{"id":112,"date":"2012-06-15T21:52:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T21:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/?p=112"},"modified":"2014-07-16T22:26:45","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T22:26:45","slug":"apple-lineup-to-become-more-disability-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/apple-lineup-to-become-more-disability-friendly\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Lineup to Become More Disability Friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">We found this interesting article on <a href=\"http:\/\/disabilityscoop.com\/\">Disabilityscoop.com<\/a>: <\/p>\n<p><em>by Shaun Heasley <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">The iPhone and iPad will soon be even simpler to use for people with a wide range of disabilities thanks to a new software update, Apple Inc. officials said this week.<\/p>\n<p>Changes designed to make the popular mobile devices more accessible are expected in a forthcoming update to Apple\u2019s iOS software, the operating system that powers the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.<\/p>\n<p>A new feature called \u201cGuided Access\u201d will be especially beneficial for students with disabilities like autism, Apple representatives said, by helping users to \u201cremain on task and focused on content.\u201d The offering allows parents and educators to limit access on a device to one specific app by essentially turning off the \u201chome\u201d button and restricting areas of the touch screen that respond to commands. To read more <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.disabilityscoop.com\/2012\/06\/12\/apple-disability-friendly\/15835\/\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">click here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We found this interesting article on Disabilityscoop.com: by Shaun Heasley The iPhone and iPad will soon be even simpler to use for people with a wide range of disabilities thanks to a new software update, Apple Inc. officials said this week. Changes designed to make the popular mobile devices more accessible are expected in a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[8,17],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-apps-and-software","tag-computer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}