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VoiceOver User Guide
- Welcome
- Get started
- 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
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Cursor, Visuals category, VoiceOver Utility on Mac
Use the Cursor pane of the Visuals category in VoiceOver Utility to set options for the VoiceOver cursor.
To open VoiceOver Utility, press Command-F5 to turn VoiceOver on, then press VO-Fn-F8.
Note: VO represents the VoiceOver modifier. See Use the VoiceOver modifier.
Option | Description |
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Show VoiceOver cursor | Show the VoiceOver cursor. The VoiceOver cursor appears on-screen as a dark outlined box. |
VoiceOver Cursor Magnification | Decrease or increase the size of the VoiceOver cursor by dragging the slider towards Small or Large. |
When reading text, move VoiceOver cursor by | Choose how the VoiceOver cursor should move while reading: Sentence or Word. |
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