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In this Blind Vet Tech Quick Guides and Tutorials podcast, we describe how to arrange apps on your iPhone and iPad with Voice Over. Two methods exist as of iOS 10. The first involves preforming a one finger double tap and hold to activate app movement. The second is to swipe up or down until you hear an option for arranging apps. Deleting an app requires you to start moving or arranging apps, but then you just double tap or select activate to delete the app.

We hope you enjoy this tutorial about arranging apps on your iPhone or iPad with Voice Over.

In this Blind Vet Tech Quick Guides and Tutorials podcast, we describe how to activate a Voice Over mode allowing you to practice basic gestures. Secondly, we review the basic one, two, three, and four finger Voice Over gestures. If you are new to Voice Over, this is a great podcast to keep on hand … Continue reading Basic Voice Over Gestures

In this Blind Vet Tech Quick Guides and Tutorials podcast, we describe how to activate a Voice Over mode allowing you to practice basic gestures. Secondly, we review the basic one, two, three, and four finger Voice Over gestures. If you are new to Voice Over, this is a great podcast to keep on hand to learn how to interact with your iPhone or iPad. To follow along you will need to have Voice Over enabled. Here are some of the key concepts from the podcast:

Activating the Voice Over Practice Mode

* Preform a four finger double tap to activate and deactivate the practice mode

* Navigate to your Voice Over settings and select Voice Over practice

* With a bluetooth keyboard, press Control Option, and K

One Finger Gestures

* One finger touching the screen allow you to explore the screen

* One finger double tap activates a button or control

* One finger triple tap double taps on a control

* One finger left or right advances the Voice Over cursor to the left or right

* One finger swipe up or down changes to the next item based on rotor setting

Two Finger Gestures

* Two finger single tap pauses or resumes Voice Over’s speech

* Two finger double taps stops/plays media, answers or hangs up a phone call, and similar starting or pausing options

* two finger swipe down causes Voice Over to continuously read from its current place to the end of the document

* Two finger swipe up causes Voice Over to read everything on the page starting from the very top to bottom

* Two finger scrubbing motion acts as a cancel or escape key

* Placing one finger on the screen over a button or control and touching the screen anywhere else preforms a split tap, which is the same as a one finger double tap

* Two fingers turning a dial changes the rotor setting

Three Finger Gestures

* Three finger single tap announces Voice Over’s current page or row

* Three finger double tap mutes or unmutes Voice Over

* Three finger triple tap turns on screen curtain, which basically turns the screen dark so no one can see the screen

* Three finger quadruple tap copies the text of the last statement from Voice Over

* Three finger swipe left or right advances to the next page, like in a book

* Three finger swipe up or down advances up or down a page or list

* Three finger swipe down with Voice Over’s focus in the menu bar pulls down the Notification menu

* Three finger swipe up with Voice Over’s focus on the menu bars brings up the Control Panel

Four Finger Gestures

* Four finger double tap activates and deactivates the Voice Over practice mode

* Four finger single tap towards the top of the screen moves the Voice Over focus to the top most element on a page

* Four finger single tap towards the bottom of the screen moves the Voice Over focus to the bottom most element of a page

We hope you enjoy this tutorial describing the basic gestures you can perform with Voice Over.

In this Blind Vet Tech Quick Guides and Tutorials podcast, we explore the Facebook iOS app with Voice Over. Facebook is a wonderful method to stay connected to family, friends, groups, and organizations you like, and the Facebook app is the easiest way for the blind to do this. This podcast demonstrates how to use … Continue reading Reviewing the Facebook iOS App

In this Blind Vet Tech Quick Guides and Tutorials podcast, we explore the Facebook iOS app with Voice Over. Facebook is a wonderful method to stay connected to family, friends, groups, and organizations you like, and the Facebook app is the easiest way for the blind to do this. This podcast demonstrates how to use the Facebook app to look at notifications, update your status, look at your different feeds, and respond to a post. Here is a general overview of the Facebook app:

Top Menu Bar

* Button for switching to the Facebook Messenger app

* Search button for locating friends, individual posts, groups, organizations, etc…

* Button to update your status

* Button to view or share photos or videos

* Button to check into a location if you have GPS activated

* Text box to update your status

Navigational Tabs at the Bottom of the screen

* News Feed is the main screen where you can view the posts of your friends and other items you are following

* Marketplace is a Craigslist of sorts to sell and buy things in your local area

* Notifications show any comments or replies to posts, reactions and likes, upcoming events, and other items you are tracking

* More is the main menu where you can see your profile, access account settings, view groups and pages, review your friends lists, and much more

Voice Over Actions on a Post

* Swiping up or down on a post with Voice Over allows one to Like, React, Comment, Share, and more on a post

* Two Finger double tap brings up a menu to Like, Comment, React, Share, delete, edit, and other options to a post

* Double tapping on a post brings the post into a new screen by itself where you can look at any added links, like, react, comment, share, see the number of likes and views, and other options

We hope you enjoy this tutorial on the Facebook app. The Facebook app is very broad in scope, and this podcast just covered the basics in using it.

In this Blind Vet Tech Quick Guides and Tutorials podcast, we review the different iOS settings for Facebook. Facebook is embedded within each iPhone and iPad, so knowing where and the purpose of the settings will ensure you are sharing and receiving from Facebook that which you desire. There are two main pieces to this … Continue reading Facebook’S Settings on iOS

In this Blind Vet Tech Quick Guides and Tutorials podcast, we review the different iOS settings for Facebook. Facebook is embedded within each iPhone and iPad, so knowing where and the purpose of the settings will ensure you are sharing and receiving from Facebook that which you desire. There are two main pieces to this puzzle, settings related to Facebook and the operating system and the settings for the Facebook app.

Here are some of the controls associated with the settings for Facebook within iOS:

* Whether you can use Siri to update your Facebook status by signing into Facebook through Settings.

* Whether Facebook adds calendar events to your Calendar app.

* Whether Facebook adds the contact information from your friends to your Contacts app.

* What apps interact with Facebook.

Here are some of the controls associated with the settings on iOS for the Facebook App:

* Whether the Facebook app uses your GPS location.

* Whether the Facebook app accesses your camera and microphone

* Whether the Facebook app can use your cellular data plan to update itself.

* Whether the Facebook app updates itself while running in the background or not.

We hope you enjoy this tutorial on Facebook’s settings in iOS.Voice Over Rotor.

In this Blind Vet Tech Quick Guides and Tutorials podcast, we describe how to activate and use the Voice Over Rotor. The Voice Over Rotor is a cross between a contextual menu and traditional screen reader keyboard shortcut gesture. This task requires one to preform the following actions: Open the Settings App and navigate to … Continue reading The Voice Over Rotor

In this Blind Vet Tech Quick Guides and Tutorials podcast, we describe how to activate and use the Voice Over Rotor. The Voice Over Rotor is a cross between a contextual menu and traditional screen reader keyboard shortcut gesture. This task requires one to preform the following actions:

* Open the Settings App and navigate to General, Accessibility, and Voice Over. Asking Siri to “open Voice Over Settings” will accomplish this as well.

* Navigate to Rotor, below Braille )which is for Braille displays).

Below are the onscreen gestures to control the Rotor

* Place two fingers on the screen with a little bit of separation

* Turn both fingers clockwise or counter clockwise, as if turning a dial

* Flick up or down to hear the options available under a particular selection<

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* If the selection is for navigational or text selection purposes, flick left and right to conduct the task

* If the selection modifies something, double tap on the screen to preform the task, like pasting text

Below are the steps to use the Rotor with a paired keyboard:

* Activate Quick Nav by pressing the left and right arrow keys together

* Use the Right or left arrow key with the up arrow key to scroll through the Rotor’s options

* Use the up or down arrow key to hear the options available under a particular selection<

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* If the selection is for navigational or text selection purposes, press the left or right arrow key to conduct the task

* If the selection modifies something, press either VO plus the spacebar or the up and down arrow keys to activate the option, like pasting text

We hope you enjoy this tutorial on setting up and using the Voice Over Rotor.

In this Blind Vet Tech Quick Guides and Tutorials podcast, we will review some of the Siri commands allowing your to control your reminders. In this podcast, you will need to complete the following: Create a New Reminder Remind me to take out the garbage tomorrow at 0800 Remind me to close the door when … Continue reading Manage Reminders with Siri