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Appendix A Accessibility 181
Create your own gesture. You can add your own favorite gestures to the control menu (for
example, touch and hold or two-nger rotation). Tap the menu button, tap Custom, then tap an
empty gesture placeholder. Or go to Settings > General > Accessibility > AssistiveTouch > Create
New Gesture.
Example 1: To create the rotation gesture, go to Settings > General > Accessibility >
AssistiveTouch > Create New Gesture. On the gesture recording screen that prompts you to
touch to create a gesture, rotate two ngers on the iPhone screen around a point between them.
(You can do this with a single nger or stylus—just create each arc separately, one after the
other.) If it doesn’t turn out quite right, tap Cancel, then try again. When it looks right, tap Save,
then give the gesture a name—maybe “Rotate 90.” Then, to rotate the view in Maps, for example,
open Maps, tap the AssistiveTouch menu button, and choose Rotate 90 from Custom. When the
blue circles representing the starting nger positions appear, drag them to the point around
which you want to rotate the map, then release. You might want to create several gestures with
dierent degrees of rotation.
Example 2: Let’s create the touch-and-hold gesture that you use to start rearranging icons on
your Home screen. This time, on the gesture recording screen, hold down your nger in one spot
until the recording progress bar reaches halfway, then lift your nger. Be careful not to move
your nger while recording, or the gesture will be recorded as a drag. Tap Save, then name the
gesture. To use the gesture, tap the AssistiveTouch menu button, then choose your gesture from
Custom. When the blue circle representing your touch appears, drag it over a Home screen icon
and release.
If you record a sequence of taps or drags, they’re all played back at the same time. For example,
using one nger or a stylus to record four separate, sequential taps at four locations on the
screen creates a simultaneous four-nger tap.
Exit a menu without performing a gesture. Tap anywhere outside the menu. To return to the
previous menu, tap the arrow in the middle of the menu.
Move the menu button. Drag it anywhere along the edge of the screen.
Adjust your accessory tracking speed. Go to Settings > General > Accessibility >
AssistiveTouch > Touch speed.
Hide the menu button (with an accessory attached). Go to Settings > General > Accessibility >
AssistiveTouch > Always Show Menu.
Touch Accommodations
If you have trouble using the touch screen use Touch Accommodations to change how the
screen responds to touches.
Choose how long you must touch the screen before a touch is recognized. Go to
Settings > General > Accessibility > Touch Accommodations, turn on Hold Duration, then choose
a duration (the default is 0.10 seconds).
Choose the duration in which multiple touches are treated as a single touch. Go to
Settings > General > Accessibility > Touch Accommodations, turn on Ignore Repeat, then adjust
the timing.
Choose the location where iPhone registers a tap. Go to Settings > General > Accessibility >
Touch Accommodations, then turn on Tap Assistance.
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