User guide

Rearrange the 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.
Mute VoiceOver Double-tap with three ngers. Double-tap again with three
ngers to turn speaking back on. To turn o only VoiceOver
sounds, set the Ring/Silent switch to Silent.
If an external keyboard is connected, you can also press the
Control key on the keyboard to mute or unmute VoiceOver.
Stop speaking an item Tap once with two ngers. Tap again with two ngers to
resume speaking. Speaking automatically resumes when
you select another item.
Turn the screen curtain on or o Triple-tap with three ngers. When screen curtain is on,
the screen contents are active even though the display is
turned o.
Speak the entire screen from the top Flick up with two ngers.
Speak from the current item to the
bottom of the screen
Flick down with two ngers.
You can hear iPod touch status information by touching the top of the screen. This
information can include the time, battery life, Wi-Fi signal strength, and more.
Entering and Editing Text
When you enter an editable text eld, you can use the onscreen keyboard or an
external keyboard connected to iPod touch to enter text.
There are two ways to enter text in VoiceOver—standard typing and “touch” typing.
With standard typing, you select a key, then double-tap the screen to enter the
character. With touch typing, you touch to select a key and the character is entered
automatically when you lift your nger. Touch typing can be quicker, but may require
more practice than standard typing.
VoiceOver also lets you use the editing features of iPod touch to cut, copy, or paste in a
text eld.
Enter text:
1 Select a text eld to bring up the onscreen keyboard.
You may need to double-tap to bring up the keyboard, if it doesn’t appear
automatically. VoiceOver will tell you if the text eld “is editing” or if you need to
“double-tap to edit.”
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