{"id":221,"date":"2010-01-30T17:08:08","date_gmt":"2010-01-30T17:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/?p=221"},"modified":"2010-03-04T22:00:03","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T22:00:03","slug":"ipad-an-accessible-device-for-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/ipad-an-accessible-device-for-all\/","title":{"rendered":"iPad an accessible device for all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the biggest hype build up the tech world has ever seen, it is now time for a thorough examination of the iPad. Question is, how accessible is it?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_225\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/ipad.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-225\" title=\"picture of the ipad\" src=\"http:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/ipad-400x340.jpg\" alt=\"picture of the ipad\" width=\"400\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/ipad-400x340.jpg 400w, https:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/ipad.jpg 415w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-225\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">picture of the ipad<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The iPad is rammed with cool features but it is good to see that Apple didn&#8217;t neglect assistive technology features.<\/p>\n<p>Like the iPhone, the iPad has the following core accessibility features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>VoiceOver<\/li>\n<li>screen  zoom<\/li>\n<li>closed-captioned  content<\/li>\n<li>white-on-black display<\/li>\n<li>mono audio<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But beyond all of that, it&#8217;s great to see that the iPad also includes the following helpful user options:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Large size (visual impairments)<\/li>\n<li>Speakers (visual   impairments)<\/li>\n<li>Simple Interface (cognitive impairments)<\/li>\n<li>External  Keyboard (physical impairments affecting movement)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s good to see Apple including such features as standard. It is certainly better than Kindle in that respect. There&#8217;s always more to do but this is a good array of assistive features to start with. For more details on exactly what each of these features is and does, read this in depth post on <a title=\"An AtMac blog post on iPad\" href=\"http:\/\/atmac.org\/accessibility-and-the-ipad-first-impressions\" target=\"_self\">AtMac blog<\/a> which focuses on assistive technologies for Apple and Mac users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the biggest hype build up the tech world has ever seen, it is now time for a thorough examination of the iPad. Question is, how accessible is it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,32,5,44,21],"tags":[56,57],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-applications","category-design","category-ux-design","category-gadgets","category-mobile","tag-apple","tag-ipad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344,"href":"https:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions\/344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoelaycock.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}