Apple Voiceover Setup

[Music] We’re going to use three different types of visual indicators. We’ll use a hand every time I tap. Every time I hit a button on the outside of the device we’ll give you an icon. And we’re going to use arrows to help point out key information on screen. So, before you can set up VoiceOver, the first thing you want to check is, you want to check the 'International Settings'. VoiceOver will speak the language that is set up in your 'International Settings'. So, tap 'General', scroll down until you find 'International' and then you want to check what language your language is set to and that’s what VoiceOver will use when speaking back to you, so this is really important for an international audience. Let’s set up VoiceOver for the first time. Tap on 'Settings'. Tap on 'General'. And scroll down to 'Accessibility' and tap on 'Accessibility'. And then let’s tap on 'VoiceOver'. You’re going to see a lot of settings inside of VoiceOver so let’s go through them. The first one is 'Speak Hints'. And this is really good for when you’re first starting out. And what it’ll do is, when you move your finger over and have VoiceOver tell you what an item is, the Speak Hints if it’s turned on, will tell you, "Double Tap to launch the item" or "Open the folder", or whatever you can do there. And so it’s a really good way of sort of reinforcing there are a lot of commands within the VoiceOver environment and so it’s a really good way of reinforcing that as obviously you get used to that, you’ll turn it off. The speak rate, which is the next item, turtle is for slow, rabbit is for fast. You can see that I am not very good at this so I have it fairly slow. I just don't usually interface the computer this way. Then 'Type Feedback' is your next option. I’m gonna tap on that. And what Type Feedback does is with a keyboard, you can choose to either have it when you speak back a word or speak back the characters, or in this case the default settings speak back both characters and words. That will make more sense as you use VoiceOver to read back to you, whether you want it to read back characters to you or just whole words. So I'm going to leave the default there. 'Phonetics', when it comes to single characters it will tell you A if for Alpha and N is for November. I have that turned on. Although, I don't really hear it very much. ‘Use Pitch Change' and 'Compact Voice' these are just ways of fine tuning the voice feedback for you. ‘Braille Interface’ - let's tap on that. So here you can see I've taped on the braille interface and it's all the braille interfaces are Bluetooth. And so it has sensed that my bluetooth is turned off and said, "Do you want me to turn on bluetooth?" I'm going to select no, but if you had a braille interface you would turn your bluetooth on. And it would then ask you to pair up with your interface. So I'm going to turn this off. And then you have your different braille options. Going back, when VoiceOver is active the rotor is a way of changing the settings of VoiceOver while VoiceOver is active. So you don't have to keep going back to the settings. So I'm going to show you here we have character selected, word selected, and most importantly down here, this is not on default and so you wanna do 'Vertical Navigation'. And this allows you, you're gonna use VoiceOver tools to navigate and to read back content to you. And so when you can use rotor to switch the navigation from horizontal, left to right, to vertical up and down and so this is a way of doing that. So you want definitely to select on vertical navigation. Language Rotor is the same thing when you situation where you wanna change the language, I don't have any other languages selected. I left that blank so there will never be a Language Rotor. Navigate Images always with descriptions or never. So this is when you're in the web browser it'll read back to you. And then ‘Speak Notifications’ this is all of your auditory alerts and visual alerts. This will actually speak them back to you. So those are the settings and then we can go ahead and turn on, these are the settings the way that I want them. You can go ahead and turn on VoiceOver by just tapping and sliding to the right and now VoiceOver's on. So we just turned on VoiceOver and you'll see that it just popped up the practice button. VoiceOver practice. So I'm going to swipe across to select it and then doubletap now to launch VoiceOver practice. Okay so. >> Voiceover: VoiceOver practice heading. >> Sami: So it just read me the heading and if so this is just a free area where I can do different gestures, it'll tell me what the gesture is and it'll tell me what it does so I'm just gonna show you a couple of them. This flick to right. >> VoiceOver: Practice VoiceOver gestures. Commands. And typing in this area. Select the done button in the top right corner and doubletap to exit. >> Sami: So you just heard the instructions when I flicked to the right. I'm gonna flick to the right again. >> VoiceOver: Touch. Select item under your finger. Doubletap activates the selected item. Two finger doubletap. Start and stop the current action. Touch. Select item under your finger. Flick right. Move to next item. Flick up. Move to previous item using rotor. Flick down. Move to next item using rotor setting. Flick left. Move to previous item. >> Sami: So you can see this is giving me a lot of different feedback on each of my gestures and there are a ton of different gestures and I am not going to be able to do them justice in this video. Notice how when I used different kinds of flick, it would say flick would advance to previous item or advance to next item or previous item. But if I flicked up or flicked down, it would do whatever the rotor setting was set at. So again this s a way of customizing. The rotor is a key component in customizing it's usage. For more information, go to ipads4specialneedsbook.com where you'll find more videos, other resources, like cheat sheets, and a book on how to use the iPad for your special needs user. [Music]