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Q: Arthritis: Setup for shaking

Mom has severe arthritis and also minor hand tremor.  When she tries to use her new iPad, it is quite a challenge not to accidentally push buttons due to hand tremor, low mobility and severe rheumatoid arthritis.

 

There are a number of accessibilty settings. Which ones will help Mom?

iPad Air Wi-Fi, iOS 8.0.2, Arthritis

Posted on Dec 1, 2014 12:14 PM

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Q: Arthritis: Setup for shaking

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  • by bobseufert,

    bobseufert bobseufert Dec 1, 2014 4:29 PM in response to _TC10_
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    Dec 1, 2014 4:29 PM in response to _TC10_

    I don't think your Mom needs one of the accessibilty settings. It sounds like simply placing two fingers on the screen then seperating them will enlarge the screen enough so that your mom will have no problems using the screen and pressing the correct buttons.

  • by _TC10_,

    _TC10_ _TC10_ Dec 1, 2014 5:02 PM in response to bobseufert
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    Dec 1, 2014 5:02 PM in response to bobseufert

    Mom's 90 with severe rheumatoid arthritis deforming and locking up her fingers. Unfortunately your suggestion is not practical for Mom.  We did try it. 

     

    I would like to turn down the sensitivity of the touch screen if possible.  With all of the various accessibility settings, I am hoping one of them would do this.

  • by notcloudy,

    notcloudy notcloudy Dec 1, 2014 5:21 PM in response to _TC10_
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    Desktops
    Dec 1, 2014 5:21 PM in response to _TC10_

    Contact Apple Support direct - as I understand it Apple engineers made the IOS8 more sensitive.

     

    See MacWorld on-line for sensitivity articles -

     

    How to avoid deleting messages when swiping your iPad too briskly Christopher Breen Friday, 9:00 AM Reader Nancy Hilton has an iOS issue that sheʼd like me to take a swipe at. She writes:

    I upgraded my iPad mini to iOS 8, and suddenly an accidental left swipe mysteriously wipes out an email message. A gentle left-swipe displays More, Flag, and Trash options, but a quicker swipe produces a brief narrow red line, and poof! the message is gone into cyberspace. Can you help?

     

    I can. As youʼve rightly deduced, this is a behavior introduced with iOS 8, and it works across iPads, iPhones, and iPod touches. It was a notion Apple introduced with the idea that itʼs an easy way to quickly delete messages. The problem is that if youʼre a little too frisky in your swiping you can accidentally delete messages.

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  • by bobseufert,

    bobseufert bobseufert Dec 1, 2014 5:28 PM in response to _TC10_
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    iPad
    Dec 1, 2014 5:28 PM in response to _TC10_

    How about asisstive touch ? You get an onscreen button, tap the button and you get a onscreen menu, see screenshot.

    Voice over is for poor vision.

    Guided access is for attention deficit.

    Switch control lets you operate your iPad with a remote switch. I'll be back with a link To a good article showing it's use.

    image.jpg

  • by bobseufert,

    bobseufert bobseufert Dec 1, 2014 5:32 PM in response to _TC10_
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    Dec 1, 2014 5:32 PM in response to _TC10_
  • by _TC10_,

    _TC10_ _TC10_ Dec 7, 2014 3:38 PM in response to bobseufert
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    Dec 7, 2014 3:38 PM in response to bobseufert

    Mom's 90 with severe rheumatoid arthritis deforming and locking up her fingers.

     

    I need to keep the solution simple for Mom. ie. Slow down the screen response time If possible.  This capability is available on other platforms.  With Apple being so interested in accessibility. I hope they will help.  I have sent in feedback to them as well.

     

    i Was hoping that I just overlooked something but it does not look like a slow down screen capability is available on Apple mobile devices???

  • by _TC10_,

    _TC10_ _TC10_ Dec 7, 2014 3:44 PM in response to bobseufert
    Level 1 (21 points)
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    Dec 7, 2014 3:44 PM in response to bobseufert

    Hi again Bob, thanks for your responses.  re switch control, if I understand this adds another device which Mom cannot handle.  We were hoping to move Mom from a windows netbook to the iPad to make things simpler for her.  So far unfortunately she has not been able to use iPad due to the touchiness of it. 

     

    Steve Jobs seemed to focus more on helping physically challenged access Apple devices. This seems like a very simple option to provide a slider to control responsiveness but if available, I have not seen it for Apple mobile devices.  There are millions of physically challenged people that need this capability.

  • by bobseufert,Helpful

    bobseufert bobseufert Dec 7, 2014 4:42 PM in response to _TC10_
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    Dec 7, 2014 4:42 PM in response to _TC10_

    I did a quick goggle search and the only way I could find to reduce sensitivity is to add two screen protectors. It sounds clunky but it just might work.

    You might want to send Apple feedback about adding screen sensitivity controls.

     

    http://www.apple.com/feedback/

  • by notcloudy,Helpful

    notcloudy notcloudy Dec 10, 2014 4:47 PM in response to _TC10_
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    Desktops
    Dec 10, 2014 4:47 PM in response to _TC10_

    Besides sending feedback to Apple - if your mom is a member of AARP or Arthritis support groups - contact them to see if they can put pressure on apple to add sensitivity settings to IPAD etc.

     

    Nothing like a large group that can recommend against using a device to get the engineers working on the problem.

  • by yzk1993,

    yzk1993 yzk1993 Nov 4, 2015 3:07 AM in response to _TC10_
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    Nov 4, 2015 3:07 AM in response to _TC10_

    Hi, we are university students and are working on a project trying to deal with similar questions of your mom, would you mind helping us with a questionnaire? We want more information about people's problem in daily activities. It won't take you and your mom too much time.

    https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ZWW7JKN

    Thanks a lot for your precious time!!

  • by bobseufert,

    bobseufert bobseufert Nov 4, 2015 4:14 AM in response to _TC10_
    Level 6 (13,837 points)
    iPad
    Nov 4, 2015 4:14 AM in response to _TC10_

    If TC10 is still interested IOS 9 introduced the features I think you're looking for. Go to settings> general> accessibility> touch accomendations.