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Good evening, everybody, and welcome to Apple Bites for April 25, 2023. I’m Mike Hartwig. I’m your Zoom host. This is a presentation sponsored by Blind Information Technologists, e-specialists, otherwise known as BITS. You can learn more about BITS by joining, by going to the BITS website. You can visit that website at bits-acb.org. Again, that’s B-I-T-S hyphen-a-c-b dot org. Here you can learn more about being a member, signing up for the BITS announced email list, and just anything BITS related. You can also send a blank email to subscribe to the BITS email list, and the address to do that is BITS. Oh, wait, fine. Herbie, can you give me that email address to subscribe at BITS? It’s BITS plus subscribe at groups.io, I think. I think you’re… Okay, well, actually, that’s the main list. BITS dash announce plus subscribe at groups.io, I believe is the other one. Bear with me, guys. First time I’ve ever done this announcement. And so without further ado, I’m gonna turn it over to Herbie Allen, our presenter, for this evening. All right. So with that, good evening, everybody. I am Herbie Allen here with you. And today I am going to talk about voiceover settings on your phone. We all use voiceover, but we actually know how to make it fully work for us. What if, for instance, you don’t like how fast or slow it talks? Do you like the rotor? Do you wish that there were some easy ways you could do things? Do you wish that different apps could talk in different voices? There’s a whole lot of things that we can do with voiceover, and I’m going to do my best to explain them all to you tonight. Now there’s two things you need to know about settings when it comes to voiceover. And this probably is common knowledge for the majority of you, but I do not know if we have anybody that is in a situation where they’re new to the iPhone or recently lost their sight, new to voiceover. And so this is probably more for their benefit, but it does need to be explained. So there are a lot of accessibility settings in general. And one thing that people confuse sometimes with voiceover is spoken content. And that is completely different than voiceover. It is intended more for people that are sighted that might still want some things spoken out loud. And that is actually not related to voiceover, and it can make your life with voiceover difficult and having those things enabled. So you want to make sure nothing in spoken content is enabled. But we’re going to now talk about voiceover, pure and true voiceover here. So there has been a lot of things we’ve been able to do with voiceover over the year. And they’ve definitely added on to it and all that jazz. So how do we get to our voiceover settings? Well, I’m so glad you asked. We can open settings, and I’m going to do that with… Let’s see if the Grump will cooperate with us tonight. Open settings. She did. All right. I told her if she was on her best behavior, I’d give her a piece of candy. That’s how you work with Siri, guys. Try it. See if it works for you. Anyway, we’re not going to just swipe down a little ways until we get to settings. I will let you hear all the options. The search field, by the way, can be useful if you want to really just find something a little bit quicker. Ah, there we go. And that’s it. Max button airplane mode off Wi-Fi fuzzy lock bluetooth on cellular button personal hotspot notifications sounds and focus screen time general but control center display and right home screen accessibility button. Ah, there we go. After all that finally we get to accessibility. I’m going to double tap with one finger vision hitting voice over on button. So this first one can definitely seem a little bit off putting because you might be thinking wait a minute it’s saying voice over on. If I double tap this is it going to turn it off at least so I first wondered but no all this is just telling you the status of voice over but it’s not in the selfie voice over toggle. So we’re going to double tap it on and right off the bat we are presented with an on off toggle if I were to press it it would turn it off. I have no desire to turn off my voice over but we’re going to swipe past that voice over speaks items on the screen. Oh what do you know voice over speaks items on the screen so Apple’s trying to give you a brief explanation of what voice over is tap once to select an item double tap to activate the selected item learn more link link. So it gives you some basics just to get started voice over practice and there is a voice over practice. Now this is one way to get to it. Another way is with the voice over help which you can toggle anywhere from the screen with a quadruple tap with four fingers and that is an easier way to get to it and you can get out of the voice over help by locking the screen or doing a two finger scrub or doing the quadruple tap again. Tip detection mode magnifier can help describe scenes detect people doors and text using your iPhone’s camera for finger triple tap to open magnifier. So the triple tap will open the magnifier and the quadruple tap will open the help and magnifiers a whole another thing altogether but it is used for things like door detection and whatnot. Speaking rate heading. So right off the bat you can see here that this is one way we can adjust the speaking rate speaking rate 55% adjustable. So when it’s being adjustable this means of course I can swipe up and down so I can go up 65% 75% 85% 95% 100% so 100% 90% 80% 70% 60% this one interestingly enough 50% in the increments of 10% I really find that annoying actually speech button. So let’s see if I can adjust that. Well you know what we’ll live at 50 but vertical navigate speaking rate 50% if I look at the rotor here 55% vertical navigate. So that’s a big difference between adjusting voiceover that way versus doing it with a rotor rotor you get 5% intervals whereas doing it from the main screen here you get 10% intervals. So now we’re presented with a whole thing of buttons speech button we got speech Braille button Braille voice over recognition but voiceover recognition verbosity button audio button commands button activities button rotor button rotor actions button typing button quick settings button quick settings allows you to access voiceover settings at any time access quick settings with two finger quadruple tap navigation style flat button navigate images large cursor caption panel double tap tap double tap time out here there is a lot here to take a look at we probably won’t get through everything I don’t know we will see double tap to act learn voice tip voice speaking rate so I’m gonna go speech start with the speech button speak speech button voice Siri voice for United States button so this is where we can adjust the voice pronunciations but we can look at our pronunciations dictionary pitch heading we can pitch 50% adjust the pitch 60% 70% 60 50% okay get back to the pitch pitch change off detect languages on so let’s talk about the pitch change so you can have your voiceover change pitch on certain things such as capital letters I have my page change but you can double tap and it will be on off detect languages on voiceover will switch voices when text in another language is detected rotor language I do not know I want that off okay that’ll make life a lot easier voiceover will rotor languages heading add new language button so if you want to have multiple voice profiles in your rotor this is how you would do that add new language but English South Africa set screen on add new language and now we’re getting a voiceover bug which we’re going to talk about in a minute English South Africa add speech back button so here I can double tap on one English Scotland English UK so if I double tap on English okay Siri voice for United States button pronunciations button pitch heading pitch pitch change detect voice rotor English UK Daniel selected add new language select being rotor languages heading so now I’ve got an additional language in my rotor and so if I look for languages volume characters were characters words language headings language there we go and I’m using by the way the two finger dial gesture to go to the right to go through my rotor here English UK so now I’ve swiped down and I’ve switched to my other language that I have in here English us default and okay that’s great but you know what I’ve selected add new language but English South at add new language English English Scotland English Australia English us Vietnamese the luncheon add new language heading English South okay that’s right we can’t do it from here so add new language in rotor languages heading English UK Daniel but if we double tap on this English UK heading select eloquence but selected Daniel but in Alex Jamie but Kate but Oliver we can change the different voices that are in the language 70% adjusted speaking Stephanie but Siri but in speech back button speech that’s pretty cool there English UK Daniel English UK heading selected Daniel but in English UK head English UK speech speech back button back button thank you English rotor language English delete and I can just swipe up to delete add new language button and there you go I’ve not deleted that rotor language out of my thing so you can have this I don’t know if there’s a limit to the rotor languages but you definitely can have more than that too so rotor languages heading there you go detect languages pitch 50% voice voiceover back voiceover so that’s it for a voice oh no that is not it for voiceover I did not go over heading voiceover heading speaking rate heading tips speaking rate 50 speech button voice Siri back in here so saying the voice I’m using if I want to change it I double tap or it says the voice in what voice I’m using and then I can switch to a different one so we can English us download Evan Evan so I can’t switch to him easily but if I want to switch to Fred. I would just go to the sub folder here and double tap on him and… Voila, it changes. Now let’s change it back. And I can actually have it be on a different voice. So even though it’s on a U.S. profile, it can be any voice. English, English, U.S. Head, English, Speech, Speech, Singing, Act, L, K, Group, L, F, Subject, Juke, Cat, Nate, Nick, Noah, Rach, Samantha, Button, Rach, Noel, Button, Rach, Sir, Susan, Button, Siri, Button. And if you want any of the Siri voices like I do, you can double tap on here. Download Voice 4 using 450. Selected Voice 4. And I’ve now switched it back to my Voice 4 by double tapping the Siri button and selecting the voice that I want. Sorry, Fred, but you’ve got to go. So unfortunately we have to go back several screens. So that’s it for our speech settings. Alright, let’s now… I’m not really going to dwell on Braille just because I don’t know anything about it much. I don’t use it, but we can take a quick look here because there’s a couple things. So you can set your Braille output. And so this is for like your Braille displays, output and input set to contract it. Braille screen input, contracted button. Braille screen input. Here we can customize our Braille screen input settings. Braille tables, one, button. And I just have one Braille table in here, the UEB one, but you can add multiple tables. Status cells, button. Equations use Nemeth code, on. Show on screen keyboard, off. Turn pages when panning, on. Word wrap, on. Text formatting, off. Braille alert messages, 3S, button. Alright. Text Braille alert messages, 3S, ignore cord duration, 0.3S, auto advanced duration, 5S, choose a Braille display. Schnell Allen’s keyboard, Herbert’s AirPods Mac, Herbert’s Apple Watch, connected, button. Okay, so why it’s shown these other things as Braille displays, I don’t know. But that is also where you would go to connect a Braille display and you would have your Braille display in pairing mode and then it should see it. So that’s something to know. One exception is the Orbit Rider that I believe you connect as a regular, I’m sorry, not the Orbit Rider, the Haber One, yikes. The Haber One that I do believe you connect as a Bluetooth keyboard, but all the other Braille displays you’re going to connect from here. VoiceOver, back button. VoiceOver, speaking rate, heading. Braille, button. VoiceOver recognition, button. Okay, let’s talk about VoiceOver recognition and we’re going to address now one of the serious bugs that people run into recently with the latest iOS. Using on device intelligence, VoiceOver recognition, heading. Using on device intelligence, your iPhone will automatically improve the accessibility of apps, images and text. Image descriptions, on, button. Image descriptions, this is where VoiceOver will try to add its own description to images that you’ll come across and how it works is it’ll read its normal numbo jumbo first and then you’ll get like a little tone and then it’ll add in its own thing. Your iPhone will speak descriptions of images and apps and on the web. Screen recognition, off, button. Screen recognition. So let’s talk about this because this has been a very interesting feature and what this does is it kind of remaps the screen to try to make hidden things more accessible and I’ve used it with a certain degree of success. But lately, well, you even heard my voice over doing it where it’ll say screen curtain on and whatever. Now, it’s not really frozen my phone, but one thing that was discussed is from Apple accessibility that they recommended to some people is if you turn off screen recognition that should at least solve part of the problem with voiceover freezing. I’d say they still need to really fix the bug, but if you double tap here, it’s one of those where screen recognition off. You can turn on or off. 19M be required. Your iPhone will automatically improve the accessibility of apps that have no accessibility information. Such applied to apps, audio books, button. And one thing that’s cool about screen recognition, if you know there’s an app that really needs it, then you can actually have it automatically apply to it if you have the feature enabled. Apply to hitting ACV link AF radio, but Amazon, but Amazon Alexa, but Amazon Music App Store Apple Store, but selected backpack, but Valley Sports, but Bard Mobile, but be my eyes. So you can see I can see all my apps in here and I can just beats. Pill. Super. Script plus sign, but selected beats. Pill. Super script. And so that’ll make it so that when I open the beats app, screen recognition will automatically be triggered. But you know what? Beats. Pill. That was a mistake. I don’t really need it for that app. So I just double tapped again to unselect it. Screen recognition. Screen. Voice. Voiceover recognition. Back button. Voiceover. Screen recognition. Off button. All right. So that’s it for screen recognition. And you would otherwise just toggle it in your rotor. If you have it in your rotor, that is one of the easiest ways. Your iPhone will automatically text recognition on text recognition. Your iPhone will speak descriptions of text found in images. So it’s supposed to let you read text that are images. Feedback style. Play sound. Button. So when it’s talking about feedback style here, you can have it play a sound or if we were to go into it, it would tell you do nothing as the other alternative. So what this means is you get that little tone sound when voiceover is about to give you an extra announcement. And if you don’t want it to do that, then you can turn that off. Output options for voiceover recognition. Output options for voiceover voiceover. Back button. Voiceover recognition. Voiceover. Voiceover. Back foot voiceover. Let’s go back out of that screen. Speaking rate. Headings. Voiceover record. Verbosity. Button. Let’s take a look at verbosity. How much information do we want voiceover to give us? Punctuation. Button. Voice verbosity. Heading. Punctuation. Button. So here we’ve got, again, a ton of options. And I’m just going to take a look at what we’ve got and then we’ll kind of take a look. Maybe not all of them, but a few. Customize how punctuation is output. Speak hints. Off. Always speak notifications. Off. Quick nav announcements. Speak. Play sound. Button. Flashlight notifications. On. Button. Capital letters. Speak cap. Button. Deleting text. Change pitch. Button. Links. Speak. Braille. Button. Actions. Speak. Braille. Button. More content. Do nothing. Button. Container descriptions. Speak. Change numbers. Words. Button. Table output. Heading. Table headers. On. Row and column numbers. On. Determines whether this information is output when that– Rotor actions. Heading. Speak confirmation. Off. Web rotor summary. Speak. Button. Emojis. Speak. Emoji suffix. Off. Speaks the word emoji when emoji are read in text content. Media descriptions. Speech. Button. Determines how closed captions plus SDHR output during media playback. Determines how closed– So as you can hear, we’ve got a ton of things we can customize. Let’s go back up to punctuation. Button. Active punctuation group. Sum button. System groups. Hitting. All button. Sum button. None button. Add punctuation group. Import button. Import button. So the idea, I think, with the punctuation group says you can give kind of like different apps, slightly different behaviors if you want. But mine is just set to sum. And that’s what I like it as. Add none button. If you want to adjust it– Sum all button. System active punctuation group. Sum button. System group. Hitting. Just some tab here. All. Selected. Sum. None. None. And you’ve got your choice between all sum or none. Act punctuation. Fact punctuation. That can go based on the– Punctuation. Fact– –preface. –preface. Punctuation. Customize how punctuation– Speak hints. Off. Speak hints. I generally don’t find hints useful. And I’ve had those off for who knows how long. Always speak notification. Quick nav announcements. Speak. Always speak notifications. Off. Always speak notifications. I really don’t know what this is like with having it on, because it always speaks my notifications anyway. So I couldn’t say that I’ve noticed any difference one way quick nav announcements. Speak. Play sound. Quick nav. So this is something you’re going to encounter if you have a Bluetooth keyboard or a Braille display that uses quick nav, like the Mantis or the Haebel One. And how this works is what it will do by default on the phone is it’ll play a tone. But if we want to change this– Selected. Play change pitch. Braille. Do nothing. Do nothing. Robot quick nav selected. Speak. Selected. Play sound. So we can have it actually speak instead of playing a sound saying quick nav on, quick nav off. Change pitch. Braille. Do nothing. And those are our options. So I have my just playing the tone, but you can set yours to what you want. Robosity. Hitting. On. Pass. Always speak. Quick nav announced. Flashlight notifications. On. Button. This is something that was introduced a couple of iOS’s ago, and it’s really useful. It’s supposed to tell you that your flashlight is on. Capital letters. Speak cap. Button. Capital letters. How do you want those to be announced? Do you want to hear cap A, or do you want it to change the pitch? Selected. Speak cap. Play sound. Change pitch. Do nothing. So again, you’ve got a wealth of different options, and you just double tap and set it to what you want it to do. Do you want it to play a sound when you’re capitalizing letters? Do you want it to– Robosity. Change pitch. I personally like the word cap. Deleting text. Change pitch. Button. When you’re deleting text, again, you can customize the options here. Links. Speak. Braille. Button. Actions. Speak. Braille. Button. More content. Do nothing. Button. Container descriptions. Speak. Change pitch. Braille. Button. Voiceover. Back actions. And so with some of these as well– Media descriptions. Speaks the word emoji. Emoji suffix. Off. So I have a saying– not saying emoji. I know it’s emoji when I see a happy face. I know it’s emoji. Emojis. Speak. Web rotor summary. Speak. Speak confirmation. Off. Rotor actions. Heading. Row and column numbers. On. Tape, tape. Numbers. Words. Button. Selected. Words. Digit. Digits. Digits. Selected. Words. Numbers. Vibos– verbosity. Back. Verbosity. You can just go in here and customize things from there. Voiceover. Back. But voiceover. I think it gives you a general idea. Vibosity. Button. Audio. Button. All right. Now let’s take a look at audio. This is an interesting one. Sounds and haptic. Audio. Heading. Sounds and haptics. Button. We’re going to come back to sounds and haptics. Audio ducking. Off. Audio ducking. So this is a feature that some people love or some people hate. I use it very interchangeably. Sometimes I want it. Sometimes I do not. Right now it is off. When it is on, the idea is to make the volume of whatever you are listening to lower than voiceover. And like I said, sometimes that can be a good thing. Sometimes it can be very annoying. It really just depends on the situation and what you are doing. And you can also have this in the rotor, by the way, which we will talk about the rotor in a little bit. But that’s audio ducking for you. Auto select speaker and call. On. Auto select speaker and call on. This is on by default. What it does is when you are on a phone call, if you move the phone away from your ear, it should automatically switch to speaker phone. This is especially useful for people that are having to deal with those automated systems or whatever. And it’s pretty convenient, too. I mean, you don’t have to worry about the speaker button. But you might find it annoying. And so if you want your phone to stay in one place, you would turn this off here. And by the way, that also works for some other apps like Zoom and WhatsApp and other things. But that’s what that is supposed to do. And if you find that feature annoying, you can turn it off here in audio. During audio calls, automatically switch to the speaker when not holding your iPhone to your ear. Send to HDMI off. Any externally connected media devices should be reconnected for this change to take effect. Speech channel system capture, hitting selected. System capture one. Selected system capture two. Sound channel system capture, hitting selected. System capture one. Selected system capture two. So some of you want to share with us. System capture system capture two. Selected system capture two. So if you are selected, system capture– Listening on the computer, then you’ll notice that my voiceover sounds are suddenly not coming out of the left-hand side. If you are listening on the phone, or if you are listening to this on the recording, you are not noticing this. Select system capture two. Selected system capture two. So that’s a system capture one, system capture two. Selected system capture two. And I’m also going to do this. Selected system capture one. Selected system capture one. Notice that voiceover now– again, if you’re on the computer and you’re wearing headphones, you should notice that it’s coming out of my right ear. So if you’re hearing it out of your left ear only, change your headphones. Selected system capture one. So that means you could have the voiceover itself coming out of one ear and the sounds coming out of the other if you want to do so. And like I said, if you’re listening to this on your phone or on the recording, you’re not hearing the stereo effect, unfortunately. But you can go play with this in your system. [VIDEO PLAYBACK] – –audio sounds and haptics. But sounds. – Sounds and haptics. So if you want to know what all the sounds do, this is where you can learn them. – Sounds on. Match speech volume off. – And you can also turn the sounds off if you want. I have mine not mentioning the speech volume because that makes the sounds a bit too loud. Sound volume 100%. Adjustable. – You can adjust the sound to level. – The volume rotor will change only the volume of voiceover speech. Haptics. Hitting. Haptics. On. – Some people don’t like the extra haptics that voiceover can give you. You’ll feel the phone vibrating when you’re swiping. I personally like it. – Haptic intensity 100%. Interaction. Hitting. Item focused. Button. Screen recognition item focused. Button. Item focused. – So now we can double tap on one of these buttons. – Tap on item focused. – Sound on. Haptic on. Preview button. Selected preview caps. – And there you go. I’ve been previewing the sounds. – Sounds and haptics. – So you can actually learn what the different sounds are. So let’s just pick one. – Rows system. Hitting. System. Reach ability started. Button. Sound on. – Oh, here’s one I do not have enabled. Preview button. OK, same as our Mission Control Center. So there you go. – Sounds and haptics. Sounds. – I know what that’s like. – Reach ability. Dock appeared. Button. Sound on. Preview button. – Hey, I like that one. Now, one of the common questions I know that I’m probably likely to get, can you change these sounds? No. So– – Dock appeared. Hitting. – You can turn them on and off, but you cannot actually change them. So– – Audio. Audio. Back button. Audio. Selected. System selected. System. Sound check. Selected. System captured. Full selected. System. System capture one. Selected. System cap. Voiceover. Back button. – OK, once I be stuck in the bottom here, let’s– there we go. – Audio. Audio. Audio. Commands. Button. – All right. Now, let’s take a look at commands. This is one I don’t do too much with. But– – All commands. Button. Touch gestures. Button. Keyboard shortcuts. Button. Commands are prefixed with the voiceover modifier key. Caps lock. Handwriting. Button. Braille screen input. Button. Braille devices. Hitting. Schnail Allen’s keyboard. Reset voice. Schnail Braille’s handwriting. Button. Braille screen input. Button. – If we look at Braille screen input. – One finger. Hitting. One finger swipe left. Backspace. Button. One finger swipe right. Insert space. Button. One finger swipe up. Previous suggestion. Button. – So here’s where you can get a list of all the things you can do with Braille screen input. – One finger swipe down. Next swipe. Two fingers. Hitting. Two finger swipe left. Delete word. Button. Braille commands. Back button. – And the reason why it’s so– – Two fingers. – Show me this? – Three finger swipe up. Quick action. Button. I could actually change this if I wanted to. – Selected. Three finger swipe up. Cancel. Button. Commands. Hitting. Search. Search field. Backspace. Copy. Cut. Delete word. Insert space. – So basically what I can do is I can readjust this command to do something else. So if I want my three finger swipe up to be an automatic copy, for instance, then I can have it do that. I really don’t. – Launch up next Braille mode. Next Braille table. Next keyboard language. Cancel. Button. – And so that’s making, again, voiceover working for you. So if you do not like the default commands for something, you can adjust it. – Select it. Braille screen and– – Let’s take a look at some other Braille screen and buttons. – keyboard shortcuts. Button. Touch– all commands. Button. Interaction. Button. Basic navigation. Button. Text navigation. Button. Basic navigation. Moving. Button. Move out. Button. Move to bottom of container. Move to bottom of document. Move to first item. Button. Touch gestures. Hitting. Add gesture. Button. Keyboard shortcuts. Hitting. Home. Add keyboard shortcut. Commands are prefixed with a voiceover. And so these are a lot of keyboard commands. So if you’re using a Bluetooth keyboard, and you want to use something other than your home key to go to the top of the screen– – Move basic navigation. Basic– – You can adjust that here. – Basic– Basic– Basic– All commands. Back– All commands. Text– Advanced navigation. Button. Editing. Button. Add text– Basic navigation. But interaction. All commands– Commands. Back button. Commands. – And there is a whole process of things you could do. – Touch– touch– keyboard shortcuts. But commands are prefixed with a voice– keyboard– touch gestures. Button. – Let’s take a look at touch gestures. One finger– one finger single tap. Speak item. Dimmed. One finger double tap. Activate. Dimmed. One finger triple tap. Perform long press. Button. – So if I don’t like the fact that I can do my finger triple tap to do long press because I can actually already do a long press, I could actually have a decent pulse. – One finger quadruple tap. Secondary activate. Button. One finger triple tap. Selected. One finger triple– search. Interact. Activate. Escape. Magic tap. Selected. Perform. Secondary activate. Basic navigation. Heading. Move in. Move out. Move to box. Move to box. Move to item. Move to item below. – And if I can go through different categories by heading– – Text navigation. Heading. Item text search. Move to next column. – And there you go. I can select the one I wanted to do. – Commands. Cancel. Button. So one tap. Two finger single tap. Two– two– two tap. Three– three finger– three– three tap. Four– four fingers. Four fingers. Four finger– four finger swipe. One finger. Heading. One finger swipe left. Move to previous item. One finger swipe right. Move to next item. Dim. One finger swipe up. One finger swipe. Two– two finger swipe left. Move to previous heading. So this is one I actually customized. And I set it so that way I can automatically, with two fingers, move between headings and the– wherever I’m at. So that way I don’t always have to find it in the rotor. So that is a very useful thing to do. And that– I will point out that this one can definitely be overwhelming because there’s so much you can change. So it’s really what I’d only do if you really do not like how a certain command is working for you or you want to come explore this. Touch commands. Back button. Commands. Touch keyboard shortcuts. That’s all I really want to show you for commands. Voiceover. Audio button. Activities button. Let’s look at activities. Programming button. Activities allow you to change a group of voiceover settings quickly with the rotor or automatically when opening an app or encountering a specific item in the user interface. Add activity button. Add activity. Progress. Edit button. So I really don’t do much with this button. Proque add activity button. Speaking rate. 50 per– volume. 80 per– mute speech. Mute sound. Audio ducking. Default. Verbosity setting. Punctuation. Emojis. Deep container description. Table headers. Row and column numbers. Deep image– speak hints. Default button. Modifier keys. Default activities. So but I can basically– The idea is I can set a certain rate. So let’s say if I want my Zoom app to talk at a rate of like 70% and I want it to– or I want my Microsoft Word, if I were to ever use that on the phone, to have all punctuation, I could set it so that voiceover would automatically recognize certain settings when I open a particular app. Active edit button. Programming button. Selected. Activity. Progress name. Speech and audio settings. Voice. Default button. Speaking rate. 50% volume. 80% mute speech. Deep mute sound. Deep act pro– activities. Programming. Hitting. Modifier keys. Default act pro– activities. Back button. Activity. All right. So– Activities. Hitting. I guess I really don’t do much with this. Voiceover. Back button. –detail. Voiceover. It’s only specific questions. We’ll come back to that. Audio button. Commands. Activities. Rotor button. All right. Let’s talk about my favorite, the rotor. Selected. Characters. Voice rotor selected. Reorder characters. One of the things I’ve been truly amazed about is how many people do not actually realize what you can do here. And the nice thing about rotor is, you know, when you turn that little dial on your screen on the phone, you can have things ordered in a way that you would like. And that can really come in handy. For instance, I want my links to show up almost right away when I’m in Safari. So I have them more towards the top, or as I might have headings a little bit further down. So, re– selected. Especially now that I can swipe. Re– tech– re– line– reorder lines. Punctuation. Actions available. And so let’s put in punctuation. Selected. Punctuation. Reorder punctuation. And I don’t like where it’s at. I want to– Move down. Activate default. Move down. Move it down. Move below sounds. Reorder sounds. And not just re– Move where I put punctuation. Reorder punct– selected. Punctuation. And now I can see where things are at in my rotor. And if I change my– Punctuation. I can take something out of the rotor by unselecting it. So another way you can reorder things too– Sounds. Actions available. Selected. Sounds. Select sounds. Selected. Reorder sounds. Button. Punctuation. Well– Actions. Reorder punctuation. But draggable. On the– Actions available. Move up. Move down. Activate default. But they’ve kind of changed how they work. Punctuation. Reorder hints. Reorder punct– Re– selected. Sounds. Sounds. But the rotor is nice because you can put in here whatever you want. And there’s a lot of options. Point– [INAUDIBLE] Reorder selected. Braille screen input. Reorder selected. Words– Reorder text selection. Re– lines. Reorder sounds. Reorder punctuation. Reorder hints. Reorder braille table. Reorder braille auto-advanced speed. Reorder activities. Reorder handwriting. Reorder containers. Reorder selected. Buttons– Reorder selected. Headings– Reorder selected. Visited links. So I have things in here that are relevant to me. No, I don’t like reorder– Reorder visited links. But selected– Visited links. Reorder– move up. Move down. Move below links. Reorder links. But I’m draggable. I’ve visited links now. And there you go. And the rotor just lets you get through each thing, you know, each category with the left and right dial motion on your screen and then flicking up and down. So there you go. Voiceover– back button. Now– Voiceover– Another thing we have aside from the rotor now is quick settings. And let’s just take a quick look at that with a two finger quadruple tap. Voiceover settings– heading– done– filter– audio ducking– off– Braille input– contract hints– off– image description settings– language– This will let you just– some things on the fly. Large cursor– off– media descriptions– navigate images– navigation stock– kinetic– pitch change– software– sounds– on– software typing feed– sound– speaking rate– done– voice– done– And then there’s a done button at the top. Verbosity– button– verbosity– commands– button– edit apps on home screen– All right, let’s take a look at rotor actions. Direct touch apps– button– direct touch allows voiceover to control an app directly without requiring more interaction. Direct touch– direct edit– rotor actions– heading– edit apps on home screen– on– So this allows for you to add apps on the home screen– voice– voiceover– back button– voiceover– commands– button– rotor action– typing– button– So next we got typing. This is where we can adjust our different typing styles from Braille screen input to the wet keyboard– a whole type of things here. Typing style– phonetic feedback– character and phonetics– button– We can also adjust whether we get phonetic feedback, like do you want it to say echo when you press E afterwards and things like that? Typing feedback– button– modifier keys– caps lock– keyboard interaction time– 1S– button– keyboard interact– modifier type– phonetic typing style– touch typing– button– typing– heading– typing style– standard typing– typing– but I can send it to standard– selected– touch– direct touch type– direct touch typing– select– type– type– typing– back button. And this is what it defaults to. Now, of course, typing will also appear in the rotor as well. But– Typing– my default is– typing– typing feedback– button– modifier keys– Oh, typing feedback– that’s important, because do you want to hear the letters you’re pressing? Voiceover– back button– voiceover– typing– quick settings allows you– navigate– quick settings– typing– quick settings– button– activities– reorder– always speak– reorder– selected– audio ducking– reorder– braille alert messages– reorder– braille auto advance. So as with the rotor, we can adjust what things appear in activities. And– Reorder braille auto selected– braille input– reorder– braille output– reorder– braille tables. So you can see, for instance, because I don’t use a braille display, I don’t have braille output enabled. But I do have braille input in here, because that’s– rescaption panel– that’s what leads to me. Quick voiceover– back voiceover– I’ve done a lot of talking for now, so why don’t we see if you all have questions? And now’s a good chance– time to do that. So if you do, why don’t you raise your hand? And I will get to– Mike will call on you, and we’ll go from there. So on that note, Mike, do we have any raised hands? We do, and our first hand of the evening is from Jewel. Jewel, all right. Jewel, I’ve sent you an unmute. Talk to me. Maybe that’s why I didn’t let my keyboard do it, because you sent me the unmute. My keyboard has a– Mind of itself. –custom thing. Anyway, so I was actually surprised that you didn’t mention this, because it’s actually mentioned earlier on mute, and they had a question about easily changing speech rates. And I wanted to mention that in the added languages, you can actually add English multiple times and have different voice profiles that way. So you could have one that is at 60% and one that’s at 90%. And then that way, if you want to slow it down suddenly, you can just switch languages. I thought I’d mention that. Yes, that is a good point. I had forgotten to mention that you can add in the English language or whatever language. A lot of people times. Yeah, a lot of people don’t realize that. And that is one way to easily switch between, say, if you really need to go slow and you have to go 50%, and then you want to go quickly back up to 90%. And you don’t want to make it app-specific, then– Exactly, yeah. Yep, very good point. I just thought I’d mention that. All right, and as a reward, I’ll let you teach the next lesson. How does that sound? All right, let’s move on. All right. You muted her. All right. No, actually, she muted herself. OK, very good. All right, our next question is from Heidi. Heidi, all right. And I’ve sent her an unmute request. All right, put down those knitting needles and hit that unmute button. Uh-oh. OK, while we’re waiting for Heidi to unmute, we’re going to go to Suzanne. All right. There we go. Yep. OK, thank you very much for this awesome presentation, Herbie. I sincerely appreciate you taking the time. I really needed this presentation. I’m digesting all the information. I have a question. Is there any way that a person can customize their sound when a certain person calls or texts, like you know that, oh, that’s from my wife, or that’s from my son, or what have you, that you know I got to get to that right away versus somebody that, oh, they can wait till later? All right, very good question. The answer is yes, that is not done in voiceover, though. That is actually done in the contacts. OK. Oh, I didn’t know that. Yep. And I’m probably getting my Heidi’s mixed up, by the way. But anyway, going back to you. So how we’ll do this, I’ll give you a brief demonstration. OK, thank you. 1942, one notification. We can do that. So social folder, eight apps, seven new items, telegram, new mail, phone, list, back button, tab bar, voicemail, phone, or if you have the contacts app still on your phone, you can do that way. Holly Anderson. Moni, Holly Anderson. I’m going to pick on Holly. Holly Anderson. I can. It’s got the Edit button. So I’ve got her already in my contacts. So let’s say this is somebody that’s already in your contacts. What you do is you go to the Edit button. But they do have– They do have to be in your contacts first. And by the way, that is not specific to iPhone. Back in the day, the old, old Nokia phones, they were the exact same way the person had to be in your contacts first. OK. OK, accept my phone loss connection here to the mixer. Give me just a second. [VIDEO PLAYBACK] – Connected contacts, tab, three or five. Mobile button, action. – Cancel. Done. First name, Holly, text field. – So I can see her first name, last name. – Last name, company, text field, mobile, plus one, add phone, button, add email, ringtone, default. – Ah, ringtone, default. So now I can double tap on that. Cancel, button, ring, done. Emergency vibration. Emergency bypass allows sounds. And vibrations– – So emergency bypass is off for her. But if I turned it on, she would always get through, even when my do not disturb is on or my mute is on. – Vibrate default. Office telephone, biz, default. – I can also adjust how the phone vibrates for her too. So if I want a custom vibration sound. – Office ringtones. Baby, I need your loving. Classic British phone ring. It’s the same old song. It’s the same old song. Office telephone, biz, ringtone, button, ringtone, button. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Gallop. – And some of these do look– – Angels we have heard on high. Olaterka ring. Ape cannon. – And I’m sure Holly, we’re going to have– [MUSIC PLAYING] So this is a custom ringtone that I have. But you keep going down. You’ll see the ones for your phone. – Hop, Jetsons, to a fly-off. Merit, music, neck, hold. It’s your song. But E-hacks, again. Click, click. – And then if I go back to the top of the screen– – Hands up, ringtone, good. – I can hit the Done button. And now she has that particular ringtone. And I can do the same thing with text tones. I swipe to the right to text tone. – Cancel, text done. Emergence, emergence, vibration, store, tone store, button. Download all purchase tones. This will download all ring– default. Hello, button, alert tones. None, button, hello, button, aurora, button, bamboo. – And I can double tap on the tone that I want. And then when I’m down– – Can’t text tone, cancel. – Let’s get some– I’m going to hit the Cancel button because I don’t need to– – Add your text tone, default. – I actually probably should have sent them for her, but she didn’t text me that much. Well, I’ll work on that later because I’ve kind of used up a lot of them. But when I’m done– – Can’t dot first name, done button. – I just go back up to the top of the screen and I can hit the Done button. – And it– – And voila, Holly now has a custom ringtone. So that’s how you do that. – Thank you so much for demonstrating. I appreciate it. – You’re welcome. – Okay, that’s the last of the hands. Heidi, your hand for some reason was lowered. So if you have a question, raise your hand up again and I’ll give you the unmute. Oh, okay, here we go. Okay, I’ve sent you the unmute. There you go. – There we go. – There we go. – I’m so sorry about that. Hello, I have some quick questions. When I saw that this was coming up to that darn little rotator, I really do not quite understand what that rotator does. And I’ve been going through some of the steps with you under the accessibility options on my iPhone. And I’m noticing that there’s like a direct touch area in there somewhere. And I keep seeing that specifically with Hulu and it always says, oh, use your rotator. I’m not sure exactly how to use the rotator first off. And that’s my simple question. And secondly, how that relates to those direct touch areas on specific apps. – All right, so when it goes to direct touch, oh, we’re out of time, I’m so sorry. See you next time. – Oh, no, just kidding. – Dang it. (laughing) – Okay, direct touch is really a nightmare. And if anybody is actually really good at it, then definitely I’m giving you an invitation to raise your hand and see if you can give a better explanation of what I am about to you. It’s really not an accessible thing. I’ve seen it used in a lot of apps, like you mentioned Hulu. I’ve not used Hulu myself, but I’ve heard of it being implemented in there. You can also use, like a lot of the blindfold games also use direct touch. And that one honestly does kind of, I, you’re supposed to be able to kind of move around in the direct touch area and get things to show up. And I really should find something to try to demonstrate that. Now let’s talk about the rotator, as you call it, or the rotor. – The rotor, sorry, the rotor. – It is a rotator though, I mean, you know. So, and I guess if you turn it too much, could you get a rotator cuff injury? I don’t know. – Maybe, maybe. – So the rotor, but anyway, let’s talk about the voiceover rotors. So it’s designed to let you choose between a number of various voiceover functions. So let’s say you’re coming across, you’re reading a webpage and you wanna know how something is spelled. So you’re on that sentence. You can move your rotor to go to words, and then you can swipe up and down and read word by word till you find that particular word and hear it clearly. And if you still need more clarification, you could move your rotor back to the left and read it character by character. You can also navigate, you know, like say if you’re on a webpage, you don’t wanna see everything on the webpage, you just wanna see the links. You can use your rotor to go to the links and then swipe up and down through those links till you get to the one that you want. – Is there a specific gesture for the rotor? – Yes. – Okay. – So if you put your two fingers on the phone and turn them clockwise and anti-clockwise. – Oh, okay, that makes sense. Hello. – And do you have any ideas of if you decide that you do not like that gesture where you could go to make changes? – I would think that I would go under the same rotor area under accessibility. – You would actually go under commands to change the rotor gesture. – Oh, under commands, okay. – To change the actual gesture. – Oh, okay. – The rotor, all that’ll just is what you see in the rotor. – Now, do you know, ’cause I just found, like I literally just found this before I finally got back over to the Zoom meeting to unmute, this, it does have a section in here under the rotor for direct touch area. – Yes, it does. – And so if I turn that on, does that change that direct text area if I come across that like on Hulu where it will actually use that gesture? – I think it would, yes. – Oh, good. ‘Cause that direct touch area is a nightmare. – It should, yeah. – I’m not a good kid. – I know it is. – Okay. – It is not the most user-friendly, I agree. – I’m totally gonna test that out. I’m gonna probably throw a Hulu on and just see what it does with that on. – Excellent. – The only other one I had a question on just really quick is that you mentioned something about the image detail. – Yes. – Where you can get an audio description of the image detail. Where was that at again in accessibility? – Voiceover descriptions. – Voiceover, so I am in the voiceover section right now, so it’ll be under there. Okay, perfecto, thank you, I just needed a refresher. I appreciate it, thank you. – You’re welcome. – 1950, your evening, your evening summary. – There’s a lot to remember, you know, even I can– – Yeah. – FaceTime, phone, actor, phone, closing phone, settings, settings, quick set, type, road, act, audio, verbosity, voiceover recognition. – Voiceover recognition, that’s what it’s actually called, so, okay, so I do apologize. So voiceover recognition is where you will find the options for the image description and whatnot. – Okay, Herbie, your phone just told me, but I will tell you again, you are at the 10-minute mark. – Yep. – And our next hand comes from Diane Harms, you can go ahead and speak. – Right, Diane, and her iPad. – Yep, yep, me and my iPad, we’re here. More to share too, he’s getting ready for his dinner though. – Well, so once he don’t Harms us, we’re all right. – Oh, yeah. (laughs) I was gonna say, direct touch, you know, where for like the app where it says to use us, you don’t have to, because I believe, if I’m remembering right, ESPN Plus used to say that, but I never did, and I can use the app just fine, so. – I never had to use direct touch on ESPN Plus, but. – Yeah, yeah, no, so yeah. And then another thing that I’m good advice to people, I think is don’t clutter your order with too many items, you know, turning, turning, turning, and that gesture, the first, when I first got an iPhone back in, I believe it was 2012, that gesture was kind of hard, I didn’t understand with, you know, wow, what do you, I need to do this, but I practiced it and got it, so, you know. – Yep. – And then I just put, you know, customize the ones I really need to customize that I really don’t get, you know, and, but otherwise, when I learn a new gesture, I practice it hard to see how I’m gonna do with it, and then if I can’t get it, well, then I’ll figure out something else to do, so. – Yep. – Yep, all right, well, great presentation. – Well, thank you, thank you, thank you. – And our next hand is from Pat. – All right, Pat. – Hello. – Pat with a K. – Oh, sorry. – I’m getting over ear infections, so. – Oh no. I’m sorry to hear that. So I had a question because you were talking about the rotor settings and, uh-oh, did I lose my sound? Uh-oh. I was talking about the, you were talking about the rotor settings and can you clarify, I know there’s something called those quick setting things. – Yes. – And you can get to a lot of settings in that. Can you clarify that maybe, for those that maybe wanna use those? – Okay, so quick settings is a separate thing from the rotor and you can get to it anywhere from your phone. It was something that was very recently introduced in iOS, I forgot it list last iOS, the previous one. But anyway, you activate it with a two finger quadruple tab anywhere on the phone and it’ll bring up some of the options that you saw me customize and you can go into your quick settings on the, in the voiceover accessibility to adjust what options you see in there. Not everything is gonna be available that you have in rotor. But, and I honestly, I must admit I don’t use it as much. I still honestly prefer the rotor ’cause you know, I’m like old school, I go back to like 2010, you know what I’m saying? But, so I honestly don’t think of quick settings as much, but it’s a great way, like I’d use it for things that maybe you don’t want in the rotor perhaps, ’cause you might act easily get to it or whatever. So yeah, two finger quadruple tap. And if you go to accessibility and voiceover and you go to quick settings towards the bottom, you can customize the things that you see and don’t see in there. All right, anybody else? – Not at this time. So if you guys got any questions, – Yep. – please raise your hands. – Concerns, I don’t take anything regarding my sanity, but, all right. – Yeah, I’m still not seeing any. – Nope. Well, I hope you’re all able to get something out of this presentation. Remember, if you have any additional questions, you can always find me on the bits list, just if you’re a bits member. And if you’re not, well, odds are pretty good that you are an ACB community member and you will find me around all over the place. Or you can email community@acb.org and ask them for my contact info and I will be glad to talk to you. All right, so what am I gonna talk about next time? – Herbie. – Yes. – We just had two hands connecting. – All right, let’s take them. – So, we’re gonna go with Malcolm first because he hasn’t spoken yet. So Malcolm, you’ve been sending requests to unmute. Go ahead and speak. – All right, Malcolm. – Can you hear me now? – Yes. – Yep. – Okay. In regards to the rotor and activating the rotor on your screen, I know it’s a two finger twisting motion. I have a little vision where I can see somebody, I had a workshop or something and they were activating the rotor and they did the two finger thing and the rotor was on the screen and I could see it. And it was just changing from one subject to the next. And I’m thinking, did he have to turn his wrist every time? And is he that fast? ‘Cause I get it to come up and it’ll tell me punctuation. And then I have to do it again before it’ll tell me the next one. – You know, it’s one of those things that is gonna practice dexterity. I mean, I turn the phone more than I perhaps turn my wrist. – Ah-ha. – So that’s probably an easier way to do it. But again, I’ve been using the iPhone for 12 years. So in my case, I don’t even think about it. But I kind of turn the phone, a lot of times I’ll turn the phone more than I’ll turn the wrist. – Okay, I noticed yours was going quite fast also. – Yep, but like I said to you, I’ve also been really 13 years now, so. – Great show though. Thank you. – Thank you. You’re welcome. All right, and who’s next? – Well, sorry, Jewel is next. – All right, Jewel. – I actually do have a question. – All right. When you get to an app that isn’t really accessible, but with screen recognition is accessible, is there a way to set that app to always have screen recognition on or do you just always have to go to the rotor? – So remember when you, remember I showed you, I don’t know if you were here through the entire presentation. – Yes, I was. – Okay, so if you go to your voiceover recognition and settings and you go to screen recognition, you will see an apps button at the very bottom. And if you double tap it and select that particular app, then it will always bring it up with screen recognition provided of course you have it enabled. – Okay, awesome, thank you. – You’re welcome. Excellent question there. All right, anybody else? – Not at this time. – All right, so I think I’ve worked out what I’m going to demonstrate for everybody next month. I’d love to demonstrate Mastodon for you all, but the app that’s really popular is still in beta mode. But once that comes out, I probably will do a demonstration of the Mona for Mastodon app on the iPhone. There are other apps of course, but so that’ll be something further down the road. But next month, we’re going to take a look at recording apps for the iPhone and do some comparisons. We got like the built-in voice memos app. So how you can use that to record things and whatnot. And we’ll take a look at a couple of external applications that I like to that are really cheap. So I think the next one will be a little bit of a fun one. And so we’re gonna do that. And that is going to do it, I think for tonight. I, like I said, hope everybody got something out of the audience. I do take requests for considerations for future demos. So in fact, I highly encourage it ’cause it would give me an idea of what you all would like to learn. And so, you know, ’cause I like to try to customize to my audience as much as possible. So on that, we will go ahead and then the, and early Mike, you were a fabulous host and hopefully we get you again and hopefully we see you all next month. – All right, I’m gonna end the meeting. Good night everybody. [BLANK_AUDIO]