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VoiceOver User Guide
- Welcome
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- Use VoiceOver in the login window
- Change function key behaviour
- Make VoiceOver ignore the next key press
- Learn or mute VoiceOver sound effects
- Hear hints and information
- Use positional audio
- Interact with areas and groups
- Hear progress or status changes
- Select and deselect items
- Drag and drop items
- Use cursor tracking
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- Use VoiceOver Utility
- Change voice settings
- Customise verbosity
- Customise punctuation
- Change how VoiceOver pronounces text and symbols
- Change what the VoiceOver rotor shows
- Create custom labels for UI elements
- Export, import, and reset VoiceOver preferences
- Use VoiceOver portable preferences
- Use VoiceOver activities

Cursor, Visuals category, VoiceOver Utility on Mac
Use the Cursor pane of the Visuals category in VoiceOver Utility to set options for the VoiceOver cursor.
To open VoiceOver Utility, press Command-F5 to turn VoiceOver on, then press VO-F8.
Note: VO represents the VoiceOver modifier.
Option | Description |
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Show VoiceOver cursor | Show the VoiceOver cursor (the default setting). The VoiceOver cursor appears on-screen as a dark outlined box. |
VoiceOver Cursor Magnification | Drag the slider toward Small or Large to decrease or increase the size of the VoiceOver cursor. |
When reading text, move VoiceOver cursor by | Click the pop-up menu, then choose how the VoiceOver cursor should move while reading: Sentence or Word. |
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