Use the, Voiceover rotor, Use the voiceover rotor – Apple iPhone iOS 8.4 User Manual

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Appendix A

Accessibility

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Two-finger scrub: Move two fingers back and forth three times quickly (making a “z”) to dismiss

an alert or go back to the previous screen.

Three-finger swipe up or down: Scroll one page at a time.

Three-finger swipe right or left: Go to the next or previous page (on the Home screen, for

example).

Three-finger tap: Speak additional information, such as position within a list or whether text

is selected.

Four-finger tap at top of screen: Select the first item on the page.

Four-finger tap at bottom of screen: Select the last item on the page.

Activate

Double-tap: Activate the selected item.

Triple-tap: Double-tap an item.

Split-tap: As an alternative to selecting an item and double-tapping to activate it, touch an

item with one finger, then tap the screen with another.

Double-tap and hold (1 second) + standard gesture: Use a standard gesture. The double-tap

and hold gesture tells iPhone to interpret the next gesture as standard. For example, you can

double-tap and hold, and then without lifting your finger, drag your finger to slide a switch.

Two-finger double-tap: Answer or end a call. Play or pause in Music, Videos, Voice Memos, or

Photos. Take a photo in Camera. Start or pause recording in Camera or Voice Memos. Start or

stop the stopwatch.

Two-finger double-tap and hold: Change an item’s label to make it easier to find.

Two-finger triple-tap: Open the Item Chooser.

Three-finger double-tap: Mute or unmute VoiceOver.

Three-finger triple-tap: Turn the screen curtain on or off.

Use the VoiceOver rotor

Use the rotor to choose what happens when you swipe up or down with VoiceOver turned on, or

to select special input methods such as Braille Screen Input or Handwriting.
Operate the rotor. Rotate two fingers on the screen around a point between them.

Choose your rotor options. Go to Settings > General > Accessibility > VoiceOver > Rotor, then

select the options you want to include in the rotor.

The available rotor options and their effects depend on what you’re doing. For example, if you’re

reading an email, you can use the rotor to switch between hearing text spoken word-by-word or

character-by-character when you swipe up or down. If you’re browsing a webpage, you can set

the rotor to speak all the text (either word-by-word or character-by-character), or to jump from

one item to another of a certain type, such as headers or links.

When you use an Apple Wireless Keyboard to control VoiceOver, the rotor lets you adjust settings

such as volume, speech rate, use of pitch or phonetics, typing echo, and reading of punctuation.

See

Use VoiceOver with an Apple Wireless Keyboard

on page 158.

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