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VoiceOver User Guide
- Welcome
- What’s new in VoiceOver
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- By letters, text or attributes
- Use cursor tracking
- With cursor wrapping
- With the Tab key
- With the VoiceOver rotor
- With Quick Nav
- With the Item Chooser
- Navigate, sort and reorder tables
- Use hot spots
- Use positional audio
- Drag and drop items
- Perform an item’s alternative action
- Use VoiceOver with Voice Control
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- Use VoiceOver Utility
- Customise key commands and trackpad gestures
- Change the VoiceOver voice
- Customise verbosity
- Change function key behaviour
- 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
- Hear progress or status changes
- Copyright
Customise verbosity in VoiceOver on Mac
By default, VoiceOver provides a high level of detail to help new Mac and VoiceOver users.
Note: VO represents the VoiceOver modifier that you press with additional keys to enter VoiceOver commands. By default, you can press Control and Option together or just press Caps Lock.
Open VoiceOver Utility (press VO-Fn-F8 when VoiceOver is on).
Click the Verbosity category, then click Speech or Braille (if you use a refreshable braille display).
Choose a different default setting, and a verbosity level for specific controls, such as tickboxes or scroll areas.
See alsoTurn VoiceOver on or off on MacChange VoiceOver Verbosity settings (Speech tab) in VoiceOver Utility on MacChange VoiceOver Verbosity settings (Braille tab) in VoiceOver Utility on Mac
Download this guide in Braille Ready Format: BRF (English)
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