for iOS 5.0 software

Practice 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:
Navigate and read
 Tap: Speak item.
 Flick right or left: Select the next or previous item.
 Flick up or down: Depends on the Rotor Control setting. See “Using the VoiceOver rotor
control” on page 13 2.
 Two-nger tap: Stop speaking the current item.
 Two-nger ick up: Read all from the top of the screen.
 Two-nger ick down: Read all from the current position.
 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.
 Two-nger triple tap: Open the Item Chooser.
 Three-nger ick up or down: Scroll one page at a time.
 Three-nger ick right or left: Go to the next or previous page (such as the Home screen, Stocks,
or Safari).
 Three-nger tap: Speak additional information, such as position within a list or whether text
is selected.
 Four-nger tap at top of screen: Select the rst item on the page.
 Four-nger tap at bottom of screen: Select the last item on the page.
Activate
 Double-tap: Activate the selected item.
 Triple-tap: Double-tap an item.
 Split-tap: An alternative to selecting an item and double-tapping is to touch an item with one
nger, then tap the screen with another to activate an item.
 Touch an item with one nger, tap the screen with another nger (“split-tapping”): Activate the item.
 Double-tap and hold (1 second) + standard gesture: Use a standard gesture.
The double-tap and hold gesture tells iPhone to interpret the subsequent gesture as standard.
For example, you can double-tap and hold, then without lifting your nger, drag your nger to
slide a switch.
 Two-nger double-tap: Answer or end a call. Play or pause in Music, Videos, YouTube, Voice
Memos, or Photos. Take a photo (Camera). Start or pause recording in Camera or Voice Memos.
Start or stop the stopwatch.
 Two-nger double-tap and hold: Open the element labeler.
 Two-nger triple-tap: Open the Item Chooser.
 Three-nger double-tap: Mute or unmute VoiceOver.
 Three-nger triple-tap: Turn the screen curtain on or o.
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