Using Mono Audio

Stereo used in headphones breaks up sounds so that you hear a portion in one ear and a portion in the other to simulate the way our ears actually process sounds. However, if you're hard of hearing or deaf in one ear, you're getting only a portion of a sound in your hearing ear, which can be difficult. Turn on Mono Audio, and iPad plays all sounds in each ear.

Follow these steps to turn Mono Audio on:

1. Tap the Settings icon on the Home screen and then tap General.
2. In the General settings dialog, tap Accessibility.
3. In the Accessibility dialog box, tap the Mono Audio On/Off button to turn it on.

If you have hearing challenges, another good feature that iPad provides is support for closed-captioning. In the Videos player, you can use a closedcaptioning feature to provide onscreen text for dialog and actions in a movie as it plays if the movie format supports closed-captioning.

Utilizing iPad's Speak Auto-text

Speak Auto-text is a feature that speaks autocorrections and autocapitalizations (two features that you can turn on with Keyboard settings). When you enter text in an application such as Word or Mail and the app then makes either type of change, Speak Auto-text lets you know.

To turn Speak Auto-text on, follow these steps:

1. Tap the Settings icon on the Home screen and then tap General.
2. In the General settings dialog, tap Accessibility.
3. In the Accessibility dialog box, tap the Speak Auto-text On/Off button to turn the feature on.

Why would you want iPad to tell you when an autocorrection has been made? If you have vision challenges and you know you typed "ain't" when writing dialog for a character in your novel, but iPad corrected it to "isn't," you would want to know, right? Similarly, if you typed the poet's name e.e. Cummings and autocapitalization corrected it (incorrectly), you need to know immediately so you can change it back again!