Voice over
can you direct me to instructions for voice over?
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I'd strongly suggest you have a look at http://www.applevis.com
That said, here are a few gestures to get you started. Note that any of these can be changed in the Voiceover settings, but this should be enough to get you started.
Move to previous item: 1 finger swype left.
Move to next item: 1 finger swype right. (Note that sometimes swyping is known as flicking.)
Activate the current item in focus: quickly 1 finger double tap anywhere on the screen.
Magic tap: used for starting and stopping media playback, answering and ending calls (not including call waiting), and starting/stopping dictation when the on screen keyboard is visible: quicly double tap anywhere on screen 2 fingers.
Typing: move Voiceover focus to the letter of choice, then double tap anywhere on the screen with one finger.
Mute/unmute speech (note this simply mutes speech, but doesn't actually fully disable Voiceover): quick double tap anywhere on screen with 3 fingers.
Scroll the screen up or down: Quickly either swype up or down anywhere on screen with 3 fingers.
Voiceover Help: Quickly double tap anywhere on screen with 4 fingers
Home: Press home button. If No home button exists on your hardware, slide up with one finger slowly from bottom of screen until first haptic vibration is felt, then lift finger.
App switcher: Quickly double press home button. If HOme button doesn't exist on your hardware, slide one finger up from bottom center of screen until second haptic vibration is felt, then lift finger.
Dismiss app from app switcher:
- Open app switcher.
- 2. swype left or right with one finger to focus the app to be closed.
- 3. swype down with one finger anywhere on screen until close app is spoken.
- 4. Double tap with one finger anywhere on screen.
- Alternatively:
- 1. Open app switcher.
- 2. Swype left or right with 1 finger to focus app to be closed. swype up quickly anywhere on screen with 3 fingers. App switcher automatically closes when all apps have been dismissed.
Enable or disable Voiceover: Envoke Siri, and say, "Enable" or "Disable Voiceover."
Previous rotor item: Place 2 fingers anywhere on screen and twist counter clockwise as if turning a dial.
Next Rotor item: Place 2 fingers anywhere on screen, and twist clockwise as if turning a dial.
Move by next rotor item: swype down anywhere on screen with 1 finger.
Move to previous rotor item: Swype up anywhere on screen with 1 finger.
Note: rotor items may contain things such as characters, words, headings, tables, form controls, etc. See Voiceover settings>Rotor to configure which items are present in the rotor when turning either direction.
Long press/3D touch item: Touch anywhere on screen with one finger, then as soon as finger makes contact with screen, push down with a bit more pressure.
You can also double tap anywhere on screen with 1 finger, then leave finger on screen after second tap until ascending bleep tone is heard, then release finger from screen.
You may also tripple tap with 1 finger anywhere on screen once item to be long pressed/3D touched has Voiceover focus.
Item chooser list: tripple tap with 2 fingers on screen.
Screen curtain: note this blacks out the screen visually. If you do this by accident, don't pannick! The same gesture will also disable screen curtain as well: tripple tap anywhere on screen with 3 fingers.
Adjust Voiceover volume without effecting iOS system volume: while Voiceover is speaking, press volume up or down on the side of the device. NOte that Voiceover absolutely *must* be speaking while pressing volume buttons for this to work. Otherwise, your entire system volume will be adjusted.
Pause or resume Voiceover speaking: also known as the shut up! command, bluntly put: single tap anywhere on screen with 2 fingers.
Relabel item with Voiceover focus: Double tap anywhere on screen with 2 fingers. Release fingers once 3rd bleep tone is audibly heard.
Scroll to top of screen: 1 finger double tap anywhere on the status bar: preferably on the clock.
Scroll left or right between pages, a good example is your home screen pages: swype left or right anywhere on screen with 3 fingers.
Explore items on screen: simply slowly move 1 finger in all 4 directions on screen. Once you encounter an item, Voiceover will speak it in most cases, unless app is not coded corrected which is beyond Apple's control most of the time unless it's one of their apps.
Get approximate location of item on screen: single tap anywhere on screen with 3 fingers.
Read from top of item to the position of the Voiceover cursor: Swype up anwhere on screen with 2 fingers.
Read from Voiceover cursor position to end of currently focused item: Swype down anywhere on screen with 2 fingers.
This is obviously no substitution to the actual Voiceover guide, and I'd strongly suggest you reading it over!
http://www.apple.com/accessibility/voiceover
I hope this has been helpful!
Chris.
