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Read text by sentences

Forum Topic by ernst on Sunday, October 7, 2012
… words and lines. How to do this? As you know there is a voiceOver Gesture named Rotor feature, using voiceOver Rotor feature you can navigate faster and easy way … wherever page or text whenever select Lines and follow the gestures flick up to the previous item or flick down to the …

hooray for iOS 18.3

Forum Topic by honest nan on Tuesday, March 4, 2025
… the fb ones entirely and just get the ones generated by Voiceover. … Go to VoiceOver settings > Commands and assign a … posted this a while back, but there is a pretty neat trick with the three finger single tap gesture on iOS. By default, … as to why this wasn't working. So, as I only had 3 command gestures set up I reset them all and started again. and it …

Volume issues in iOS 7

Forum Topic by Khalfan Bin Dhaher on Saturday, December 21, 2013
… Hello. I'm facing a problem with the main volume while listening music in my iOS device or playing an audio game using VoiceOver. Each time VoiceOver speeks an item the volume … issue isn't new, it came since Debute iPhone 5S together with iOS7. Don't worried nothing to do with Hardware, this is …

Looking for help on how to make a customized voice control command to change pages on the home screen

Forum Topic by Mike on Friday, February 14, 2025
… Hi all, I have a student who is utilizing voice control with voiceover on his iPad. He is struggling with the phrase … Then, go the settings> accessibility> voiceover> commands> gestures and define the 3 finger swipe left or right to be …

Viskey

iOS and iPadOS App Directory by Scruffy Ted 🧸 on Saturday, November 21, 2020
… Viskey is the Visible Keyboard With large text preview and good contrast, Viskey lets you … as they are entered. Viskey is also fully compatible with VoiceOver. You can try Viskey for free, and subscribe for a … … I tested the app. It works fine for typing, but the gestures for deleting and other actions doesn't work, so it's …

I've found a pretty cool swipe gesture.

Forum Topic by Brad on Friday, October 1, 2021
… If you swipe either left or right with four fingers, it'll act like the app switcher but you … of it but then again, I've never looked in to the apple voiceover manual. … I seen's the commend from ios 6. I use on … it. It is a cool little gesture. I’m hip now! … There's a Voiceover manual? I always figured Apple just gave you a pat …

Help with vertical navigation rotor setting

Forum Topic by Boxer1 on Friday, April 19, 2019
… when I use the vertical navigation feature of the voiceover rotor, and try to flick up or down, The only … general, accessibility, accessibility shortcut and select voiceover. After that, turn voiceover off and then back on and it should be working for …

AppleVis Unlimited: What's New and Noteworthy for January 2021

Blog Post by AppleVis on Monday, February 1, 2021
… GoodMaps Explore (iOS/iPadOS, Free) > Discover the world with GoodMaps Explore. > Accurate indoor and outdoor† … cascaded menus, it provides interactive UI components and gestures to give you intuitive, flexible, powerful control of … having to have an active connection). The app has full VoiceOver accessibility support and is available in multiple …

Help showing somebody how to double tap and swipe?

Forum Topic by Moopie Curran on Thursday, December 14, 2023
… They have an iPhone 13, and also an iPhone 8, so one with a home button, and one without. Right now, they are using both voiceover and voice control, I use voiceover every day, but … is also the voiceover practice section, where all the gestures can be practised independently. I have taught others …

What is direct touch?

Forum Topic by María on Monday, February 1, 2021
… (infact, is the last one that we find inder Accessibility/ VoiceOver) called "Direct touch", but I have no idea what … > For those unfamiliar with Direct Touch, it's a way in which developers can tell … exploring a map by touch, interpreting touches and gestures in a game, and so on. … Apps have been able to …

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 …

roder bloat

Forum Topic by dufelbag on Tuesday, August 11, 2020
… can adjust what things are shown your roder by going to voiceover settins and double tappingon roder. Once there, … while in public. I scale mine down now that you can assign gestures. Example headings for me is swipe left or right with 2 fingers. … I doubt they would consider that, though …

Screen curtain will not turn off

Forum Topic by Helaine B on Thursday, October 19, 2017
… using IOS 11 yet. … If you use Zoom, there are many bugs with the three button gestures. Try turning off Zoom and then using the gesture. … … I think would help us is the following: 1. Are you using VoiceOver only? Is this being used with like the Zoom (As …

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 …

the home gesture on the newer iphones?

Forum Topic by falcon wings on Tuesday, November 6, 2018
… as really entuitive, and easy to do, I had real difficulty with it. took me a minute to get it out of the settings … the control center and notification center. Even the old gestures involving a three-finger swipe up or down to bring … work and can be practiced for however long you want in the VoiceOver practice which you can turn on from VoiceOver …

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 …

Issue With text Selection and Copying from the iPhone's browser in iOS 8.4.1

Forum Topic by Osibote B.H. on Wednesday, August 26, 2015
… else has observed this and is, just as I am, uncomfortable with it. And if someone has had the same issue, does anyone … … You should try a four finger triple tap on your screen Voiceover will say the text and then copied to pasteboard. I … tried describing is actually tapping the screen four times with three fingers, and that gesture enables VoiceOver to …

Direct Touch Toggle Contextual Rotor Item: What Is It?

Forum Topic by Teresa on Saturday, October 4, 2014
… that had a new game and menu level buttons. I played with the rotor for some reason and came across a rotor item … typing is mentioned. Any ideas? … Direct touch means the gestures you perform on the touch screen are passed directly to the app, without VoiceOver interpreting them. For games, keyboard apps like …

help needed with voice only control of iPad

Forum Topic by Bazz on Sunday, March 28, 2021
… for such wonderful accessibility Voice tools. However with so many available and optional combinations possible I’m … most satisfying user experience is likely to be offered by VoiceOver. You could incorporate some level of voice control … worth the extra muscle memory involved with combining both gestures and spoken commands in to a single and coherent …

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