VoiceOver on the iPad and iPhone

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In this video, we’re going to take a look at VoiceOver on the iPad and iPhone. VoiceOver is basically or it turns your iPad or iPhone basically into a gesture based screen reader. Anything that I tap, when I turn VoiceOver on the iPad or iPhone will tell me what I tap. Let’s see what I mean. Let’s go over to my iPad, and iPhone. Let’s first look at this on my iPad. I’m going to go over to my settings app here. And then what we’re going to do is go over to accessibility. Under accessibility, one of the first options we have here is voiceover.

When I turn this on, what it’s going to do, as I mentioned in the introduction, is turn my iPad into a gesture based screen reader, anything that I tap, or if I move my cursor overtop of anything here, what the iPad will do is it’ll tell me what my cursor is on or what I tapped. So as an example, when I turn this on, and I move my cursor over top of zoom here, what the iPad will do is it’ll tell me that that is a button for zoom. And then if I want to open it up, I have to double tap it. That’s the basics of voiceover. So let’s turn it on, and see how this works.

So I go over and tap on VoiceOver. And then we go over and turn it on. When I turn this on these controls are a single control here is going to be highlighted the one that I am tapping or hovering over, you’ll see a black thick line over top. Let’s go ahead and turn it on. When I move my cursor over top of verticals, speaking rate, speech, button, speech, it told me that it was speech and it’s a button. If I were to tap on it, I’m using the cursor here, but let’s go ahead and tap on a button. Let’s go over to wallpaper, I tap on wallpaper, wallpaper button.

It tells me that it is wallpaper and it is a button. And again it is not opening it up. All it is doing it’s just telling me what it is. Once I select the right button, I know that I have the right button now because it told me what it was maybe I can’t see the screen or I can’t read it. All I have to do now is just double tap on it. So if I double tap on wallpaper, select now open that end up heading.

Now I’m going to go to the top where it says choose new wallpaper, I’m just going to tap on it one time, it’s going to tell me that that is a button for choosing a new wallpaper. Choose a new wallpaper button.

If I want to activate it, what I would have to do is just double tap on it. Let’s go and turn it back off. To do that, what I need to do is go back over to accessibility on the left. So I just moved my cursor over top of accessibility button.

And now told me what button it was. Now I double tap it. One two, accessibility heading, it opened up that accessibility option. And then I go over to voice over here, I’m just going to tap on it, it’s going to tell me that it’s VoiceOver on button.

And if I want to turn it off, I have to double tap on one to voice accessibility back button and go over to voiceover VoiceOver on. Double tap to toggle settings, tap on it. VoiceOver on now turns

it off. So you can kind of get an idea of how that works. Basically, when we turn it on, anything that our cursor is over top over anything that we tap, the first thing the iPad is going to do is tell us what it is. And then if we double tap it, it’ll activate it. The iPhone basically works the same way. Let’s go over to my iPhone here. And I’m going to go to settings. And then I swipe up until I get to accessibility. Under accessibility, we have voiceover and then I just turn it on when I turn it on. What it’s going to do is tell me what I am tapping, it is not going to activate it, it is only going to tell me so I’m going to turn it on. VoiceOver on. It’s telling me that VoiceOver is activated. I want to go to speech, I tap on it, speech button. And now told me that that was a speech button. If I want to activate it, what I need to do is double tap on it. That’s not the one I want to activate. So let’s go over to audio audio button. It is telling me it is a button for audio. I double tap on it sounds on hub technology, open the audio options.

I’m going to go back how do I do that? Well, I tap on VoiceOver in the upper left hand corner. Voiceover back button. It’s telling me that it is a button so I can double tap on VoiceOver. Audio button. Now I need to go to voiceover I tap on it at the top VoiceOver on. Double tap to toggle settings. Tap on it. VoiceOver off.

It turns it off. So that is VoiceOver on the iPad and An iPhone. Now there are a few different options here. I just wanted to give you the basics. But if you did want to change the speaking rate, you could change the speaking rate. You could even change the verbosity. But if you just want to get an overview of how it works, and see if it works for you, what I would recommend is just turning it on, just go over to your Settings app, go over to accessibility, and then turn on VoiceOver. You may want to add this as an accessibility shortcut, then you can easily turn it on and off. Once you turn it on. Anytime you tap on anything, instead of opening it up. What it’s going to do is tell you what it is. And then if you want to open it up, all you have to do is just double tap on it. So that’s how we use VoiceOver on the iPad and iPhone.