Yeah thanks for trying to help, but I am aware of the jestures and
have read that file and read them other places.  Possibly you
misunderstood what I was looking for with my questions?

On 7/9/09, Simon Cavendish <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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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