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iFocus 13: Tips on Using theVision Accessibility Features in iOS

Seminars@Hadley

iFocus 13:Tips on Using the

Vision Accessibility Features in iOS

Presented byDouglas Walker

Moderated byLarry Muffet

March 14, 2016

Larry MuffetWelcome to Seminars@Hadley. My name is Larry Muffett. I’m a member of Hadley Seminars Team and I also work in Curricular Affairs. Today’s seminar topic is iFocus 13: Tips on Using the Accessibility Features in iOS. Our presenter today is again, veteran Hadley Instructor and technology guru, Douglas Walker. Today Douglas will share his professional insights on some additional iOS features. I want to let everyone know that portions of Douglas’ presentation are prerecorded, but he’s online live with us today to answer your questions so let me welcome Douglas and we’ll get under way. Welcome, Douglas.

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Douglas WalkerAll right, it is so hard to believe that we are doing our 13th quarterly iFocus seminar. I tell you, time really does fly and speaking of time flying, we have four topics to cover today, and I know that time is going to fly today so how about we go ahead and get right to it. Okay, so we’re going to be covering four topics. However we will be doing it in two different segments today. We will actually cover two topics in our first segment, and then we’ll break for some questions and then we’ll cover two more topics and then we’ll have another question and answer time at the end of today’s seminar, so let’s go ahead and get right to it.

Now our first topic today is all about our new method that we’ve been given for selecting, copying and pasting our text. Now we’re using our iPhone today. However these same features will be available, whether we’re using our iPhone, our iPad or even our iPod Touch. Now selecting, copying and pasting text is something that might be really familiar to someone that’s been using their computer for a long time. However if we’re new to our iDevice, we might find selecting and copying and pasting text to be a bit challenging at first.

Now we’re going to go step by step and if we take each one of these steps individually, and of course first we’ll select some text, and then we’re going to copy this text



that we’ve selected and of course finally then we’ll just paste our text. If we take each one of these and we practice each one of these steps by itself, it’s really going to help when we go ahead and put them all together, so let’s begin first by checking out how to select some text.

Okay, so first we’ll begin by opening our Notes app, and we’ll go to a note that has been prepared just for today’s demonstration so let’s go ahead and flick to our Notes app. We’ll just flick to it here and then of course we’ll just single-finger double-tap to open our notes so we’ll just single-finger double-tap. Okay, so we heard our Notes app has opened and now VoiceOver began reading our demonstration note. Now we could have performed a two-finger single-tap there to pause our speech there. However we just let our entire note be read so that we’ll be familiar with our text here, and of course this is the text that we’re going to be working with.

Okay, so we know that we’re in our Notes Edit field here and VoiceOver announced that our insertion point is at the top of our note, so of course we know that we’re at the beginning of our document and we’re ready to start selecting our text but before we start selecting our text, we need to be familiar with how to use our rotor so if we’re not yet comfortable with using our rotor, you might want to go check our Using the Rotor video, of course after you finish today’s seminar and it does a pretty good job of getting us



quickly up and running and familiar with exactly how our rotor works.

Okay, so let’s go ahead and begin selecting our text. Now first we’ll need like we said, to activate our rotor and we’ll need to choose our text selection element from our rotor, so we’ll go ahead and just activate our rotor here. We’ll just place our two fingers on our screen here and we’ll just start rotating them until we hear VoiceOver announce “text selection” and we’ll just rotate here. We’re rotating. Okay, okay, and we’re getting some great hints there, so here we find our text selection element so of course we lifted our two fingers.

We stopped using our rotor now and now we need to decide exactly how we want to select our text. We can select text of course by character, word, line, page or we can even choose to select all of our text, and now that our text element selection is active, we can just flick up or down our screen to cycle through all of our selection options here so how about we just flick down a few times to see how this all works, and we’ll go ahead and just flick down. Okay, so there’s word so I’ll flick down again. Let’s just cycle through these. There’s lines. There’s page so if I stop on any of these, this is how I’m going to select text.

Let’s cycle back around the words. We’ll flick down one more time. Okay, now that we’re in Word selection,



instead of flicking up and down, we just begin flicking to the right to select our words, and each time we right-flick, another word is going to be added to our selection here. Okay, so we know that we’re at the beginning of our text so when we right-flick from here, VoiceOver is going to announce our selected word, and we’ll also be told that it has been selected. Okay, so how about we give it a try. We’ll just right-flick and we’ll select this first word so we’ll go ahead and just flick here. Okay, great so we heard VoiceOver announce the word “we”, and we also heard of course that it has been selected. Okay, so that’s pretty easy.

Okay, so how about we go ahead and right-flick a few more times, and we’ll select a little bit more of our text for copying here and we’ll just right-flick so we’ll just right-flick and we’ll right-flick again. Okay, okay, so we’ll stop here and let’s say that we went one word too far, and we really don’t want to select or add the word “just” to our selection here. Well, you probably already guessed that all we need to do to unselect by word now is to just flick back to our left so how about we do just that. We’ll left-flick so we’ll left-flick here. Okay, and there you go. We heard VoiceOver announce our word “just”, and that we were also told that it is now unselected. How cool is that? Okay, so that’s how we’re going to select our text.



Now we might want to check the text that we selected and to do this, all we need to is just perform our Speech Selection gesture, and of course VoiceOver’s going to read any of the text that we selected here so let’s go ahead and do a three-finger single-tap because this will tell us exactly what we have selected here, so we’ll just tap the screen once with three fingers. Let’s do that. Okay, and we heard VoiceOver announce that we have selected text, and of course our selected text was read out loud to us and that’s pretty great. We were also given a lot of other interesting details about our text, the types of font it is and all that kind of stuff which is really great as well.

Okay, so now that we have selected some text here, let’s check out how we’ll go about copying that text. Okay, so we need to return to our rotor, and we’ll need to locate our Edit element this time so let’s go ahead and we’ll activate our rotor, and we’ll find Edit in our rotor so we’ll just put two fingers here. Okay, and there’s Edit. I just turned my fingers clockwise there until we found Edit, and so now this is the same process that we used of course in our selection element there. We just need to flick down until we find the word “copy” in here, so let’s go ahead and flick down until we find copy and there’s cut.

We don’t want to cut this text. We want to copy it so we’ll flick down again. There’s paste. We’ll flick down again.



We can have this defined to us if we want. We can share this text. We can make a checklist item and there is of course copy, and okay, so now we can copy our selected text and all we need to do to do that is just perform a single-finger double-tap here. Now we’re going to hear an audio click, and that’s going to let us know that our selection has been copied here so let’s go ahead and just single-finger double-tap then so we’ll single-finger double-tap. Okay, we heard our little click audio cue there so we know for sure that our selection here has been copied, and of course we’re now ready to paste it in another Edit field if we like.

Okay, so how about since we already have our Notes app here open, that we just paste our selection here into a new note so we’ll need to stop editing this note by finding our Done button and of course that’s in the top right-hand corner of our screen, so we’ll just need to touch that first so we’ll touch our Done button here. Okay, so there it is so we’ll just single-finger double-tap here and we’ll single-finger double-tap. Okay, now to begin a new note, we could go back to the previous page and activate our New Note button.

However we have a New Note button in the bottom right-hand corner of this screen as well, so of course that’s going to be the easiest way to begin a new note for us so we’ll just touch our New Note button in the bottom right-



hand corner of our screen here and we’ll do just that. We’ll go ahead and single-finger double-tap to compose a new note here, so we’ll just single-finger double-tap.

Okay, so we’ve been placed right in the Edit field of a new note here so we’re ready to go ahead paste this copied text here. Okay, so we’ll need to once again of course activate our rotor here, and we’ll need to choose paste from our Edit element here so let’s go ahead and activate our rotor until we hear edit here so we’ll go to our rotor here. Okay, there’s our Edit tool or element here so we just need to flick down until we find paste again so we’ll flick down. Okay, there it is, actually the first one in the list here, so all we need to do now is just single-finger double-tap to paste our selected text right here in our new note and that’s super easy, so we’ll just go ahead and single-finger double-tap here.

All right, we heard VoiceOver of course speak our copied text we will demonstrate there, and then it said paste and that of course let us know that our text was successfully pasted, and now we have our new note here and our selected text of course is pasted right in it and it really is as easy as that. Well, actually, it does take a few steps. However if we do as we mentioned earlier and we simply take each one of our steps one at a time, I tell you, before you know it selecting, copying and pasting text will really



soon get to be second nature. Okay, so moving right along.

Next we’re going to take a look at how to use our Stopwatch. Now we have really great Stopwatch that is built right into our Clock app, and Apple has done a really fantastic job of making our Clock app totally accessible. Now our timer is actually part of our Clock app and our Clock app of course is back on our desktop, so we’ll just need to flick to it or get to it to get started.

However we first need to close our Notes app here, so we’ll just tap our Home button here to close our Notes app. Okay, so our Notes app has closed there, so we just need to flick to our Clock app here so we’ll just go ahead and flick to our Clock app. Okay, and here we are on our Clock app here so we just need to single-finger double-tap to activate it and we’ll do just that. We’ll go ahead and single-finger double-tap. Great. Our Clock app has opened for us and we have been placed right on our Stopwatch heading in the top center of our screen here and just below our time in the status bar.

Now our Clock app is going to open right in the last tab that we happen to be using, and of course this is exactly where we want to be. Now our Stopwatch really is a really handy tool and if we maybe need to time ourselves to see how long it takes to perform any given tasks, like maybe



running laps on a track or maybe how long it takes to I don’t know, maybe finish today’s seminar. Anyway, we get the idea. Okay, so how about we go ahead and just first explore our screen and we’ll see how all this works.

Now we mentioned that we’re on our heading in the top center of our screen, so we can just start right-flicking through our screen to check out our Stopwatch here, so let’s go ahead and just right-flick from here and we’ll right-flick. Okay, so here we find the number for our lap time and our lap time allows us to capture and compare different intervals of time. Now the reason it’s called lap time is because runners typically activate this each time they complete a lap around the track, and this helps to keep track of how long it takes to complete each one of their laps. Of course we can use it to time intervals of just about anything.

Now once we’ve created several lap times, we’ll have a list of all of our lap times at the bottom of our screen and once we’ve created some lap times, we’ll actually take a look at how to access our lap time list but for now how about we go ahead and just right-flick so we’ll just right-flick from here. Okay, so here we find our elapsed time and the elapsed time displays our total time, and of course it’s at zero right now but this is going to change once we start our Stopwatch here so we’ll just go ahead and right-flick from here.



Okay, here we find our Lap button and this is the button that we’ll activate each time we want to record another lap here. Now it’s important to know that once we’ve actually stopped our Stopwatch, this Lap button is going to turn into a Reset button and we would use a Reset button to reset all of our stuff in our Stopwatch back to zero, and we’ll check out how to reset our Stopwatch at the very end of this segment today. Okay, so we’re almost there because we only have one more button here, so how about we go ahead and just right-flick to it and we’ll just right-flick.

Okay, here we find our Start button and of course we would activate our Start button here to activate our Stopwatch. Now once we activate this Start button, it’s going to turn into a Stop button, and we’ll come back to see how all this works once we’ve actually finished exploring the rest of this Stopwatch screen. Now we mentioned earlier that all of our lap times will be listed at the bottom of our screen. However we haven’t yet set any lap times so if we right-flick again, instead of our lap time, we’ll be placed back in our Tabs along the bottom edge of our screen and we don’t want that, so how about we go ahead and get our stopwatch going.

Now we’re exactly where we want to be because we’re still on our Start button here, so all we need to do is just



single-finger double-tap to activate and start our Stopwatch here so we’ll go ahead and just single-finger double-tap. Okay, our Stopwatch has started and we heard VoiceOver announce the word “stop” and remember, this is because our Start button turned into a Stop button once we activate it so that we can stop it, so we know for sure that if we were to single-finger double-tap again, that our Stopwatch would stop for us.

However there really is a much easier way to start and to stop our Stopwatch here, and this is by performing our two-finger double-tap so how about we try just that. We’ll just perform a two-finger double-tap to stop our Stopwatch here, and we’ll just do a two-finger double-tap here. Okay, and we heard two tones. That’s our audio cue there and that let us know that our Stopwatch has for sure stopped, and now our Stop button down here has again turned into a Start button. Okay, now if we want to start it again, we could just perform another two-finger double-tap.

However how about we go ahead and left-flick back to our elapsed time to see how much time has elapsed here, and we’ll just left-flick so we’ll left-flick. Okay, now here we find our Reset button. Remember, this was our Lap Time button and we mentioned earlier that it would turn into a Reset button once we activated our Start button over here, and of course you’ll probably already guessed that all we



need to do is just single-finger double-tap if you wanted to reset our Stopwatch time back to zero here.

However we don’t want to do that because we’re looking for our elapsed time here, so let’s go ahead and just left-flick again. Okay, and we see that we have 41.81 seconds. Let’s read that again, 47.81 seconds elapsed here and of course this is how much time elapsed between the time that we activated, and we stopped our Start button down here. Okay, so this is pretty great.

Okay, so how about we perform another two-finger double-tap here and we’ll start our Stopwatch running again, and then we’ll check out how to create some lap times here so let’s just do a two-finger double-tap here and we’ll do a two-finger double-tap to start it again. Okay, again, we heard our two tones and it’s going to keep counting up here [inaudible 0:22:02] our elapsed time there so let’s right-flick real quick here.

Okay, so here we are on our lap time here, and this is exactly where we want to be because now if we want to do lap times, all we need to do is just perform single-finger double-taps on this button and let’s record our first lap time here so we’ll just go ahead and just single-finger double-tap. Okay, now we heard VoiceOver announce our lap time there that we recorded, and now our elapsed time up here is still running with our total time and if we



flick to the right, of course past this Start button where we were earlier, we would find a list of all of our lap times down here and in our very last lap that we recorded is going to be at the very top of our list, but so far we only have one lap time and that’s not very exciting so since we’re still on our lap button, how about we just single-finger double-tap and we’ll add another lap time here so let’s go do that. Let’s go ahead and single-finger double-tap here.

Okay, we heard our two tone – well, let’s go ahead and stop it now because we have a couple of lap times here, so we’ll go ahead and perform our two-finger double-tap to stop it and there you go. We heard our two tones there and our Lap button of course has once again turned back into our Reset button, and that’s where we are right now so how about we go ahead and just right-flick a couple of times to check out our lap time area now that we have a couple of laps down in there so we’ll just go ahead and right-flick.

Okay, and here’s our Start button again so we’ll just right-flick again to get to our lap time area here and we’ll right-flick. Okay, and here’s all our lap times and of course we only have two and it told us this was lap two right here and remember, of course this is the last lap and it’s at the top of our list here, so how about we go ahead and just right-flick again and we’ll see our first lap here so we’ll just right-



flick. Okay, and here we find our first lap and this is pretty great. Okay, so how about let’s go ahead and wrap our Stopwatch up here, and let’s go ahead and left-flick back to our Reset button and we’ll check out how to clear this Stopwatch so let’s go ahead and just left-flick. We’ll left-flick back to our Reset button here so we’ll left-flick. There’s our first and second lap there.

We’ll left-flick back to our Start button and we’ll go ahead and left-flick one more time. Okay, and here’s our of course Reset button so all we need to do to clear everything in our Stopwatch, including our lap times and our elapsed time and all that kind of stuff, is we’ll just do a single-finger double-tap so how about we do just that. We’ll just go ahead and single-finger double-tap. Okay, now our elapsed time and all of our lap times have been cleared and we’re ready to start from scratch again. It really is so nice that we have the ability to start and stop this Stopwatch by simply performing a two-finger double-tap. That means that we don’t even have to go looking for our Start button on this screen to activate it or get it started.

It’s VoiceOver gestures like this that can really make our Stopwatch so much easier to use. Okay, so that about covers our Stopwatch so how about we open things up for a few questions, and we’ll go ahead and just hand the microphone back over.



Larry MuffetSeeing as we have no questions currently in the text box, I’m going to release the microphone and people can start cueing up and if you have questions for Douglas, I would urge you to take advantage of this opportunity.

DanHey, Douglas. This is Dan. One of the things I see as an advantage of the Stopwatch is those of us that are learning braille or have taken braille, and you want to time a segment or a page and you can use the Lap Time button to indicate each page to see how long it takes you to do one page after another and improving in your speed.

Douglas WalkerThat’s a great point. Braille or pretty much anything that you want to have intervals of time and that’s a great one there certainly, to record your time per page definitely so all right, so any other questions out there?

Caller #1Yes, hello, Douglas. How you doing? I’ve got a question. Can you copy items out of a Dropbox on to the note or vice versa?



Douglas WalkerAs long as it’s an Edit field. You’re probably talking from directly out of the Dropbox app itself. I have not tried that. I know that there’s a previewer in Dropbox. All I can say is just give it a shot. Give it a try. It might be that you actually have to open the document up within Pages or Notes or something like that on your device because it’s really going to want to see an Edit field, and I’m not sure if it will in that previewer. I’ll definitely have to check that one out myself so great question. All right, big Dropbox fan like myself. I love Dropbox for sure.

Caller #2Okay, what is Dropbox?

Douglas WalkerOh, wow. Okay, well, again, it’s your lucky day. I don’t know if you guys are familiar with our iFocus Video Series. It’s both on YouTube and on the Hadley website as well, and I’ll tell you a little bit more about that later on but we actually have an entire iFocus video that’s called Using Dropbox. Dropbox is just a Cloud storage service and it’s an app that you can download to your iPhone or your iPad or even your Mac or your PC, and it makes all of your devices available.

All of your devices are stored off of your computer and on a server somewhere, so if your computer crashed, all your



documents are still safe and on a server out there and the great thing is you can access it, all of your documents from all of your devices, so Dropbox is super handy and again, I’ll point you to that iFocus video. I’ll give you all the links for getting to all that stuff, the web addresses for getting to all of our iFocus videos at the end of today’s seminar.

Larry MuffetDropbox is also a really great application for file sharing, so if you have documents that you want to share with other people or pictures or whatever, you can give them permission to access that material so it’s really handy for that usage also.

Caller #2Can it be used with my PC?

Douglas WalkerAbsolutely. matter of fact, I have my Dropbox running on my PC and my MacBook Pro and my iPad and my iPhone, and so it’s really great that you can access it from everywhere and Larry, that’s a fantastic point. All of your files are stored and saved there, so you don’t have to worry about them crashing and getting lost but you can also share them with colleagues as well or friends straight from Dropbox.



Caller #1Yes, for the young lady that’s asking about Dropbox, I share about eight – I’ll share with about eight people and I transfer music back and forth. We transfer a lot of music amongst each other through Dropbox.

Douglas WalkerI try to use Dropbox for everything. That’s a great point there with your music and I do put files, music files within mine, too and there’s also a great app that interfaces and acts like the interface for the music player for that, so guys, I’ll be talking about that next week in our VoiceOver App Smackdown, a seminar that we’re having next week, where all of us tech instructors here get together and share our favorite apps that are compatible with VoiceOver so Dropbox is a super tool.

Dana MetcalfHi, Douglas. This is Dana Metcalf. Can you copy and paste text from an email to Facebook?

Douglas WalkerI’m not sure about – if you’re talking about an email and you’re within the Edit field of the email, you should be able to select it out of there and if you’re wanting to post it, you should be able to paste it in there or something. Again, you’re going to have to sort of play around with, and I know that Apple was having difficulty with this whole



selecting, copying and pasting feature for a while and then be able to use the three-finger single-tap to check what you’d selected.

There were issues with that for a while but with all the fixes in iOS 9, all of it’s working really, really well so in theory, as long as you have an Edit field and you’re copying and pasting from an Edit field, you should be able to do it and I say Edit field, but I’ve also been able to copy text directly off of a website that’s not necessarily in an Edit field but it is text so you just have to check but this is the best method, well, this is the method for VoiceOver users so anyway, I’m glad that they added the feature for being able to select it. That was something that was missing. You had to sort of pinch out in the past on your screen to select your text which was a very awkward thing to do, so I’m glad they added this element to the rotor with iOS 9.

Caller #3I have a question about Facebook again. When they tell you to share something and they don’t want you to share it. They want you to copy and paste it, so you would just go and then what is the – to select all of the text so you don’t have to sit there word by word?



Douglas WalkerOkay, so remember when you have the Select Text element, when you found that in your rotor, you have the different options when you flick up and down in how you want to select the text, and one of those options is Select All and as soon as you hear that, you can just right-flick there and it should select all of the text there that you’re wanting to select, so that’s just one of the options within that Select Text element in your rotor there.

Caller #3Great. Thank you.

Douglas WalkerEach one of the – you’re welcome but each one of the different topics that we’re covering today, we have an iFocus video for those as well, and I really get to – we’re sort of limited in time in the seminars so the iFocus videos, each one of these topics, there’s a single video on each one of these and I get to go into much greater detail, so you’ll be able to find a lot more detail there and at the end of the seminar, I’ll give you the exact link or the web address for getting to all of our iFocus videos and I know you hear videos and you might think of it as more visually-driven but even if you have no vision at all, they’re done in a way where you don’t have to be able to see what’s happening on the screen to get everything out of them, so



we’ll talk about the web address for where to find the iFocus videos at the end of today’s seminar.

Larry MuffetWe’ve got a couple of questions in the text box. Henry says, “Is there shortcut on iPad to turn on/off the Invert Colors and VoiceOver or only go through accessibility in settings?”

Douglas WalkerWell, there’s the ability to add it to your Triple Click settings, and that’s going to be again, under your Accessibility settings at the bottom at that list. You can actually select to be able to triple click your Home button, and that’d be one of the quick ways to be able to quickly turn on and off your Invert Colors.

I am not sure – I’ll check it in just a second but I’m not sure if they’ve added that to Siri yet. A lot of people aren’t aware that you can turn on and off a lot of things. VoiceOver can actually be turned on and off using Siri so you can say, “Turn on VoiceOver,” and “turn off VoiceOver.” That can be really handy if you share your device with somebody that doesn’t necessarily need VoiceOver so adding it to the triple click is a way to quickly be able to turn on and off that Invert Colors, but we’ll check in a second to see if Siri will do that.



Larry MuffetWe’ve got one last question here in the text box before we move forward. Michael would like to know, “As you were going through your rotor selections, I did not have all the options that you had. Do I add those in settings? If not where do I add those options?”

Douglas WalkerI’m so glad you said that because that’s one thing that I mentioned in the video that I had to cut for more time in the seminar. There are certain elements that you will have to add to the rotor and this is one of them. I should have said that but you can get to all of the different types of elements that can be added and taken out by going to your Accessibility settings and then your VoiceOver settings, and then in your VoiceOver settings list there, there’s your rotor elements and you can double-tap that, and you’ll see a huge list of all of the different types of elements that can be added and the text selection is one of those, as well as the braille screen input, audio ducking, hints.

You can add your hints to the – and the thing that I like, that I’ve added is speech rate so I can actually choose speech rate from my rotor and then just flick up my screen to speed up my speech and flick down to slow it back down, so a lot of things can be added to the rotor. As a matter of fact, we have a VoiceOver iFocus video called



Adding Elements to the Rotor, so you can check that one out later, too so thanks for bringing that up. I should have said that.

Larry MuffetWe probably should go ahead and move forward, and then we can have another question and answer period after the next segment.

Douglas WalkerOkay, we’ll begin this segment by checking out our Notifications Center. Now our Notifications Center gives us really quick access to things like maybe our recent emails, our recent text messages, maybe any missed calls that we had. It lists all of our upcoming calendar events if we like and even gives us a brief description maybe of today’s weather if we like. Now the types of information that can be displayed here well, really is almost unlimited, and we really have the ability to completely customize the types of information that are displayed here. We can do this by going to our Settings app and then our Notifications button, and there we can pick exactly the types of notifications that we want to appear in our Notifications Center.

Now we aren’t going to have time to explore how to choose all the different types of notifications that are going to appear here because as we mentioned, this is



something that it’s really totally customizable, and we’ll want to choose exactly the types of notification that’s going to be work best for us here. However we are going to explore how to navigate the Notification Center and find all of our current notifications.

Okay, so we’ll begin by first looking at how to launch our Notification Center and of course to do this, we’ll need to first touch in the status bar at the very top center of our screen here. Now our status bar of course is where our time and our battery power and our Wi-Fi information and stuff like that’s listed at the top of our screen, so let’s go ahead and just touch in our status bar and then we’ll do a three-finger flick down our screen and that’s going to launch our Notification Center so let’s go ahead and check it out.

Now when we do touch our status bar, VoiceOver is going to give us some really great hints and one of these is going to be actually how to launch the Notification Center, so let’s go ahead and touch in our status bar here and we’ll just touch here. Okay, and we’re given the time again there. Okay, so now we were given some really great hints, and of course VoiceOver told us that to launch our Notifications Center, all we need to do is flick down our screen with three fingers so let’s go ahead and give it a try. We’ll just flick down our screen with three fingers here. Okay, so our Notification Center here has opened



and we have been placed on our Today button just below our status bar here and kind of in the top left-hand corner of our screen.

Now we actually have two different areas or buttons that we can explore here when we enter our Notifications screen, and when we first enter our Notification Center, we’re placed in the last area or the last button that we were in the last time that we used our notifications. Now across the top of our screen and just below our status bar like we mentioned, we have these two buttons here, and of course when our Notification Center first opened, the first button in the top left is our Today button here.

Now our Today button is going to list all of our information that is relevant just for today, things like maybe today’s weather and any of our current calendar events or any of our current reminders that we have set up, and we also have the ability to add or to edit the types of information that we see listed here when our Today button’s is activated.

Now Apple likes to call all of these different types of information widgets, and we’re actually able to like we said, edit the types of widgets that are going to appear on our Today screen so how about let’s go ahead and just right-flick through this screen, and we’ll check out all the different types of widgets that we can find here so we’ll



just go ahead and right-flick. Great and here we find our Notifications button, and of course this is our second button that we mentioned earlier. Now activating our Notifications button will present us with a list of all of our notifications that we have received from any of our apps and again, these are the apps that we discussed earlier that we could choose from within our Settings menu.

Now we’ll come back to our Notifications button in just a bit. However how about we just continue to go ahead and right-flick through our Today screen here and we’ll check out our widgets, so let’s go ahead and just right-flick from here. Okay, here we’re given this date here so that’s nice to know what date you’re on, so we’ll go ahead and just right-flick again and we’ll right-flick. Okay, so here we have a short description of the current weather or today’s weather, and that can be really handy as well.

Okay, so let’s go ahead and continue right-flicking to see the different kind of widgets that we have so we’ll right-flick. Okay, so here’s our calendar heading and when we right-flick again, we will find a list of all today’s calendar events. I don’t think I have any here but we’re told that so let’s go ahead and just right-flick from here. We’ll right-flick. Okay, so here we are and of course we had no calendar events here, so we’ll just right-flick again and there we are.



We right-flicked again and there’s our Tomorrow heading so we’ll just right-flick to see what kinds of events we have listed for tomorrow so we’ll right-flick. Okay, so we have one event scheduled for tomorrow, and then it said that our calendar looks clear tomorrow afternoon so that’s pretty cool, really nice. All right, so we’ll go ahead and we’ll right-flick again. Now we could actually launch to see what this event is if we single-finger double-tap there, and our calendar would open up and show us this event. We don’t want to do that so let’s go ahead and we’ll just right-flick. Okay, we’ll right-flick.

Oh, my, okay, we have an alarm set for 6:20 in the morning so we’ll be getting up early tomorrow morning. All right, so let’s go ahead and just right-flick again. Great so here we have our Edit button, and if we activate our Edit button here we’ll be given a list of all different types of widgets that we’re able to add to this Today screen, and this is where we would do that. Now again, we’re not going to have time to totally cover this Edit button here, but it’s really nice to know that we have the ability to totally customize our widgets that are going to show up in our Today screen here so that’s pretty cool.

All right, so we’ve reached the end of our Today screen here with this Edit button, so how about we move back up to our Today button so that we can check out our Notification screen here so we’ll just touch in the top left



corner again so we’ll touch. Great so here’s our Today button and we know that we can just right-flick one time to get to our Notifications button here, so we’ll go ahead and just right-flick to it. Okay, so here’s our Notifications button and all we need do to activate it is single-finger double-tap, and we’ll be able to check out all of our current notifications and we’ll go ahead and just single-finger double-tap.

Okay, so our Notifications screen here has opened, and we are still on our Notifications button in the top right corner of our screen here so to check out all of our notifications, all we need to do is start right-flicking through our screen here. Now remember, this is going to be notifications for each of our apps that we’ve selected to be presented in our notifications, so how about we go ahead and just check out this Notification screen and we’ll just right-flick through this screen so we’ll just right-flick.

Okay, so here’s our Mail heading and so we know that all of our notifications for our Mail app are going to be listed just below this. Now after each one of our app headings and we’re going to see a heading for each one of our apps that have notifications on the screen, we’re going to have a Clear Section button so let’s go ahead and just right-flick to see what this looks like, and we’ll just right-flick to our Clear Section heading. Okay, all right, so like we said, this is our Clear Section button and activating this button will



give us the ability to clear all of our notifications for just our Mail app here, and like we said, we’re going to encounter this button after each one of app headings.

Now we don’t want to clear our Mail notifications here because we’re going to flick through these, so how about we just go ahead and right-flick to check them out and we’ll go ahead and right-flick. All right, I’ll pause that. Okay, so here’s an email since this is my Mail notifications here from the Nederlander in New York, all right, for tickets that are available there so that’s pretty cool. I get a little blurb of what my email says here, and I just paused that speech with a two-finger single-tap there so let’s just right-flick through the rest of this screen, and we’ll check out if I have another mail message here.

Again, I paused that with a two-finger single-tap. Okay, so there’s another email. We’ll right-flick again. Okay, so this is from my Starbucks app, and I think it’s probably updated me on how money I have left on my Starbucks card here so we’ll right-flick. Remember we’re going to see that Clear Section button. We don’t want to clear this so we’ll right-flick again and I have fourteen dollars and six cents left on my Starbucks card, and I could swipe up or down and get the option to delete just this notification if I wanted and how about we do that. We’ll just [inaudible 0:48:04] be able to dismiss this. I could single-finger double-tap



and dismiss it, but let’s leave it here because we want to move on through this screen. I’ll right-flick again.

Here’s my Twitter app so my notifications below this will be anything Twitter-related, so we’ll flick to the right again and there’s my Clear section so we’ll right-flick, and I could dismiss this as well by flicking up and then single-finger double-tapping but we’ll go ahead and just right-flick again, and it’s going to repeat that but you heard a little bump or an end of list audio cue, and that means of course that we have reached the end of our notifications list. I’ll do it again. We’ll right-flick again just so we hear it for sure. It’s probably going to start reading this Twitter. It’s going to start reading that again since it’s the last thing in the list but you heard that little bump there so that’s pretty great.

Now it’s easy to close our Notifications Center here. All we have to do is we can perform our two-finger scrub gesture, or we can simply just tap our Home button here so that pretty much covers all of our Notification screen here so let’s go ahead and exit this, and we’ll just tap our Home button here so we’ll just tap it and close our Notification Center. Okay, so we’re back on our desktop and it really is so great to know that by using our Notification Center, we can quickly get to all of today’s most relevant information, and we can also easily find all of our recent app notifications and so that’s pretty great.



Okay, so that pretty much covers all our Notification Center, so how about we move on to our last topic for today.

Okay, now we’ve been given a really, really great tool that allows us to quickly search through all of our settings, so this is going to be pretty cool because there’s always more than one way to perform almost any action on almost any device really, and of course our Apple device really is no exception to this. We also know that it can also take several steps to get through our settings and to find the exact setting that we’re looking for.

Now if we know the name of what we’re wanting to find, we’ve now been given a way to perform a quick search to find it, so let’s go ahead and take a look of exactly how all of this is going to work so now we know that we can find our VoiceOver settings by opening our Settings app and then right-flicking through it to our General button, and then we can activate of course that General button. We can right-flick to accessibility and then we can activate accessibility, and then we can right-flick to our VoiceOver button but we’re not done yet.

We will then need to of course activate that VoiceOver button, and finally we are where we want to be and of course we’re in our VoiceOver settings then and we can just start flicking through our Voice-Over settings and find



a setting that we want there, but there’s a faster way to do this so how about we go ahead and open our Settings app and we’ll check this out. Okay, so to do this we’re going to need to of course go to our Settings app, and our Settings app is right here on our desktop so let’s go ahead and just flick to it. Okay, so we’ll go ahead and just single-finger double-tap to open our settings here.

Okay, our Settings app has opened and we have been placed on our Settings heading in the top center of our screen here, and of course that’s just below the time in our status bar there. Okay, remember that we’re wanting to open our VoiceOver settings, so let’s go ahead and perform a quick search for it, instead of having to flick through all of our settings here. Okay, so to get to this Search field, all we need to do is just right-flick one time and so let’s go ahead and just right-flick.

Okay, this is great because here we are on this Search field, and VoiceOver told us that all we need to do is single-finger double-tap to enter it here so let’s go ahead and just single-finger double-tap here. We’ll single-finger double-tap. Okay, we’ve entered our Search field and we now have a standard QWERTY keyboard down here in the bottom of our screen, so we’re ready to perform our search.



We already know where to find our VoiceOver settings and I tell you, it really is great that our Search feature here’s going to save us a bunch of steps. However our Search feature can always be really great if we’re not exactly sure of where to find a particular setting. We could just search for it of course right here in this Edit field so that’s pretty great as well, but let’s go ahead and let’s head to our VoiceOver settings so let’s go ahead and just type VoiceOver right here. We’ll just type it here so let’s go ahead and type VoiceOver.

Okay, and now as we were typing here, we were actually presented with a search results list, and it appeared just below our Search Edit field here. Now of course the more characters that we entered in our Edit field, the more our search results were narrowed down for us and since we typed in the entire word VoiceOver here, we now of course only have one result in our list here, so let’s go ahead and head to this results list here to check it out. To do that we need to touch back in our Edit field up here, and so we’ll go ahead and touch in this Edit field.

Okay, so there it is and we heard that VoiceOver’s there, so we could just drag or just slide our finger down our screen to quickly find our search results here. However we have a couple of new buttons that we might want to check out first here, and we can get to these by just right-flicking to those so let’s go ahead and just right-flick.



Okay, here we find our Clear Text button and we could just single-finger double-tap to quickly clear our text if we wanted to perform maybe another or a different search here, but we don’t want to do that so we’ll just right-flick again so we’ll right-flick.

Okay, and here’s our Cancel button, and you probably guessed that we could just single-finger double-tap if we maybe decided we wanted to cancel this search. Okay, now when we right-flick again, we will be placed right in our search results list here and of course we only have one item in our list, so how about we go ahead and we just right-flick to it so we’ll just flick. Okay, here’s our search result and we’re given our search destination here as well so which of course is VoiceOver, and then of course we were given the path as well here which is General and then Accessibility and then Vision here so all right, so all we need to do now since we’re on our search result is just perform a single-finger double-tap and we’ll open our VoiceOver settings here.

Now you might be thinking that it sure seemed to take us a bit of time to do all this, and wouldn’t it be faster to just right-flick through all of our settings to move through our settings but we’ve been taking our time and we’ve discussed each one of these steps and so it wouldn’t ordinarily take this much time to perform our search in this Search field, so how about we go ahead and just single-



finger double-tap to search the selection, and we’ll go ahead and open our VoiceOver settings here so we’ll just single-finger double-tap. All right, so this is great.

Our VoiceOver settings have all opened here, and we’ve been placed on our Back button in the top left corner of our screen. Okay, so that is pretty great. We now know a really quick and easy way to be able to search for not only our VoiceOver settings, but any other setting that we might want to quickly find here. Okay, we’ve covered quite a bit today so let’s go head and we’ll open our mic up for some more questions here, so we’ll go ahead and just hand the microphone back over.

Caller #4How did you get to that Search Edit field again? Is it in the settings?

Douglas WalkerYes, it is. If you just open your Settings app and if you’re on the the Settings heading at the top of the page there, you just right-flick one time and you’re right there in it, and I typed the entire word VoiceOver in that Edit field but if you just type V-O-I-C and then you can just quickly drag your finger down the screen, it’s probably going to be the first one in the list there or just V-O honestly. It’ll be the first one in the list and I also want to answer a question that was asked earlier.



Yes, you can turn on and off Invert Colors with Siri, so if you just say, “Turn on Invert Colors,” if you have VoiceOver running it’ll say, “Okay, I’ve turned on Invert Colors.” Then you can turn it back off by just holding down your Home button and activating Siri and saying, “Turn off Invert Colors.” That’s pretty great. A lot of stuff has been added to Siri so we’re thankful for that for sure.

Larry MuffetWe’ve got a bunch of questions in the text box. Michael would like to know is there a way to completely remove all of our notifications for all days?

Douglas WalkerI really wish they would add this, a Clear All Notifications button there but honestly, the Clear All button clears off all notifications for the app that you happen to be next to in the heading, so whenever I landed on the Clear Notifications button next to mail – actually, if I had a list of 20 there and if I single-finger double-tapped on that Clear Notifications button, it’s going to confirm do you really want to do this and I would double-tap again. All of my mail notifications would be cleared out there, and it would land me on the next app in that list so I tend to keep mine cleared out and don’t let them get too lengthy there.



That’s pretty much a go-to place for me, is my Notifications screen because if I miss notifications or miss phone calls or miss text messages, they are listed right there and I don’t have to dig through each one of those apps to find them, but hopefully, they’ll add a Clear All Notifications button somewhere on that screen. That would really be handy.

Larry MuffetA couple more questions in text box. Will dictate work in the Search field?

Douglas WalkerDictate is fantastic and we have a dictate iFocus video, too. Any Edit field that you’re in, dictate is going to work on so you can actually do a two-finger double-tap when you’re in that Edit field and you hear that beep and you can just say VoiceOver and two-finger double-tap to stop your dictation, and you should have that search result pop up right below that Edit field there that you can single-finger double-tap on so I love dictate and use it all the time, especially in emails if I wanted to quickly dictate an email, but we have an iFocus video for that as well and this is great.

The reason I’m covering the ability to search here through all of the settings, this is because it’s a new feature. They added that Search field which is really handy but you can’t



search for every setting, but Siri will also allow you to say go to my VoiceOver settings and that can even be a faster way to get to your VoiceOver settings so they’re making Siri more robust every day.

Larry MuffetKeisha has a question. How do you add items to the Notification Center?

Douglas WalkerWell, that’s a lot to – that’s a seminar within itself and I’m actually in the middle of scripting a video for that, but you can actually go to your Notifications under your settings app. It’s not difficult to do because all of your apps that allow notification will all be listed there, so you just open your Settings app and you right-flick until you get to notifications and then you open your notifications, so all of your apps will be listed there and you can open each app that’s there in a list and tell it that you want for your notifications to appear in that list there, so I am going to do a video on that, adding notifications and then I’m also working on one for using the Do Not Disturb feature, so we’ve got 50 videos up now and we’re continuously adding so not hard to get to the notifications and flick through that list, but it is a process so you’ll see a video coming soon on that.



Larry MuffetWe’ve got time for one more here. Laura has a question, a two-parter. She said, “How can I get VoiceOver to read all my email, and why does VoiceOver keep saying sutton, S-U-T-T-O-N?”

Douglas WalkerWell, I have no clue why it’s saying sutton. Sorry about that one but Siri is going to read the emails that you’ve most recently had or any unread emails that you have in your list, so you’re not going to be able to get Siri to read every single email that you have, just namely ones that are Notification Center and then ones that are unread, so I tell you, Siri has a mind of its own so that’s all I can say about that, and I have no clue why Siri’s saying sutton. Sorry about that one.

Larry MuffetI want to let everyone know that this seminar, like all of our seminars, will be archived on our website and available for your use anytime around the clock. Also, each Hadley seminar is now made available as a podcast which you can download to your computer or mobile device. If today’s seminar has you interested in this or related technology topics, please check out the seminar archives, Hadley’s course list and as Douglas mentioned, Hadley’s YouTube Channel.



Douglas and I both thank you for your participation. Your questions were outstanding and added a lot to the value of this seminar. Hadley values your feedback. Please let us know what you thought about today’s seminar and please give us suggestions for future topics. One way you can do that is by dropping us an email to [email protected]. That’s F-E-E-D-B-A-C-K, the @ sign, H-A-D-L-E-Y.edu. I’m going to turn the microphone back over to Douglas and ask him if he wishes to make any closing comments.

Douglas WalkerYes, I wish we had all day to do this. This is so much fun and I look down the list, and I see so many familiar names on the list and former students of mine and colleagues and stuff. Thank you all so much and some new names. Thank you, guys all for being here. Hopefully, this won’t be your last. IFocus will be back in May for Number 14 but I tell you, I’d be remissed if I didn’t thank Larry. Larry keeps things going. He does such a fantastic job, the best moderator around for sure so I appreciate you, Larry.

I told you guys that I would let you know how to get to the videos and where to get to the videos. You can find all of our videos on our Hadley YouTube Channel. You can go to Youtube.com/hadleyschool so that’s Youtube.com/hadleyschool and you can get to them there, but YouTube is not necessarily the most screen reader-friendly monster in the world so we also have those in a


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much more accessible format on our Hadley website, and the direct link to all of our instructional videos is www.hadley.edu/instructionalvideos and sometimes it can be really long there.

If you just want to go to Hadley.edu, there’s an instructional video’s link right there on the Hadley website, and all 50 videos will be listed and you can just move right through them right there. Again, thanks so much and I look forward to seeing you guys at iFocus 14. You guys take care and I’ll see you next time.

Larry MuffetThank you, Douglas and I also want to thank Douglas for being just an absolute pleasure to work with. It’s not often that I get to work with somebody that’s, not only this knowledgeable but just a great person on top of it, and I want to personally thank all of you for being a part of this today. You added a lot to the value of this and you’re going to add a lot to the value of the people that listen to it as a podcast, so again, thank you so much for being a part of this today. Look forward to doing it again next week with our VoiceOver App Smackdown. I certainly invite you all to that and goodbye for now.


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