ÂTwo-nger ick down: Read all from the 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.
ÂTwo-nger triple tap: Open the Item Chooser.
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 additional information, such as position within a list or whether text
is selected.
ÂFour-nger tap at top of screen: Select the rst item on the page.
ÂFour-nger tap at bottom of screen: Select the last item on the page.
Activate
ÂDouble-tap: Activate the 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 the item.
ÂDouble-tap and hold (1 second) + standard gesture: Use a standard gesture.
The double-tap and hold gesture tells iPad 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 Music, Videos, YouTube, Voice Memos, or Photos.
Take a photo (Camera). Start or pause recording in Camera or Voice Memos. Start or stop
the stopwatch.
ÂTwo-nger double-tap and hold: Open the element labeler.
ÂTwo-nger triple-tap: Open the Item Chooser.
ÂThree-nger double-tap: Mute or unmute VoiceOver.
ÂThree-nger triple-tap: Turn the screen curtain on or o.
Using the VoiceOver rotor control
The rotor control is a virtual dial that you can use to change the results of up and down ick
gestures when VoiceOver is turned on.
Operate the rotor: Rotate two ngers on the iPad screen around a point between them.
Change the options included in the rotor: Go to Settings > General > Accessibility > VoiceOver >
Rotor and select the options you want to be available using the rotor.
The eect of the rotor depends on what you’re doing. When you read 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 ick up or down. When you browse a webpage, you can use the rotor setting to
hear all the text (either word-by-word or character-by-character), or to jump from one element to
another of a certain type, such as headers or links.
111
Chapter 24 Accessibility