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We're going to use three different types of visual indicators. We'll use a hand, every
time I tap. Every time I hit a button on the outside of the device, we'll
give you an icon, and we'll use arrows to help point out key information on
screen.
Before I do a tour of the extensive menuing system of AssistiveTouch, I
want to talk a little bit about the actual menu itself and how it works. In
order to activate the menu, tap on the little white button, and in my case
it's on the right-hand side. So, I'm going to tap on that. You'll see four
items in that button. The top three items actually lead into other menus,
and we'll get into that in a second.
One of the things that's not apparent though, is let's talk about exiting
first, of AssistiveTouch. I can tap anywhere outside of the menu itself,
and that will exit out of AssistiveTouch. So, I've just tapped on the home
screen and it exited out, so that's one item.
The second item that I want you to know - and I'm going to launch
AssistiveTouch again - is that in the middle, especially when you get into
gestures, both custom gestures and stock gestures, to deactivate a gesture,
you tap in the center of the menu, and that also will turn the menu off.
So, it does two things. It deactivates a gesture, and turns the menu off,
so that's really important.
The other thing you'll note, for those of you familiar with iOS 5, this is
a beta version of iOS 6, and the AssistiveTouch menu is much larger in this
version, in the new iOS 6 than it is in the old iOS 5. There are also some
new menu items, so I don't want to talk about that.
So, that's talking about the menu, now let's get into a little bit of
action here. The first thing you're going to see is the Home button at the
bottom. If I were to tap on it, which I will do right now, it does exactly
what the physical Home button does. So, I tap on it, and notice that it
moved me from the home screen. It shut down the AssistiveTouch menu, it
moved me from the home screen to the search pad, and this is exactly the
same behavior as if I were touching on the physical Home button.
I will show you. I'm going to tap and scroll over to the home page, and I'm
now going to tap on the physical Home button. Tap, and you'll see that it
did exactly what it did when I did it with the AssistiveTouch menu.
The next submenu I want to focus on in AssistiveTouch is the gesture
submenu. So, I'm going to tap on AssistiveTouch to activate the main menu,
and then tap on Gestures. I'm presented with five options. I can either
mimic a two-finger, three-finger, four-finger, or five-finger gesture, or I
can use the arrow key to get back out of the menu system. So, I have multi-
touch turned on. If I use four fingers onscreen and swipe upwards, I will
then be able to get the multitask bar.
So, I'm going to show you how to do that with one finger. So, I'm going to
use one finger to tap on the four-fingered gesture. You can see onscreen I
have four fingers, one, two, three. I'm going to tap and flick up, and then
watch. As you can see, I've just opened up the multi-touch menu. To get rid
of the multi-touch menu, I can tap and flick down.
The reason why I'm able to do that is I have multi gestures turned on, but
that gives you a good sense. I did all of this with one finger. So, it's a
good example of how the gesture system works. Now, notice that I still have
those four fingers there. In order to turn off the gesture once it's
activated, I need to tap on the AssistiveTouch menu again, and then tap in
the center. That deactivates the last gesture.
One of the most extensive submenus of the AssistiveTouch menu is the device
submenu. So, tap on the AssistiveTouch button, tap on Device, and you get
the first of three submenus. In the upper left-hand corner is Lock Screen.
If I were to tap on this, this would do exactly the same thing that the
Wake/Sleep button does. For the sake of this demonstration, I won't
actually tap on it, but it would cause a screen to go blank and put the
iPad to sleep.
The next button over is the Rotate Screen submenu. So, I'm going to tap on
that, and you get four options and then you're able to go back. So, if I
tap on portrait, you'll actually see this screen rotate, and then I can tap
on Left and that will bring me back. But I can turn the screen in 360
degrees, tapping the center to get back.
The next button is the Lock/Rotation button. If I tap on that, you'll see
in the upper right-hand corner, the Lock/Rotation, and if I were to move
the iPad, it would not rotate. So, I'm going to unlock that.
The next two buttons, before we get to the More button, is the Volume
Up/Volume Down. So, I'm going to tap twice on the Volume Up and you'll see
the volume will go up. Tap, tap, and the volume goes up. I'm going to tap
twice, and the volume will go down, and that will bring the volume down.
So, that's exactly like the hardware buttons.
Next, when I hit the More button, I'm taken to another submenu. This is a
new submenu to iOS 6, and this is a beta version of iOS 6, so this may not
be the final configuration. But previously in iOS 5, I had the Shake
button, but it was in the first submenu, and not in the sub submenu. I do
have the Renew options. Triple click on the Home button, this button will
mimic tapping on the Home button three times.
I need to, in Accessibility program it to do something. I don't have it
programmed to do here, but you could have it programmed to launch and
deactivate AssistiveTouch as an example. Take a screenshot if I tap on
that. I'm going to actually do that. Tap on it and take a screenshot, and
it actually takes a screenshot. It shuts down the AssistiveTouch menu and
takes a screenshot of the actual screen.
Device, More, Multitasking launches the multitasker. So, I'm going to tap
on that, and you can see that it brings up the multitasker. If I tap the
same button again, it'll shut down the multitasker. So, AssistiveTouch,
Device, More submenu, tap the multitasker and it brings down and brings me
back to where I was.
Then the last one, Device, More, is Shake. Shake is supposed to when the
developer programs it to do so, Shake will actually mimic the device
shaking. It doesn't actually shake the device. It just tells the program
that the shake sensor has gone off.
I was very excited about the shake button, because if you have this device
mounted to a wheelchair, the Shake button allows you to use applications
that use the motion sensor. But in my testing, it really hasn't panned out
that not every developer develops for it, so that's unfortunate.
The last submenu I want to discuss is the Favorites submenu, and that is
where custom gestures can be accessed within the AssistiveTouch menu. Tap
on AssistiveTouch, and then tap on Favorites. Earlier, I created a scroll
down custom gesture, and that's where the star is. But default is this
pinch gesture. So, let me illustrate how to use pinch, and then I'll
illustrate scroll down.
So, the best application I can think of to illustrate pinch is the photo
album. So, I'm going to tap out of AssistiveTouch, I'm going to tap on
photos, and you're going to see our camera roll. I'm going to tap into one
of the photographs to bring it up. Then, I'm going to bring up the pinch
gesture.
So, I'm going to tap on AssistiveTouch, tap on Favorites, and tap on Pinch.
Scrolling out makes it bigger, scrolling in makes it smaller, and this is
exactly what would happen if you were pinching with two fingers. Anywhere I
tap, I still have the pinch gesture turned on. So, I want to turn that off
now, because I want to show you the other gestures. So, I tap on
AssistiveTouch and hit the center of the AssistiveTouch menu and that turns
off the pinch gesture.
Now, the next one I want to show you, I'm going to get out to the homepage,
and tap on the settings application. I'm using my finger to scroll up and
down, you see how long that is? Well, if you have a user that has a hard
time with sort of fine motor, you can turn on AssistiveTouch, turn on
Favorites, and I'm going to show you that scroll down gesture I just made,
and you can now tap and it's going to scroll up every time. There it is.
Just by tapping on the screen once, I can scroll up. Same is true over
here.
For more information, go to ipadsforspecialneedsbook.com where you'll find
more videos, other resources, like cheat sheets, and a book on how to use
the iPad for your special needs user.