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Chapter 29
If you are deaf or hard of hearing, you may want to turn on closed captioning
when you watch videos. You can also switch the audio to mono (rather than stereo),
which can be easier to hear if your hearing is better in one ear than the other.
What You’ll Be Using
To change your iPad’s accessibility settings, you need to use the following:
The Settings app
Improving the Visual Quality of the Screen
To make the iPad’s screen more readable, you can turn on the Zoom, Large Text, or
White on Black features. These two features are independent—you can use them
together or separately.
Turning on Zoom lets you use three fingers to zoom the screen in and out so
you can read the screen more easily. Turning on Large Text changes the size of text
in the Calendar, Contacts, Mail, Messages, and Notes apps. Turning on White on
Black will render most text in white against a black background—as well as inverting
all other colors on your iPad. To enable the accessibility features, follow these steps:
1. From the Home screen, tap Settings. The Settings screen appears.
2. Tap General. The General settings screen appears. Scroll down until you find
the Accessibility option.
3. Tap Accessibility. The Accessibility settings screen appears, as shown in
Figure 29-1.
4. Tap Zoom. The Zoom settings screen appears.
5. Tap the Zoom on/off switch. Note the instructions on the page.
6. Tap the Accessibility button to return to the Accessibility settings screen
(see Figure 29-1).
7. Tap Large Text. A screen appears, listing different text sizes, as shown in
Figure 29-2.
8. Tap a text size and then tap the Accessibility button to return to the Acces-
sibility settings screen.
9. Tap the White on Black on/off switch. When turned on, the screen displays
white text on a black background.
Turning On VoiceOver
You can also turn on the VoiceOver feature, which makes your iPad read whatever
is on the screen as you touch it with your fingers. By touching the screen and hear-
ing where your fingers are, you can control your iPad.
Q NOTE: Because Zoom and VoiceOver use the same set of shortcuts, you can
enable only one or the other at a time.
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