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Important VoiceOver GesturesOne Finger Gestures:Touching the screen with 1 finger selects an item. The Voice Over cursor is a black rectangle which moves to the item being touched with a one finger touch.Touching any item on the screen moves the VoiceOver focus to that item, and selects it. That item will now be ready for activation, or be the object of another action.Double tapping with 1 finger activates the selected item.The one finger double tap gesture is used:*Opening apps*Activating buttons*Deleting items*Turning on / off switches*Working with Contacts*Selecting music to playThe one finger double-tap gesture consists of two taps within the course of about a half-second. These taps do not need to be in any one particular place on the screen. Once Voiceover is focused on an item, you may double-tap anywhere on the screen to activate the selected item.Split tapping is a second method of activating an item. This is done by:a. place one finger on the item to activate.b. Tap once anywhere else on the screen with another finger and the item is activated. Split tapping is most often used for entering text, but there is a much better alternative to do that, which is a Bluetooth keyboard. Much faster and more accurate (the other great option is Dictation on devices that support it). One finger double tap and hold gesture.The one finger double tap and hold gesture will temporarily override the Voice Over gestures and allow you to navigate with a sliding gesture that is often used by sighted individuals.For example: If you go to your Contacts app, and you want to quickly navigate the table index of letters to get to a specific letter, you can flick up and down on the table index (located on the far right edge of your iOS device) to go through each letter one at a time: or you can use the "one finger double tap" to then slide your finger to move quickly through the alphabetic letters.This gesture also activates "drag-mode" which you can then move apps or delete apps from any home screen of apps.Flicking left or right with 1 finger moves to the previous or next item.Flicking is often simpler on screens with many items that may be selected, or with those screens having unfamiliar lay-outs.Flick Left / RightThese gestures are used to navigate through iOS by moving the Voiceover selection.Flicking left moves the focus backward, consecutively through items on the screen of your iOS device. Flicking right moves the focus forward consecutively through the items on the screen.Two Finger Gestures:Two finger single tap will stop and start reading.The two-finger single tap gesture stops or restarts VoiceOver speaking. Performing this gesture at any time while VoiceOver is speaking interrupts the speech. Performing the gesture again will start VoiceOver speaking again from where it left off.Two-Finger-Double-Tap gestureThis gesture is performed by using two fingers to tap the screen twice in half a second. It works well to have about half an inch separating the fingers to be used. You may use any two fingers.This gesture is used in many areas of iOS, such as:*Answering and / or hanging up phone calls*Starting or stopping music or video playing*Taking pictures with the camera*Starting or stopping taking video with the camera*Starting or stopping the stopwatch*Starting or stopping recording or playback of a voice memoWhen in an edit field, double tapping with two fingers will allow the user to start dictating in that edit field. This is a much faster way of quickly dictating instead of finding the dictate button in the lower left corner of the screen. Double tap with two fingers again when you have finished speaking to send the audio to Apple's servers for decoding.Two finger double tap and hold gestureThis two finger double tap and hold gesture will allow you to add a custom label to an unlabelled button.Two finger flick up or downTwo-Finger Flick UpFlick up with 2 fingers begins reading from the top of the screen.This gesture causes VoiceOver to begin reading at the top of the screen and continue until it reaches the end of all of the readable text. If there is more text than will fit on the screen, VoiceOver will automatically scroll the screen to read all the text.Two-Finger Flick DownFlick down with two fingers to read continuously from the Voice Over Cursor to the bottom of the document.The two-finger flick down gesture will cause VoiceOver to read from the area of the screen in the focus through the available remaining text. As with the above two-finger flick up gesture, if there is more text than will fit on the screen, VoiceOver will automatically scroll the screen to read all the remaining text.Two finger scrub in a letter Z configuration (Scrub back and forth) will Go back, cancel, close a pop-upTwo finger twist left or right will activate and navigate the rotorThree Finger Gestures:three-finger gestures all move the screen in specific directions.? Flicking up with three fingers scrolls the screen downward.? Flicking down with three fingers scrolls the screen upward.? flicking left scrolls the screen one page to the right.? Flicking right scrolls the screen one page to the left.Think of the three finger swipes as pulling information up, down, etc. Flicking left or right with 3 fingers moves to previous or next page.Three finger swipe down, while on the status bar, will open the notification Center.Three finger swipe up will advance to the next page.Three finger swipe down will go back to the previous page.Three Finger single tap on the middle of the screen will announce where you are or Speaks the current page number and position.Three finger double tap will mute and unmute the Voice Over speech.Three finger triple tap will turn and off the screen curtain.Three finger quadruple tap. This will copy the last spoken text to the clipboard. This is a handy feature, which will save a lot of time since you will no longer need to go to the rotor to find Edit and then copy the selected text to the clipboard. Three finger swipe down from the Status bar:To access the Control Center, which gives you quick access to many popular toggle settings within the iDevice, you must first tap the status bar, then swipe up with three fingers. You will now be in the Control Center. Double tapping any of the options will toggle settings on and off.To exit the Control Center, do a two finger scrub on the home screenThree finger swipe down from the status Bar:This gesture will open the Notification center.Swiping down from anywhere else on the home screen will launch Spotlight Search.Four Finger Gestures:Tap the top of the screen, just below the speaker, with four fingers to go to the top of the document or first element on the screen.Tap the bottom of the screen, just above the home button, with four fingers to go to the bottom of the document or the last element on the screen.Four finger double tap. This enables VoiceOver help from anywhere. So instead of having to go in to Settings\General\Accessibility\VoiceOver\VoiceOver Practice, you can now do this gesture from anywhere. The Five Most Important Voiceover Gestures1. Touch Screen with a Single FingerIf you place your finger on the screen, Voiceover will read you what is beneath your finger. Now move your finger around the screen, and hear the different icons beneath your finger that are being read aloud to you. When you have an app open, you can move your finger around the screen and whatever your finger is touching is also read to you. 2. Single Finger Double TapTo open an app, all you have to do is place your finger on the app. For example, place your finger on the weather app. Voiceover reads to you that Weather is selected; now double tap with one finger anywhere on the screen and the weather app will open. Double tapping with a single finger is how you unlock the iPhone and is also used to select any item. 3. Two Fingers Swipe DownA two-finger swipe down will read the entire screen to you. For example, if you are in your weather app, you would do a two finger swipe down to have the weekly forecast read to you. If you are in Safari and you want the contents of a web page read to you, swipe down with two fingers. Just swipe down with two fingers, and listen away. 4. Two Finger Double TapA two-finger double tap will stop and start the audio, giving you the option to double tap again with two fingers in order to resume listening. 5. Single Finger Flick Right or LeftWith the simple flick of a single finger, you can navigate from one item to the next. This works when navigating the home screen, navigating emails, navigating individual tweets and so on. Flick once to the right in order to move to the next item, and you can flick once with a single finger left to navigate to the previous item.The Rotor GestureThis gesture is best performed by imagining that you are turning a volume knob or tuning a dial on an older radio. Place two fingers approximately an inch apart on the screen. Rotate the fingers as though turning a flat dial on the surface, or a dial that is recessed into the surface.When you turn this virtual dial, you will hear small tones to let you know that you are turning the imaginary rotor. You will hear Voiceover speak as you turn the rotor. What Voiceover says depends on what screen is being viewed at the time when you perform the rotor gesture.Places that the rotor can be used and what it does:*On the web. When viewing a webpage in Safari, turning the rotor allows selection as to how to navigate the page being viewed.*iOS Home Screens. When viewing the IOS home screens, the rotor, gives access to Voiceover settings such as how Voiceover will read text labels and navigate between apps and screen elements.*Edit fields. In edit fields while typing, use the rotor to select typing modes or ways of editing the text being entered or being read in the edit field.Customize the RotorThe rotor may be customized to permit additional commands to be assigned to the rotor. These commands can later be accessed as needed. This is accomplished through the Settings menu. Up/Down Flick:The up or down flick is often used in conjunction with the rotor gesture. What happens depends on how the rotor is set.These two gestures will perform a basic default action, depending on the rotor's last setting. Normally this action will be to read text or label elements either by character or word. If the rotor is set for character, VoiceOver will spell out text that is selected when flicking up or down. Flicking up while focused on an app title will cause VoiceOver to spell backward, character by character and flicking down will cause VoiceOver to spell through the title forward, character by character. If the rotor is set for word as a default position, then VoiceOver will read word by word with each flick--either forward or backwards. ................
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