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VoiceOver Gestures
You can control VoiceOver using simple hand movemens and gestures. Touch or drag your finger around the screen and VoiceOver will tell you what's there. Simply tap an icon to hear a description of that app the double tap to open it. When you interact with an app a black rectangle appears around it so users with some sight can follow along. When you want some privacy you can activate a screen curtain to turn off the display completely but still hear what VoiceOver is saying.
Want to know the basic gestures? just watch the video on the left!
VoiceOver and Text Input
With VoiceOver enabled each character on the keyboard is read aloud as you touch it and again when you enter it. A flick up or down moves the cursor so you can edit what you've written. To help you get those message out quickly iOS supports loads of different input methods, including handwriting, and corrects misspelled words as you type. If you enable Speak Auto-text you can hear a sound effect and the suggested word spoken aloud. Just keep typing to ignore the suggested word or tap the space bar to have your phone type it for you.
VoiceOver and the Rotor
VoiceOver Braille Keyboard
VoiceOver and Pronunciation Editor
VoiceOver features a virtual control called the rotor. Turning the rotor, by rotating two fingers on the screen like a dial, lets your efficiently move through a web page or document. When you're on a webpage turn the rotor to hear settings like 'headings', 'links' and 'images'. Then flick to choose how to navigate the page.
VoiceOver includes systemwide support for braille chords in 6 and 8 dot braille, enabling direct braille entry without the need for a physical braille keyboard. The braille keyboard is available in the rotor so you can use it to type text, unlock your phone, launch apps and find content, such a music, in apps. You can also connect a bluetooth wireless braille display to read VoiceOver content including contracted and uncontracted braille and equations using the Nemeth Code. Braille displays with keys can be used to control the iphone with VoiceOver.
The Pronunciation Editor allows you to create a list of words of phrases with the phonetic ways you want them to be pronounced. With VoiceOver turned on these words and phrases can then be read aloud with your preferred pronunciations in any documents, messages, web pages and other texts you use VoiceOver to read.