Apple MC706LL/A, MC769LL/A, MC980LL/A, MC979LL/A, MC984LL/A, MB294LL/A Rotor Control, Reading text

Rotor Control

The rotor is a virtual control that acts like a physical dial when VoiceOver is turned on. Use the rotor to change VoiceOver settings and to access additional commands and features.

Operate the rotor: Rotate two fingers on the iPad screen to “turn” the dial and choose items on the rotor. Flick up and down to use the selected item.

The effect of the rotor depends on what you’re doing. For example, if you’re reading text in an email, you can use the rotor to switch between hearing text spoken word- by-word, character-by-character, or line-by-line when you flick up or down. When you browse a webpage, use the rotor to choose whether you hear text word-by-word or character-by-character, hear just the headers, hear just the links (all of them, visited links, or links not yet visited), hear form elements, or hear descriptions of images. You can use the rotor setting to hear all of the text, or to jump from one element of a certain type (such as headers or links) to another.

Reading text

Select and hear text by: ÂÂ Character

ÂÂ Word

ÂÂ Line

Browsing a webpage Select and hear text by:

ÂÂ Character ÂÂ Word

ÂÂ Line

ÂÂ Heading ÂÂ Link

ÂÂ Visited link

ÂÂ Non-visited link ÂÂ In-page link

ÂÂ Form control ÂÂ Table

ÂÂ Row (when navigating a table) ÂÂ List

ÂÂ Landmark ÂÂ Image

ÂÂ Static text Zoom in or out

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