Page Turning without hands

Hello and thanks for the additional information.

You may need to update the version of iOS to take advantage of some of the accessibility features. v12 has just been released.

On the iPad and iPhone there are three ways to access - touch, voice (Siri) and switch control. If your client has no functional arm/hand movement then these are the options:

1) Mouthstick. This uses a stylus which you hold in the mouth and touch the screen as you would with your hand/finger. Can be done but needs good head control and ipad/phone mounting.

2) Voice. Siri can do some useful things, but it is still very limited. e.g. messaging works ok, phone calls partly works (you cannot answer the phone or hang up using your voice). There are no options I know in Siri to control the Books or Kindle apps, although I read that Siri can control audiobooks.

3) Switch control - allows access to most things. Probably requires a specialist external switch and adapter for it to work but there are numerous types of switch available so finding an option that fits is usually possible. For more info on switch control see here: Use Switch Control to navigate your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support

Switch control can be hard to navigate for those unfamiliar with the apps, or are not able to operate the switch(s) effectively. If you want to simplify it you can set up switch control just to provide a page turn function. For this you assign a switch to a "recipe". For more info on this see here https://www.ablenetinc.com/downloads/dl/file/id/754/product/178/ios_10_switch_co ntrol_simplifying_switch_access_with_rec…

Page 6 refers to turning pages in an ebook.

I did manage to use the internal camera to detect head movement which I then used to turn the pages of an ebook. You can do this with no additional hardware. But as previously mentioned I am not sure how practicable this would be. To set this up follow these steps:

First turn on Accesibility shortcut:

Settings>General>Accesibility>Accesibility Shortcut

Select Switch control.

This allows you to turn switch control on and off by triple clicking the home button. This is important as you can get stuck if you cannot turn switch control off.

Set up switches:

Settings>General>Accessibility>Switch control>Switches>Add new Switch>Camera>Left Head Movement

Assign to "Select item"

Repeat this for the Right Head Movement

Settings>General>Accessibility>Switch control>Switches>Add new Switch>Camera>Right Head Movement

Assign to "Select item"

Set up the recipe:

Settings>General>Accessibility>Switch control>Recipes>Turn Pages

Assign the Left and right head movement as follows:

Left Head Movement - Assign to "Right to left swipe"

Right Head Movement - Assign to "Left to right swipe"

Set recipe to run when you turn on Switch Control:

Settings>General>Accessibility>Switch control>Recipes>Launch Recipe

Select "Turn Pages"

Start reading:

Open the Books or Kindle app

Open a book

Turn on Switch control by triple clicking the home button.

You should now be able to turn the pages forward and back by rotating your head.

Turn off switch control by triple clicking the home button.

NOTE:

This works best when the device is rotated to Portrait with the camera at the top of the screen. You need to position the screen so the camera detects your face.

There are two other settings that help:

Settings>General>Accessibility>Switch control>Head Movement Sensitivity

Settings>General>Accessibility>Switch control>Ignore repeat

Use these if required to avoid double page turns, or to increase or decrease the motion sensitivity.

Not sure the Apple help forum is he place to discuss Windows PC's but there are options available if you think that is the way to proceed.

Andrew

Hi

It is possible to turn pages, but the methods available depend on what devices and apps you are using.

For example Apple Books is not voice enabled so you cannot turn pages using your voice, but you can use the switch control accessibility feature, if you are able to use a switch of some type. You could try the head movement feature in Switch control built into iOS, but I have not had any success using this. The options for the Kindle app on the iPad are the same. There is no eye gaze option for the iPad/iPhone.

There are more options available on the Mac and Windows PC, such as voice, head or eye tracking.

If you tell us what device are you using, and which app do you use, I can try and be more specific about the options.

Andrew