(Our Tech Blog) Through this article the author wants to show how the iPAD can be gadget-friendly and friendly to users with special needs, either visually impaired, quadriplegic, or other physical abnormalities.
IPad presence in the computer industry has a lot to give a new color, both in the business sector, education, even entertainment. With a touch screen interface diusungnya, and ease-life manner, has a lot of people who use the iPad to a variety of everyday purposes.
Not only used for work, style, or play the game, now the iPad has become a gadget that can help our colleagues who have physical abnormalities or problems other body.
Unfortunately, not many of us are aware of it, but iPad alone is enough accessible for persons with disabilities.
By demonstrating the accessibility of factors that have been integrated into Apple products, it is hoped more people in Indonesia with special needs who can use and explore the benefits of IOS animate these gadgets.
1. Touch screen
Touch screen technology is presented in a large screen it can help users who have problems with muscle and bone. Several kinds of illnesses can cause a person not massaging or pressing a physical button, making it impossible for them to be able to operate the gadget with a physical button.
Users with visual impairments were more freely operate the touch screen, because the screen size in excess of 9 inches is enough to navigate, unlike other smart phones or tablet that on average a smaller sail.
In addition, it has been available screen protector made specifically for the visually impaired, at which have been printed dots representing prominent virtual keyboard for typing. It is certainly easier with visual impairments who want to type fast but not yet used to using touch screens and keyboards do not want to buy additional accessories (the author never discusses the accessories this year-end 2010).
2. Voice commands
When this has been a lot of outstanding applications for the iPad has to accommodate voice command feature. This feature allows the user to give orders or instructions by using their voice.
Why, is not such a feature is already available on many smart phones? Indeed, but the voice command is usually only available for the operating system only, and are not included in third-party applications.
Although this feature has not been able to receive a complex input, but it is sufficient to help those who lost the use of motion.
3. Screen reader
For blind people who enter the category of weak vision (low vision), Voice Over also provides a feature to enlarge the font and icon size, so that those who have difficulty reading the font was too small to raise those fonts as needed.
Fun, for application developers who want to create special programs for the visually impaired, or who use speech recognition technology, Apple has provided a voice over to be implemented in applications that would be!
In Britain, the Royal National Institute of Blind People have recommended the use iPad for British citizens who are blind, because it was considered quite accessible IPAD is used by the visually impaired.
Voice Over itself has long been integrated into the iPod and iPhone.
4. Mono sound
For the deaf or those who lose their hearing next function would not be able to enjoy stereo sound system. At least, they need an ear, either right or left, to receive sound information issued by the iPad.
To that end, Apple has provided a Mono Audio feature, which when activated, the iPad will convert stereo sound earphones that usually come out to the left and right into one lane, left or right.
5. Accessibility settings
Whatever type of disability that carried a person, when he bought the iPad and want to use it, then he is no longer necessary to purchase additional applications. This is possibly because there were already inside the IPAD accessibility settings that can be tailored to the needs of its users.
If you want to compare, there is probably equivalent to the Windows operating system, which is usually in the Accessories menu there is a choice Accessibility Options. Only the Windows operating system features are made sober and not optimized.
In the discussion to come, the authors will review a variety of accessible applications that can be used by peers with special needs. However, now it is enough to understand first that turns Apple gadget can be a friend of fellow all.
Given this knowledge, may be able to help colleagues who have the disorder or disability to be more confident when entered into the Apple Store and want to buy the iPad.
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