Ipad does not Swipe
Ipad iOS 8.1
keyboard does not respond to single touch and will not swipe. I need to tap App or letter three s to engage. Once to highlight and twice to open
iPhone 4S, iOS 7.0.4
Sounds like you have VoiceOver (one of the accessibility features) 'on' - if you turn the volume up does what you touch get spoken ? If it does then try triple-clicking the home button and see if that turns it off, and if it does you can then change what a triple-click does via Settings > General > Accessibility > Accessibility Shortcut .
If that doesn't turn it off then you can either turn it off directly on the iPad (you need to use a tap-to-select and then double-tap to activate/type process and 3 fingered scrolling) to go into Settings > General > Accessibility and turn VoiceOver 'off', or you can do it by connecting to your computer's iTunes (after typing in your passcode via the tap/double-tap process) : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5018