Apple iPod touch iOS 8.1 - Manual (Page 130)

Appendix A Accessibility 130
Write with your finger
Handwriting mode lets you enter text by writing characters on the screen with your finger. 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 fingers to choose lowercase, numbers,
uppercase, or punctuation.
Hear the currently selected character type. Tap with three fingers.
Enter a character. Trace the character on the screen with your finger.
Enter a space. Swipe right with two fingers.
Go to a new line. Swipe right with three fingers.
Delete the character before the insertion point. Swipe left with two fingers.
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 fingers 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 first 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 different selection.
Type onscreen braille
With Braille Screen Input enabled, you can use your fingers to enter six-dot or contracted braille
codes directly on the iPod touch screen. Tap codes with iPod touch laying flat in front of you
(tabletop mode), or hold iPod touch with the screen facing away so your fingers 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 find it in the
rotor, go to Settings > General > Accessibility > VoiceOver > Rotor, then add it.
Enter braille codes. Place iPod touch flat in front of you or hold it with the screen facing away,
then tap the screen with one or several fingers at the same time.
Adjust entry dot positions. To move the entry dots to match your natural finger positions, tap
and lift your right three fingers all at once to position dots 4, 5, and 6, followed immediately by
your left three fingers for dots 1, 2, and 3.
Switch between 6-dot and contracted braille. Swipe to the right with three fingers. To set the
default, go to Settings > General > Accessibility > VoiceOver > Braille > Braille Screen Input.
Enter a space. Swipe right with one finger. (In screen away mode, swipe to your right.)
Delete the previous character. Swipe left with one finger.
Cycle through spelling suggestions. Swipe up or down with one finger.