VoiceOver User Guide
- Welcome
- Get started
- What’s new in VoiceOver
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- Use VoiceOver in the login window
- Change function key behavior
- 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
- Customize verbosity
- 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
- 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-Fn-F8 when VoiceOver is on), click the Visuals category, click Panels and Menus, then select the “Show caption panel” checkbox.
Press VO-Fn-Command-F10 to show or hide the panel.
To show or hide the caption panel, the braille panel, and the VoiceOver cursor, press VO-Fn-Command-F11.
Move or resize the panel
Press VO-Shift-Fn-F10 until you hear the action you want to perform.
For example, if you hear “resizing” but you want to move the caption panel, press the keys again to hear “moving.”
Press the VoiceOver modifier with the arrow keys to move or resize the caption panel.
When you’re done, press the Escape key or Fn-Tab.
Download this guide in Braille Ready Format: BRF (English)