Accessibility Settings Vision - iPad/iPhone

Candoo Learning | Accessibility Settings for Vision - iPad/iPhone

To get to Accessibility settings on iOS (iPhone or iPad)

Step 1

Click on ‘Settings’

Step 2

Click on ‘Accessibility’

Locate the 'Vision' section. The rest of this guide will discuss each of the tools in this section.  

VoiceOver:

With VoiceOver—a gesture-based screen reader—you can use iPhone/iPad even if you can’t see the screen. VoiceOver gives audible descriptions of what’s on your screen—from battery level, to who’s calling, to which app your finger is on. You can also adjust the speaking rate and pitch to suit your needs.

To turn VoiceOver on or off, use any of the following methods:

• Activate Siri and say, “Turn on VoiceOver” or “Turn off VoiceOver.”
• Triple-click the side button(on an iPhone/iPad with Face ID).
• Triple-click the Home button(on an iPhone/iPad with a Home button).
• Use Control Center.
• Go to Settings > Accessibility > VoiceOver, then turn the setting on or off.

Zoom:

You can also use the Zoom feature to magnify the screen no matter what you’re doing. You can magnify the entire screen (Full Screen Zoom) or magnify only part of the screen with a resizable lens (Window Zoom).

To Setup Zoom:

1. Go to Settings > Accessibility > Zoom, then turn on Zoom.

2. Adjust any of the following:

   • Follow Focus: Follows your selections and focuses on where you are typing.
   • Smart Typing: Switch to Window Zoom when a keyboard appears, which essentially zooms into everything but the keyboard.
   • Keyboard Shortcuts: Control Zoom using shortcuts on an external keyboard.
   • Zoom Controller: Turn the controller on (see image below), which allows you to control zoom options.
     
   • Zoom Region: Choose Full Screen Zoom (the whole screen) or Window Zoom (part of the screen).
   • Zoom Filter: Choose None, Inverted, Grayscale, Grayscale Inverted, or Low Light.
   • Maximum Zoom Level: Drag the slider to adjust the level.
3. To Control Zoom:

• Double-tap three fingers to zoom
• Drag three fingers to move the zoomed area around the screen
• Double-tap three fingers and drag to change zoom

You can instead use the zoom controller if enabled by touching the zoom controller icon.

Hover Text:

Hover Typing is an accessibility feature on the iPhone (running iOS 18 or later) that displays a floating, high-resolution preview of the text you tap on or are typing in a large, easily readable pop-up window. It is designed to reduce eye strain and typing errors by preventing you from having to squint at tiny on-screen text.

As seen below, there are many options to customize the appearance of the text that appears within the pop-up window: 

 

Display and Text Size:

If you have color blindness or other vision challenges, you can customize the display settings to make the screen easier to see.

1. Go to Settings > Accessibility > Display & Text Size.
   
    
2. Adjust any of the following:
   • Bold Text: Display the text in boldface characters.
   • Larger Text: Turn on Larger Accessibility Sizes, then adjust the text size using the Font Size slider. This setting only adjusts your preferred text size in apps that support Dynamic Type, such as Settings, Calendar, Contacts, Mail, Messages, and Notes.
   • Button Shapes: This setting underlines text you can tap.
   • On/Off Labels: This setting indicates switches turned on with “1” and switches turned off with “0”.
   • Reduce Transparency: This setting reduces the transparency and blurs on some backgrounds.
   • Increase Contrast: This setting improves contrast and legibility by altering color and text styling. Apps that support Dynamic Type—such as Settings, Calendar, Contacts, Mail, Messages, and Notes—adjust to your preferred text size.
   • Differentiate Without Color: This setting replaces user interface items that rely on color to convey information with alternatives.
   • Smart Invert or Classic Invert: Smart Invert Colors reverses the colors of the display, except for images, media, and some apps that use dark color styles.
   • Color Filters: Tap a filter to apply it. To adjust the intensity or hue, drag the sliders.
   • Reduce White Point: This setting reduces the intensity of bright colors.
   • Auto-Brightness: This setting automatically adjusts the screen brightness for current light conditions using the built-in ambient light sensor.

Motion:

If you have sensitivity to motion effects or screen movement on your iPhone, you can stop or reduce the movement of some screen elements, such as:

• Parallax effect of wallpaper, apps, and alerts
• Screen transitions
• Siri animations
• Typing autocompletion
• Animated effects in Messages

1. Go to Settings > Accessibility > Motion.
2. Turn on or off any of the following controls:
   • Reduce Motion: Reduces the motion of the user interface, including the parallax effect of icons.
   • Auto-Play Message Effects: Allows the Messages app to automatically play full-screen effects. If you turn this setting off, you can still manually play effects by tapping Replay below the message bubble.
   • Auto-Play Video Previews: Allows apps such as the App Store to automatically play video previews.
   • Limit Frame Rate: Limits the maximum frame rate of the display to 60 frames per second (on iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max and iPad pro 12.9, 11 inch and 10.5 inch).

Spoken Content:

Even if VoiceOver is turned off, you can have iPhone speak selected text or the entire screen. iPhone can also provide feedback and speak text corrections and suggestions as you type.

1. Go to Settings > Accessibility > Spoken Content.
2. Adjust any of the following:
   • Speak Selection: A Speak button will appear when you select text.
   • Speak Screen: To hear the entire screen, swipe down with two fingers from the top of the screen.
   • Speech Controller: Show the controller for quick access to Speak Screen and Speak on Touch.
   • Highlight Content: iPhone can highlight words, sentences, or both as they’re spoken. You can change the highlight color and style.
   • Typing Feedback: You can configure typing feedback for the onscreen and external keyboards and choose to have iPhone speak each character, entire words, auto-corrections, auto-capitalizations, and typing predictions. To hear typing predictions, you also need to go to Settings > General > Keyboards, then turn on Predictive.
   • Voices: Choose a voice and dialect.
   • Speaking Rate: Drag the slider.
   • Pronunciations: Dictate or spell out how you want certain phrases to be spoken.

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