User Guide

Appendix A Accessibility 143
Reduce screen motion
You can stop the movement of some screen elements, for example, the parallax eect of icons
and alerts against the wallpaper, or motion transitions.
Reduce motion. Go to Settings > General > Accessibility, then turn on Reduce Motion.
On/o switch labels
To make it easier to see whether a setting is on or o, you can have iPod touch show an
additional label on on/o switches.
Add switch-setting labels. Go to Settings > General > Accessibility, then turn on On/O Labels.
Assignable tones
You can assign distinctive ringtones to people in your contacts list for audible FaceTime caller ID.
You can also assign distinct tones to alert you of a variety of other events, including new mail,
sent mail, Tweet, Facebook Post, and reminders. See Sounds and silence on page 32.
You can purchase ringtones from the iTunes Store on iPod touch. See Chapter 22, iTunes Store, on
page 104.
Video Descriptions
Video descriptions provide an audible description of video scenes. If you have a video that
includes video descriptions, iPod touch can play them for you.
Turn on Video Descriptions. Go to Settings > General > Accessibility > Video Descriptions.
Hearing aids
If you have Made for iPhone hearing aids, you can use iPod touch to adjust their settings, stream
audio, or use iPod touch as a remote mic.
Pair with iPodtouch. If your hearing aids aren’t listed in Settings > General > Accessibility >
Hearing Aids, you need to pair them with iPod touch. To start, open the battery door on each
hearing aid. Next, on iPod touch, go to Settings > Bluetooth, then make sure Bluetooth is turned
on. Then go to Settings > General > Accessibility > Hearing Aids. Close the battery doors on your
hearing aids and wait until their name appears in the list of devices (this could take a minute).
When the name appears, tap it and respond to the pairing request.
When pairing is nished, you hear a series of beeps and a tone, and a checkmark appears next to
the hearing aids in the Devices list. Pairing can take as long as 60 seconds—don’t try to stream
audio or otherwise use the hearing aids until pairing is nished.
You should only need to pair once (and your audiologist might do it for you). After that, each
time you turn your hearing aids back on, they reconnect to iPod touch.
Adjust hearing aid settings and view status. Go to Settings > General > Accessibility > Hearing
Aids, or choose Hearing Aids from the Accessibility Shortcut. See Accessibility Shortcut on
page 129. Hearing aid settings appear only after you pair your hearing aids with iPod touch.