If you want to enable accessibility features on your phone to assist with using the program, please click one of the links below for the accessibility instructions from your phone’s operating system developer.
Apple Accessibility features:
Apple Translation features:
Android Accessibility features:
Android/Google Translation features:
Below is a list of relevant features that Omada has compiled as of May 1, 2025.
Apple iOS Accessibility Features
Vision Features
VoiceOver:
A screen reader that describes what’s on your screen, including in braille.
Magnifier:
A digital magnifying glass that zooms in on, detects, and describes objects around you.
Spoken Content:
Reads any text on the screen aloud, including letters and words as you type.
Display Settings:
Customize colors, text size, transparency, contrast, and more.
Motion Settings:
Dim flashing lights, pause moving images, simplify onscreen motion, and more
Zoom:
Enlarges anything on your screen
Hover Text + Hover Typing: Shows a close up view of selected text as you read or type.
Apple features for vision:
Hearing Features
RTT Calls:
Type to communicate on a phone call. The person you’re talking to sees your message as you type it.
Live Captions:
Real-time transcription of spoken audio. Use Live Captions to easily follow the audio in any app.
Blink the iPhone for Notifications:
If you can’t hear your alerts, get notified visually.
Pair Hearing Devices:
Pair hearing aids or sound processors with iPhone and adjust their settings.
Apple features for hearing:
https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/overview-accessibility-features-hearing-iphb210be03a/ios
Mobility Features
Voice Control:
Navigate your device using Voice commands
Switch Control:
Use adaptive switch hardware, game controllers, or sounds to control devices.
Eye Tracking:
Control your device with just your eyes.
Alternative Input:
Control your device without using your hands or fingers
Assistive Touch:
Customize how you interact with your touchscreen.
Touch Settings:
Adjust how your device responds to your touch.
Hardware Keyboard Support:
Makes typing easier with keyboard adjustments to fit your needs.
Apple Mobility Resources:
Cognitive Features
Assistive Access:
Customize device settings to lighten cognitive load through high contrast buttons, large text labels, and visual alternatives to text.
Live Speech:
Takes typed words and speaks them out loud.
Live Captions:
Real time captions of live conversations and audio from apps.
Spoken Content:
Read any text on your screen aloud, including letters and words as you type.
Dictation:
Use your voice to type instead of the keyboard.
Focus:
Customize notifications and calls at specific times.
Apple Features for Cognition:
https://www.apple.com/accessibility/features/?cognitive
Language Features
Apple's Translate app, available on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, offers features for translating text, voice, and conversations.
It allows you to translate text in other apps and even translate text from images using your phone's camera.
You can also download languages for offline translation and utilize a built-in translation keyboard for real-time translation in various apps
Apple Translation Features:
https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/translate-text-voice-and-conversations-iphd74cb450f/ios
Android Accessibility Features
Vision Features
Reading Mode:
Customize the contrast, color, and font size of text without changes to the content. You can also use the “read aloud" feature to have the content read out for you.
TalkBack:
A screen reader that speaks the content on the screen, allowing users to navigate the device using audio cues.
Low Vision Tools:
Magnification, large text, bold text, high contrast, color inversion, color correction, dark mode, extra dim.
Select to Speak:
Allows users to select text and have it read aloud.
Android features for vision:
https://www.android.com/accessibility/vision/
Hearing Features
Live Transcribe and notification:
Instant speech to text captions.
Live Caption:
Automatically caption videos, podcasts, and audio messages. Choose the language you prefer.
Hearing Aids:
Automatically pair hearing aids to android devices.
Sound Amplifier:
Use your microphone to boost voices and minimize background noise. Requires headphones.
Android features for hearing:
https://www.android.com/accessibility/audio/
Mobility Features
Voice Access:
Control your phone with your voice.
Action Blocks:
Set up easy access to common tasks and perform those tasks by touching a button on the home screen.
Camera Switches:
Use simple facial gestures to navigate apps and select content.
Project Activate:
Activate a range of preset and customizable communication tasks with facial gestures like smiling or looking up.
Look to Speak:
Use your eyes to activate a phrase and your phone will speak it aloud.
Android features for Mobility:
https://www.android.com/accessibility/mobility/
Cognitive Features
Action Blocks:
Lighten cognitive load by setting up easy access to common tasks and perform those tasks by touching a button on the home screen.
Voice Access:
Control your phone with your voice to reduce task navigation requirements.
TalkBack:
A screen reader speaks the content on the screen, allowing users to navigate the device using audio cues.
Live Transcribe and notification:
Instant speech to text captions can lighten the load of processing auditory input.
Live Caption:
Automatically caption videos, podcasts, and audio messages. Choose the language you prefer to lighten cognitive load.
Select to Speak:
Allows users to select text and have it read aloud to reduce cognitive processing load.
Language Features
Android offers multiple ways to translate text on the operating system and within specific apps.
You can use the Google Translate app, which provides translation capabilities for various input methods, including camera-based translation and live translation. Additionally, Chrome offers built-in translation features, and some Android devices have keyboard settings for chat translation.
Here's a more detailed breakdown:
- Google Translate App:
- Translate text directly in the app using the camera to capture text.
- Translate spoken words in real-time with the Live Translate feature.
- Translate text by typing or pasting it into the app.
- Enable "Tap to Translate" to translate text in other apps.
- Chrome:
- Offer to send pages in other languages to Google Translate.
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Android System Settings:
- Change the default language of your Android device in Settings > System > Languages.
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Keyboard Features:
- Some keyboards, like Samsung's, offer chat translation for messages.
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Translate On Screen App:
- This app translates text on the screen in real-time, helpful for social media, games, and reading foreign language documents
Android Translation Features: