User Guide

Appendix A Accessibility 130
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 iPod touch 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. While viewing a webpage, 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 iPod touch screen. Tap codes with iPod touch laying at in front of you
(tabletop mode), or hold iPod touch 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 iPod touch 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.
Switch between 6-dot and contracted braille. Swipe to the right with three ngers. To set the
default, go to Settings > General > Accessibility > VoiceOver > Braille > Braille Screen Input.
Enter a space. Swipe right with one nger. (In screen away mode, swipe to your right.)
Delete the previous character. Swipe left with one nger.
Cycle through spelling suggestions. Swipe up or down with one nger.