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Looking for a low vision calendar app (self.Blind)
submitted by route507too
Hello everyone. New here, glad I found this sub. I'm an occupational therapy assistant working with special needs children, some of whom have low vision. I would love to teach my students how to add school and personal events into an iPad calendar, but found the actual calendar app wasn't very accessible upon my initial review. Has anyone found a great calendar app (with large text/audio, etc.) or are there particular accessibility features I can turn on on the iPad to improve access to the stock calendar app? Thanks in advance.
clickmyface 3 points 3y ago
You should check out this page for sure: https://www.apple.com/accessibility/ipad/vision/
There are things like VoiceOver and Zoom that will make the calendar (and everything else) on the iPad a much better experience. Apple truly does a superb job with Accessibility, so I would not give up* on the calendar app just yet.
There are things like VoiceOver and Zoom that will make the calendar (and everything else) on the iPad a much better experience. Apple truly does a superb job with Accessibility, so I would not give up* on the calendar app just yet.
route507too [OP] 1 points 3y ago
Thank you! I had no idea they had an accessibility help page just for vision. This will be invaluable. Really appreciate the tip.
mooch27 3 points 3y ago
If it's a light sensitivity issue with white background you can turn on the invert colours on the ipad which could make reading easier (black background)
route507too [OP] 1 points 3y ago
Thanks for the suggestion. I can ask my student which she prefers for sure. I think she definitely would do better with large print everything, but we'll try out the zoom feature too.
Laser_Lens_4 1 points 3y ago
iOS 13 is adding system-wide dark mode so this might not even be necessary very very soon, at least for system apps.
mamatobee328 3 points 3y ago
You could try using the Zoom feature on the iPad. Go to “settings” > “general” > “accessibility” and turn on Zoom. You can Zoom in anywhere on the screen by double tapping three fingers.
route507too [OP] 1 points 3y ago
I will definitely play around with this feature and have my student try it. Thanks for the instructions.
razzretina 2 points 3y ago
The general calendar on any iPhone or iPad is very accessible with Voiceover turned on for any of your students who use that. I have yet to find any reliable large print calendar or planner apps unfortunately.
route507too [OP] 2 points 3y ago
Thanks for the suggestion. We can definitely try the particular student I'm interested in trying this with also has some hearing loss, but it's certainly worth a try. That's a bummer that no one has developed a separate app yet, though I suppose if the iPad accessibility features are really great then there's probably not a need.
razzretina 1 points 3y ago
Can your student use headphones? I’ve seen that done in class for a few students who needed it. And yeah, the iPad calendar is pretty good and robust. I found it a lot less overwhelming than Google calendar (but you can sync it with multiple calendar apps as needed). If the student is using an iPad you might be able to get a bigger calendar by setting it to show just the month or the week. I mostly use my phone and haven’t played much with iPad though, so I could be wrong about this. It’s possibly worth a try. :D
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