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Jeff Thompson:
The steps that we will be using in this demonstration is as follows:
One, go to settings.
Two, go to accessibility.
Three, go to voiceover.
Four, go to commands.
Five, go to touch gestures.
Six, choose a gesture.
Seven, choose the command.
Jeff Thompson:
Welcome to Blind Abilities. I’m Jeff Thompson. iPhone 101, the series that’ll help you navigate and familiarize yourself with iOS, the iPhone operating system. iOS 13 introduces the ability to change gestures, and in this demonstration we’re going to be talking about changing touch gestures. Touch gestures is part of the command section in the voiceover settings located in accessibility under settings in iOS 13.
Jeff Thompson:
As we all know, there are plenty of gestures from one finger up to four finger taps, holds, swipes, twists. There’s a whole bunch of them, and sometimes you wish you could change the gesture to something that suits you better. Now, Apple iOS 13, has given you that ability. So, get your iPhone out, and let’s go in.
Jeff Thompson:
From the home screen we’re going to a single finger double tap on Settings.
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Settings.
Jeff Thompson:
Then we’re going to swipe on down to Accessibility.
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Accessibility button.
Jeff Thompson:
Single finger double tap.
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Accessibility features help you customize your iPhone for your individual needs.
Jeff Thompson:
Then we’re going to go down to Voiceover.
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Voiceover on button.
Jeff Thompson:
I know this may sound confusing because it says, “Voiceover on.” Logic says if I tap it it’ll say, “Off.” However, it’s not a toggle button, it’s actually a gateway into the voiceover settings. Single finger double tap.
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Voiceover on.
Jeff Thompson:
Now there’s the toggle button. We will then proceed down to Commands.
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Commands button.
Jeff Thompson:
Single finger double tap.
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All Commands button.
Jeff Thompson:
Once you’re in commands swipe to the right until you find touch gestures.
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Touch Gestures button.
Jeff Thompson:
Single finger double tap, and we’re in. And for your information, if you ask Siri to open voiceover settings you’ll land in voiceover settings. Swipe down to commands, single finger double tap, and then swipe again and go to touch gestures. Single finger double tap, and you’re in.
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Tap, one finger, heading.
Jeff Thompson:
Now, typically the voiceover cursor lands in the upper left hand corner. This time it’s landing right on the first heading. The gestures are in groups of one finger, two finger, three finger, four finger, and so on. Swipes, taps, that type of stuff. They’re also labeled as headings. So if you’re able to use your rotor and put it to headings, you can swipe down and go through it. I’ll go through the list just so you can hear what headings there are in this group of gestures. Here’s all the headings.
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Tap, one finger, heading. Tap, two fingers, heading. Tap, three fingers, heading. Tap, four fingers, heading. Swipe, one finger, heading. Swipe, two fingers, heading. Swipe, three fingers, heading. Swipe, four fingers, heading. Rotate, heading. Scrub, heading. Tap and hold, two fingers, heading. Double tap, hold and flick, three fingers, heading.
Jeff Thompson:
Once you start swiping through the gestures you will notice that for each gesture there may be an action assigned to that gesture, and you’ll hear that following the name of the gesture.
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One finger, single tap, speak item, dimp. One finger, double tap, activate, dimp. one finger, triple tap, secondary, activate.
Jeff Thompson:
That particular gesture and action is how you can clear multiple notifications on your home screen. When it states a gesture, and there’s no action noted, then that gesture is open for you to assign it an action of your choice. An example of that would be double finger quadruple tap. More than two fingers swipe right, or two fingers swipe left.
Jeff Thompson:
In this demonstration, I’m going to use the two finger quadruple tap to move to the status bar. Let’s get started. We can swipe down through all these gestures and find it, or there’s a simple way to do it as well, and I’m going to show you that. In the search menu near the top, I can type in status.
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Search field. Search s, s, t, t, a, a.
Jeff Thompson:
You know what? By the time I type in S-T-A, I can just touch right below there and it will populate already.
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Move the status bar.
Jeff Thompson:
And once I single finger double tap on that, boom, it’s done. Let’s confirm, verify, and test.
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Commands, back button.
Jeff Thompson:
By default, it lands up in the upper left hand corner, so let’s go down to the two finger quadruple tap.
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Selected, two finger quadruple tap. Move the status bar.
Jeff Thompson:
There we are. We just assigned move the status bar to the two finger quadruple tap gesture. Now let’s test it. I’ll take two fingers and tap four times. Two finger quadruple tap.
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3:16 PM, status bar item.
Jeff Thompson:
Voila. Now my intent was to use this on the home screen because it seems like, in iOS 13, they made the status bar very, very skinny. It’s hard to find sometimes just by touch. My attempt was to add this gesture. However, it doesn’t work on the home screen, but most other screes it does, and it made for a great demonstration.
Jeff Thompson:
The next gesture change that I’ll make is under the heading Rotate, and this will change the twist motion to just a two finger swipe to the right or left, for previous or next rotor item.
Jeff Thompson:
So remember, if you want to change an action for a gesture, first we will go to the gesture that we want to use. From the touch gestures section, we will go down to the heading Swipe Two Fingers.
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Swipe, two fingers, heading.
Jeff Thompson:
Swipe to the right and we have-
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Two fingers swipe left.
Jeff Thompson:
On this, we’ll do a two finger double tap.
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Cancel button.
Jeff Thompson:
And we’re in. Here to make it quicker, let’s use the search menu and type in rotor. But remember, you can also set it for headings and swipe on down through headings and find rotate heading. And, of course, you can also just swipe, swipe, swipe or three finger pull up, all the way down to rotate heading as well. Options are good.
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Search field. Search field.
Jeff Thompson:
R-O-T-O-R.
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R, R, O, O, T, T-
Jeff Thompson:
Now just touch down below there, see what populated.
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Previous rotor.
Jeff Thompson:
There we go. Single finger double tap.
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Commands, back button.
Jeff Thompson:
Poof. We’re done. It’s nice that it brings you right back to touch gestures, because now you can go down to the heading swipe two fingers, and swipe a couple of times to-
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Two finger swipe right.
Jeff Thompson:
And we can change that to-
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Next rotor.
Jeff Thompson:
And we can test this by using two fingers and swiping left to right.
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Edit, characters, words, speaking rate, volume.
Jeff Thompson:
And swiping two fingers right to left we’ll go back the other way.
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Speaking rate, words, characters, edit.
Jeff Thompson:
Another neat thing to know is if you want to remove an action from a gesture you can go to the touch gesture-
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Selected, two finger swipe left, previous rotor.
Jeff Thompson:
Single finger double tap, and then do a four finger tap near the bottom.
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Button, vertical scroll bar, remove button.
Jeff Thompson:
Single finger double tap and it’s removed. It’s empty. It’s ready for you to assign it to something else, or you can leave it as is. And finally, if you’ve changed a bunch of stuff and for some reason you have no idea what’s going on anymore and you just want to get back to the basics, back to how it was in the beginning, let’s go back to the commands page-
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Commands, heading.
Jeff Thompson:
And you can swipe all the way to the very bottom, or do a four finger tap near the bottom, and it’ll say-
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Reset voiceover commands button.
Jeff Thompson:
Single finger double tap.
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This will restore all voiceover gestures, keyboard shortcuts, and braille shortcuts. Reset voiceover commands button.
Jeff Thompson:
Go right ahead and you’re back to factory settings. How’s that? Myself, I’m good with the changes, so I’ll hit cancel.
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Cancel button.
Speaker 3:
Well, good job, Jeffrey. You didn’t even need my help. Sometimes I wish I could get set back to factory settings, you know.
Jeff Thompson:
Here are the steps that we used in this demonstration.
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One, go to settings.
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Two, go to accessibility.
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Three, go to voiceover.
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Four, go to commands.
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Five, go to touch gestures.
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Six, choose a gesture.
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Seven, choose the command.
Jeff Thompson:
I hope you enjoyed this iPhone 101 demonstration, and be sure to check out all the iPhone one-on-one demonstrations on the web at www.blindabilities.com.
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