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I got a new i pad air m 2 today i am having trouble going to the home screne of my i pad air

Forum Topic by Applerocks on Friday, November 15, 2024
… to the Home Screen, swipe up from the bottom of the screen with one finger until you hear the second tone. (The first tone lets you know VoiceOver started to process the touch gesture, the second … AssistiveTouch. If you enable this, you can assign tap gestures to it for single tap, double tap, and press and hold …

Reassigning Forefingers tab at top of screen and bottom

Forum Topic by SSWFTW on Saturday, April 6, 2024
… let me know … These are what I use. … If you turn on VoiceOver help or go to VoiceOver practice, and then you … bottom of screen appear to be two of those context related gestures that you are not allowed to assign on iOS. You can … item to something else and it might work--I'm not fooling with my settings for anyone to find out--but you can not …

Recognize with VoiceOver the text from an object

Forum Topic by Kostadin Kolev on Friday, October 11, 2024
… that the list of transactions is not read correctly by VoiceOver. Instead of reading the displayed data for each entry (e.g. date of the transaction, sum, etc.), VoiceOver reads a consecutive number for each next entry … after that, etc.). Each transaction entry is treated by VoiceOver as a separate object. Is there a way to force …

AppleVis Extra #98: Recapping Apple's WWDC 2024 Keynote

Podcast by AppleVis on Wednesday, June 12, 2024
… box that I wanted to see and hear. So I was very happy with the results. And I know there were some disappointments … or whatever the correct terminology is and some new gestures. But from an accessibility point of view, we're not … thought that was kind of cool. Gosh, let's talk about some voiceover stuff, shall we? Let's talk about some accessible …

Gestures bug is back in 18.1

Forum Topic by Louise on Saturday, November 2, 2024
… left to move to the status bar. I tried assigning other gestures, and none will perform that one command for me. I … Bar command doesn't work. … I wonder if this is an issue with the dynamic island? Is there an option in the touch … You can do this by going to Settings, Accessibility, VoiceOver, Commands, and at the bottom of that screen is a, …

iPhone 16, Apple Watch Series 10, and New AirPods: Recap of Apple's "It's Glowtime" September Event

Blog Post by mehgcap on Monday, September 9, 2024
… in the Pro line. They cost $129. A more expensive model with active noise cancellation and other Pro-only features is … take a picture, and more. Apps can customize the various gestures and presses for this button. In one app, a double … to taking pictures to generating image descriptions for VoiceOver. No matter how you use your phone, chances are …

Gestures for rotor and braille screen input in iOS 18

Forum Topic by Khomus on Friday, September 20, 2024
… Hi all. I've fought with the rotor and fought and fought, and now I'm just going … - my advice is to take BSI away from rotor and use it with gestures. It's a double tap with 2 fingers, touching the top … Do the following: 1. Go to settings, accessibility, VoiceOver, commands. 2. On this screen, navigate down to …

Enabling VoiceOver on iPadOS with a Keyboard

Forum Topic by Chris on Monday, January 8, 2024
… work anymore. This gives me the opportunity to play with iPadOS, but I'm having a very significant problem. VoiceOver can be disabled using a keyboard, but not enabled. … get around this? I'm thinking not, but I wanted to check with the community. If not, I encourage everyone to write to …

How to share or send text from seeingAI

Forum Topic by Rusty Perez on Friday, May 17, 2024
… document ETC. :) Any help is appreciated. Thanks! Rusty … With Seeing AI, the only way that I can find that you can … text is by using the gesture that copies the last thing Voiceover says to the clipboard. The gesture to do this is a … quadruple tap. Not sure how long it is, but you would let Voiceover read it, then do the gesture which would copy what …

iOS18.1 beta 6 & other related updates are out! :)

Forum Topic by KE8UPE on Monday, October 7, 2024
… appear as they should. In beta 5, something broke where Voiceover was reading them, but they were not appearing at … Turkey. Users in different countries, how is the situation with you? I was not happy when I thought that this feature … It will work like it will be should. If you want to work with Type To Siri you can use another gessture that you need …

Selecting Focus in Control Center

Forum Topic by PaulMartz on Friday, December 6, 2024
… I've been playing around with Focus on my iPhone, using [Apple's own documentation as … Not Disturb. But it seems to work a little different with VoiceOver. If I double tap Focus, it turns on Do Not Disturb. … … Thanks, Tyler. I owe you. Again. … Or the long press gestures, will work too. Voiceover is losing the organized …

BSI Bug with iOS 18.1.1

Forum Topic by Qball42 on Sunday, December 1, 2024
… Apple accessibility team. I have also tried rebooting both VoiceOver and my phone itself, and I have had no luck. the … or so. … Please double check that the setting to activate with gestures is in fact switched on in …

VoiceOver stopped speaking on two different iPhones

Forum Topic by Sergey on Tuesday, January 16, 2024
… but this is not a case since all sounds are working except VoiceOver speech. If someone here has any idea of what might … tap? That turns vo on and off but keeps all other sounds/gestures. … It's a bug in Voiceover and IOS. You need to … as well as both phones to the latest system it can handle. With the old five, I'm guessing IOs eight, which might have …

Seeking advice on how to help someone with diabetic neuropathy navigate their iOS device

Forum Topic by Moopie Curran on Wednesday, May 15, 2024
… I'm not sure what work-arounds there are for people with this condition when it comes to working with an iPhone. … be, and listen to as many YouTube videos as you can on VoiceOver tutorials. Start with the basics and once she has … a handle on that, elevate to some of the more advanced gestures and such. There are also a few options under the …

Braille screen input as a default keyboard

Forum Topic by danno5 on Friday, March 1, 2024
… select the option to put in my username/password. * Forms with data: Autocomplete is good for filling out names, … a single rotor gesture away. Settings > Accessibility > VoiceOver > Rotor > Rotor Items to change the order and enable/disable items. … Yeah, I completely agree with what you've said, I'm just taking the idea as a concept …

iPhone 16 camera

Forum Topic by Justin Harris on Thursday, October 31, 2024
… Hi all, For anyone with the iPhone 16, have you had a harder time than before … knowing if you are centered or not? It doesn't seem like voiceover is giving me as frequent updates, and when trying … One thing I did real quick was to turn off the swipe gestures on it, because that was messing with all kinds of …

personal voice outside the US?

Forum Topic by Karok on Monday, March 4, 2024
… unworthy of attention. You have no option but to deal with the Accessibility Shortcuts dialogue every time you turn VoiceOver on or off if you wish to keep Live Speech enabled. … be able to assign some other gesture to it, or disable gestures for Personal Voice altogether, accessing it only …

Change in behavior of swipe up on developer 18.1 beta 5: Three clicks = siri, 4 clicks (high pop) = open apps

Forum Topic by Oliver on Wednesday, September 25, 2024
… the app switcher is even harder for them to access. … It's voiceover specific then? As I say, you can turn off type to … earlier 18.x betas. But, in my opinion, the largest issue with Type to SIRI is that it's incompatible with VoiceOver. VoiceOver doesn't announce that Type to SIRI …

Type to siri on iOS

Forum Topic by elliot2012 on Saturday, November 16, 2024
… To open Type to Siri, try a 4-Finger Swipe down. VoiceOver won't give you any indication that Type to Siri is … go to Settings, Accessibility, VoiceOver, Commands, Touch Gestures. From here you can assign something for Type to … bugs into Mail and Siri's notification announcements. … With regards to Apple Intelligence, i'm not surprised it's …

Engaging and compelling experiences, apps, and/or workflows in Apple Vision Pro?

Forum Topic by kevinchao89 on Thursday, September 12, 2024
… Apple Vision Pro and wanted to learn and understand from VoiceOver/Braille users of apps, experiences and/or workflows … for certain reasons. I think Braille will be interesting with the Vision Pro as it tracks hand movements, but I've … everywhere while moving your hands. I had a lot of trouble with VoiceOver as a low vision user, but I think I just …

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