switch interface – Jane Farrall Consulting

Switch Accessible Apps List: Updated!

Mar 7, 201511 Comments

Updated to add: The Switch Accessible Apps List has been discontinued. It has been quite some time since we updated our switch accessible apps list – nearly 18 months in fact! During this time we have been focusing on the Switch Control built into iOS and learning the range of options it now provides.

How do I use a switch with an iPad? iOS 7 Overview

Sep 29, 201375 Comments

The latest operating system for the iPad/iPhone/iPod touch, iOS 7, has introduced some major changes to the accessibility of these devices. In particular, switch access is now built right into the accessibility options, providing operating system level alternative access to these tablet devices for the first time – and this update is the main purpose

Zybox for iOS – updated and upgraded!

Jun 8, 20131 Comment

Please note: this product has been discontinued The Zybox for iOS is a switch interface from Zygo that uses VoiceOver to control the iOS and any VoiceOver compatible apps on your iPad or iPhone. I reviewed it earlier this year and posted a blog about it on the 31st of March. However, the Zybox has

Apps for AAC: Adding iPads to your AAC Toolkit

May 1, 20136 Comments

Today I am delighted and honoured to be presenting a pre-conference workshop at the 2013 AGOSCI Conference in Sydney with Janelle Sampson from Two Way Street and Kelly Moore from the Independent Living Centre in Western Australia. Below are links to the presentation resources. Part 1: Display content from SlideShare Click here to display content

Zybox for iOS – another VoiceOver switch interface option for the iPad

Mar 31, 201312 Comments

The Zybox for iOS is a new switch interface from Zygo that uses VoiceOver to control the iOS and VoiceOver compatible apps on your iPad or iPhone. The most significant advantage of this adapter is that it is the first one I have tried that plugs directly into the port on the iPad. This will

Using USB switch interfaces with switch accessible apps on your iPad

Dec 18, 201210 Comments

This is a very quick blog post to share a great resource from Bill Ziegler, Apple Distinguished Educator and Assistive Technology Consultant. Bill has created a very informative Vimeo about how to use a USB switch interface for a computer to access switch accessible apps on your iPad. This is a question I often get

How do I use a Switch or Joystick with an iPad? – October 2012 update!

Oct 29, 201216 Comments

This blog post has been updated. Please see the new entry at http://www.janefarrall.com/blog/2013/09/29/how-do-i-use-a-switch-with-an-ipad-ios-7-overview/ I last blogged about overall switch access to the iPad/iPhone/iPod touch in June – and there have been quite a few changes in the meantime. So – time for an update! At this stage, there are two sorts of switch access to

ISTE Webinar on iOS6 Accessibility and Alternative Access to the iPad

Oct 9, 2012

Last week I was lucky enough to team up with Luis Perez and deliver a webinar for the International Society on Technology in Education (ISTE) Special Education Technology Special Interest Group (SETSIG). The ISTE SETSIG has now made the resources from this webinar available on their website. You can access the webinar recording, the PowerPoint

SimplyWorks for iPad Part 2: Joystick and Keyboard Access

Oct 4, 20125 Comments

In my previous blog post, I talked about SimplyWorks for iPad from Pretorian. In that post, I covered the switch access options available with this interface. In this post I will cover joystick and keyboard access. SimplyWorks is a range of interfaces and proprietary input devices which connect to each other wirelessly. Part of this

SimplyWorks for iPad Part 1: Switch Access

Sep 30, 201212 Comments

SimplyWorks for iPad is another iPad switch interface option from Pretorian. It offers control of music, videos, VoiceOver keyboard options for scanning, switch accessible apps, the iPad camera shutter function and iBooks. It can be paired with a SimplyWorks keyboard, SimplyWorks Joystick or SimplyWorks switch – thereby providing a range of iPad alternative control options.