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Hi everyone. I have a unique voiceover tip that will be helpful to some and I'd like to share it with you today. What we're going to talk about today is the unique situation of needing your rotor item to remain the same. What I mean is that when I am in an email, for instance, which I am right now, and I want to say read line by line when I touch an image, which I'm going to do right now in this email about knitting patterns and yarns that are.
On sale message content image orange, purple and green yarns along the top and bottom of the purple background with multiple batch shapes spanning the length. Text nitpicks don't let spooky season sneak up on you. 30% off Halloween yarns save now greater than greater than link image okay, so. I've heard about the image and I've got my rotor set to lines. Now, the way I got there was I swiped down with one finger to read line by line. The problem is, if I set it.
By lines, speaking rate text, still characters, words lines, and I touch something, image orange, purple and green, yarns along. Okay, and now let's say I wanted to read the next line. I touched an image. And when I go to read the next line, which I assume I can do because I set my rotor on lines. Image orange new line new line new line all treat no trick. I'm able to do that. Now. Let's say I touch another image alt. No trick, Halloween image orange and now.
I want to swipe down to read the next line. Archive I get the archive, flank flag, reply unread, explore image drag percent at activate default archive, and so forth.
So my rotor setting is concerned with the type of thing that I touched. In other words, I touched another part of the email. I touched an image, and it assumed that I wanted to do something with that image or with that email rather than continuing to read line by line. So this also comes into play when you're in your inbox and you would like to keep deleting messages even though you might be swiping around reading the email coming back into your inbox. So I'm going to show you a neat little voiceover setting. So we're going to head to settings. Okay. And we're going to be in the rotor settings.
Rotor button. And we're going to double tap there. Rotor items button. Rotor items is the first thing you encounter on this screen. And so if you were to double tap there, you could select or deselect any of the things that you would like to have in your rotor. If I swipe right with one finger. Change rotor with item, switch button on.
So change rotor with item and it's switched on. What that means is depending on what voiceover is focusing on, you will have a different option in the rotor and it's dependent on what kind of a thing that you're focused on here. And so again, change rotor with item. Switch button on.
Now, if I turn that off, that means no matter what kind of an item I am focused on with voiceover, whether it's the email inbox or a particular line of an email, whatever I have my rotor is how I'm going to continue to navigate. So we're going to go back to the mail. Mail message content Image Orange, purple okay. So I'm going to set my rotor on lines here. Text selection characters words lines and when. I touch a line in the email.
Message content image orange, purple and green yarns along the top and bottom of the purple background swipe down multiple image or new line new line new line all treat, no trick. Halloween pattern. So you notice now I'm able to navigate by line no matter what I touch in the email. Image Orange Purple Image new line new line new line I'll treat new line new line new line new line.
So the idea is that before voiceover would determine for me how it was going to respond with my flick up or down in the rotor, depending on the item that I touched. Now it's going to respond the setting of line no matter what I touch in this email. This is particularly nice when I get a Tech newsletter like the top tech tidbits or the accessibility technology email that I get every morning, every Monday morning or the top tech tidbits that I get on Thursdays because I want to navigate by headings in that email, because I want to check out the main things that they're talking about. So when I want to read the content in the email and I don't have this rotor item setting turned off, when I touch something else in the email, I'm no longer navigating by headings. So if there are, you know, 50 headings in the email, I have to go back to the rotor item that says headings. But if I turn this item in the rotor settings off, it will respect my navigation of headings until I change the rotor setting. So I hope this isn't too confusing. It is a special use case, but it makes it very nice to continue navigating by the thing that you'd like no matter what is going on with voiceover, no matter what you touch. So I'm going to go back to the settings.
Change rotor with item switch button off. Change rotor with item is switched off. This will allow you to continue to navigate by headings no matter what you touch on the screen, so I hope this is helpful to you. It may be kind of a nerdish sort of geeky setting, but it might also be really helpful in case you would like to keep navigating by a particular rotor action without having to slip back and forth between them. Opening apps with Siri if you want to open up an app quickly and.
Not have to search around on all. Your home screens or in the app. Library, all you have to do is. Activate Siri and say open messages or activate Siri and say open mail. And that's how you open an app quickly.
With Siri in iOS 18, you get an interesting feature that I think is well needed when it comes to voiceover. This is the voiceover tutorial and today I'm going to show you how to get there. First you need to update your phone to iOS 18. If you're hearing digital bytes on the Sunday it's coming out, it'll be live tomorrow. If this is past Sunday the 15 September, then go download the update. First, start by going home. Tap on settings, then locate accessibility, double tap on accessibility and then choose voiceover. When you double tap there, you'll be taken to the voiceover switch button on option. This is the main voiceover settings. If you flick through here, you'll find a couple of different tips about using voiceover, followed by a learn more link what's new with voiceover? Voiceover practice and now the voiceover tutorial there's some important information on this page that tells you that you'll learn how to use voiceover on your iPhone, and voiceover may be restricted. During this tutorial, I can continue where I left off, learn introductory voiceover gestures, navigate iPhone with voiceover voiceover rotor practice gestures, text editing and access more voiceover resources I do like the audio feedback you get when you're going through the tutorial. Let me paste in here a demonstration of me going through the first couple of pages and you can hear how this experience might be. Check out the voiceover tutorial once you get iOS 18 under accessibility.
Voiceover tutorial Learn introductory Voiceover select the next item swipe one finger select the previous item you just practiced the gesture to select the next item. To select the previous on screen item, swipe from right to left with one finger select the previous activate an item some items can be activated which performs their default action. This is similar to clicking the mouse on the item or pressing a button to submit a form. To activate the selected item, tap the screen twice with one finger double tap with one practice navigating now you will practice the commands you just learned by navigating a practice page. All practice pages like this will have steps to complete a practice area and a continue button. When you complete a step, youll hear a sound and voiceover will announce the next step. This is the first step. Swipe right to select the button labeled practice practice practice.
So I seem to have ran into a slight issue with this part and actually doing some of the practices I'm going to go back through and play with that. But there is the voiceover tutorial for.