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How to use the voiceover gestures for home button on an iPhone without a home button in verticle apps?

Forum Topic by fatih on Tuesday, February 13, 2024
… Let me tell this with an example: For example I have the game feer on, but I … mode? Thank you. … Like I said in the subject, the gestures should work the same way. I perform them the same … open the passcode field to enter a passcode. I restarted voiceover and the gesture worked, but when the phone switched …

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 …

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 …

Improving TalkBack Experience on Android Phones: Solving Double-Tap Issues and Enhancing Typing

Forum Topic by Deon588 on Monday, November 18, 2024
… Hello everyone, I saw a few posts on here where IOS/voiceover users try Android and have a rough experience and … usage on my Android phone. For months, I struggled with the double-tap gesture not registering when holding the … double-tap worked fine. Single taps and explore-by-touch gestures worked without any problems. What I Tried: - Ran …

Reachability with voiceover?

Forum Topic by TheBlindGuy07 on Saturday, November 2, 2024
… but is there another more elegant way to use this feature with voiceover? Can we just swipe at the botom of the screen as … or whatever the way is, and reachability will just work with vo? I have not tried this fully but I know that on …

How to use trackpad on iPad?

Forum Topic by inforover on Thursday, July 25, 2024
… How does one go about using the trackpad on iPad with the use of VoiceOver? It seems to do weird and wonderful things when I use the standard VoiceOver gestures and I can't seem to find anything in settings to …

Are groups useful?

Forum Topic by Khomus on Tuesday, February 27, 2024
… forum/ios-ipados/can-someone-describe-new-groups-navigation-voiceover-iphone Are they actually useful? I haven't hit … NVDA all the time, Narrator very occasionally. I have used Voiceover on a Mac in the past though. Maybe somebody could … toolbars, tables and web frames, or quickly bypass them with a single keystroke. However, I find that if groups …

Disappointed - is it that my Apple watch 7 is better than my apple Watch 10?

Forum Topic by Karina Velazquez on Saturday, November 30, 2024
… than my brand-new apple watch 10. Beside the troubles with volume rotor control that it is a mess now, I’m having … since I put this new case to my new apple watch 10, some gestures are difficult, if not impossible to perform while … to perform the double three fingers gesture to disable voiceover speech, the same as the gesture to enable or …

Would like some clarification on VoiceOver commands

Forum Topic by Bob Cavanaugh on Saturday, December 28, 2024
… assign though, I'm trying to figure out what all the other gestures actually do, and I have some questions. 1. What does it mean by a tap of the far edges? It looks like VoiceOver's default is to turn on braille screen input when … it says that's supposed to toggle speech, but that is done with a two finger triple tap, which according to the commands …

Question about using Mac with voiceover and with only one hand

Forum Topic by Pat Pound on Monday, July 15, 2024
… the use of only his right hand. He is a good iPhone user with voiceover. He has learned that although Mack has sticky keys, … am familiar with the fact that one can assign and reassign gestures and commands, but I would like to know someone who’s …

Apple Documents Apple Vision Pro Accessibility Features: Including VoiceOver and Zoom Guides

Blog Post by AppleVis on Friday, February 2, 2024
… This includes [a guide specifically for VoiceOver … on and off, use the various single and multi-hand gestures to control the headset, practice the gestures, and … modifier pinches (one hand pinch held while pinching with opposite hand), and slide pinches (long pinch plus …

the problem with direct touch typing

Forum Topic by Liviu Serea on Friday, March 1, 2024
… Hello! I have strange screen behavior with direct touch typing mode. As a way of typing text, I … proprietary app or a developer app, if we enter text with VoiceOver with direct touch input mode, after entering text, … window with Jonn, it no longer responds to VoiceOver touch gestures. The double-click gesture to open apps in the dock …

What's happening with voiceover and volume control across the whole ecosystem?

Forum Topic by TheBlindGuy07 on Thursday, October 17, 2024
… here. But basically I've been having volume control bugs with voiceover on my watch, iphone and mac on the latest betas, … On my watch se2 for example to go from 0 to 100% volume with the double tap then swipe up/down gesture, before I …

gesture to mute/unmute microphone during a zoom call?

Forum Topic by SSWFTW on Friday, January 19, 2024
… doing well. During a zoom call yesterday I was told that voiceover users can do a 3 finger swipe right or left to …

Feedback sent to Be my eyes team in regards to the enhance and easy image description.

Forum Topic by Surendra Jujjavarapu on Sunday, September 15, 2024
… to create a shortcut which takes the screenshot and share with the app and describe only the VoiceOver focused area in the screenshot. If anyone of you … a screenshot using VoiceOver and automatically share it with the Be My Eyes app? This shortcut would focus on …

Help Needed: Navigating ChatGPT Official App on Mac with VoiceOver

Forum Topic by Bill on Sunday, November 3, 2024
… has experience using the ChatGPT Official App on Mac with VoiceOver. I’ve been trying to navigate the chat responses … navigate responses or knows of any specific VoiceOver gestures or settings that help with accessibility in this …

How to use Whatsapp Web with VoiceOver on iPad?

Forum Topic by Ibrahim on Sunday, June 23, 2024
… Hello dear listers, I have been struggling for sometime with trying to use Whatsapp Web with VoiceOver on my iPad. i have been trying the VO gestures and also a bluetooth keyboard, but I failed in both. …

Is it possible to set up talkback on an android phone such that it behaves just like VoiceOver?

Forum Topic by Ipadman on Tuesday, November 19, 2024
… one because each system has its own unique qualities, yet with the introduction of multi finger touch gestures to talkback and the magic tap, I feel like the two … if it’s possible to run talkback essentially just like VoiceOver, what would be some of the challenges with this and …

May21 Sonos app bugs with VoiceOver

Forum Topic by Prateek Dujari. on Thursday, May 23, 2024
… rooms to play currently playing music is unlabeled so Voiceover just says 'button'. 2. In the cue list accessed … if they are present. How does one save or clear cue with voiceover? 3. In the 'now playing' window, there is an … and single finger double tap on this does not do anything with voiceover.. What is this and what action does this …

Totally Broken Haptics?

Forum Topic by Sebby on Thursday, February 15, 2024
… My iPhone 15 Pro Max has had dodgy haptics from VoiceOver for as long as I can remember, honestly, since the beginning of iOS 17, with extreme delays before haptics are registered. But with … to work and now just doesn't. Like, if I use the test gestures in VoiceOver Settings they play, but in real world …

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