Using VoiceOver

Select items on the screen: Drag your finger over the screen. VoiceOver identifies each element as you touch it. You can move systematically from one element to the next by flicking left or right with a single finger. Elements are selected from left to right, top to bottom. Flick right to go to the next element, or flick left to go to the previous element.

Enable vertical navigation

Add Vertical Navigation to the rotor, use the rotor to select it, then swipe

 

up or down to move to the item above or below. See “Using the VoiceOver

 

rotor control” on page 111.

Select the first or last element on the screen

Flick up or down with four fingers.

Unlock iPad

Select the Unlock button, then double-tap the screen.

 

 

Select an item by name

Triple-tap with two fingers anywhere on the screen to open the Item

 

Chooser. Then type a name in the search field, or flick right or left to move

 

through the list alphabetically, or tap the table index to the right of the list

 

and flick up or down to move quickly through the list of items.

Change the name of a screen item so it’s easier to find

Tap and hold with two fingers anywhere on the screen.

Speak the text of the selected element: Flick down or up with one finger to read the next or previous word or character (twist the rotor control to choose characters or words). You can include the phonetic spelling. See “Setting up VoiceOver” on page 108.

Stop speaking an item

Tap once with two fingers. Tap again with two fingers to resume speaking.

 

Speaking automatically resumes when you select another item.

 

 

Change the speaking volume

Use the volume buttons on iPad, or add volume to the rotor and swipe up

 

and down to adjust. See “Using the VoiceOver rotor control” on page 111.

 

 

Mute VoiceOver

Double-tap with three fingers. Double-tap again with three fingers to turn

 

speaking back on. To turn off only VoiceOver sounds, set the Side Switch to

 

Mute. If an external keyboard is connected, you can also press the Control

 

key on the keyboard to mute or unmute VoiceOver.

 

 

Change the reading voice

Go to Settings > General > Accessibility > VoiceOver > Use Compact Voice.

 

 

Speak the entire screen from

Flick up with two fingers.

the top

 

Speak from the current item to the bottom of the screen

Flick down with two fingers.

Speak the iPad status information Tap the top of the screen to hear such information as the time, battery life, Wi-Fi signal strength, and more.

“Tap” the selected item when VoiceOver is on: Double-tap anywhere on the screen.

“Double-tap” the selected item

Triple-tap anywhere on the screen.

when VoiceOver is on

 

 

 

Adjust a slider

With a single finger, flick up to increase the setting or down to decrease

 

the setting.

 

 

Scroll a list or area of the screen

Flick up or down with three fingers. Flick down to page down through the

 

list or screen, or flick up to page up. When paging through a list, VoiceOver

 

speaks the range of items displayed (for example, “showing rows 5 through

 

10”). You can also scroll continuously through a list, instead of paging

 

through it. Double-tap and hold. When you hear a series of tones, you can

 

move your finger up or down to scroll the list. Continuous scrolling stops

 

when you lift your finger.

 

 

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