Practice gestures: In Settings, choose General > Accessibility > VoiceOver, then tap
VoiceOver Practice. When you nish practicing, tap Done.
If you don’t see the VoiceOver Practice button, make sure VoiceOver is turned on.
Here’s a summary of key VoiceOver gestures:
Navigate and Read
ÂTap: Speak item.
ÂFlick right or left: Select the next or previous item.
ÂFlick up or down: Depends on the Rotor Control setting. See “Rotor Control” on
page 194.
ÂTwo-nger tap: Stop speaking the current item.
ÂTwo-nger ick up: Read all from top of screen.
ÂTwo-nger ick down: Read all from current position.
ÂTwo-nger “scrub”: Move two ngers back and forth three times quickly (making a
“z”) to dismiss an alert or go back to the previous screen.
ÂThree-nger ick up or down: Scroll one page at a time.
ÂThree-nger ick right or left: Go to the next or previous page (such as the Home
screen, Stocks, or Safari).
ÂThree-nger tap: Speak the scroll status (which page or rows are visible).
ÂFour-nger ick up: Select the rst element on the screen.
ÂFour-nger ick down: Select the last element on the screen.
Activate
ÂDouble-tap: Activate selected item.
ÂTriple-tap: Double-tap an item.
ÂSplit-tap: An alternative to selecting an item and double-tapping is to touch an item
with one nger, then tap the screen with another to activate an item.
ÂTouch an item with one nger, tap the screen with another nger (“split-tapping”):
Activate item.
ÂDouble-tap and hold (1 second) + standard gesture: Use a standard gesture.
The double-tap and hold gesture tells iPod touch to interpret the subsequent
gesture as standard. For example, you can double-tap and hold, then without lifting
your nger, drag your nger to slide a switch.
ÂTwo-nger double-tap: Play or pause in iPod, YouTube, Voice Memos, or Photos. Start
or pause recording in Voice Memos. Start or stop the stopwatch.
ÂThree-nger double-tap: Mute or unmute VoiceOver.
ÂThree-nger triple-tap: Turn the screen curtain on or o.
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