VoiceOver User Guide

VoiceOver User Guide

• Welcome
• What’s new in VoiceOver
• VoiceOver basics
  • Get started
  • Turn VoiceOver on or off
  • Learn and practise VoiceOver
  • Control your Mac with keyboard commands
• macOS basics
  • Use VoiceOver in the login window
  • Menu bar
  • Desktop
  • Finder
  • Dock
  • Launchpad
  • Notification Centre
  • 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 key press
  • 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 alternative action
  • Use VoiceOver with Voice Control
• Navigate web pages
  • Browse web pages
  • By DOM or group mode
  • By images or frames
  • By live regions
  • By landmarks
  • Hear the summary of a web page
  • Navigate web page 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
• Customise VoiceOver
  • Use VoiceOver Utility
  • Customise key commands and trackpad gestures
  • Change the VoiceOver voice
  • Customise verbosity
  • Change function key behaviour
  • Customise 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
• Copyright