User Guide

Appendix A Accessibility 162
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dots at the bottom). If you’re in a scrollable area of the screen, a Scroll button also appears.
To tap the highlighted item, trigger your Select Item button when Tap is highlighted. To
see additional action buttons, select More at the bottom of the menu. If you have multiple
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With Auto Tap on: To tap the item, do nothing—the item is automatically tapped when the
Auto Tap interval expires (0.75 seconds if you haven’t changed it). To see the control menu,
trigger your Select Item button before the Auto Tap interval expires. The control menu skips
the Tap button and goes right to the full set of action buttons.
Turn on Auto Tap. Go to Settings > General > Accessibility > Switch Control > Auto Tap. To tap an
item with Auto Tap on, just wait for the Auto Tap interval to expire.
Dismiss the control menu without choosing an action. Tap while the original item is
highlighted and all the icons in the control menu are dimmed. Or, choose Escape from the
control menu. The menu goes away after cycling the number of times you specify at Settings >
General > Accessibility > Switch Control > Loops.
Perform screen gestures. Choose Gestures from the control menu.
Scroll the screen. Select an item in a scrollable part of the screen, then:
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Select the Scroll Down button (next to the Tap button) in the control menu.
Or, for more scrolling options, select More, then select Scroll.
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With Auto Tap on: Select Scroll from the control menu. If many actions are available, you might
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Tap the Home button. Select Home in the control menu.
Perform other hardware actions. Select any item, then select Device from the menu that
appears. Use the menu to mimic these actions:
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Click the Home button
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Double-click the Home button for multitasking
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Press the Sleep/Wake button to lock iPhone
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Rotate iPhone
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Flip the Ring/Silent switch
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Press the volume buttons
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Hold down the Home button to open Siri
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Triple-click the Home button
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Shake iPhone
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Press the Home and Sleep/Wake buttons simultaneously to take a screenshot
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turned on)
Item scanning
Item scanning alternately highlights each item or group of items on the entire screen until
you trigger your Select Item switch. If there are many items, Switch Control highlights them in
groups. When you select a group, highlighting continues with the items in the group. When you
select a unique item, scanning stops and the control menu appears. Item scanning is the default
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