What about looking at Assistive Touch in the Accessibility features.  It brings up a menu with all the features in a small box which can be placed anywhere on the screen.  You then can perform most if not all functions including moving/scrolling.  It was found to be an options for those who used aided direct access like a mouthstick or headpointer.

 

 

 

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Subject: [no phi] RE: IPad Access
From: Edward Hitchcock <xxxxxx@ric.org>
Date: Fri, March 28, 2014 1:55 pm
To: "'xxxxxx@alsa.simplelists.com'" <xxxxxx@alsa.simplelists.com>

Is she physically unable to do the swipe motion? That being the case, I do not think so. If she is working in something that has editable text or text that can be scrolled up or down using the arrow keys, perhaps she could try the mouth stick on an external Bluetooth keyboard? But I am not even sure that that works really, and am unable to check today.

Assuming she is physically unable to do the swipe motion, I would really recommend that she look at PC.

Ed Hitchcock OT/L
Technology Center
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago


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From: xxxxxx@alsa.simplelists.com [mailto:xxxxxx@alsa.simplelists.com] On Behalf Of Hurtig, Richard R
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Subject: Re: IPad Access

The ipad uses capacitance touch so conventional stylus or mouth stick won't work. I have found that some mouth sticks can work because they are conductive.

Richard Hurtig, Ph.D
Professor and Starch Faculty Fellow
Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders The University of Iowa Sent from my iPad

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> I have a consumer using a mouth stick and she wanted to try the iPad. She is not able to do the swipe motion. Mis there anyway around that?
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