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Secondary voiceover gestures on watch?

Forum Topic by Austin Grace on Wednesday, January 29, 2025
… an Apple watch a few months ago and love it. While voiceover is straight forward, I'm curious about some … gesturs I have encountered, but not exactly what extra gestures there are. I just discovered recently that if you … could not get anything to happen. Then there is something with tapping with two fingers and holding and it adjusts …

My experiences with a Google pixel 9a phone

Forum Topic by Kushal Solanki on Friday, May 30, 2025
… purposes and for work mainly but also want to get familiar with talkback as well so if anyone else needs help with … find talkback to have a slight 1 second delay compared to voiceover which you can get use to" The gestures are also easy to pick up. My question is how do you …

Submitted feedback: Feature Request: a voiceover command to switch voices in the voiceover rotor on mac

Forum Topic by Mert Ozer on Friday, March 21, 2025
… Hi, I’m bilingual and frequently switch between two VoiceOver voices. I’d love for Apple to add a command to … voice, then use VO+X to switch between them. I thought with Sequoia there was a way to switch voices using the … volume and braille table you have a voice rotor (the rotor with cmd shift vo arrows). Edit: never mind I do now. … If I …

Finding Your Way Home in a (Home) Buttonless World: Using an iOS Device Without a Home Button

Guide by Scott Davert on Friday, February 28, 2025
… ###Introduction With the recent release of the new [iPhone … in which one now goes to the Home Screen by default with VoiceOver is to place one finger at the bottom edge of the … to Settings > Accessibility > VoiceOver > Commands > Touch Gestures. 2. Select the gesture desired. For example, swipe …

TableEx

iOS and iPadOS App Directory by alex the blind gamer on Friday, May 16, 2025
… bringing classic board and card games to your fingertips with full screen reader support and intuitive gesture controls. Whether you want to play solo, with friends, or just watch others play – TableEx makes it … • Fully accessible with screen readers (TalkBack, VoiceOver) • Custom gesture controls – no visual input needed …

iPhone 16e Review: An Excellent 'Basic' iPhone

Blog Post by Michael Hansen on Thursday, April 17, 2025
… much larger (and much more expensive) iPhone 16 Pro Max. VoiceOver performance is fast and responsive. Battery life is … 16e is a very nice phone, and it is a joy to use. As with any product, the iPhone 16e isn’t perfect; it lacks some … areas of the screen are available for viewing and touch gestures. If you are coming from an iPhone SE or earlier, one …

Page up/page down on magic keyboard ipad air

Forum Topic by emperor limitless on Friday, May 2, 2025
… Ipad air m3, with apple’s magic keyboard, usually, page up/page down is fn … I don’t think it’s missing from the whole system, because voiceover even has a shortcut for it, I just hope the … page up/page down key, I’m aware cmd+up/down performs some gestures, but I need the literal keypress because I’m trying …

Back button in iPhone

Forum Topic by Sanjana the Computer girl on Friday, June 20, 2025
… many applications do not support the back button through VoiceOver. I would like to inquire about alternative methods … to the previous screen. Is there a way to do this using gestures or other actions? If not, is the only option to … function as intended. Additionally, for users familiar with Braille, command mode provides an alternative: simply …

Submitted Feedback: VoiceOver Trimming Accessibility Issues in iPhone Photos App

Forum Topic by Mert Ozer on Monday, June 2, 2025
… app on the iPhone, we encounter a few significant issues with VoiceOver. I would like to explain them in detail: 1. Open a … is where the challenges arise: When swiping up or down with one finger to adjust either the start or end time, …

Can we guys agree that Freeform accessibility is actually kinda insane with Voiceover?

Forum Topic by TheBlindGuy07 on Friday, January 24, 2025
… keynote code as infinite canvas. There is just one bug with the text field I reported but otherwise the handles, … and that's how we get accessibility built-in in that app. Voiceover is verbose enough so I can kinda have a mental map …

Somebody with the new Huawei FreeBuds 6? I need your advice

Forum Topic by Karina Velazquez on Saturday, June 7, 2025
… microphone, semi-open earbud design, and customizable gestures—including volume up and down on the earbuds … bought the FreeBuds 6 and I’ve run into several issues with them, but I’m not sure how to tell if it’s just my … liking, with strong bass, but if I stop playing music and VoiceOver isn’t speaking, after about 10 seconds, when I …

Make it possible to unsync single key quick nav and the other VoiceOver rotors

Forum Topic by TheBlindGuy07 on Saturday, March 8, 2025
… what you think about that. FB16781468, suggestion In your VoiceOver documentation, there are several ways to access the … differences between the vo+u rotor, the one accessed with vo+cmd+arrow keys and the one with the trackpad gestures. Most importantly, although it’s not traditionally …

Major problems with quick nav

Forum Topic by TheBlindGuy07 on Monday, February 17, 2025
… but I tried both and it gave the same result. Basically with any of the 3 mode of quick nav it was just not working … um/macos-mac-apps/yet-another-oversight-bad-software-design-voiceover This is not the only problem. Why is nobody talking … doesn't forcefully sync the rotor with the trackpad gestures or vo command arrow while each usage of single key …

Seeking Accessibility Suggestions for the Stryd App on iPhone and Apple Watch

Forum Topic by Khalid on Wednesday, April 23, 2025
… the app here: https://www.stryd.com/ I'm meeting soon with the Stryd development team to discuss how the iOS and … I plan to raise a few key points, including: 1. Enhancing VoiceOver support, especially for charts, graphs, and the … split intervals). 3. Better use of the Action Button and gestures to provide meaningful spoken feedback during …

a Deep dive into VoiceOver settings for iOS and iPadOS

Guide by Levi Gobin on Thursday, May 15, 2025
… for iOS and iPadOS 18.5 ### Intro VoiceOver is Apple's screen reader, which can be found across … screen gives you quick access to learn about VoiceOver gestures, try a VoiceOver tutorial, and launch VoiceOver … Here is where you can control the primary voice to be used with VoiceOver. If you have not added any other voices to …

Finding Your Way Home in a (Home) Buttonless World: Using an iOS Device Without a Home Button the Ears Edition

Podcast by AppleVis on Monday, March 3, 2025
… access the Home Screen on iPhones without a Home Button. With the launch of the iPhone 16e, Apple has fully … area can also provide a reliable guide. ###2. Customizing VoiceOver Gestures: VoiceOver users can assign the Home function to a …

Touch It Your Way: A Guide to Rearranging Items on the macOS Touch Bar

Guide by Levi Gobin on Tuesday, July 1, 2025
… macOS Sequoia ### Intro Although Apple has killed off Macs with the Touch Bar, there are of course some still in the … to remove them." Dragging things doesn't work because VoiceOver will not drag something with the "Press" action. I … Bar doesn't work. If you are in a similar situation, flick gestures also work on the Touch Bar. 2. Double tap to remove …

Apple Vision Accessibility: The 2024 AppleVis Report Card

Blog Post by AppleVis on Wednesday, February 26, 2025
… major platforms (iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS) with the available vision accessibility features provided in … including a listing of the most-changed ratings in 2024. * VoiceOver: This section presents ratings and selected … to use with VoiceOver. I would also really like more gestures, in particular one finger multi-directional gestures …

Apple Releases macOS Sequoia 15.4, watchOS 11.4, tvOS 18.4, and HomePod Software 18.4

Blog Post by AppleVis on Monday, March 31, 2025
… tvOS 18.4, and HomePod Software 18.4 to the public. As with iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4, macOS Sequoia 15.4 brings … blind, deaf blind, and low vision users. ### Changes for VoiceOver and Braille Users Our experience is that the … According to Apple's release notes, an issue was resolved with braille displays possibly showing an incorrect line when …

A Deep Dive into VoiceOver Utility On Mac

Guide by Levi Gobin on Wednesday, May 28, 2025
… This guide will attempt to document all of the options in VoiceOver Utility and what they do. After the release of my … that open a dialog or an additional screen will be noted with an ellipsis (…). #### File 1. Import Preferences … … settings for NumPad, Option key, trackpad gestures, and braille displays". These options cannot be …

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