iPod Touch Accessiblility

Taken from http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/QIAT.html 

Accessibility for persons with handicapping conditions have been limited and expensive. Most accessible tools could do one or just several things. This required buying expensive devices or software to achieve accessibility.  Often accessibility was not portable. So when away from the accessible device accessibility was no longer available. I am legally blind and have dyslexia.  The iPod Touch and iPhone are very portable and offer over 50 accessibility features to me at little or low cost other than the price of the iPod Touch or iPhone.  Note the iPod Touch often requires a WiFi connection. In this list I repeat the term accessibility. This is to emphasize that with out my iDevices these things are not accessible to me.

1.    iTunes Music Store  -- accessible music store

2.    iPod music player -- accessible music collection

3.    Rhapsody music streaming -- accessible music library

4.    App Store -- accessible software store

5.    iBook Store-- accessible book store

6.    iBooks ebooks -- accessible large print books

7.    iBooks reads to me -- books I buy are accessible books

8.    iPod reads Internet  news -- accessible newspaper

9.    Bookshare -- accessible library with accessible books

10.         Wikipedia app -- accessible encyclopedia

11.         Audible & Audio book apps -- accessible audio book collections

12.         Bible --,accessible searchable audio Bibles

13.         Calendar -- accessible day planner

14.         Shared calendars -- accessible shared calendars to know what others are doing

15.         Talking clock -- accessible talking clock radio

16.         Stop watch -- accessible stop watch

17.         Count down timer -- accessible count down timer

18.         email -- accessible email

19.         Free Texting -- accessible texting

20.         Dragon Dictate app -- speech recognition messaging

21.         Free VOIP phone -- accessible phone and contacts

22.         Contacts -- accessible address book

23.         Camera -- portable accessible camera

24.         Video camera -- potable accessible video camera

25.         iPhoto -- accessible photo library

26.         Photo apps -- accessible photo editing

27.         Maps -- accessible maps and trip planning

28.         Maps -- accessible street view

29.         Safari -- accessible Internet surfing

30.         Google search -- accessible yellow pages

31.         Weather apps -- accessible weather about where my friends live and around the world.

32.         Radio apps  -- accessible radio stations

33.         iBlink Podcast app -- access to other blind people

34.         Podcast apps -- access to technology presentations

35.         Calculator -- portable talking calculator

36.         To do list  -- accessible / editable to do list

37.         Amazon & on line shopping -- accessible shopping

38.         Bus schedule -- accessible local bus schedule

39.         Moon app -- access to seeing the moon

40.         Games --  accessible games to play with my grandson

41.         YouTube app -- accessibility to share YouTube with my grandson

42.         TV Remote app -- accessible to TV remote and DVR

43.         MSU Spartans app -- accessibility to Spartan games

44.         AAC apps -- accessible and affordable AAC

An iPhone brings additional accessibility

1.    iPhone GPS.-- mobility turn by turn auditory walking guidance

2.    GPS Magellan Maps -- know where I am on a trip

3.    LookAround -- learn what is around me and how to get there

4.    Car Finder -- locate the car

5.    Bus Finder -- locate the bus

6.    Google search -- directory assistance with assisted dialing

7.    ZoomReader -- portable magnifier/reader

8.    Prizmo -- portable scanner/reader