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Appendix A Accessibility 127
Activate
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Double-tap: Activate the selected item.
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Triple-tap: Double-tap an item.
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Split-tap: As an alternative to selecting an item and double-tapping to activate it, touch and
hold an item with one nger, then tap the screen with another.
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Double-tap and hold (1 second) + standard gesture: Use a standard gesture. The double-tap and
hold gesture tells iPad to interpret the next gesture as standard. For example, you can double-
tap and hold, then without lifting your nger, drag your nger to slide a switch.
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Two-nger double-tap: Play or pause in Music, Videos, or Photos. Take a photo in Camera. Start
or pause recording in Camera. Start or stop the stopwatch.
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Two-nger double-tap and hold: Relabel the selected item.
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Two-nger triple-tap: Open the Item Chooser.
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Three-nger double-tap: Mute or unmute VoiceOver.
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Three-nger triple-tap: Turn the screen curtain on or o.
Use the VoiceOver rotor
Use the rotor to choose what happens when you swipe up or down with VoiceOver turned on, or
to select special input methods such as Braille Screen Input or Handwriting.
Operate the rotor. Rotate two ngers on the iPad screen around a point between them.
Choose your rotor options. Go to Settings > General > Accessibility > VoiceOver > Rotor, then
select the options you want to include in the rotor.
The available rotor options and their eects depend on what you’re doing. For example, if you’re
reading an email, you can use the rotor to switch between hearing text spoken word-by-word or
character-by-character when you swipe up or down. If you’re browsing a webpage, you can set
the rotor to speak all the text (either word-by-word or character-by-character), or to jump from
one item to another of a certain type, such as headers or links.
When you use an Apple Wireless Keyboard to control VoiceOver, the rotor lets you adjust settings
such as volume, speech rate, use of pitch or phonetics, typing echo, and reading of punctuation.
See Use VoiceOver with an Apple Wireless Keyboard on page 130.
Use the onscreen keyboard
When you activate an editable text eld, the onscreen keyboard appears (unless you have an
Apple Wireless Keyboard attached).
Activate a text eld. Select the text eld, then double-tap. The insertion point and the onscreen
keyboard appear.
Enter text. Type characters using the onscreen keyboard:
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Standard typing: Select a key on the keyboard by swiping left or right, then double-tap to
enter the character. Or move your nger around the keyboard to select a key and, while
continuing to touch the key with one nger, tap the screen with another nger. VoiceOver
speaks the key when it’s selected, and again when the character is entered.