This brief presentation shows how mobile devices and applications provide functionality that make them appropriate as an accommodation for employees with a disability. This presentation was created for the start of a panel discussion at the M-Enabling Summit 2014

1. Mobile Devices ==
Accommodations
Ted Drake, Intuit Accessibility
m-enabling summit 2014

2. Newer
is Better
Many times, companies will introduce a mobile application that is significantly more accessible than their legacy desktop or web-based product. While
having an accessible mobile application is not an excuse for not fixing legacy products, it may be the only accessible option for employees.
photo: Happy banana, sad banana by Svein Halvor Halvorsen https://www.flickr.com/photos/sveinhal/2488796267/

3. “Good mobile apps focus on a few
important tasks. Resist the temptation to
make all the features of your main site
into the ones that are most critical for
mobile.”
!
-Luke Wroblewski (Mobile First)
Luke Wroblewski’s Mobile First proposal ushered in the world of mobile design and taught designers how to abandon the idea of transforming existing
web sites to fit into a mobile device.
http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1028

4. Quickbooks for iPad
The mobile applications are optimized for performing a single task.
It’s easier to understand
Users don’t have to use every screen, they can focus on what’s important to their job.

5. Assistive Technology

6. Magnification

7. Remote ASL
Interpretors
Ipad screen and camera
allow real time interaction

8. Dictation
microphones and voice to text dictation allows faster composition for many people. Mobile phones also allow voice memos for recording meetings for
later review
photo: microphone by Matthew Keefe https://www.flickr.com/photos/mkeefe/2349283746/

9. Geolocation
The geolocation and maps functionality make it easier for people to travel to job sites, between buildings, and apps can use geolocation to auto populate
address and business information.
This video shows how to add a customer with VoiceOver on QuickBooks for iPad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sexiyK4LHCM