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For iOS Developers: Taking Your Accessibility from Good to Great

Blog Post by Lysette Chaproniere on Monday, January 8, 2018
… minimum accessibility standards and make something that VoiceOver users will find intuitive and enjoy using? In this … important, what VoiceOver is, and some of the most common gestures for navigating around the screen. If you do not … about accessibility for blind users, but if you are a user with another disability, or with some remaining vision, I …

What are the Keyboard Shortcuts for the Screen Curtain and Muting VoiceOver?

Forum Topic by Natalina on Sunday, August 7, 2016
… What are the keyboard commands on the MAC to mute VoiceOver , and to turn screen curtain on/off? I know the gestures but can't figure out they keyboard commands for … curtain is VO Shift f 11. I don't know what the mute Voiceover command is. HTH … 3-finger double-tap for mute. not …

Floating keyboard on the iPad

Forum Topic by Pyro2790 on Friday, July 17, 2020
… again. NO matter what I do the keyboard is always the full with of the iPad screen though. Perhaps there is a different gesture to accomplish this with VoiceOver, but I don't know what it is and can't seem 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 …

a few iPad questions

Forum Topic by Alan on Thursday, August 13, 2020
… questions: I have read that sighted users can use new ios gestures: open notification screen, go to the home screen, I mean, as you would do in an iphone with face id. Is it possible to use new voiceover gestures as well, sliding a finger from bottom, …

Selecting Text Outside of Editable Fields

Forum Topic by Misty Dawn on Wednesday, January 4, 2017
… one, if this is even possible, select text in iOS using VoiceOver? I have the Text Selection rotor option enabled, … finger swipe down to copy everything, but I use it a lot with the different rotor settings like word or character etc. … of whatever was last spoken by VoiceOver, and this works with pretty much anything. … Hmm, interesting that we seem …

What keyboard do you recommend for iPad?

Forum Topic by Karel Giebisch on Sunday, March 19, 2023
… how keyboard to purchase. I’m tempted Apple Magic Keyboard with Trackpad. I wonder, if this keyboard supports VoiceOver touch gestures on TrackPad. Itś quite expensive and I don’t want to …

Is it possible to hide the iOS on-screen keyboard?

Forum Topic by Darrell Hilliker on Monday, June 24, 2019
… does not seem to effectively manage the keyboard while VoiceOver is in use. Thanks. … But I don't think you can with iPhone. On iPad you tap the keyboard key that is in the … type of bluetooth keyboard, but to hide on-screen keyboard with a bluetooth kb, it's F3. As I said, may vary depending …

Multi-finger gesture issue

Forum Topic by Mabbs92 on Friday, March 12, 2021
… this phone I noticed that when I perform multi-finger gestures, such as a three finger triple tap and especially when I perform a three finger quadruple tap, voiceover will act as if I swipe to the next item instead. It … not the model of phone I have, but I have a similar issue with double-tap, single-finger gestures and sometimes with …

Help? Navigating the Directv iPad app

Forum Topic by Ann on Sunday, September 13, 2015
… on this app more quickly? Is there perhaps an iPad VoiceOver gesture that I don't know? …

IPad’s Split-screen function: is it accessible for us VoiceOver users?

Forum Topic by Gerardo on Monday, August 28, 2023
… view. So I've been wondering if this is accessible for us VoiceOver users? And if so, what gesture is there to quickly … I use it a lot, particularly when I'm genuinely working with two apps. Having them both on the screen at once is a … screen using it spacially, rather than with a lot of swipe gestures and such. It's a lot easier if you're moving your …

How to Assign Triple-Back-Tap to Toggle Voiceover On and Off?

Forum Topic by Teresa on Monday, November 29, 2021
… Hi, all. I'm trying to reassign the toggle voiceover command, because hearing devices keep sharing the … commands, and I can't find a Voiceover toggle to use with triple-back-tap. What command do I look for, or do I go … commands section. However, when I set up triple-back-tap with Voiceover, it brings up hearing devices instead. I have …

annoying issue with iPad pro and keyboard cases

Forum Topic by tyler chambliss on Saturday, September 11, 2021
… the keyboard connected and closed the iPad won't lock. VoiceOver continuously keeps saying the time and how ever … Also is there a way to make the track pad use the same gestures as on the actual screen? I tried the VO clockwise … I suppose this is a Logitech keyboard. It is a known issue with VoiceOver and Logitech keyboards. I have as well as many …

As an Accessibility Advocate, I'm having Accessibility Issues with my iPhone with VoiceOver.

Forum Topic by Unregistered User on Saturday, June 8, 2019
… Hello World! I'm a disabled & blind man with an iPhone 6S+ for 70+ days. Prior to my vision-loss, I … suffer from arthritis. I'm working my iPhone 6S+ with VoiceOver linked to my LogicTech Bluetooth QWERTY keyboard. … VoiceOver. Well, with arthritis and callouses, pinching gestures has become a failure for me! I then tried memorizing …

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 …

Controlling VoiceOver remotely

Forum Topic by Paul Ruvolo on Saturday, January 1, 2022
… I was wondering what options exist for performing actions with VoiceOver without touching the phone. I'm specifically … or other devices that could be used to transmit swipe gestures to the iPhone. I know voice input would be an option …

Custom gestures

Forum Topic by Khafsa2015 on Tuesday, August 21, 2012
… you could help me. Basically I'm wondering if the custom gestures feature in ios five point one point one is compatible with VoiceOver and zoom. Many thanks, :) …

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 …

Changing Clock face and screens on Apple Watch

Forum Topic by Adrian Wyka on Friday, November 3, 2023
… has become very complicated to navigate this system. As a VoiceOver user, I've had a quick two-finger rub gesture until … I don't understand why you decided to delete these gestures. Now to change the clock face you need to: 1. Tap … be done by sliding through the elements, because scrolling with the crown does not work. Tapping the bottom edge of the …

Questions about using iPhone in hebrew and hebrew braille

Forum Topic by Vsevolod Popov on Thursday, April 13, 2023
… learn Hebrew language, and I have some questions regarding VoiceOver use and braille screen input. First, I noticed that when iPhone is switched to Hebrew language VoiceOver gestures are reversed. Swiping is done from right to left and … as Karmit pronounces it and without them. But when I type with braille screen input, safit letters are always typed. …

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