[Electronics-talk] turning on VoiceOver for IPod Touch

Tracy Carcione carcione at access.net
Sat Oct 26 13:04:04 UTC 2013


Yesterday I upgraded to IOS 7.  There's no accessibility shortcut I could 
find on either the VoiceOver page, nor Accessibility, nor General.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christopher Chaltain" <chaltain at gmail.com>
To: "Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances" 
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Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 4:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] turning on VoiceOver for IPod Touch


> Yeah, go into Settings and then General and then Accessibility and then 
> VoiceOver. Here you'll find a button to toggle voiceOver on and off. After 
> that, you should be able to do everything else on your own. One thing I'd 
> recommend doing right away, is going into settings -> General -> 
> Accessibility and double tapping the accessibility shortcut at the bottom. 
> Here you can set this to VoiceOver. this way the triple click of the home 
> button will start and stop VoiceOver.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by "speack selections".
>
> On 10/24/2013 02:07 PM, Tracy Carcione wrote:
>> When I have someone help me, and she goes into Accessibility, does she
>> just turn on VO?  What about "Speack Selections"?
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Chaltain"
>> <chaltain at gmail.com>
>> To: "Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances"
>> <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 2:45 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] turning on VoiceOver for IPod Touch
>>
>>
>>> Try pressing the home button three times quickly. If this is your
>>> iPod's first trip through the set up process then this should turn on
>>> VoiceOver. If it doesn't work then you'll need to use iTunes or get
>>> sighted help.
>>>
>>> On 10/24/2013 01:39 PM, Tracy Carcione wrote:
>>>> I just got an IPod Touch.  Can I turn on VoiceOver without sighted 
>>>> help?
>>>> All the instructions I found talk about how to do it through itunes, 
>>>> but
>>>> I haven't gotten that far.
>>>> My neighbor helped me do initial setup, but neither of us knows where 
>>>> VO
>>>> is.
>>>> Tracy
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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