User Guide

Settings and options

There is a specific BlackBerry Screen Reader gesture you can use in the BlackBerry Hub.

Task

Gesture

Delete the user-friendly form of an email address from the To or CC fields of messages.

Tap to select the address, then swipe to the left with three fingers.

Using the BlackBerry Screen Reader on the home screen

When you're on the home screen, you can use these additional BlackBerry Screen Readergestures.

Task

Gesture

 

 

Switch between the work and personal workspaces

Swipe down near the right side of the screen using three

 

fingers.

 

 

Minimize the application and show your Active Frames

Swipe up from the bottom. This is the same as the gesture

 

used outside the BlackBerry Screen Reader.

 

 

Close an Active Frame

Tap and hold with one finger, then move your finger to the

 

app. The point of regard is set under your finger. Then,

 

double-tap with two fingers to close the app.

 

 

Delete an app on the home screen

Tap with one finger to select the item you want to delete.

 

Tap and hold with one finger to enter the home screen

 

delete mode. Double-tap with two fingers to delete the app.

 

 

Using BlackBerry Screen Reader gestures with the BlackBerry Keyboard

The BlackBerry Screen Reader uses a few additional gestures with the BlackBerry Keyboard.

Task

Gesture

 

 

Switch the keyboard layout

Swipe down with one finger.

 

 

Accept word prediction

Swipe up with one finger.

 

 

Delete a word (for languages that read left to right)

Swipe from right to left with two fingers.

 

 

Delete a word (for languages that read right to left)

Swipe from left to right with two fingers.

 

 

Turn on Closed Captions

Closed Captions displays text on your BlackBerry device screen when you play video files that support closed captioning.

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

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Blackberry Z30 manual Turn on Closed Captions, Using the BlackBerry Screen Reader on the home screen