Use iphone with voiceover – Apple iPhone iOS 8.4 User Manual

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Appendix A

Accessibility

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Speak punctuation: Set the rotor to Punctuation, then swipe up or down to select how much

you want to hear.

Control audio ducking: To choose whether audio that’s playing is turned down while VoiceOver

speaks, set the rotor to Audio Ducking, then swipe up or down.

Change the language for iPhone: Go to Settings > General > Language & Region. VoiceOver

pronunciation of some languages is affected by the Region Format you choose there.

Change pronunciation: Set the rotor to Language, then swipe up or down. Language is

available in the rotor only if you select more than one pronunciation in Settings > General >

Accessibility > VoiceOver > Speech > Rotor Languages.

Choose which dialects are available in the rotor: Go to Settings > General > Accessibility >

VoiceOver > Speech > Rotor Languages. To adjust voice quality or speaking rate, tap next

to the language. To remove languages from the rotor or change their order, tap Edit, tap the

delete button or drag

up or down, then tap Done.

Set the default dialect for the current iPhone language: Go to Settings > General > Accessibility >

VoiceOver > Speech.

Download an enhanced quality reading voice: Go to Settings > General > Accessibility >

VoiceOver > Speech, tap a language, then tap Enhanced Quality. If you’re using English, you

can choose to download Alex (869 MB), the same high-quality U.S. English voice used for

VoiceOver on Mac computers.

Use iPhone with VoiceOver

Unlock iPhone. Press either the Home button or the Sleep/Wake button, swipe to select the

Unlock button, then double-tap the screen.
Enter your passcode silently. To avoid having your passcode spoken as you enter it, use

handwriting; see

Write with your finger

on page 157.

Open an app, toggle a switch, or tap an item. Select the item, then double-tap the screen.
Double-tap the selected item. Triple-tap the screen.
Adjust a slider. Select the slider, then swipe up or down with one finger.
Use a standard gesture. Double-tap and hold your finger on the screen until you hear three

rising tones, then make the gesture. When you lift your finger, VoiceOver gestures resume. For

example, to drag a volume slider with your finger instead of swiping up and down, select the

slider, double-tap and hold, wait for the three tones, then slide left or right.
Scroll a list or area of the screen. Swipe up or down with three fingers.

Scroll continuously through a list: Double-tap and hold until you hear three rising tones, then

drag up or down.

Use the list index: Some lists have an alphabetical table index along the right side. Select the

index, then swipe up or down to move through the index. You can also double-tap, hold, then

slide your finger up or down.

Reorder a list: You can change the order of items in some lists, such as the Rotor items in

Accessibility settings. Select

to the right of an item, double-tap and hold until you hear

three rising tones, then drag up or down.

Open Notification Center. Select any item in the status bar, then swipe down with three fingers.

To dismiss Notification Center, do a two-finger scrub (move two fingers back and forth three

times quickly, making a “z”).

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