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VoiceOver User Guide
- Welcome
- What’s new in VoiceOver
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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
- Copyright
Use the VoiceOver caption panel on Mac
The caption panel shows what VoiceOver is speaking, and can be helpful when sharing your Mac with sighted users.
Note: VO represents the VoiceOver modifier. See Use the VoiceOver modifier.
Show or hide the panel
Do one of the following:
Open VoiceOver Utility (press VO-F8 when VoiceOver is on), click the Visuals category, click Panels and Menus, then select the Show caption panel tickbox.
Press VO-Command-F10 to show or hide the panel.
To show or hide the caption panel, the braille panel and the VoiceOver cursor, press VO-Command-F11.
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