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Table of Contents
VoiceOver User Guide
Welcome
What’s new in VoiceOver
VoiceOver basics
Get started
Turn VoiceOver on or off
Learn and practice VoiceOver
Control your Mac with keyboard commands
macOS basics
Use VoiceOver in the login window
Menu bar
Desktop
Finder
Dock
Launchpad
Notification Center
Navigate notifications
Mission Control
Stage Manager
Touch Bar
Navigate the FileVault login window without VoiceOver on an Intel-based Mac
Work with apps and windows
Use VoiceOver with a full-screen app
Hear open apps and windows
Switch apps and windows
Navigate app windows with window spots
Make VoiceOver ignore the next keypress
Move and resize items
Work with text
Read text
Scroll to content
Hear punctuation
Hear whitespace
Hear text attribute changes
Hear the current selection
Repeat, copy, or save the last spoken phrase
Select text
Hear what you type
Complete partial words
Correct misspelled words
Find text formatting issues
Navigate content
By letters, text, or attributes
Use cursor tracking
With cursor wrapping
With the Tab key
With the VoiceOver rotor
With Quick Nav
With the Item Chooser
Navigate, sort, and reorder tables
Use hot spots
Use positional audio
Drag and drop items
Perform an item’s alternate action
Use VoiceOver with Voice Control
Navigate webpages
Browse webpages
By DOM or group mode
By images or frames
By live regions
By landmarks
Hear the summary of a webpage
Navigate webpage tables
Use braille displays
Use braille displays with VoiceOver
Connect a Bluetooth display
Mirror a display
Use the router keys
Show status information
Review announcements
Use Live Captions
Assign VoiceOver commands to braille display keys
Supported displays
VoiceOver commands
About VoiceOver commands and gestures
New and changed commands
General commands
Interaction commands
Navigation commands
Orientation commands
Search commands
Text commands
Web commands
VoiceOver gestures
Use trackpad gestures to control VoiceOver
Standard trackpad gestures
Use the trackpad gestures rotor
Collaborate with sighted individuals
Use the caption panel
Use the screen curtain
Use the braille panel
Tile visuals
Customize VoiceOver
Use VoiceOver Utility
Customize key commands and trackpad gestures
Change the VoiceOver voice
Customize verbosity
Change function key behavior
Customize punctuation
Change how VoiceOver pronounces text and symbols
Change what the VoiceOver rotor shows
Create custom labels for UI elements
Export, import, and reset VoiceOver preferences
Use VoiceOver portable preferences
Use VoiceOver activities
Hear progress or status changes
VoiceOver Utility categories
General category
Verbosity category
Speech tab
Braille tab
Text tab
Announcements tab
Hints tab
Speech category
Voices tab
Pronunciation tab
Navigation category
Web category
Navigation tab
General tab
Web Rotor tab
Sound category
Visuals category
Cursor tab
Panels and Menus tab
Touch tab
Commands category
Braille category
Translation tab
Layout tab
Status tab
Displays tab
Activities category
VoiceOver Recognition category
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