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 Two-nger ick up: Read all from the top of the screen.
 Two-nger ick down: Read all from the current position.
 Two-nger “scrub”: Move two ngers back and forth three times quickly (making a “z”) to
dismiss an alert or go back to the previous screen.
 Two-nger triple tap: Open the Item Chooser.
 Three-nger ick up or down: Scroll one page at a time.
 Three-nger ick right or left: Go to the next or previous page (such as the Home screen, Stocks,
or Safari).
 Three-nger tap: Speak additional information, such as position within a list or whether text
is selected.
 Four-nger tap at top of screen: Select the rst item on the page.
 Four-nger tap at bottom of screen: Select the last item on the page.
Activate
 Double-tap: Activate the selected item.
 Triple-tap: Double-tap an item.
 Split-tap: An alternative to selecting an item and double-tapping is to touch an item with one
nger, then tap the screen with another to activate an item.
 Touch an item with one nger, tap the screen with another nger (“split-tapping”): Activate the item.
 Double-tap and hold (1 second) + standard gesture: Use a standard gesture.
The double-tap and hold gesture tells iPod touch to interpret the subsequent gesture as
standard. For example, you can double-tap and hold, then without lifting your nger, drag your
nger to slide a switch.
 Two-nger double-tap: Play or pause in Music, Videos, YouTube, Voice Memos, or Photos. Take a
photo (Camera). Start or pause recording in Camera or Voice Memos. Start or stop the stopwatch.
 Two-nger double-tap and hold: Open the element labeler.
 Two-nger triple-tap: Open the Item Chooser.
 Three-nger double-tap: Mute or unmute VoiceOver.
 Three-nger triple-tap: Turn the screen curtain on or o.
Using the VoiceOver rotor control
The rotor control is a virtual dial that you can use to change the results of up and down ick
gestures when VoiceOver is turned on.
Operate the rotor: Rotate two ngers on the iPod touch screen around a point between them.
Change the options included in the rotor: Go to Settings > General > Accessibility > VoiceOver >
Rotor and select the options you want to be available using the rotor.
The eect of the rotor setting depends on what you’re doing. If you’re reading text in an email
you received, you can use the rotor to switch between hearing text spoken word-by-word or
character-by-character when you ick up or down. If you’re browsing a webpage, you can use the
rotor setting to hear all the text (either word-by-word or character-by-character), or to jump from
one element to another of a certain type, such as headers or links.
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