Hello James,
In a hurry, I paste underneath a summary of Voiceover gestures put
together by Bill - a member of the VIPhone list. It might help.
See below my signature. Best wishes, Simon
When VoiceOver is turned on, the standard touchscreen gestures have
different results. These and additional gestures allow you to move
around the screen and to control the individual elements when theyíre
selected. VoiceOver gestures include using two and three fingers to
tap or flick. For best results using two- and three-finger gestures,
relax and let your fingers touch the screen naturally.
You can use many different techniques to enter VoiceOver gestures. For
example, you can enter a two-finger tap using two fingers from one
hand, or one finger from each hand. You can also use your thumbs. Try
different techniques to discover which works best for you.
Following is a summary of some of the VoiceOver gestures.
Navigate and Read
*
Tap: Speak item.
*
Flick right or left: Select next or previous item.
*
Flick up or down: Depends on Rotor Control setting. See Rotor
Control.
*
Two-finger tap: Stop speaking current item.
*
Two-finger flick up: Read all from top of screen.
*
Two-finger flick down: Read all from current position.
*
Three-finger flick up or down: Scroll one page at a time.
*
Three-finger flick right or left: Go to next or previous page
(such as Home screen, Stocks, Safari).
*
Three-finger tap: Speak the scroll status (which page or rows
are visible).
Select and Activate
*
Double-tap: Activate selected item.
*
Touch an item with one finger, tap the screen with another
finger (ìsplit tappingî): Activate item.
*
Double-tap and hold (1 second) + standard gesture: Use a
standard gesture.
The double-tap and hold gesture tells iPhone to interpret the
subsequent gesture as a standard one. For example, you can double-tap
and hold, then without lifting your finger, drag your finger to slide
a switch.
*
Two-finger double tap: Answer or end a call. Play or pause
(iPod, YouTube, Voice Memos, Photos). Take a picture (Camera). Start
or pause recording (Camera, Voice Memos).
*
Three-finger double tap: Mute or unmute VoiceOver.
*
Three-finger triple tap: Turn the screen curtain on or off.
NOTE: Single-finger flicking gestures must be done quickly to
distinguish them from dragging gestures.
On 10 Jul 2009, at 07:14, James Mannion wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
> I would post this on the VIPhones list, but I ahve not yet been
> approved as a member and I see there is discussion of it here as well.
> I just purchased one yesterday and am very hopeful for it to be able
> to become my primary device as a phone and portable internet access
> device without the limitations of most portable internet stuff. Here
> has been my biggest quandry so far though and I really wish I knew
> this could be worked out. When reading longer passages of text, such
> as an email would be (which I don't yet have setup on mine) I have
> noticed that Voiceover treats a text passage as one single element.
> Therefore taping it reads it from beginning to end with the only
> control over it that I know of being to stop it from reading and then
> read either by word or by character. Sometimes both of these options
> are important and certainly need to be there, but is there any other
> way to control the chunks by which you read and navigate that text
> passage? Sometimes the entire thing is too much to take in as one all
> or nothing read and to get through by word to find a particular spot
> could be impractical to get to something say in the second page
> somewhere to review what it said? Do you know if any trick works to
> have it read say a text passage that is multiple screens in length by
> screen at least? I do not think there is a way by line although I
> really, really hope they add it as it is extremely important to have
> navigation options. Is there any way to manipulate such a text that
> you might receive in an email or be reading on a web page such that
> you could at the very least read it screen by screen and navigate
> through any of those by word then if necessary to zero in on
> something? I know there is a previous and next page command with the
> 3 finger flick down and up commands, but can those be made to work
> with a text passage that in itself spans multiple screens? I don't
> have an example available on the device at this moment, but know from
> my experience that this worries me. I do love the device and really
> want it to become what I cary and use in practical ways. It can
> certainly do awesome things. I am at the beginning of its learning
> curve, but that is fine. My Nokia n82 is awesome with talks and will
> definitely be kept and used, but I would love if the IPhone can become
> primary because of all it can do and the fact that it is accessibility
> built right in!
>
> Jim
>
> >
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