Physical Access to Mobile Devices
The
iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch technology revolutionized the world of
people with disability. It has replaced costly softwares and gadgets that
were were accessible to a minority. It has opened the door of
possibility and independency for people with disability.
Built in Accessibility in Mobile Devices
Vision impairments
- Voice Over - speaks items on the screen
- Zoom - Magnifies the entire screen
- Large text - Make text larger in calender, contacts, mail, messages, and notes
- White on Black - Makes the background black and the text white
- Speak selection - Read selected content with different speed
- Speak Auto-text - Automatically speak auto-corrections and auto-capitalization when typing
- Siri - iPhone 4S lets you use your voice to send messages, place phone calls, schedule meetings, set reminders, and more. You can ask Siri to do things for you just by talking the way you talk. Siri understands what you say, knows what you mean, and even talks back. It’s the intelligent assistant that’s there to help with the things you do every day. iPhone 4S also takes dictation. Instead of typing, tap the microphone button on the keyboard, speak your words, numbers, or sentences out loud, and let iPhone convert your words into text.
Hearing impairments
- Costume vibration - Assign unique vibration patterns to people in contacts
- Mono audio - You can route both right- and left-channel audio source material into both earbuds, enabling users with hearing loss in one ear to hear both channels in each ear.
- Visual voice mail - Lets you view all your voicemail messages at once, then listen to them in the order you prefer. Use the Play/Pause button to control playback of your voice messages. you can go to setting, then messages and turn on "send as SMS" to even get your voice mail as a text message.
- Face time - iPhone 4S and iPhone 4 feature FaceTime video calling via Wi-Fi. Thanks to its high-quality video and fast frame rate, FaceTime is ideal for those who communicate using sign language or by lip reading.
- Closed-captioning - iPhone supports the playback of open captions, closed captions, and subtitling. Captions appear onscreen just like the closed captions you see on TV. You can buy or rent captioned movies on the iTunes Store and sync them to iPhone to watch on the go.
Physical and Motor Skills
- Assistive touch - It allows you to use iPhone if you have difficulty touching the screen by creating new gestures or use an adaptive accessory
- Incoming calls
- Triple-click home - by clicking the home button 3 times, you have the option of turning on voiceover, zoom, or white on black
- Useful accessibility features - Zoom, large text, speak selection, costume vibration, assistive touch, triple-click home
- Useful accessibility features - VoiceOver, Zoom, Large Text and White on Black
- Voice over
- Assistive touch
- Siri demo from apple
- Closed-captioning - for iPhone 3GS, it is under setting, then video
Accessibility in Mobile Devices provided by Apps
Vision impairments
Video demo
LookTel Money Reader recognizes most of the common currencies and speaks the denomination out loud, enabling people who are blind or visually impaired to identify and count bills. 
LookTel Recognizer allows users with visual impairments or blindness to instantly recognize everyday objects such as packaged goods in the pantry, identity cards, soda cans at the grocery store, or CDs in a music collection. Once a library has been built, users can simply point the iPhone's camera at an object and the phone will recognize and describe the item instantly.
Apps like Color ID and Color Identifier use the smartphone’s camera to identify colors, enabling people with visual impairments to coordinate their wardrobes and interpret the limited light and images they may be able to see.
Hearing impairments
SoundAMP amplifies sound and records and replays. Great for those who need some amplification to hear. Imagine turning your iPhone into a hearing aid.
Tunewiki is a fantastic (and free) app works like closed captioning for radio. When a song plays on the radio, a small box at the bottom of the screen shows the lyrics, line by line. It also goes to your iTunes library and finds the lyrics of any music that you play.
iASL translate English to American Sign Language.
Physical and Motor Skills
Prologuo2Go- Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) solution for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch for people who have difficulty speaking or cannot speak at all. Some of its features are:
- Built-in natural sounding text-to-speech voices
- Supports picture and/or text-based communication
- Close to 8000 built-in symbols.
- Automatic conjugation of verbs.
- Automatic plurals and possessives for nouns.
- One-button addition of new vocabulary items and categories
- Quick access to recently spoken items
- Video demo # 1
- Video demo # 2 - Tutorials
Attainment Switch - Turns your iOS devices into a wireless accessibility switch. Use it to communicate with scanning enabled software running on any Mac or Windows PC or iPad. Replaces expensive switch interfaces and wired switches.Some Features are:
- One-button and two-button switch mode
- Use your own images for each button
- Video demo
20 Language keyboard layouts and in app emailing posts.
Video demo
Go talk Now - It is a full-featured, customizable AAC app for the beginner to experienced communicator, turning your iPad into a dynamic GoTalk in seconds with an easy-to-use, touch-based editor. Features Include:
- 1-25 locations per page
- Use images from your iPad camera, photo library, or the built-in internet search - as many images per location as you want - and then crop, scale, and rotate using your fingers!
- Customizable backgrounds, borders, and text can be changed to any color imaginable
- Record your own speech, use text to speech (voices for $.99 each in over 20 languages), or play videos
- Auditory cues throughout give a brief verbal reinforcement before the selection of the desired button
- Customizable navigation tools can make the interface as simple or complex as the user can handle
- Place up to four of your most important messages into the core vocabulary feature and never be more then a tap away
- Unlimited menu and communication pages
- Video demo
Communication Disorders
This term “…encompasses a wide variety of problems in language, speech, and hearing. Speech and language impairments include:
- Articulation problems
- Voice disorders
- Fluency problems (such as stuttering)
- Aphasia (difficulty in using words, usually as a result of a brain injury)
- Delays in speech and/or language. Speech and language delays may be due to many factors, including environmental factors or hearing loss.”
- Taken from Child Development Institute website
---- The following are some apps suggestions for non verbal students or adults:
TapSpeak Button modernizes the idea of a mechanical switch that records and plays messages. We have taken the idea and extended it to provide a portable, convenient, and stigma-free tool to use for basic teaching and communication tasks. TapSpeak Button is especially useful for teaching cause and effect relationships. Some of the features include:
Conley Solutions builds mobile device applications that help people with disabilities to communicate with their world. We passionately want to unlock the voices in our loved ones by using every possible benefit we can gain from current technology. The populations that can benefit from our products include: Cerebral Palsy, Autism, Cortical Vision Impairment, Stroke.
Tutorial # 1,
Tutorial # 2,
Youtube Tutorials
MyVoice is the world’s easiest to use communication aid for people with speech and language disabilities. MyVoice helps thousands of people around the world to speak out loud, including people living with ALS, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Aphasia, Apraxia, Ataxia, Dysarthria, Brain Cancer, Cerebral Palsy, Developmental Disabilities and Delays, Down Syndrome, Parkinson’s Disease, Stroke, Traumatic Brain Injury, And many other challenges..
➤ Physical Accessibility with Scanning
For those with dexterity challenges, MyVoice comes equipped with special features for physical accessibility. Highlighting each vocabulary item one-by-one, MyVoice can turn the touchscreen into one giant button, letting users make choices with their whole arm or just a pinky finger.
➤ Features for Families, Teachers, and Professionals
MyVoice is built from the ground up to be a breeze for supporters to help maintain. Supporter Studio, a fully-featured online customization tool, makes it easy to customize phrases, pictures, and places from any web browser. Automatic Backup means work on a MyVoice user’s vocabulary is always safe and secure, even if a device is lost or broken.
SoundingBoard transforms your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad into the latest in communication technology. In just minutes, you can create custom boards using AbleNet symbols or your own photos. Perfect for children in special education, persons on the autism spectrum, and adults with disabilities.
TapSpeak Button modernizes the idea of a mechanical switch that records and plays messages. We have taken the idea and extended it to provide a portable, convenient, and stigma-free tool to use for basic teaching and communication tasks. TapSpeak Button is especially useful for teaching cause and effect relationships. Some of the features include:- Unlimited number of messages
- Unlimited message length
- Configurable button color
- Configurable button tap feedback
- Editing of existing messages
- Full editing of the message list
Conley Solutions builds mobile device applications that help people with disabilities to communicate with their world. We passionately want to unlock the voices in our loved ones by using every possible benefit we can gain from current technology. The populations that can benefit from our products include: Cerebral Palsy, Autism, Cortical Vision Impairment, Stroke.
Tutorial # 1,
Tutorial # 2,
Youtube Tutorials
MyVoice is the world’s easiest to use communication aid for people with speech and language disabilities. MyVoice helps thousands of people around the world to speak out loud, including people living with ALS, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Aphasia, Apraxia, Ataxia, Dysarthria, Brain Cancer, Cerebral Palsy, Developmental Disabilities and Delays, Down Syndrome, Parkinson’s Disease, Stroke, Traumatic Brain Injury, And many other challenges..➤ Physical Accessibility with Scanning
For those with dexterity challenges, MyVoice comes equipped with special features for physical accessibility. Highlighting each vocabulary item one-by-one, MyVoice can turn the touchscreen into one giant button, letting users make choices with their whole arm or just a pinky finger.
➤ Features for Families, Teachers, and Professionals
MyVoice is built from the ground up to be a breeze for supporters to help maintain. Supporter Studio, a fully-featured online customization tool, makes it easy to customize phrases, pictures, and places from any web browser. Automatic Backup means work on a MyVoice user’s vocabulary is always safe and secure, even if a device is lost or broken.
iCommunicate lets you design visual schedules, storyboards, communication boards, routines, flash cards, choice boards, speech cards, and more. It is customizable to your needs. Some of its features are:
- Record your own audio for pictures and boards
- Utilize Text-to-Speech with 20 voice options(Note: higher quality options available with a WiFi or 3G connection. When no connection OpenEars US Male voice used.)
- Internet Voices include: Australian(Female), Canadian French(Female/Male), Canadian English(Female), Dutch(Female/Male), French(Female/Male), German(Female/Male), Italian(Female/Male), Norwegian((Female), Swedish(Female), UK English(Female/Male), US English(Female/Male), US Spanish(Female/Male)
- Use your own pictures, take pictures on the fly with camera, or quick online image search
- Includes 10,000+ N2Y SymbolStix at no extra charge
- 4x10 - up to 4 pictures across by 10 down(2x2, 4x4, etc.)
- Task Completion - one picture at a time, swipe to move back and forth, add a checkmark(one finger) or do not symbol(two fingers) with touch. Touch hold time, move to next picture automatically on completion, and audio feedback options available
- Print with AirPrint or email boards
- Lock app from unwanted changes
- Universal app
- Video demos and tutorials from the manufacturer Grembe Inc.
Expressive is an entry to mid level, easy to use, and powerful app that allows children and adults with a speech impairment or a communication disorder to express their wants and needs through the use of pictures. It does not matter if an individual is having difficulty communicating due to autism, apraxia, stroke or any other communication disorder, Expressive will give that person the ability to express themselves through the use of pictured images and corresponding audio.the founder of this app is Smart Ears. Version 2.0 of Expressive contains the following upgrades:
- Ability to add your own images to the library;
- Change background color of folders;
- Record your own audio to your images;
- Hide delete and add image buttons to avoid accidents;
- Search button to find images quickly.
- Completely redesigned graphics
- Optimized audio
- Supports landscape and portrait mode
- Support re-arranging tittles
- Total of 600 vocabulary pictures
- Smarty Symbols used on Expressive app;
- Video demo
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