VoiceOver User Guide
- Welcome
- What’s new in VoiceOver
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- Use VoiceOver in the login window
- Change function key behaviour
- Make VoiceOver ignore the next key press
- Learn or mute VoiceOver sound effects
- Hear hints and information
- Use positional audio
- Interact with areas and groups
- Hear progress or status changes
- Select and deselect items
- Drag and drop items
- Use cursor tracking
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- Use VoiceOver Utility
- Change voice settings
- Customise verbosity
- Customise punctuation
- Change how VoiceOver pronounces text and symbols
- Change what the VoiceOver rotor shows
- Create custom labels for UI elements
- Export, import and reset VoiceOver preferences
- Use VoiceOver portable preferences
- Use VoiceOver activities
- Copyright
Use VoiceOver to perform an item’s alternative action on Mac
Menu commands and other elements, such as buttons or tickboxes, may offer alternative actions.
Show actions for menu commands
Some menu commands may offer alternative actions when you press a modifier key.
Move the VoiceOver cursor to a menu command.
Hold down a modifier key.
If the command has an alternative action associated with that modifier, VoiceOver speaks it.
To perform the action, continue to hold the modifier key and press Enter, or press the other required keys.
Show actions for user interface elements
If an app or website developer has identified alternative actions for elements like buttons or tickboxes for screen readers, VoiceOver automatically announces them, so you can show and navigate to them.
Note: VO represents the VoiceOver modifier. See Use the VoiceOver modifier.
Show alternative actions: Press VO-Command-Space bar to open the Actions menu, then choose Show alternative items.
Show default items actions: Press VO-Command-Space bar to open the Actions menu, then choose Show default items.