Introduction to using VoiceOver on Iphone

My objective in these posts is to educate and inform any blind or low vision users of cellphones about what the Apple ecosystem has to offer.

The first topic I will cover is going to be VoiceOver(VO) from this point on.

When you first get an iphone into your hands, u need to make sure itis powered on. You do this by holding the phone facing you with the round button facing you and at the middle front. Feel for a button sticking out of the top right edge. hold this down.
iether wait until you sea the screen turn on with the lock screen, or wait a minute or two and you should be ready to go.

now press the round button(Home button) from this point on,
press it fast three times. Now you should hear VoiceOver on"
basic list of navagation commands.

with VO on, you feel around until you find the item you want to select, once you have found it, dubble tap anywhere on the screen to enable/choose the item.

other than feel and dubble tap you have a few more commands also for navagation.
you can swipe you finger from left to right to move from one item to the next, items are chosen left to right top down.
you swipe left to go to the item before.

you can do a three finger swipe, by placing three fingers on the screen and iether swipping down or up to move up and down in a list view.

now that the basics of navagation are covered, its time to activate your iphone.

Click the unlock slider and dubble tap to unlock the screen.
feel around until you get a hang of navagation. continue through the setup screens using your apple id or by seting up as an ew phone.
once the phone is activated and springboard icons are showing, click on settings icon by navagating around for it on the first page.
once you have found this dubble tap on it.
swipe and tap until you get to general, dubbletap that, and find siri, dubbletap that and find the enable switch and turn siri on by dubbletapping the switch.

now you are able to hold the home button down and use Siri, but more importantly you are able to use voice dictation to write text, in iether sms, emails, on the web, or anywhere there is a text field.

my next article will go a bit more in depth on basic usage, basic setup for icloud for backup purposes, setting up imessage and Facetime to comunicate with anyone around the world who has an Apple device.

come back soon for the next article.


Written by
Muda K
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email(muda_k@me.com)