VoiceOver User Guide

for macOS 27

Table of Contents

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

Practice basic VoiceOver commands with the VoiceOver Tutorial on Mac.

Learn and practice VoiceOver

A dialog 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

Customize 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

Settings for how VoiceOver should announce code and debugging information in a code editor.

What’s new in macOS 27

With new features in macOS 27, you have greater control when you use VoiceOver on a Mac. Customize how VoiceOver announces code and debugging information in your code editor. Play tones or speak text when encountering errors, warnings, breakpoints, 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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