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Custom voiceover gestures

Forum Topic by Matt on Monday, March 2, 2020
… Hello. I have created a number of voiceover custom gestures that make navigating my old iPhone … but, it got disabled and want to no how to replace them with new modifications. hope you will help me on this. thanks …

iOS 14: Voiceover Gesture For Toggling Picture In Picture?

Forum Topic by Teresa on Sunday, September 20, 2020
… or tapping on an icon at the top of the app. Is there a Voiceover gesture for this, or is it necessary to toggle it …

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 …

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 …

How do I turn off haptic touch?

Forum Topic by Geoff37 on Tuesday, February 11, 2020
… I think VoiceOver and haptic touch are conflicting and this causes … The pass-through gesture is designed to interact with the item in VoiceOver focus. In the inbox view in Mail, … and down the list of emails by sliding finger up or down. With ios13 this is now hit and miss. Sometimes it works for a …

iOS shortcuts and VO commands

Forum Topic by CuriousNetEntity on Thursday, September 24, 2020
… shortcut to a keyboard or braille display command in the Voiceover settings under all commands? I have been trying to … them to a gesture, even the new back-tap. Unfortunately gestures aren't that helpful when I am trying to use my iPhone or iPad with a braille display or keyboard. It really interrupts the …

Floating keyboard on the iPad

Forum Topic by Pyro2790 on Friday, July 17, 2020
… again. NO matter what I do the keyboard is always the full with of the iPad screen though. Perhaps there is a different gesture to accomplish this with VoiceOver, but I don't know what it is and can't seem to …

a few iPad questions

Forum Topic by Alan on Thursday, August 13, 2020
… questions: I have read that sighted users can use new ios gestures: open notification screen, go to the home screen, I mean, as you would do in an iphone with face id. Is it possible to use new voiceover gestures as well, sliding a finger from bottom, …

Editing Home Screen? iOS14

Forum Topic by Teresa on Friday, September 18, 2020
… Hi, all. I'm not finding instructions for using VO gestures to hide and show home screen pages. I've decided to … screen, but no VO equivalent. Is this feature accessible with Voiceover? Thanks! … Check out this podcast, along with the …

Notifications on Mac Big Sur

Forum Topic by Pyro2790 on Saturday, November 14, 2020
… Is there a guide or help documentation on how to interact with the re designed notifications in Mac Big Sur? VoiceOver focus would get stuck in the notifications and I … commands that I am missing. If anyone has any tips or gestures that might help with interacting with and closing …

Commands missing for BSI in iOS 13.5.1

Forum Topic by merridew on Saturday, June 27, 2020
… using a Braille display. I tried to change the setting in Voiceover's Commands \ BSI. However, Switch between Keyboards …

Issues with iOS 14.1 on iPhone SE 2

Forum Topic by Shashikala on Wednesday, October 21, 2020
… bring up the keypad option. This issue does not occur when Voiceover is switched off. I have even tried deleting … available in the Apps tab. I have even tried switching Voiceover voices to see if it works but no luck. Would …

What do we like about iOS 14?

Forum Topic by Yvonnezed on Thursday, September 24, 2020
… OS 14? Accessibility features? Mainstream features? Apps with new features? Has anything changed the way you use your … Shortcuts from Spotlight or, and this is even better, Voiceover gestures. Now it really works to assign a gesture and have it …

outlook changed over last update?

Forum Topic by KE7ZUM on Thursday, June 4, 2020
… When using outlook on iOs the delete and actions along with calendar section and search disappears when selecting multiple messages. #steps 1. Launch voiceover 2. Launch outlook 3. Triple tap or do a pass … gesture to select one message. 4. Select another message with a double tap or a split tap. 5. Repeat until you have …

Need Help Authorizing An App in Twitter for iOS

Forum Topic by Kelly Sapergia on Sunday, December 20, 2020
… Has anyone been able to authorize an app for use with Twitter for iOS? I'm trying to authorize the game … right gesture doesn't work. I've also swiped to the right with one finger until I get to the button, but it's stilled dimmed. Same when turning off Voiceover and tapping the button at the bottom of the screen. …

A fix to an unstable Voiceover

Forum Topic by Daniel P on Wednesday, April 22, 2020
… Hi folks! I have had severe problems with VoiceOver on my iPhone SE after upgrading to iOS 13. The … after one or two days, Voiceover stopped reacting to gestures and the only way to fix this for a while was to …

Magnifier and VoiceOver Shortcut Problem

Forum Topic by Jesse Anderson on Thursday, September 17, 2020
… a shortcut that would open the Magnifier app, and turn off VoiceOver. In IOS 14, you can customize the controls in … filters and camera flash. I can just pinch to zoom if VoiceOver is off, thus me wanting to quickly create a … Magnifier item in the Accessibility menu? I tried this with an iPhone Xs Max, and had a friend try it on his iPhone …

The Accessibility Bugs Introduced and Resolved in iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 for Blind and Low Vision Users

Blog Post by AppleVis on Wednesday, September 16, 2020
… released to the public. This post contains details of the VoiceOver, low vision, and braille bugs which we believe have … bugs directly to Apple, as well as the best ways to do so. With all of the preamble out of the way, here are the new … web pages or areas of an app to effectively be unusable with VoiceOver. Consequently, we have revised our rating. * …

iOS 14 and Image Recognition on Older Phones: Why is This Not a Bug?

Forum Topic by blindbossfisher on Monday, September 21, 2020
… is currently written: "The performance of Apple's new VoiceOver recognition features is inconsistent and … have been efforts made to recognise images, all be it with a gesture. Then in iOS 13, Apple took it a step further … Well, whenever VoiceOver detects an image, or a control with an image, there is a sound played, while some text is …

What’s New in iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 for Blind and Deaf-Blind Users

Blog Post by Scott Davert on Wednesday, September 16, 2020
… be noted in the appropriate section. While I have worked with a team of people who have been beta testing iOS 14 and … yourself deep in menus, such as Settings > Accessibility > VoiceOver > braille > More Info > Commands, pressing the … Settings > Accessibility > VoiceOver > Commands > Touch Gestures will get you there. Then, scroll to the very bottom …

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