Tile mouse over effect on Touch devices

The mouse over effect on each tile works great on desktop and laptop… But i does not work out of the box on tablets and mobile devices… Is there a way to enable this? I looked in the code and i do not see a hover effect of any kind which i can manipulate with a piece of code i found for the purpose of making hovering work in touch devices.

https://www.hnldesign.nl/work/code/mouseover-hover-on-touch-devices-using-jquery/

Hope someone can give me pointers ??