Maccast 2013.10.13 - Accessibility in iOS 7

Opening

• Do the intro

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• BusyCal
• BusyCal has been my “default” calendar on the Mac for years. The transition from Apple’s Calendar app was seamless and I never looked back
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  • 2.5 is free for all 2.0 owners
• Has a ton of great features and you can full customize it to your way of working
• My favorite feature, and it’s a simple one, is the non-modal info panel. Just like the old iCal. I can edit my events without having to open another window or panel
• Scrolling month and week views, with gesture support if you have a trackpad or Magic Mouse.
• Customize the number of weeks shown in month view
• Scroll by month or “incrementally” a week at a time (just hold the option key while scrolling). Great near the end of a month.
• Get your To-Dos in your calendar. Syncs with Reminders. Show dated to-dos in your calendar on the day they are due.
• Alarms with custom snooze times. Doesn’t have be just be 15-mins, you can choose how long.
• Get weather for the week, show moon phases, add graphics to mark birthdays, holidays, and special events.
• It’s the ultimate calendar app for Mac
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Introduction

• Josh de Lioncourt - Maccessibility Roundtable Podcast

New Features in iOS 7

Visual controls

• Voice Over
  • Any changes here?
• Zoom
• Invert Colors
• Speak Selection
  • Voices
  • Enhanced Quality
• Speak Auto-text
• What’s the state of support for braille devices? Any changes here?

Text and motion

• Larger Type
  • This is what Apple calls “Dynamic Type”
  • Same setting as Settings > General > Text Size
• Bold Text
  • Requires reboot
• Increase contrast
  • Takes away some of the transparency on backgrounds
  • Add darker, or perception of darker, text
• Reduce Motion
  • Ask Josh’s opion on montion sickness claims.
• On/Off Labels

Hearing

• Hearing Aids
  • Support for Bluetooth hearing aids
  • Hearing Aid Mode, improves audio quality with some hearing aids
• Subtitles & Captioning
  • Different Sylets
  • Can create your own styles. Font, Backgrounds, color, opacity, highlights
  • On screen preview
• LED Flash for Alerts
  • I know lots of sighted people who use this
• Mono Audio
• Phone Noise Cancelation
  • Mine was ‘On’, but didn’t think I enabled it.
• Audio volume balance
  • I don’t understand the ‘grey bar’ that’s offset in the UI

Learning

• Guided access
  • Allows you to keep the device in a single App and to block out areas for control
  • You set a passcode to disable.
  • Triple Click the Home button to enter and set up
  • Lock out volume, sleep/wake, touch, and motion

Physical and Motor

• Switch Control
  • Use an adaptive accessory to control the device
  • Can set up different kinds of switches. External, Screen, Camera
  • Camera lets you use camera to track head movements and trigger actions.
    • Tried this and it game me whiplash
• Assistive Touch
  • The “on-screen dot”
  • Create custom gestures
  • I know people who use this to work around broken physical buttons on their device.
  • Record gesture “macros”
• Home-click speed
• Incoming Calls
  • Deafult to headset or speaker

Accessibility Shortcut

• What a “triple-click” activates
• VoiceOver, Invert Colors, Zoom, Switch Control, Assistive Touch

Switch Controls

• Settings > Accessibility > Switch Control

Assistive Touch

• Settings > Accessibility > Assistive Touch

Finishing up

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State of Android

• Ask Josh if he knows if things are getting better for users of Android devices.