The Mac desktop with a webpage open. Below, the braille panel displays what’s in the VoiceOver cursor on the webpage using simulated yellow braille dots, with corresponding text below the dots.

New to VoiceOver on Mac?

Learn the basics for controlling your Mac using VoiceOver — the screen reader built into macOS.

Get started with VoiceOver

The interactive VoiceOver tutorial with information about learning how to use VoiceOver.

Learn how to use VoiceOver

Practise basic VoiceOver commands with the VoiceOver Tutorial on Mac.

Learn and practise VoiceOver on Mac

A dialogue in VoiceOver Utility showing settings for using the trackpad to control VoiceOver.

Use familiar gestures

If you use a trackpad with your Mac, you can use many of the same VoiceOver gestures you know from iOS and iPadOS — for example, tap the trackpad to hear the item in the VoiceOver cursor.

How to use trackpad gestures to control VoiceOver

Settings for how VoiceOver should pronounce certain emoticons, numbers and abbreviations are shown in the Pronunciation pane of the Speech category in VoiceOver Utility.

Work the way you like

Customise VoiceOver using VoiceOver Utility. Change the VoiceOver voice, connect braille devices, set options for how you navigate with VoiceOver and more.

How to use VoiceOver Utility

The Email app is open on the desktop. The Braille Access menu and braille panel are showing, hovering over Launch App.

What’s new in macOS Tahoe

With new features in macOS Tahoe, you have greater control when you use VoiceOver on a Mac. Use Braille Access to turn your Mac into a braille notetaker, use VoiceOver while you’re sharing your screen with another Mac, assign commands to Braille Keyboard Input so that you can type using braille display keys and more.

Learn what’s new in VoiceOver

To explore the VoiceOver User Guide, click Table of Contents at the top of the page or enter a word or phrase in the search field.

For more resources, visit the Apple Accessibility Support website.

Download this guide in Braille Ready Format: BRF (English)

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