let's get accessible

Let’s Get Accessible

LESLIE SCHECHT,Director of Technology, District 75 NYCDOE

Breaking Barriers to Learning with the iPad

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District 75/Citywide Programs!

District 75 is the largest urban public school district for students with severe disabilities in the world. District 75 currently  educates over 22,000 students ages 4-21 in 58 school organizations located in 320 sites across the five boroughs of NYC with a staff of over 13,000.!

Out of the 22,000 students enrolled in District 75, there are 6,500 students on the autistic spectrum.!

The mission of District 75 is to provide appropriate standards – based educational programs and support services to students with severe challenges commensurate with their abilities. We are committed to working with students and their families to afford every student the opportunity to maximize their potential and become contributing members of their community and to develop individual skills to ensure maximum personal independence and self- esteem.!

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Empowering students of ALL abilities.

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Mac OS X Accessibility Features•Vision

•Hearing

•Physical & Motor Skills

•Learning & Literacy

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Vision•Zoom, Cursor and Dock Magnification•VoiceOver•High Contrast and Grayscale•Safari Reader’•Screen Magnification•Large Fonts•Text to Speech•Refreshable Braille Display Support

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In addition to the many accessibility features of VoiceOver, Mac OS X Mountain Lion also includes our next-generation synthesized voice named "Alex."

Alex is based on an advanced new technology, developed by Apple, and has been optimized for the very fast speaking rates common to screen readers. It works in any application that uses Apple's speech synthesis, including Voiceover. Alex also understands abbreviations, long numbers, and heteronyms. These are words that are spelled the same but have different pronunciation and meaning. Here are some examples of challenging sentences that Alex knows how to read correctly.

My name is Dr. Smith and I live on Smith Dr.

Close the car door, we are too close to the bridge.

King Louis IV needs an IV in his arm, stat!

Good farms produce a lot of produce.

When I fill up my car, it costs $487,642,586,378,941,127,253.28.

As you can see, although Apple's text to speech technology took years to perfect, eventually it was perfect.

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In addition to the many accessibility features of VoiceOver, Mac OS X Mountain Lion also includes our next-generation synthesized voice named "Alex."

Alex is based on an advanced new technology, developed by Apple, and has been optimized for the very fast speaking rates common to screen readers. It works in any application that uses Apple's speech synthesis, including Voiceover. Alex also understands abbreviations, long numbers, and heteronyms. These are words that are spelled the same but have different pronunciation and meaning. Here are some examples of challenging sentences that Alex knows how to read correctly.

My name is Dr. Smith and I live on Smith Dr.

Close the car door, we are too close to the bridge.

King Louis IV needs an IV in his arm, stat!

Good farms produce a lot of produce.

When I fill up my car, it costs $487,642,586,378,941,127,253.28.

As you can see, although Apple's text to speech technology took years to perfect, eventually it was perfect.

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• Closed Captioning • Screen Flash• Mono Audio• Photo Booth Recording• iChat

HEARING

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Literacy & Learning

• Text to Speech• Built-in Spelling and Grammar

Checking• Word Completion• iCal (Color-Coded and Alerts)• Auto-Summarize• Spotlight

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Physical & Motor Skills• Automator• Slow Keys & Sticky Keys• Multi-touch Trackpad• Adjustable Mouse & Trackpad

Sensitivity• Onscreen Keyboard• Speech Recognition• Inkwell

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iPad Accessibility Features•VoiceOver Screen Reader•Adjustable Speaking Rate•Zoom Magnification•White on Black Display•Large Text•Mono Audio•Closed Captioning•FaceTime•Guided Access•External Add-Ons (Stands, Switches, Bluetooth Keyboards, earpieces, Stylus, Projectors)

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Built-in accessibility.

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Instant.iPad/iPhone Accessibility

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Voice Control “Siri”

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Guided Access

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“There’s an app for that!”™

Accessing Information

Access to Learning Opportunities

Organizational Tools

Communication Options

Behavioral & Emotional Support

Alternative Access

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“There’s an app for that!”™

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iBooks

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Autism

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communication

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Cause and Effect

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Reading and Writing

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Accessibility

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Ablenet Bluetooth Switch

RJ Cooper Keyboard

Stylus-Spell

Switch interface by Zygo

iPad Switches

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iPad Jazz Band

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iPad Jazz Band

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We want your feedback! There are 3 ways to provide feedback on this session.

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LESLIE SCHECHT

leslieschecht@me.com

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Let’s Get AccessibleBreaking Barriers to Learning with the iPad

Monday, June 24, 13