User's Guide

APPLE CONFIDENTIAL — First Draft (1.10.11)
If you don’t see the VoiceOver Practice button, make sure VoiceOver is turned on.
Here’s a summary of key VoiceOver gestures:
Navigating and Reading
 Tap: Speak item.
 Flick right or left: Select the next or previous item.
 Flick up or down: Depends on the Rotor Control setting. See “Rotor Control” on
page 240.
 6YQ°PIGTVCR Stop speaking the current item.
 6YQ°PIGT±KEMWR Read all from the top of the screen.
 6YQ°PIGT±KEMFQYP Read all from the current position.
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“z”) to dismiss an alert or go back to the previous screen.
 6JTGG°PIGT±KEMWRQTFQYP Scroll one page at a time.
 6JTGG°PIGT±KEMTKIJVQTNGHV Go to the next or previous page (such as the Home
screen, Stocks, or Safari).
 6JTGG°PIGTVCR Speak the scroll status (which page or rows are visible).
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 (QWT°PIGT±KEMFQYP Select the last element on the screen.
Activating
 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
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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
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 6YQ°PIGTFQWDNGVCR Answer or end a call. Play or pause in iPod, YouTube, Voice
Memos, or Photos. Take a photo (Camera). Start or pause recording in Camera or
Voice Memos. Start or stop the stopwatch.
 6JTGG°PIGTFQWDNGVCR Mute or unmute VoiceOver.
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