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Create custom gesture for turning voice over on/off?

Forum Topic by coca-cola_glass on Tuesday, December 27, 2022
… over/commands/all commands/shortcuts/turn voiceover on_off I pressed "add gesture" and selected "press … three times on the back of your iphone". Testing it out - with voice over off - nothing happens. Same with another … - "press three times with two fingers. When I selected the gestures ios didn't give me any warning that the gestures …

Assigning commands to custom gestures

Forum Topic by Rasgueo on Wednesday, December 13, 2023
… In Accessibility> Touch> AssistiveTouch> Custom Gestures you can draw your own gestures. The area inside the … Is it possible to use these gestures I have created with VoiceOver commands? I can't find them anywhere in VoiceOver> …

Adjusting volume: what’s the name of the gesture?

Forum Topic by coca-cola_glass on Tuesday, March 5, 2024
… of days ago, I went into the accessibility settings for voiceover and changed some of the gestures. Now I simply cannot remember what the name of the gestures that can adjust volume or screen brightness up and …

Using the Activator tweek with voiceover

Forum Topic by Neo on Tuesday, July 3, 2012
… the Activator tweek which allows you to assign custom gestures to certain actions for example you can press the … It seems like it is also possible to create custom menus with this tweek that can pop up when you press a certain key … this tweek and are the resulting menus accessible via voiceover? I would like to be able to use the menu feature or …

VoiceOver equivalent of "swipe left to expose" (e.g. a 'Delete' button)?

Forum Topic by Larry D on Thursday, July 24, 2014
… I'm developing an iOS application with a list of items that uses the "swipe left to expose a … design (similar to the Inbox in the Mail app). However, in VoiceOver mode this "swipe left" gesture does a "Move focus … VoiceOver equivalent to the "swipe left" and "swipe right" gestures on the selected item? Or do I have to add some other …

Bug in Voiceover Commands Settings

Forum Topic by tripolice on Wednesday, August 10, 2022
… Steps to reproduce: 1. Go to Settings, Accessibility, Voiceover, Commands, Touch Gestures. 2. Select any of the touch gestures listed here … and confirm the prompt to replace the assigned function with the new one. Expected result: The new function should be …

Creating a PDF from an email using voiceover

Forum Topic by MHicok on Monday, August 29, 2022
… I know how to create a PDF from an email without using voiceover. going to print email, and using the two finger … a PDF that you are then able to save to iCloud files etc. With voiceover, I am having a hard time duplicating the two finger …

Question about paging / scrolling through large portion of text with voiceover

Forum Topic by TheBlindGuy07 on Thursday, June 6, 2024
… gesture, first am I the only one noticing how terrible voiceover is with the trackpad? The double tap gesture takes forever … then cuts itself as if it had (falsely) captured the other gestures mentioned above. Moreover when scrolling through …

Customizing Trackpad Gestures

Forum Topic by Kelly Ford on Saturday, March 6, 2021
… because I'm not having success trying to customize the gestures for VoiceOver in the Trackpad Commander. I have chosen a modifier … on the command and activating. This is happening for me with Big Sur 11.2 on multiple computers. Any hints are …

I'm a New iPad User and Have Some Introductory Questions

Forum Topic by David R on Monday, November 30, 2015
… the flick gesture. My wife is sighted and low on patience with voiceover and the associated gestures and such. I do not have an iPhone but only this iPad …

Effects Of Gesture Patents On Accessible Devices.

Forum Topic by Shaun Uk on Wednesday, April 4, 2012
… to raise a point that has been playing on my mind lately. With the recent round of patent lawsuits from the likes of … and I could be mistaken, Apple have patents on all their voiceover gestures and would not be happy letting another company use …

Two-finger swipe to the right: What does it do? Is it new?

Forum Topic by René Jaun on Saturday, March 30, 2019
… Hello, I was trying some gestures in the VoiceOver Help Mode (double-tap with four fingers). And I discovered that VoiceOver announced …

Trackpad on iPad Magic Keyboard with VoiceOver

Forum Topic by Matthew on Saturday, June 26, 2021
… use the trackpad on the Magic Keyboard for iPad Air / Pro with VoiceOver in a similar way as on the Mac when trackpad commander is enabled? Are the standard VoiceOver gestures recognized on iPadOS? … I think it is not possible …

item text search

Forum Topic by LaBoheme on Wednesday, December 13, 2023
… in settings > accessibility > voiceover > commands, there is a custom command called "item … mac. it would be nice if it actually works. i set it up with a custom gesture. but when i perform the gesture, vo … prompts you to "enter search text"), but the issue is with the lack of an edit box to actually input your search …

Can't get my head around Zephyr

Forum Topic by Krister Ekstrom on Friday, May 24, 2013
… how this app works, furthermore how this thing works with Voiceover. It seems no matter how much i swipe and do strange … switch between them. Sometimes it clashes with voiceover gestures, but not always. I was trying to go back with the …

Gesture changes for multitasking

Forum Topic by Dawn 👩🏻‍🦯 on Sunday, September 27, 2020
… option for dock when looking through command options for voiceover. Or if there's no way to change the gestures then is there another way to activate the dock? Some … Can'll have VDR. and mail open and do the samch thing I do with Goodreads. And that's just an example of how I use …

Activator Issues

Forum Topic by Andrew on Thursday, January 2, 2014
… on the screen surface and the app closes. When I have voiceover on and I try this, it doesn't work; but when I turn … I use that do not work; yet Others I have set up do work with voice over just fine. Any clues or advice anyone could … same problem on my iPhone 5s, pinch, spread and slide gestures in Activator are not working with VoiceOver enabled. …

Reprogramming Mac trackpad outside VoiceOver

Forum Topic by Bruce Harrell on Monday, August 10, 2020
… any apps a blind person can use to reprogram Mac trackpad gestures? I realize VoiceOver allows programming gestures on your trackpad, but VoiceOver does not allow …

Sensitivity of touch screen in iOS7

Forum Topic by peter on Tuesday, September 24, 2013
… After working with iOS7 on my iPhone 4s for a bit, it seems like the … very sensitive. The device seems to be catching extraneous gestures such as a touch or swipe when I didn't even touch the screen. This is easy to tell with VoiceOver running since VoiceOver makes a clicking sound when …

having trouble with three finger scroll gesture in iOS

Forum Topic by molly on Tuesday, June 21, 2016
… to item. But for some reason this gesture is not working with VoiceOver. I'm just wondering, is the three finger scroll …

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