User Guide Part 3

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Chapter 32 Accessibility 120
Rearrange your Home screen: On the Home screen, select the icon you want to move. Double-
tap and hold the icon, then drag it. VoiceOver speaks the row and column position as you drag
the icon. Release the icon when it’s in the location you want. You can drag additional icons. Drag
an item to the left or right edge of the screen to move it to a dierent page of the Home screen.
When you nish, press the Home button .
Speak the iPhone status information: Tap the top of the screen to hear information about the
time, battery life, Wi-Fi signal strength, and more.
Speak notications: Go to Settings > General > Accessibility > VoiceOver and turn on Speak
Notications. Notications, including the text of incoming text messages, are spoken as
they occur, even if iPhone is locked. Unacknowledged notications are repeated when you
unlock iPhone.
Turn the screen curtain on or o: Tap four times with three ngers. When the screen curtain is
on, the screen contents are active even though the display is turned o.
Learning VoiceOver gestures
When VoiceOver is turned on, the standard touchscreen gestures have dierent eects. These
and some additional gestures let you move around the screen and control individual items when
they’re selected. VoiceOver gestures include two- and three-nger gestures to tap or swipe.
For best results when using two- and three-nger gestures, relax and let your ngers touch the
screen with some space between them.
You can use dierent techniques to enter VoiceOver gestures. For example, you can enter a
two-nger tap using two ngers from one hand, or one nger from each hand. You can also use
your thumbs. Many nd the “split-tap” gesture especially eective: instead of selecting an item
and double-tapping, you can touch and hold an item with one nger, then tap the screen with
another nger. Try dierent techniques to discover which works best for you.
If your gestures don’t work, try quicker movements, especially for double-tapping and swiping
gestures. To swipe, try quickly brushing the screen with your nger or ngers. When VoiceOver
is turned on, the VoiceOver Practice button appears, which gives you a chance to practice
VoiceOver gestures before proceeding.
Practice VoiceOver gestures: Go to Settings > 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:
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Tap: Speak the item.
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Swipe right or left: Select the next or previous item.
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Swipe up or down: Depends on the Rotor Control setting. See Using the VoiceOver rotor
control on page 121.
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Two-nger tap: Stop speaking the current item.
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Two-nger ick up: Read all from the top of the screen.
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Two-nger ick down: Read all from the current position.
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Two-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.
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Three-nger swipe up or down: Scroll one page at a time.
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