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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 …

How to pass through VoiceOver gesture to the system gesture

Forum Topic by Surendra Jujjavarapu on Thursday, September 1, 2022
… Hello all, I want to know how can I pass through VoiceOver gesture to the system gestures in iPhone? We have this optin the Inda N V D Ascreen … browser some elements we are unable to focus on the screen with the help of Screen Readers. If you have the gesture to …

VoiceOver TrackPad Gesture

Forum Topic by Maldalain on Monday, March 30, 2015
… all, Is there a trackpad gesture to close active window in Voiceover, similar to the keyboard shortcut Command + W? … closing windows yet. I forget however if you can create gestures like you can create keyboard commands using the …

VoiceOver gesture practice

Forum Topic by Brian Negus on Sunday, July 26, 2015
… iOS devices. It's a little frustrating that getting to the voiceover gesture practice requires voiceover skills to navigate through the settings app. Does … know a quick way of getting to the voiceover practice with in the settings app and perhaps giving access to it …

Is a dedicated back gesture is available for voiceover?

Forum Topic by Surendra Jujjavarapu on Saturday, August 20, 2022
… am AN android user switched to iPhone, I have one doubt in voiceover is there any dedicated back gesture afor voiceover screen reader. I am not talking about escape … to Settings / accessibility / voiceover / commands / touch gestures. … Hello, thank you for your replies but as I said …

Sighted equivalents for VoiceOver gestures needed

Forum Topic by Josh C. on Monday, March 24, 2014
… know where I can get a list of sighted equivalents to VoiceOver gestures? I have some friends and family who have iPhones, … like that here on AppleVis. However, have no fear. With some looking around. I found something that might help …

Gestures Using Zoom and VoiceOver

Forum Topic by smmsjw on Wednesday, January 3, 2018
… to be a part of this community! Does anyone have a list gestures when Zoom and VoiceOver are enabled or being used at the same time? Thank … iOS 11. There are some pretty bad bugs which mean that all gestures sometimes go haywire if you have both enabled. …

Is there a voiceover touch gesture to turn on and off voiceover

Forum Topic by Dylan on Friday, February 18, 2022
… triple click my ipad minis power button to turn on and off voiceover is there a touch gesture I could use instead … Well, assumed we have a gesture for turning of voiceover. What is next? How do you want to use an assigned gesture for turning on voiceover? The service is off. Yeah, the solution exists. …

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 …

Performing the pinch gesture using VoiceOver

Forum Topic by iosman on Tuesday, July 9, 2019
… like some tips on how to perform the pinch gesture using VoiceOver. What does this gesture do? How can I perform this …

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 Gestures on Apple Watch

Forum Topic by Rikke Fogh on Wednesday, April 10, 2019
… Hi! There doesn't seem to be any VoiceOver gestures for "read all" or "read from here" on the …

Is it possible to customise the sensitivity of Voiceover gestures?

Forum Topic by Adriana White on Monday, April 25, 2022
… Hello, I have a braille student who uses voiceover to access her iPad. She has some fine motor … some way to change the sensitivity on the iPad to read her gestures? Thank you … Hi. I suggest you explore settings> … once. There's many other options you can change on the gestures to help too. For example, I sometimes had difficulty …

VoiceOver Four and Five Finger Gestures in iOS 7 and iOS 8 for iPad

Forum Topic by bobcat on Monday, September 1, 2014
… Since using VoiceOver I have discovered some four or more finger gestures that I find useful. As far as I can tell these … gesture below: iOS 8 use five fingers. Swipe right with one finger in many apps that have a side bar list such …

Using swipe gestures to manage email with VoiceOver?

Forum Topic by KE8UPE on Monday, January 30, 2023
… was telling me about how he manages his email, using swipe gestures. He also informed me that there’s a way to do it with VoiceOver. However, he couldn’t remember what the equivalent …

games that help with learning VoiceOver gestures

Forum Topic by cuddle_kitten84 on Wednesday, September 7, 2022
… I'm looking for game ideas that use the basic voice over gestures, swiping left and right, double tapping as i'm teaching a clicent VoiceOver and if i can make the sessions more useful and fun with a game, this would be brilliant. Any recommendations …

VoiceOver shows wrong gestures in the commands section on iOS 13

Forum Topic by Manuel on Friday, September 20, 2019
… on my iPhone on iOS 13: Go to settings > Accessibility > VoiceOver > Commands > All commands > VoiceOver > Label Item. … happens. To change the label item, you have to double-tap with two finger ans hold to execute the command "label item". Although, the problem is that some gestures were shown wrongly to the customers. That's a really …

VoiceOver Gesture For Quickly Jumping to Bottoms?

Forum Topic by Misty Dawn on Monday, June 26, 2023
… single. time. So, finally, my question is: Is there a VoiceOver gesture to allow one quickly to jump down to the … item or bottom of the screen. Tap the top of the screen with four fingers and you'll jump to the first item or the … and four finger swipe up to go to the first item. Those gestures are not taken up so use them. I have those set to …

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 …

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