Blackberry Z10 manual BlackBerry Screen Reader gestures, Turn on the Silent on Calls setting

User Guide Settings and options

5.In the drop-down list, tap High or Low.

Turn on the Silent on Calls setting

No one wants to be interrupted when on a phone call. The Silent on Calls setting prevents the BlackBerry Screen Reader from reading back information while you're on a call.

1.On the home screen, swipe down from the top of the screen.

2.Tap Settings > Accessibility.

3.Tap Screen Reader.

4.Set the Silent on Calls switch to On.

Turn on or turn off Keyboard Echo

Make sure you're saying what you think you are saying. The Keyboard Echo feature reads information back to you when you're typing in a text field.

1.On the home screen, swipe down from the top of the screen.

2.Tap Settings > Accessibility.

3.Tap Screen Reader.

4.Tap Keyboard Echo.

5.In the drop-down list, tap None, Characters, Words, or Characters and Words.

Change the language that the BlackBerry Screen Reader uses

If you speak more than one language, your BlackBerry Screen Reader can, too. You can quickly change the TTS language if you're reading web content or email in a different language than the preferred language that you set for your BlackBerry device.

1.On the home screen, swipe down from the top of the screen.

2.Tap Settings > Accessibility.

3.Tap Screen Reader.

4.In the TTS Language drop-down list, tap a language.

BlackBerry Screen Reader gestures

The BlackBerry Screen Reader uses a combination of gestures that are used in other apps on your BlackBerry device and gestures that are specific to the BlackBerry Screen Reader. Gestures that start at the edges of the screen (such as swiping down from the top to access Settings or swiping up from the bottom to minimize an app) are the same in the Screen Reader

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