Simple question: While messing around with the accessibility features in the preferences I happened to have turned on a feature that greatly annoys me. Somehow I turned on numbering to the right of drop menus from the home screen menu bar.

While messing around with the accessibility features in the preferences I happened to have turned on a feature that greatly annoys me. Somehow I turned on numbering to the right of drop menus from the home screen menu bar. H

ow do I remove this?

Posted on Jan 14, 2020 5:36 PM

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Posted on Jan 15, 2020 6:04 AM

Look at Voice Control



Number overlays

Use number overlays to quickly interact with parts of the screen that Voice Control recognizes as clickable, such as menus, checkboxes, and buttons. To turn on number overlays, say ”Show numbers.” Then just say a number to click it.

Number overlays make it easy to interact with complex interfaces, such as web pages. For example, in your web browser you could say ”Search for Apple stores near me.” Then use the number overlay to choose one of the results: ”Show numbers. Click 64.” (If the name of the link is unique, you might also be able to click it without overlays by saying ”Click” and the name of the link.)

Voice Control automatically shows numbers in menus and wherever you need to distinguish between items that have the same name.

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Jan 15, 2020 6:04 AM in response to Keesag Baron

Look at Voice Control



Number overlays

Use number overlays to quickly interact with parts of the screen that Voice Control recognizes as clickable, such as menus, checkboxes, and buttons. To turn on number overlays, say ”Show numbers.” Then just say a number to click it.

Number overlays make it easy to interact with complex interfaces, such as web pages. For example, in your web browser you could say ”Search for Apple stores near me.” Then use the number overlay to choose one of the results: ”Show numbers. Click 64.” (If the name of the link is unique, you might also be able to click it without overlays by saying ”Click” and the name of the link.)

Voice Control automatically shows numbers in menus and wherever you need to distinguish between items that have the same name.

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Simple question: While messing around with the accessibility features in the preferences I happened to have turned on a feature that greatly annoys me. Somehow I turned on numbering to the right of drop menus from the home screen menu bar.

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