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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
Navigate the desktop with VoiceOver on Mac
The desktop shows icons for many items, such as folders, documents or image files.
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.
Move to the desktop: Press VO-Shift-D.
Move between items on the desktop: Press VO with the arrow keys.
Quickly move to an item on the desktop: Type the first letter of the item. For example, if you have a file named “travel plans” on the desktop, type “T” to move to it.
Open an item selected on the desktop: Press Command-O. Folders open in a Finder window.
See alsoControl your Mac using keyboard commands with VoiceOverUse Mission Control with VoiceOver on MacNavigate the Dock with VoiceOver on MacNavigate the Finder with VoiceOver on Mac
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