Hi Mary,

I've been wrestling with this same issue on my iPod Touch over the last 24 
hours, and may have some answers for you.  These tips are all VO-based.

Method 1:  Double-Tap and hold on the app you want to move.  Keep your finger 
there till you hear the iPad say "Moving X" where X is the name of your app.  
Then drag your finger slowly to the edge of the screen, as though you want to 
pull the app off the screen.  To go forward a page, pull the app to the right, 
to go backward, pull it to the left.  You should hear VO chirp, which is your 
indication that you've moved the app to another page.  Then press the home key 
to get back to the normal screen.

Now, I've found that this works wonderfully for moving around the same page, 
but often not so well for moving from page to page.  So here are methods 2 and 
3, method 3 compliments of Apple Accessibility.

Method 2:
Clear out one position in the dock.  Then move the app to the dock, scroll to 
the page where you want the app, and then move the app out of the dock onto the 
new page.  Sounds convoluted, but so far it has proven to be the easiest and 
fastest method

Method 3: Quoted from a message from Apple Accessibility:
"One thing to keep in mind is that to change pages, it does require that the 
app go off screen to the left or right.  If you find that you have your finger 
to the far edge of the display and do not hear VoiceOver indicate you have 
changed pages.:

Lift your finger to drop the app at the current position, you would want to 
make sure that you are not on a folder, then single finger double tap and hold 
on the opposite side of the screen.  
You should hear VoiceOver say “Moving Photos” and then drag your finger to the 
opposite side of the screen.  
This should pick up the app again and move it far enough off screen that you 
will change pages. 

When you are finished remember to press the Home button to exit edit mode."


I hope one of these is helpful to you.
Best,
Donna

On Jan 17, 2011, at 2:30 PM, Mary Otten wrote:

>       Hello all,
> 
> My husband decided he couldn't wait and bought an IPad yesterday, which is 
> nice, since I get to play with it. <smile> Thank goodness for triple click 
> home voice over toggle.
> 
> I'm going to post a couple more messages with specifically vo-related 
> questions, but one that isn't a vo issue concerns the moving of apps. With or 
> without Vo enabled, we've found that we can't move an app from page two to 
> page 1, even though page one is not full. Is there some restriction to the 
> number or type of apps you can have on the page one screen?
> 
> Mary
> Mary Otten
> [email protected]
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