply a matte screen protector
•Low vision features
built into the iPad:
• “Zoom”
• “Large Text”
• “White on Black”
(i.e. reversal of all colours)
• “Speak Selection”
Accessibility &
Apps for Students
with Low Vision
VoiceOver built-in TTS
feature on the iPad:
•Reconfigures all previous
modes of interaction…
•New interaction of “Finger
gestures”
• Refer to Vision Alberta
handout, page 2
Accessibility &
Apps for Students
who
are Blind
Rotors & Keyboarding
• Typing with VoiceOver enabled and
the on-screen keyboard, the default is
a double-tap on each letter
• Using the ‘Rotor’ feature of
VoiceOver, “touch” typing can be
enabled (let go of the desired letter)
• 2 fingers in a rotating motion (e.g.
one’s thumb and forefinger opening a
bottle top)
• Each rotor setting can be tweaked
with a flick up or down
Accessibility &
Apps for Students
who
are Blind
•External keyboards:
•“Apple Keyboard Dock” (no
longer available) – limited to
portrait orientation
•BlueTooth keyboards:
•USB keyboards?
• via "Apple Camera
Connection Kit"
Accessibility &
Apps for Students
with Visual
Impairments
Accessibility &
Apps for Students
with Low Vision
•External
keyboards:
•USB keyboards!
• E.g. Crayola (at right)
• via "Apple Camera
Connection Kit"
• “AirPrint” printers
• Not all WiFi printers are compatible
with iPad!
• As of March 2012, Apple’s list of 132
AirPrint compatible printers (see link on
this webpage):
• http://www.apple.com//ipad/features/airprin
t.html
• “A rose by any other name…”
• Some printer companies (e.g. HP) indicate
mobile / iPad compatibility using their own
label
• Also, search the App store or via
iTunes for “iPrint apps”
Accessibility &
Apps for Students
with Visual
Impairments
BRAILLE DISPLAYS
• iOS 5.1 (released March 7, 2012) is
supposed to work with all current braille
displays via Bluetooth
• Brailliant (by Humanware)
• Focus 40 Blue (by Freedom Scientific)
• etc.
• Settings… General…
• Accessibility… VoiceOver… Braille… (requires Bluetooth on)
One example of
accessories: iGrill?
•cooking / temperature $80
Apple accessory for the
iPhone / iPad
•App is free:
• http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app
/igrill/id400796680?mt=8
•But is the app accessible
with VoiceOver?
Accessibility &
Apps for Students
who are Blind
Accessibility & Apps
for Students who are
Visually Impaired
• Third-party iTunes APPS
GAMES using VoiceOver
• Papa Sangre… Text Twirl!... Bop It!™ for iPad… Zany
Touch… Arcade Hoops Basketball… Stem Stumper…
Additional ones from AppleVis website:
• Blindshoot
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/blindshoot/id498792267?m
t=8
• Moxie, and Moxie 2 (word games)
http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/moxie-freeedition/id309662269?mt=8
• King of Dragon Pass http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/kingof-dragon-pass/id335545504?mt=8
CAMERA APPS
• LookTel Money Reader
• Omoby, Digit-Eyes, VizWiz
• Listen At It, aidColors, Color Blind Aid, Kolorami
• …and many magnification tools for low-vision
users!
• but are these any better than the built-in camera?
• how about ZoomText’s app, ZoomReader?
• http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/zoomreader/id414117816?mt=8
VIDEO CHATTING
FaceTime
• Built-in, ergo it has been
tested to work with
VoiceOver by Apple
• Limitation: can only
connect to those with
mobile Apple devices
•
Not Android phone users, etc.
•
Nor computer users, especially PC
(Windows) machines
Skype
• From postings on
AppleVis, previous
versions of Skype were
more accessible than
more recent updates
• Skype eventually seems
to play catch-up in
making their app more
accessible
VIDEOCONFERENCE
• Polycom® RealPresence™ Mobile
• FuzeMeeting (www.fuzemeeting.com)
• SMART Bridgit Conferencing
iPads & Interactive Whiteboards
But which app does this best? And what else is needed?
iPads & Interactive
Whiteboards
•How to share the teacher’s
electronic presentation on the
iPad for the student with low
vision…
- One of many solutions: run SMART
Bridgit software on the teacher’s
computer (or FuzeMeeting, or :
http://bridgit.smarttech.com ($ cost $)
- then run the SMART Bridgit
Conferencing app on the iPad: (free)
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/smart-bridgitconferencing/id433502122
Accessibility &
Apps for Students
with Low Vision
• iPads & Interactive
Whiteboards
RECORDING & AUDIO
• Voice Memos (built-in… iPhone only)
• List Recorder (99¢)
• Dragon Dictation (free)
• Note: new to iPad3 is the Dictation feature built into the
onscreen keyboard – useful in almost every app!
• VLingo (iPhone app)
• AudioNote Lite (free)
• Hound (free) & others similar to it
NAVIGATION
• iPhone’s built in compass: Zoom yes
Speak Selection no
• but it is VoiceOver friendly!
• Various 3rd party iPad apps (some better contrast than
others, not likely VoiceOver friendly)
• but…Sendaro GPS LookAround ($4.99) – an accessible
GPS app for blind iPhone users
• and…Navigon Canada – GPS that works with VoiceOver
WORD PROCESSING
• Notes (built in)
• PlainText (free)
• Pages ($9.99)
• Quickoffice® Pro HD ($14.99)
• EverNote (free)
• CloudOn (free) – Microsoft’s app
BOOK APPS
• Print book readers:
• iBooks: VoiceOver friendly
• Kindle: VO friendly
• Kobo: clumsy using VO
• Audio book readers:
• Overdrive: VO friendly, plays in background, has sleep
function
• Audible: VO friendly, plays in background, sleep function
• Audiobooks: VO friendly, plays in background, sleep
function
• …and many more
PDF APPS
Zoom
2-finger pinch
• iBooks
• kobo
• GoodReader for
iPad
• pdf-notes for
iPad
• Adobe Reader
• Perfect Reader
Speak Selection
built-in speech
PDF APPS cont’d
• VoiceOver friendly:
•
iBooks (free)
• NOT VoiceOver friendly:
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Kobo
GoodReader for iPad
pdf-notes for iPad
Adobe Reader
Perfect Reader
DAISY APPS
• VOD Lite “voice of DAISY” (free; full version is $25.99)
• DaisyWorm (99¢)
• inDAISY ($19.99)
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Possibly the very 1st DAISY app…
…but is it the best?
• Read2Go ($19.99) – for BookShare books
• Learning Ally Audio ($19.99) – requires a subscription
UTILITIES
• Calculators (iPhone’s built-in is VoiceOver ‘friendly’)
• BrailleTouch texting (iPhone?)
• TypeInBraille
• Periodic Table of the Elements (by Kevin Neelands)
is VoiceOver friendly!
• Qwiki encyclopedia
• Dictionary.com HD
UTILITIES cont’d
• iPad calculators: many options for low vision!
•
E.g “Jumbo Calculator”
• Periodic Table of the Elements?
•
Best to download the PDF from AB Education’s Chem Data booklet
• ZoomContacts (99¢) - an LP solution for organizing contact lists
•
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/zoomcontacts/id442917350?mt=8
UTILITIES cont’d
• Dropbox!
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Benefits:
One user account…
Load onto the iPhone and/or iPad
Also installs on PC or Mac
computers
Files transferred easily between
the above
Files and folders can be shared
between multiple users*
There’s even a public access
folder for anyone to access a file*
* iCloud can’t do these!
UTILITIES cont’d
• Dropbox!
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On the downside:
Dropbox gives only 2 GB free, vs. iCloud’s 5 GB free
Changes to iPhone & iPad iOS now limits what apps can upload
files into Dropbox (e.g. Pages & Keynote will open files from
Dropbox, but cannot upload them back again)
Previous version of
Dropbox on older iOS…
(Photos or videos, and Other files)
Current version of
Dropbox on new iOS 5.1
(photos & videos only)
WEB RESOURCES
Feeling disconnected?
• iPad & iPhone user guides:
http://manuals.info.apple.com
• Accessibility:
http://www.apple.com/accessibility/ip
ad/vision.html
• Accessible apps, guides & discussion
for blind and vision-impaired users:
www.applevis.com
• Explore with the iPad: Accessibility
Resources and Tips:
http://www.vision.alberta.ca/media/97
619/ipadtips.pdf
• 1-2-1 Mobile Media Tablet Project's
Wiki:
http://121mobilemediatabletproject.wi
kispaces.com