User Guide

Appendix A Accessibility 145
Enter an accented character. In standard typing style, select the plain character, then double-tap
and hold until you hear a sound indicating alternate characters have appeared. Drag left or right
to select and hear the choices. Release your nger to enter the current selection. In touch typing
style, touch and hold a character until the alternate characters appear.
Change the keyboard language. Set the rotor to Language, then swipe up or down. Choose
“default language” to use the language specied in Language & Region settings. The Language
rotor item appears only if you select more than one language in Settings > General >
Accessibility > VoiceOver > Speech.
Write with your nger
Handwriting mode lets you enter text by writing characters on the screen with your nger. In
addition to normal text entry, use handwriting mode to enter your iPhone passcode silently or
open apps from the Home screen.
Enter handwriting mode. Use the rotor to select Handwriting. If Handwriting isn’t in the rotor, go
to Settings > General > Accessibility > VoiceOver > Rotor, then add it.
Choose a character type. Swipe up or down with three ngers to choose lowercase, numbers,
uppercase, or punctuation.
Hear the currently selected character type. Tap with three ngers.
Enter a character. Trace the character on the screen with your nger.
Enter a space. Swipe right with two ngers.
Go to a new line. Swipe right with three ngers.
Delete the character before the insertion point. Swipe left with two ngers.
Select an item on the Home screen. Start writing the name of the item. If there are multiple
matches, continue to spell the name until it is unique, or swipe up or down with two ngers to
choose from the current matches.
Enter your passcode silently. Set the rotor to Handwriting on the passcode screen, then write
the characters of your passcode.
Skip to a letter in a table index. Select the index to the right of the table, then write the letter.
Set the rotor to a web browsing element type. Write the rst letter of a page element type. For
example, write “l” to have up or down swipes skip to links, or “h” to skip to headings.
Exit handwriting mode. Turn the rotor to a dierent selection.
Type onscreen braille
With Braille Screen Input enabled, you can use your ngers to enter six-dot or contracted braille
codes directly on the iPhone screen. Tap codes with iPhone laying at in front of you (tabletop
mode), or hold iPhone with the screen facing away so your ngers curl back to tap the screen
(screen away mode).
Turn on Braille Screen Input. Use the rotor to select Braille Screen Input. If you don’t nd it in the
rotor, go to Settings > General > Accessibility > VoiceOver > Rotor, then add it.
Enter braille codes. Place iPhone at in front of you or hold it with the screen facing away, then
tap the screen with one or several ngers at the same time.
Adjust entry dot positions. To move the entry dots to match your natural nger positions, tap
and lift your right three ngers all at once to position dots 4, 5, and 6, followed immediately by
your left three ngers for dots 1, 2, and 3.