Setting Up VoiceOver

Important: VoiceOver changes the gestures used to control iPhone. Once VoiceOver is turned on, you have to use VoiceOver gestures to operate iPhone—even to turn VoiceOver off again to resume standard operation.

Turn VoiceOver on or off: In Settings, choose General > Accessibility > VoiceOver and tap the VoiceOver On/Off switch.

You can also set Triple-click Home to turn VoiceOver on or off. See “Triple-Click Home” on page 245.

Note: You can’t use VoiceOver and Zoom at the same time.

Turn spoken hints on or off: In Settings, choose General > Accessibility > VoiceOver, and tap the Speak Hints On/Off switch. When Speak Hints is turned on, VoiceOver may tell you the action of the item or provide instructions for you—for example, “double- tap to open.” Speak Hints is turned on by default.

Set the VoiceOver speaking rate: In Settings, choose General > Accessibility > VoiceOver, and adjust the Speaking Rate slider.

Add speaking rate to the rotor: In Settings, choose General > Accessibility and tap to turn on “Include in Rotor.”

You can choose the kind of feedback you get when you type. You can set VoiceOver to speak characters, words, both, or nothing. If you choose to hear both characters and words, VoiceOver speaks each character as you type it, then speaks the whole word when you finish it by entering a space or punctuation.

Choose typing feedback: In Settings, choose General > Accessibility > VoiceOver > Typing Feedback. You can choose Characters, Words, Characters and Words, or Nothing for software keyboards and for an Apple Wireless Keyboard (see “Using an Apple Wireless Keyboard” on page 40).

Use phonetics

In Settings, choose General > Accessibility > VoiceOver, then

 

tap the Use Phonetics switch to turn it on.

 

Use this feature when you type or read character-by-

 

character, to help make clear which characters were spoken.

 

When Use Phonetics is turned on, Voiceover first speaks the

 

character, then speaks a word beginning with the character.

 

For example, if you type the character “f,” VoiceOver speaks

 

“f,” and then a moment later, “foxtrot.”

 

 

Use pitch change

In Settings, choose General > Accessibility > VoiceOver, then

 

tap the Use Pitch Change switch to turn it on.

 

VoiceOver uses a higher pitch when entering a letter, and

 

a lower pitch when deleting a letter. VoiceOver also uses a

 

higher pitch when speaking the first item of a group (such

 

as a list or table) and a lower pitch when speaking the last

 

item of a group.

 

 

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