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There are a variety of features that make using the iPad accessible to people with visual, physical, or hearing impairments.
Many of these features are also great ways to support all learners!
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Safari Reader
Use Safari Reader to view a page with only relevant text and images, or to format text and background to make the content more readable. Safari Reader removes ads, navigation menus, and other distracting items. -
Dictation
You can dictate text on iPad, instead of typing it, including punctuation and formatting just by saying it. When typing or spelling get in the way of a student expressing their thoughts in writing, use dictation as a support. -
Spoken Content
You can have your iPad speak selected text, the entire screen, highlight the sentence and word while it is speaking the text.
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Assistive Touch
Assistive Touch is an accessibility feature that allows you to use your iPad if you have difficulty touching the screen or if you require an adaptive accessory
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Guided Access
Guided access helps you stay focused on a task by temporarily restricting iPad to a single app, and allowing you to control which app features are available.
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Accessibility Shortcut
Triple tap your home button to easily access your most used accessibility features.
Accessibility Shortcut Overview
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Dark Mode and Colors
If you have color blindness or other vision challenges, you can customize the display settings to make the screen easier to see by inverting colors, or changing the colors on the display of your iPad.
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Text Size
Increasing text size can make the iPad screen easier to read, especially when there is a large amount of text, without zooming in on the text.
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Magnifier