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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 alternate action
- Use VoiceOver with Voice Control
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- Use VoiceOver Utility
- Customize key commands and trackpad gestures
- Change the VoiceOver voice
- Customize verbosity
- Change function key behavior
- Customize 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
Use VoiceOver positional audio on Mac
If you have stereo headphones or dual speakers, you can use positional audio to hear audio cues (or sound effects) about an item’s location on the screen.
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.
Positional audio is enabled by default.
To turn it off, open VoiceOver Utility (press VO-Fn-F8 when VoiceOver is on), click the Sound category, then select “Enable positional audio.”
If you turned on “Play stereo audio as mono” in Accessibility settings, you can’t hear positional audio using VoiceOver.
See alsoLearn and practice VoiceOver on MacChange VoiceOver Sound setting in VoiceOver Utility on Mac
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