Appendix A Accessibility 133
Change the keyboard language. Set the rotor to Language, then swipe up or down. Choose
“default language” to use the language specied in Language & Region settings. The Language
rotor item appears only if you select more than one language in Settings > General >
Accessibility > VoiceOver > Speech.
Write with your nger
Handwriting mode lets you enter text by writing characters on the screen with your nger. In
addition to normal text entry, use handwriting mode to enter your iPad passcode silently or open
apps from the Home screen.
Enter handwriting mode. Use the rotor to select Handwriting. If Handwriting isn’t in the rotor, go
to Settings > General > Accessibility > VoiceOver > Rotor, then add it.
Choose a character type. Swipe up or down with three ngers to choose lowercase, numbers,
uppercase, or punctuation.
Hear the currently selected character type. Tap with three ngers.
Enter a character. Trace the character on the screen with your nger.
Enter a space. Swipe right with two ngers.
Go to a new line. Swipe right with three ngers.
Delete the character before the insertion point. Swipe left with two ngers.
Select an item on the Home screen. Start writing the name of the item. If there are multiple
matches, continue to spell the name until it’s unique, or swipe up or down with two ngers to
choose from the current matches.
Enter your passcode silently. Set the rotor to Handwriting on the passcode screen, then write
the characters of your passcode.
Use a table index to skip through a long list. Select the table index to the right of the table
(for example, next to your Contacts list or in the VoiceOver Item Chooser), then write the letter.
Set the rotor to a web browsing element type. Write the rst letter of a page element type.
For example, write “l” to have up or down swipes skip to links, or “h” to skip to headings.
Exit handwriting mode. Do a two-nger scrub, or turn the rotor to a dierent selection.
Type onscreen braille
With Braille Screen Input enabled, you can use your ngers to enter 6-dot, 8-dot, or contracted
braille codes directly on the iPad screen. Tap codes with iPad laying at in front of you (tabletop
mode), or hold iPad with the screen facing away so your ngers curl back to tap the screen
(screen away mode).
Turn on Braille Screen Input. Use the rotor to select Braille Screen Input. If you don’t nd it in the
rotor, go to Settings > General > Accessibility > VoiceOver > Rotor, then add it.
Enter braille codes. Place iPad at in front of you or hold it with the screen facing away, then tap
the screen with one or several ngers at the same time.
Adjust entry dot positions. To move the entry dots to match your natural nger positions,
double-tap six or eight ngers at the same time.
Switch between 6-dot, 8-dot, and contracted braille. Swipe to the right with three ngers. To set
the default, go to Settings > General > Accessibility > VoiceOver > Braille > Braille Screen Input.
Enter a space. Swipe right with one nger. (In screen away mode, swipe to your right.)
Delete the previous character. Swipe left with one nger.
