Appendix A Accessibility 143
Activate
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Double-tap: Activate the selected item.
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Triple-tap: Double-tap an item.
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Split-tap: As an alternative to selecting an item and double-tapping to activate it, touch an
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Double-tap and hold (1 second) + standard gesture: Use a standard gesture. The double-tap
and hold gesture tells iPhone to interpret the next gesture as standard. For example, you can
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Answer or end a call. Play or pause in Music, Videos, Voice Memos, or
Photos. Take a photo in Camera. Start or pause recording in Camera or Voice Memos. Start or
stop the stopwatch.
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Open the Item Chooser.
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Mute or unmute VoiceOver.
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Use the VoiceOver rotor
Use the rotor to choose what happens when you swipe up or down with VoiceOver turned on, or
to select special input methods such as Braille Screen Input or Handwriting.
Operate the rotor.
Choose your rotor options. Go to Settings > General > Accessibility > VoiceOver > Rotor, then
select the options you want to include in the rotor.
reading an email, you can use the rotor to switch between speaking text word-by-word or
character-by-character when you swipe up or down. If you’re browsing a webpage, you can set
the rotor to speak all text (word-by-word or character-by-character), or to jump to the next item
of a certain type, such as a header or link.
When you use an Apple Wireless Keyboard to control VoiceOver, you can use the rotor to adjust
settings such as volume, speech rate, use of pitch or phonetics, typing echo, and reading of
punctuation. See Use VoiceOver with an Apple Wireless Keyboard on page 146.
Use the onscreen keyboard
Apple Wireless Keyboard attached).
keyboard appear.
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