VoiceOver User Guide
- Welcome
- What’s new in VoiceOver
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- Customise key commands and trackpad gestures
- Change what the VoiceOver rotor shows
- Change the VoiceOver voice
- Change how VoiceOver pronounces text and symbols
- Customise verbosity
- Use VoiceOver activities
- Change function key behaviour
- Customise punctuation
- Create custom labels for UI elements
- Export, import and reset VoiceOver preferences
- Use VoiceOver portable preferences
- Use the braille and caption panel
- Use the screen curtain
- Use tile visuals
- Learn about progress or status changes
- Copyright and trademarks
Change function key behaviour for VoiceOver on Mac
By default, to use a function key in a VoiceOver command, you must also press the Fn key. Depending on your Mac, you can change this default behaviour so that you don’t have to press the Fn key for VoiceOver commands.
Choose Apple menu
in the sidebar. (You may need to scroll down.)Click Keyboard Shortcuts, click Function Keys, then turn on “Use F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys”.
This option is only available on some Mac models.
Some keyboards have dedicated keys for Home, End, Page Up and Page Down. These are important VoiceOver navigation keys. If you use a keyboard that doesn’t have these keys, use the arrow keys with the Fn key for these actions.
Download this guide in Braille Ready Format: BRF (English)