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1. triple finger double tap for muting speech is replaced with a triple finger triple tap Voiceover s triple finger triple tap command for turning on and off the screen curtain is replaced with a triple finger quadruple tap when Zoom is running Voiceover Screenreader Continued Crisp intelligent soeech reads the contents of the screen Touch screen hand gestures enable users to navigate the screen access applications and enter and edit text Keyboard commands are present when a physical keyboard is present Voiceover provides drivers for wireless access via a refreshable Braille display Speak Hints Speak popup hint messages Speak Selection Automatically read what you double tap on the screen Voiceover Screenreader Continued Speak Auto text Automatically soeak auto corrections and auto capitalizations Speaking Rate Increase or decrease Typing Feedback Nothing Characters Words or Characters and Words Set individually for the software keyboard or a hardware keyboard Use Phonetics for Phonetic announcement of characters on the keyboard and when reading Use Pitch Change To indicate capital letters Leveraging Cool e Apple s marketing might is formidable and pervasive e Everyone wants or owns a device e By pairing a Braille display toan iPod iPad or iPhone you instantly create a strong motivation to utilize Braille skills BraillePen 12 Brail2. you are ready to begin using BARD Mobile Download the free app and sign in with your BARD user name and password You ll only need to do this the first time you use the app The app contains a user manual that you may access through the Help feature Before you can use this BARD Mobile app you must be registered with a Braille and talking book library in the NLS network of cooperating libraries If you aren t registered but think you qualify for this service because you cannot read regular print as a result of a visual or physical disability locate your local library for the blind and physically handicapped at http www loc gov nis find html or call 1 800 NLS READ to apply for service nt How To Download and Read Books On Your iOS Device Continued e The Kindle app is optimized for the iPad iPhone and iPod touch giving users the ability to read Kindle books newspapers magazines textbooks and PDFs on a beautiful easy to use interface You ll have access to over 1 000 000 books in the Kindle Store plus hundreds of newspapers and magazines Amazon Whispersync automatically syncs your last page read bookmarks notes and highlights across devices including Kindle so you can pick up your book where you left off on another device e Get the best reading experience available on your iPad iPhone and iPod touch i KINALeE How To Download and Read Books On Your iOS Device Continued e Shop the Kindle Store by
3. Accessible Strategies for Accessing E Books Leveling the Playing Field Between Sighted and Vision Impaired Readers By Larry L Lewis Jr President amp Founder Flying Blind LLC http www flying blind com Objectives To identify the challenges associated with traditional non visual methods of acquiring and reading print material Introduction To Built In Universal Access Tools Within i Devices To become familiar with four different Apps that seamlessly introduce downloading and reading books on mobile devices to a vision impaired audience To acquire strategies for optimizing their consumers reading experience To map out a blueprint for introducing at least two of these Apps to vision impaired consumers Difficulties Of Obtaining Accessible Textbooks Via Traditional Methods The time it takes to produce them via audio large print and Braille media The expense to create these books The frequency of updating these books creates a strain when modifications have to be made to accessible content These books especially Braille and large print takes up quite a bit of space Universal access components built into today s tablets and mobile phones provides a solution to these afore mentioned obstacles Screen Magnification Options Large Text Makes text larger in Calendar Contacts Mail Messages and Notes 6 steps from 20pt to 56pt up to iOS 6 Larger Type option for iOS 7 users White o
4. ead your Kindle books on your Kindle e reader Kindle Fire PC Mac Android based device Windows Phone 8 based device or in your web browser with Kindle Cloud Reader Our Whispersync technology syncs your last page read notes bookmarks and highlights across devices so you can pick up where you left off e Read hundreds of newspapers and magazines including The Economist Reader s Digest Martha Stewart Living and Food Network Magazine with high resolution color images Visit the Kindle Store to subscribe to a newspaper or magazine and have each edition automatically delivered or purchase individual issues How To Download and Read Books On Your iOS Device Continued Email PDFs amp other documents to your new Send to Kindle e mail address and we deliver them to your device The documents are automatically archived in the Amazon Cloud and available for re download on your iOS or supported Kindle devices You can also read PDFs from Mail Safari or by transferring them from iTunes With Kindle textbooks you save up to 60 off print list prices when you buy and up to 80 when you rent Use the Notebook in your Print Replica textbooks to review your bookmarks highlights notes Tag and filter the most important items to study Accessibility features make it easier for blind and visually impaired customers to navigate their Kindle libraries read amp interact with books and more Enable VoiceOver in your device settings to b
5. egin A quick reference to gestures can be found under the FAQ section in settings Conclusion e There will always be a place for hard copy large print and Braille during the functional literacy process e But as the student requires access to greater amounts of information at an increasingly rapid pace so will the reliance upon E Books grow e Selecting the appropriate mix of universal access tools provides a 21 century means of keeping in step with a prea predominately sighted classroom and workplace
6. elect the book to review its details and read it Both applications allow for the addition of Bookmarks e Read2Go allows for books downloaded in the Daisy file format to be navigated by sections which have been marked and organized throughout the book e Disable the Daisy speech in the Read2Go settings to utilize refreshable Braille e The iBook Application is free but there are fees associated with downloading books pa book Read2Go How To Download and Read Books On Your iOS Device Continued e Read2Go costs USD 19 95 A Bookshare org Membership and books may be freely downloaded e Both iBooks and Read2Go provide access to textbooks e iBooks also offers an authoring tool for educators to create their own iBooks e Examples of downloading and reading books to be demonstrated How To Download and Read Books On Your iOS Device Continued e The BARD Mobile app provides access to braille and talking books directly from the NLS Braille and Audio Reading Download BARD BARD contains nearly 50 000 books magazines and music scores in audio and braille formats with new selections added daily e With BARD Mobile you can play the audio materials on your iPhone iPad or iPod Touch If your device is connected to a refreshable braille display through Bluetooth you can also read the braille materials available on BARD How To Download and Read Books On Your iOS Device Continued Once you have an account
7. le Display and Touch Screen Devices The Apple Operating system relies on the use of a touch screen for many of its devices Apple has had a longstanding presence within education Voiceover is a built in screenreader present in Apple products Voiceover costs nothing to activate and supports Braille Display as an input output device Braille Display and Touch Screen Devices Continued e Voiceover costs nothing to activate and supports Braille Display as an input output device e Braille Display offers a palatable alternative to accessing a touch screen especially for text input e Many traditional notetaking commands are present within the Voiceover Braille Display user interface How To Download and Read Books On Your iOS Device e Four great Apps for reading books e Both the Apple iBook Application and Bookshare org s Read2Go Application are great solutions for reading electronic books using an iOS device and refreshable Braille e Both applications allow you to search for specific books once the applications have been installed e Both applications allow you to browse collections of books categorized by author and title e Downloading a book is as simple as selecting a book by navigating to it using the joystick and pressing the joystick in to select the book How To Download and Read Books On Your iOS Device Continued e Once the book has been downloaded it is saved on the iOS device e S
8. n Black Reverse Contrast or invert colors increase this contrast using iOS 7 Make text bold and reduce motion of user interface with iOS 7 Zoom is a fully functioning screen magnifier that when enabled allows all text to be e masa up to 40x and reduced Notifications On 24pt text yj Cellular Data 32pt text kot Brightness amp Wallpaper 40pt text IR Picture Frame 48 pt text I Mail Contacts Calendars 5 6 pt te xt Screen Magnification Options Continued To zoom double tap with three fingers Pan around the screen by dragging three fingers Change the magnification by dragging three fingers up or down Home click Home Turn Zoom Magnifier or Voiceover on or off with the Home Button Settings Large Text t Airplane Mode Torf Make text larger in Mail and Notes ka Wi Fi ArchAngel Off v i VPN OFF 20pt text ka Notifications On 24pt text by Cellular Data 32pt text tdi Brightness amp Wallpaper AO pt text Picture Frame A48pt text r ra IL Mail Contacts Calendars o6pt text L7 Safari Missle sms Voiceover Screenreader Voiceover provides screen reading access for all of Apple s desktop portable and handled computers As of the release of iOS 6 Voiceover and Zoom may be run simultaneously Voiceover s triple finger double tap feature is replaced by Zoom s triple finger double tap for zooming the screen Voiceover s
9. visiting Amazon for the largest selection of books people want to read millions of books including hundreds of thousands of titles that are exclusive to the Kindle Store and over 1 7 million titles that are 9 99 or less e Get free book samples read the first chapter free before you decide to buy via Kindle Free Sample Search e Customize your reading experience by choosing margin size line spacing background color font size font style and either portrait or landscape format e Tap and hold text to quickly highlight important sections easily edit or change highlight colors and select long passages that span multiple pages How To Download and Read Books On Your iOS Device Continued e Exclusive to Kindle X Ray lets you see the bones of the book and learn more about notable characters places and phrases with descriptions from Shelfari com and Wikipedia English Titles Only e Collections Easily categorize books docs and magazines with a few easy taps e Instant dictionary word lookup with 250 000 entries and definitions Tap and hold a word to view the definition You can also use previously purchased Dictionaries such as medical legal or other translation references e Search inside the book to find a character topic or section you want to revisit How To Download and Read Books On Your iOS Device Continued e Simply tap on either side of the screen or flick to turn pages e You can also r
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