{"id":2176,"date":"2013-12-16T11:03:50","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T16:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=2176"},"modified":"2013-12-16T11:04:15","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T16:04:15","slug":"hearing-loss-accessibility-in-the-iphone-121613","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=2176","title":{"rendered":"Hearing Loss &#038; Accessibility in the iPhone, 12\/16\/13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a well known fact in the\u00a0accessible IT community that iOS products incorporate a great deal of accessibility features directly into their basic functioning.\u00a0\u00a0And yet, even though I&#8217;ve known this for years, I was stoked and surprised when I started playing with some of the accessibility features in my own iPhone in hopes to be better prepared on a presentation about AT for people who are deaf\/hard of hearing. Here&#8217;s what I found&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You can turn on LED flashing for phone calls and alerts in the phone. Besides ringing and vibrating, it can flash at you too!<\/li>\n<li>Turn on closed captioning for apps, when it&#8217;s available in those apps<\/li>\n<li>Turn on &#8220;Hearing Aid Mode&#8221; to improve sound quality when using the iPhone with certain hearing aids<\/li>\n<li>You can turn on the Bluetooth feature to work with blue-tooth enabled hearing aids<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now you can go and do it yourself. Just follow these simple instructions: Go to <strong>Settings<\/strong> &#8211; <strong>General<\/strong> &#8211; <strong>Accessibility<\/strong> and you&#8217;ll find all sorts of features to turn on or off, each categorized in its own section, such as Vision, Hearing, Learning, and Physical\/Motor. Have fun!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"al2fb_like_button\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=149587675112835\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));\n<\/script>\n<fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=2176\" layout=\"standard\" show_faces=\"true\" share=\"false\" width=\"450\" action=\"like\" font=\"arial\" colorscheme=\"light\" ref=\"AL2FB\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a well known fact in the\u00a0accessible IT community that iOS products incorporate a great deal of accessibility features directly into their basic functioning.\u00a0\u00a0And yet, even though I&#8217;ve known this for years, I was stoked and surprised when I started playing with some of the accessibility features in my own iPhone in hopes to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,5,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2176"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2178,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176\/revisions\/2178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}