Controlling VoiceOver with Your Braille Display
You can set the leftmost or rightmost cell of your braille display to provide system
status and other information:
Announcement History contains an unread message Â
The current Announcement History message has not been read Â
VoiceOver speech is muted Â
The iPod touch battery is low (less than 20% charge) Â
iPod touch is in landscape orientation Â
The screen display is turned o Â
The current line contains additional text to the left Â
The current line contains additional text to the right Â
Set the leftmost or rightmost cell to display status information: In Settings, choose
General > Accessibility > VoiceOver > Braille > Status Cell, then tap Left or Right.
See an expanded description of the status cell: On your braille display, press the
status cell’s router button.
Zoom
Many iPod touch apps let you zoom in or out on specic elements. For example, you
can double-tap or use the pinch gesture to expand webpage columns in Safari.
Zoom is also a special accessibility feature that lets you magnify the entire screen of
any app you’re using, to help you see what’s on the display.
Turn Zoom on or o: In Settings, choose General > Accessibility > Zoom and tap the
Zoom On/O switch.
Note: You cannot use VoiceOver and Zoom at the same time.
Zoom in or out: Double-tap the screen with three ngers. By default, the screen is
magnied by 200 percent. If you manually change the magnication (by using the
tap-and-drag gesture, described below), iPod touch automatically returns to that
magnication when you zoom in by double-tapping with three ngers.
Increase magnication: With three ngers, tap and drag toward the top of the
screen (to increase magnication) or toward the bottom of the screen (to decrease
magnication). The tap-and-drag gesture is similar to a double-tap, except you don’t
lift your ngers on the second tap—instead, drag your ngers on the screen. Once you
start dragging, you can drag with a single nger.
Move around the screen: When zoomed in, drag or ick the screen with three ngers.
Once you start dragging, you can drag with a single nger so that you can see more
of the screen. Hold a single nger near the edge of the display to pan to that side of
the screen image. Move your nger closer to the edge to pan more quickly. When you
open a new screen, Zoom always goes to the top-middle of the screen.
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