You can also turn on the VoiceOver feature, which makes your iPad read whatever is on the screen as you touch it with your fingers. By touching the screen and hearing where your fingers are, you can control your iPad.
Note
Because Zoom and VoiceOver use the same set of shortcuts, you can enable only one or the other at a time.
To turn on the VoiceOver feature, follow these steps:
From the Home screen, tap Settings. The Settings screen appears.
Tap General. The General settings screen appears.
Tap Accessibility. The Accessibility settings screen appears (shown earlier in Figure 27-1).
Tap VoiceOver. The VoiceOver settings screen appears, as shown in Figure 27-3.
Tap the VoiceOver on/off switch.
Figure 27-3. The VoiceOver settings screen lets you define how your iPad can read its controls to you.
Note
Enabling this setting does more than just read the iPad’s screen aloud—it actually changes iPad’s behavior. Instead of single-tapping to open apps, press buttons, and toggle switches, you’ll need to double-tap. You’ll also need to double-tap to type. Instead of scrolling with one finger, you’ll need to scroll with three fingers. This is because the usual single tap will activate VoiceOver rather than the screen element.
(Optional) Tap the Speak Hints on/off switch. Speak Hints provides a bit of context with each selection—for example, when you single-tap an app on the Home screen, your iPad will read its name aloud and say, “Double-tap to open.”
(Optional) Slide the Speaking Rate slider to make the iPad’s synthesized voice speak faster or slower.
(Optional) Tap Typing Feedback to display the Typing Feedback settings screen, which lets you define whether the iPad should give you audio feedback after each character, entire words, or both. Tap an option, and then tap the VoiceOver back button to view the VoiceOver screen again.
(Optional) Tap the Use Phonetics on/off switch to make your iPad pronounce words on the screen phonetically.
(Optional) Tap the Use Pitch Change on/off switch to make the iPad’s synthesized voice sound more natural.
(Optional) Scroll down and tap Braille to allow your iPad to connect via Bluetooth to a Braille device.
(Optional) Tap the Web Rotor, Language Rotor, or Include in Rotor on/off switches to modify the rotor, which lets you use a two-finger rotation gesture to quickly move through text displayed on the screen.
Press the Home button. The Home screen appears again.
