Hi Sandy, If you activate/turn the rotor to handwriting on the home screen, any letters you write on the screen will narrow down your apps to those that start with that letter. A good one to try is "C" since there are a lot of apps that start with C, you will most likely get Calculator, Calendar, Camera, Clock, Compass, Contacts etc. As soon as you draw the letter on the home screen, Voiceover will say how many apps it found in the list and read the first one, you can do a 2-finger swipe down to move down the list or draw a second letter to narrow the list down further. For example, if you next draw an "L", you will most likely be left with Clock alone and Voiceover will say "1 app". Do a 2-finger swipe left to erase the second letter you just wrote and you are back to "7 apps" in my case, if I do another swipe left to delete the "c", Voiceover will say "73 apps which is the number of apps on my phone and I can now swipe down the list which will be presented in alphabetical order.
As Cara said, there are a lot of small and some fairly significant Voiceover enhancements in iOS 7, handwriting and the 4-finger triple tap to copy the text Voiceover last spoke to the clipboard are only 2 of them. I personally don't experience any bugs which bug me all that much, yes, not being able to move the cursor in the first or last name field when editing a Contact is inconvenient, so is the fact that Voiceover doesn't say the type of phone number like Home, Work, Mobile etc. in the Favorites list if you have the same person in it with multiple numbers, but all of those I find fairly minor. Maybe if you use the phone differently or if you are a braille user there are more significant bugs, can't comment on that since I have never found it necessary to use a braille display to accomplish what I needed to do. Regards, Sieghardnot so . -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sandy Finley Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2013 5:46 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: handwriting help Anna, There is something that is still confusing me about what you say. At what point in this process do I select handwriting on the rotor? Right now I am on the home screen. If I select handwriting on the rotor from there, I cannot go into "settings"; the entire screen is devoted to and writing. Yet, if I go into "Voiceover Practice," Handwriting is not s setting on my rotor because the rotor is so context sensitive. I'm missing something. Thanks for your patience. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Woody Anna Dresner Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2013 5:35 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: handwriting help Hi, >From the voiceOver settings screen, choose Practice Gestures. If the button in the top left corner says Handwriting Help, double-tap it. Now, as you make gestures on the screen, VoiceOver will tell you what they do when you set the rotor to Handwriting. Best, Anna says, On Oct 9, 2013, at 3:44 PM, Sandy Finley <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi. I am trying to activate Handwriting Help that is under VoiceOver in Accessibility ; I see the toggle between Handwriting Hebb_lp and General ""HELP but I see no difference in the screen. I have Handwriting activated on the rotor.What am I doing wrong? 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