VoiceOver Gestures
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• Practice Mode: Four finger double tap. Puts VoiceOver in practice mode so
you can practice gestures without opening or changing anything.
• Select and speak the item: Touch with one finger.
• Select the next or previous item: Swipe right or left with one finger.
• Select an item on the rotor: Swipe up or down with one finger. Depends on
the rotor setting. * Also used to access various options on apps, Email
messages, etc. Anywhere VoiceOver says "Actions available."
• Using the Rotor: Place two fingers on the screen like you were going to turn
a knob, hold them against the screen and twist left or right Select the next or
previous rotor item. Examples of items on the rotor are: speech rate,
character, word, line, heading. You can add other items to the rotor in the
VoiceOver settings.
• Read all from the top of the screen: Two-finger swipe up.
• Read all from the current position: Two-finger swipe down.
• Stop or resume speaking: Two-finger touch.
• To dismiss an alert or go back to the previous screen: Two-finger scrub: Move
two fingers rapidly in a small circle or slide two fingers back and forth three
times quickly (making a “z”)
• Speak Screen: Touch the status bar with one finger and swipe down with two
fingers; only works if Speak Screen is turned on in settings, general,
accessibility, speech. VO will continue reading even if the screen is locked.
• Scroll one page up or down at a time: Three-finger swipe up or down.
• Three-finger swipe right or left. For example): Go to the next or previous
page (on the Home screen.
• Open Notification Center: touch the status bar and swipe down with three
fingers.
• Open Control Panel: Touch status bar and swipe up with three fingers.
• Open Spotlight Search: Touch on the home screen below the status bar and
above the dock and swipe down with three fingers.
• Speak additional information, such as position within a list or whether text
is selected: Three-finger tap.
• Copy last thing spoken by VoiceOver to the clipboard: three-finger quadruple
tap.
• Select the first item on the page: Four-finger tap at top of screen.
• Select the last item on the page: Four-finger tap at bottom of screen.
Activate
• Activate the selected item: Double-tap with one finger.
• Alternative way to activate an item: Split-tap. Touch an item with one
finger, then tap the screen with another, while keeping the first finger on the
screen.
• When a non-VoiceOver user needs to Double-tap an item: VO users need to
Triple-tap with one finger.
• Use a standard gesture: Double-tap and hold (1 second) + standard gesture.
The double-tap and hold gesture tells iPhone to interpret the next gesture as
standard. For example, you can double-tap and hold your finger on the screen
until you hear three rising tones, and then without lifting your finger, drag
your finger on a slider. (Also known as the Pass Through Gesture.)
• Tap 2 times on the clock in status bar to scroll to top in any app.
•To start or stop an action: Two-finger double-tap. This gesture initiates an
action or halts or pauses an action in progress. For example, you can:
•Answer or end a call.
•Play or pause in Music, Videos, Voice Memos, or Photos (slideshows).
•Take a photo in Camera.
•Start or pause recording in Camera or Voice Memos.
•Start or stop the stopwatch.
• Change an item’s label to make it easier to find: Two-finger double-tap and
hold.
• Open the Item Chooser: Two-finger triple-tap.
• Select/deselect text: Turn on "Text Selection" in the VoiceOver rotor
settings, then turn the rotor to Text Selection and flick down to character,
word, line, etc., and then flick right with one finger to select text. Once
selected, turn rotor to edit and flick up or down to copy, print, share, etc.
Much easier than the Two-finger Pinch out/in.
• Mute or unmute VoiceOver: Three-finger double-tap. If both VoiceOver and Zoom
are enabled, use the three-finger triple-tap gesture.
• Turn the screen curtain on or off: Three-finger triple-tap. If both VoiceOver
and Zoom are enabled, use the three-finger quadruple-tap gesture.
• 3D Touch: Place your finger on an app and press, do not tap, this brings up a
shortcut menu depending on the app. For example, on the phone app it brings up
your favorites so you can call them quickly. 3D Touch is available on devices
like the iPhone 6s, 6s Plus, 7s, 7s Plus.
For iPad only
• Switch to next or previous app: Four-finger swipe left or right.
• Go to home screen: 5 fingers pinch in: put all five fingers on the screen and
pinch them in until they are all touching and it is like tapping the home
button once.
Other Resources
Apple Accessibility
Anyone using any kind of accessibility features of any Apple device can call
for technical support. Calling seems to be far more effective than writing
them, but it doesn't hurt to report bugs via the Email below.
Phone: 877-204-3930
Email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Vision Australia
Podcasts on lots of technology, iPhones, iPads, mac computers and even Android
Vision
Australia<http://www.visionaustralia.org/living-with-low-vision/learning-to-live-independently/using-technology-and-computers/help-yourself!-technology-podcasts-and-resources/smartphones-tablets-and-apple-ios-devices>
VoiceOver-Easy.net
Welcome to VoiceOverEasy.Net! This website was developed in order to provide a
detailed, step by step tutorial for blind and visually impaired users of the
VoiceOver assistive technology found in iPhones and iPads. This site makes no
assumptions that the reader has any previous knowledge of or experience with
iPhones or iPads, and no previous experience using VoiceOver is necessary to
begin using these lessons. There are no pictures or diagrams on this site. All
lessons have been developed using text only.
VoiceOver-Easy.net web site<http://voiceover-easy.net/>
Hadley Institute for the Blind
The Hadley Institute for the Blind has many on-line courses, video and audio
programs on a wide variety of topics including Low-vision and Blind lessons on
Apple devices, etc.
Hadley web site<http://www.hadley.edu/>
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