VoiceOver User Guide

VoiceOver User Guide

• Welcome
• Introduction
  • What’s new in VoiceOver
  • Turn VoiceOver on or off
  • VoiceOver cursor
  • VoiceOver modifier
  • Pause or mute VoiceOver
  • VoiceOver welcome dialog
  • VoiceOver Help menu
  • VoiceOver Commands menu
  • VoiceOver keyboard help
• VoiceOver basics
  • Use VoiceOver in the login window
  • Change function key behavior
  • Make VoiceOver ignore the next key press
  • Learn or mute VoiceOver sound effects
  • Hear hints and information
  • Use positional audio
  • Interact with areas and groups
  • Hear progress or status changes
  • Select and deselect items
  • Drag and drop items
  • Use cursor tracking
• macOS basics
  • Click a mouse
  • Use buttons, checkboxes, and more
  • Navigate menus
  • Perform an item’s alternate action
  • Desktop
  • Finder
  • Dock
  • Launchpad
  • Notification Center
  • Navigate notifications
  • Mission Control
  • Touch Bar
  • Log in to an encrypted account without VoiceOver
• Work with app windows
  • Use VoiceOver with a full-screen app
  • Hear open apps and windows
  • Switch apps and windows
  • Navigate app windows with window spots
  • Move and resize items
• Work with text
  • Read text
  • Scroll to content
  • Hear punctuation
  • 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
• Navigate content
  • By letters, text, or attributes
  • 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
• Navigate webpages
  • Browse webpages
  • By DOM or group mode
  • By images or frames
  • By live regions
  • By landmarks
  • By web spots
  • 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
  • Assign VoiceOver commands to braille display keys
  • Supported displays
• VoiceOver commands
  • Assign VoiceOver commands to keyboard or keypad keys
  • General commands
  • Interaction commands
  • Navigation commands
  • Orientation commands
  • Search commands
  • Text commands
  • Web commands
• VoiceOver gestures
  • Overview
  • Use VoiceOver gestures
  • Standard gestures
  • Use the gestures rotor
  • Assign commands to gestures
• Collaborate with other users
  • Use the caption panel
  • Use the screen curtain
  • Use the braille panel
  • Tile visuals
• Customize VoiceOver
  • Use VoiceOver Utility
  • Change voice settings
  • Customize verbosity
  • 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
• VoiceOver Utility categories
  • General category
  • Verbosity category
    • Speech
    • Braille
    • Text
    • Announcements
    • Hints
  • Speech category
    • Voices
    • Pronunciation
  • Navigation category
  • Web category
    • Navigation
    • General
    • Web Rotor
  • Sound category
  • Visuals category
    • Cursor
    • Panels and Menus
    • Touch
  • Commanders category
    • Trackpad
    • NumPad
    • Keyboard
    • Quick Nav
  • Braille category
    • Layout
    • Status
    • Displays
  • Activities category