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From: Paul Adam
Date: Oct 19, 2011 11:57AM

Assistive Touch is new in iOS 5.
http://www.apple.com/accessibility/iphone/physical.html

Physical & Motor Skills

The revolutionary iPhone delivers a variety of innovative features that make
it more accessible to those with impaired physical and motor skills.
AssistiveTouch

Built-in AssistiveTouch lets you enter Multi-Touch gestures using one finger
or a stylus (sold separately). It also supports the use of adaptive input
devices, like headsets and switches, so you can experience the full
capability of iPhone.
You can use Siri with a bluetooth or wired headset and with VoiceOver. I
would imagine this would also work with an alternative input device using
Assistive Touch. I would love to test this out! I need to find some sort of
bluetooth enabled alternative input device. Any ideas WebAIM? Haven't really
searched yet.

I'd love to see them promote Assistive Touch more on their site, no cool
pics yet like with VoiceOver, FaceTime, and Siri.

A use case for Assistive Touch could be for someone who uses a power
wheelchair to control their iDevice with limited hand movements. Sorry I
don't have much more info to share, hope Apple improves on
their promotion of this new feature.

On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 1:45 PM, < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Paul said: "Apple takes care of mobility and cognitive
> impairments."
>
> Is this true? I haven't had a chance to look at the new phone
> with Siri yet, but I haven't seen anything implying you can use
> the phone completely hands-free, or even close to completely
> hands-free. Aside from tap-to-talk, Siri still seems to need
> hands for after-dictation choices. It's hard to tell without
> actually having a device to test with, because there's also no
> documentation apparently available for Siri, which I have to say
> does not count as an accessibility win from my perspective.
>
> I particularly have strong feelings about this because I still
> don't have a mobile device because there still hasn't been one
> created I can even use, so if it's true that iOS 5 has something
> approaching hands-free use, that is excellent. But it's not
> something Apple is even bragging about on their website, so I
> have my doubts. (They also don't answer e-mails to their
> accessibility address asking about this.)
>
> -Deborah
>