Hi everyone. My name is Rosemarie, founder of TechAble assistive technology.
Following the two previous videos on iPhone tips and settings for seniors, today I'd like to
introduce the Touch Accommodation accessibility features, which can be beneficial for the senior
iPhone users. This feature is also useful for people with motor skill impairments,
since the feature can help using a touch screen much more comfortably and
much less frustrating. So let's take a look at the feature.
So Touch Accommodation is under Settings,
and then Accessibility,
and under Physical and Motor, you will see Touch. So tap Touch.
And if you scroll down, there is Touch Accommodations. So tap this,
and from here you can turn on and off Touch Accommodations feature. So, I'm going to turn it on.
And, let's look at Hold Duration first. So if you have tremors and tap the screen repeatedly,
you can enable this Hold Duration, so you must hold an on-screen button for a certain length of time
before it is activated. So I'm going to tab and turn it on. And under Hold Duration, you can adjust
the Hold Duration time by tapping this minus or plus buttons. And since Hold Duration feature is
already turned on, if I just tap this, it's not going to change the time. I have to hold this
button for at least 0.2 seconds to activate either minus or plus sign. So I'm going to hold this
minus button to decrease the time for at least 0.2 seconds. And you can see now it's changed to 0.15
seconds. Let me tap plus button the same way, at least 0.15 seconds to activate the plus button.
And now, we change it to 0.2 seconds.
I'm going to turn this Hold Duration feature off by holding it for at least 0.2 seconds.
And you can see now it's turned off.
And under Hold Duration, you'll see Ignore Repeat feature. Ignore Repeat feature works similar to
hold duration, but using this feature can be particularly useful if you try to type a text
or an email. So again, after you tap and turn it on, right below it, you can tap the plus or minus sign
to increase or decrease the Ignore Repeat time. So currently I have it as 0.4 seconds. I can increase
or decrease it, but I'm going to leave it as 0.4. And then, let's go to notes. If I tap "h" like this,
I don't know if you notice it, but if I tap it several times, it only took the first "h".
And any repeat within 0.4 seconds will not be considered as input. So within 0.4 seconds,
it's gonna only take one input. So let me try it again with "e" button. So I'm going to tap
"e" button like quickly three times. But like you can see, it only input "e" once. Let me try with "l"
So I tap "l" three times, but it only took one "l".
So like this, if I have a trimmer, I tap it several times, but it only take one input
within the time that I set up. Okay let's go back to Touch Accommodations. So under Accessibility,
Touch, and Touch Accommodations.
And I'm going to turn off
Ignore Repeat feature. And then, let's look at Tap Assistance. So Tab Assistance is useful for the
users whose fingers tend to move when they touch the screen. So you can use Initial Touch Location
if your finger tends to move after you tap the target. And you can use, Use Final Touch Location
if you cannot initially hit the target. So I'm going to have it Use Initial Touch Location.
So again, when the Tab Assistant is turned on, under this, you can adjust the time within which
you need to lift up your finger for a Tap to be recognized. So you can tap this plus minus button
to adjust the time. So I'm going to have it as 0.6 seconds. And then, I'm going to go to Home screen.
So my initial touch position will be taken, and I just need to lift up my finger within 0.6 seconds.
So let me tap Notes and open it. So like if I tap it and even slide my finger, it took my initial
finger location, and it still opens this app. Again, let me try to open App Store. So I'm gonna tap
App Store and even if I slightly move my finger, it's gonna take my initial finger position
like that. Let me try one more time by opening Weather app.
So even if I slightly move my finger, it still took the initial finger position.
Okay, let's go back to Touch Accommodations by going to Settings, Accessibility,
Touch, Touch Accommodations.
And lastly, let's look at Swipe Gestures feature.
So with this Swipe Gestures feature on, you allow Swipe Gestures to be recognized
without waiting for the Hold Duration time you set up on the previous window. So any of the Hold
Duration time that you set up under Touch Accommodations, if this swipe features is on,
then it doesn't need to wait for the Hold Duration time to perform the Swipe gestures.
And under Required Movement, you can increase the required movement from Standard up to
8X to prevent unintended swipe gesture. I have set it up as 8X.
So from Home screen, if I swipe with small gesture, it's not going to take swipe action like that.
But if I move it further, then it's going to take this swipe gesture, so like this.
But if I do this or this, it's not gonna take it.
Okay that's all I have for today. Thank you for watching!