Finding items on the screen is accomplished with various gestures. These include scrolling with 1, 2, 3, or sometimes even 4 fingers. Also, many elements are activated by a double-tap, including opening applications. The screen can be navigated with a single finger flick or by scrolling around with one finger, starting anywhere on the screen, though systematically would be from top to bottom, left to right, or your choice.
In many applications such as Safari, there is a rotor which includes the elements of the application. By placing your fingers on the screen and turning them to the right or left as turning a knob, turns the rotor to another element. You find the one you want, then flick with a finger up and down the screen. YOu will only land on the element you have chosen in the rotor. ONce you find the one you want, you can flick left and right to see what's around it, or double tap it to activate it.
There is a place to practice the gestures, a button labelled voiceover practice, in settings/general/accessibility/voiceover.
On Sep 21, 2011, at 4:21 AM, Harry Lew wrote:
If you are an iPad and iPhone user and use the built in VoiceOver screen
reader application, I am wondering about the specific process of how you
use VoiceOver feature to navigate through an application?
Do you tab between screen elements like on a desktop computer using the
gesture that simulates a TAB key on the Apple device or do you scan your
fingers over the tocuhscreen starting in the up left hand corner of the
display and then go from left to right and top to bottom, for example,
till you encounter the next screen element that is to be read out loud.
As these devices don't have physical keyboards, only virtual one that
appear when the focus is in specific fields, is using the TAB key to
navigate even an option on these devices?
Harry
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