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Making Your iPad Accessible
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9. (Optional) Tap the Use Phonetics on/off switch to make your iPad pronounce
words on the screen phonetically.
10. (Optional) Tap the Use Pitch Change on/off switch to make the iPad’s syn-
thesized voice sound more natural.
11. (Optional) Tap the Use Compact Voice on/off switch. When this optionis
turned OFF, the iPad uses higher-quality voices. If you find these voices
sometimes stutter, you can turn this feature ON to use lower-quality voices.
12. (Optional) Scroll down and tap Braille to allow your iPad to connect via Blue-
tooth to a Braille device.
13. (Optional) Tap the Rotor or Language Rotor on/off switches to modify
the rotor, which lets you use a two-finger rotation gesture to quickly move
through text displayed on the screen.
14. (Optional) Tap Navigate Images and choose Always, With descriptions, or
Never. This lets the VoiceOver feature always skip over pictures or attempt
to read their descriptions.
15. (Optional) Tap the Speak Notifications on/off switch. When turned OFF,
your iPad won’t read any notifications you receive.
16. Press the Home button.
Turning On Closed Captioning and
MonoAudio
Closed captioning lets you read what people in a video say. This can be handy
if you are deaf or hard of hearing, or for watching a video in a noisy environment
where you might not be able to hear the sound coming out of your iPad’s speakers
very well. To turn on closed captioning, follow these steps:
1. From the Home screen, tap Settings. The Settings screen appears.
2. Tap Video. The Video settings screen appears.
3. Tap the Closed Captioning on/off switch.
4. Press the Home button.
For clearer audio, you might also want to try the Mono Audio setting. Just
tap Settings from the Home screen, tap General, tap Accessibility, and finally tap
the Mono Audio on/off button.
Turning Accessibility Features On and Off
Going through the Settings screen every time you want to turn an accessibility
feature on or off can be tedious, so to simplify this process, you can access these
features by triple-clicking the Home button. This gives you the option of turning on
(or off) VoiceOver or the White on Black feature. If you prefer, you can also make
triple-clicking the Home button display a list of options so you can turn different
accessibility features on or off.