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Performing the pinch gesture using VoiceOver

Forum Topic by André Silva on Monday, July 18, 2016
… like some tips on how to perform the pinch gesture using VoiceOver. What does this gesture do? How can I perform this … … You got the basic gesture right, but you're confusing it with another way to select text. Text selection is a rotor …

VoiceOver Speech Rate Gesture on Apple Watch

Forum Topic by That Blind Canuck on Wednesday, November 23, 2016
… and hold and move their fingers up or down to adjust the VoiceOver volume. Is there a gesture to adjust VoiceOver's speech rate, besides going into the watch's …

Gesture based keyboard: Making swipes work with voiceover

Forum Topic by tmalik on Saturday, March 12, 2016
… of their visual ability. I am trying to make the app work with voiceover and running into issues with making swipes and taps … though VoiceOver may be enabled, VoiceOver will pass all gestures through to the application and not be interpreted by …

You don't always have to use all of the fingers involved in a VoiceOver gesture to have it correctly understood and performed

Forum Topic by TJT 2001 on Thursday, May 5, 2016
… I have discovered that not all gestures need to be performed correctly to have them recognised and correctly performed by VoiceOver. For example, if you are listening to music that … or vice versa is sufficient. This is the case for other gestures as well. …

Beginners’ Guide to the iPhone: An Introduction to VoiceOver Gestures Part 1

Podcast by AppleVis on Saturday, January 16, 2016
… demonstrates how you can control your iOS device using a VoiceOver-specific gestures on the touch screen. You can use these gestures to navigate and interact with items on the screen, and enter VoiceOver commands. In …

Beginners’ Guide to the iPhone: An Introduction to VoiceOver Gestures Part 2

Podcast by AppleVis on Sunday, January 17, 2016
… of how you can control your iOS device using a VoiceOver-specific gestures on the touch screen. Whereas much of [his previous … cast/episodes/beginners-guide-iphone-introduction-voiceover-gestures-part-1) was spent in the VoiceOver Gesture Practice …

What is the VoiceOver Gesture to Open the Notification Center on iPhone?

Forum Topic by gailisaiah on Friday, December 2, 2016
… jesture to get to the Notification Center? I have an SE with iOS 10. Thank you. … Touch the time in the status bar …

Tap and hold to select an item or open a combo box within an app

Forum Topic by meaghan.roper on Tuesday, December 20, 2016
… open a combo box or dialogue pop-up within an app? I'm a voiceover user myself, but customers I work with are saying this is not an easy gesture to use within the … will announce if an element has alternate actions, either with the long phrase, "swipe up or down to select a custom …

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 …

How do you select and copy an app’s description from the App Store?

Forum Topic by LifepodDebbie on Wednesday, April 13, 2016
… please tell me how to copy an app description to share with a reputable website such as applevis? I tried using a … seem to work. I can't seem to use the rotor to activate VoiceOver's editing features. What am I doing wrong? … I … I don't know about it --Pete … I simply tap 4 times with 3 fingers and select that way. It copies the last thing …

Alternative to double tap gesture

Forum Topic by Kelsey Nicolay on Saturday, October 8, 2016
… phood so I could practice answering and making calls using Voiceover. They have an iphone 6s. Sometimes the double tap … tapping the screen? If so, what is it and does it work for gestures that require two or more fingers? I have the same … on an object. The next time you can’t answer or end a call with two finger double tap, perform a single finger swipe …

New to iOS and VoiceOver and in need of some help

Forum Topic by David R on Monday, February 22, 2016
… Hello IOS Discussion, I have an iPad Air 1 with keyboard attached and VoiceOver which was added by the store when purchased in … -Per the iPad, when does one use the keyboard versus gestures? -Using the one-finger explore gesture, why do I …

What are the Keyboard Shortcuts for the Screen Curtain and Muting VoiceOver?

Forum Topic by Natalina on Sunday, August 7, 2016
… What are the keyboard commands on the MAC to mute VoiceOver , and to turn screen curtain on/off? I know the gestures but can't figure out they keyboard commands for … curtain is VO Shift f 11. I don't know what the mute Voiceover command is. HTH … 3-finger double-tap for mute. not …

Introducing SwiRadio; A Non-Visual Radio App

Forum Topic by Joy Cheng on Friday, January 22, 2016
… Hi folks, Wow, Voiceover support for SwiRadio isn’t as smooth as we’d … our app would come in handy. SwiRadio is an iOS radio app with no button to be pressed, which is extraordinarily useful … With a few lines of code you can have a panel you want for gestures not to be interfered with by voiceover. Any parts of …

Can't navigate through the list of loops in GarageBand

Forum Topic by Karina Velazquez on Friday, July 22, 2016
… move through the different elements of the loop list as with the 3 fingers gesture voiceover just says "page 2 of whatever" but focus remains in … earlier versions of GarageBand for iOS worked really great with voiceover. It seems like our experience gets worse and …

A number of accessibility problems with the Facebook iOS app

Forum Topic by Justin_B on Saturday, July 30, 2016
… accessible, but I have still encountered some areas where voiceover missed behaves or provides little to no verbal … challenges when browsing Facebook? Feel free to chime in with other areas of the app that I missed. Viewing a timeline … including your own, The flick right and flick left gestures used to move from one screen element to another …

Testing For Off-screen Content

Forum Topic by Jim Homme on Tuesday, March 8, 2016
… Hi, VoiceOver on IOS doesn't help with a lot of tools to … I know that I have scrolled to either the top or bottom with the three finger scrolling gesture, does that possibly …

Looking for people interested in testing iPad keyboard with VoiceOver support

Forum Topic by André on Wednesday, July 6, 2016
… I am looking for some outside feedback. I implemented VoiceOver support, but as a non-blind person I am sure to … it is iPad only. The keyboard only has two keys, which - with active VoiceOver - take over the lower half of the … users have to tap with up to four fingers and use swipe gestures. And especially tapping down with multiple fingers …

is there a gesture for quickly getting to the first page using VO?

Forum Topic by peter on Saturday, January 16, 2016
… getting to the first page of a many page dialog using VoiceOver. for example, if I tap three fingers in a dialog of … that I'm on page 72 of 135. do I really have to swipe down with three ingers 71 times to get to the first page? I'm …

Random ios questions.

Forum Topic by Maanling on Monday, March 21, 2016
… the rehabilitation center I am currently working with, I have some questions about certain aspects of the ipad … I can see enough to find it irritating. Other than turning voiceover off, i cant seem to make it leave. Is there a … reads the item that is similar to what you have selected with VoiceOver. Static Text is something I don't really use, …

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