Phone Accessibility Features
About Phone Accessibility
Today’s cell phones contain functionality to support alternatives to phone access beyond touching the screen with your fingers. No matter how your ALS is unfolding and affecting your technology use, there are many new accessibility features that may be useful to you.
Apple’s Physical and Motor Accessibility features include:
- Voice Control – navigating your phone using solely your voice
- Mouse Control – navigating your phone using a standard Bluetooth mouse
- Head Tracking – using head movement to move the cursor, and facial gestures, sounds, or switches to ‘tap.’
Please visit Set Up and Training Instructions for iOS to learn how your Apple iPhone or iPad can work for you. Reach out to CCALS to discuss accessibility with an Android device.
Many of these phone accessibility features were introduced to CCALS by Tom and Ruth Meadows, creators of Steve’s Way. In honor of their friends Steve Walker and Chad McClung, Steve’s Way is an awareness campaign to educate people about options in the Apple iOS that can specifically benefit people with ALS.