- Introduction
- Understanding System Preferences
- Viewing System Preferences
- Locking and Unlocking Preference Settings
- Changing Appearance Options
- Setting Up the Desktop
- Setting Up Screen Savers
- Setting the Date and Time
- Changing Language Options
- Changing Text Substitution Options
- Saving Energy and Managing Power
- Selecting a Startup Disk
- Changing the Way a CD or DVD Starts
- Controlling Sound
- Dictating Your Speech
- Letting Mac Do the Talking
- Setting Accessibility Options
- Having VoiceOver Read from the Screen
- Setting VoiceOver Preferences
- Using VoiceOver Commands
- Setting Ink Preferences
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Setting VoiceOver Preferences
Before you can use VoiceOver, you need to turn it on in the Accessibility pane of System Preferences. When you turn VoiceOver on, you can configure output over AirPlay or the default audio. In addition to turning on VoiceOver, you can also open the VoiceOver utility, which you can use to set a variety of different options. You can set options in the following areas: General, Verbosity, Speech, Navigation, Web, Sound, Visual, Commanders (New!), Braille, and Activities.
Set VoiceOver Preferences
Click the System Preferences icon in the Dock, and then click the Accessibility icon.
Click the VoiceOver category.
Select or clear the Enable VoiceOver check box.- If prompted with the Welcome dialog, click OK to continue.
- If prompted with a VoiceOver Audio dialog, click Continue or Revert to configure output.
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+F5 to turn VoiceOver on and off.
Click Open VoiceOver Utility.
Select a category on the left, and then select the options you want.- General. Enter a login greeting and select a portable preference option.
Verbosity. Specify text and announcement options. Also includes general and instructional hint options. In the Braille tab, you can specify the default level (amount of information you want to receive) for use with a refreshable braille display. You can also set levels for specific controls, such as headings, images, and links.
- Speech. Specify voice and pronunciation options. You can mute speech or customize the voice rate, pitch, or volume.
Navigation. Specify mouse and keyboard options. You can change VoiceOver cursor tracking options.
- Web. Specify web navigation options, either DOM (Document Object Model) or Group (such as paragraph to paragraph).
- Sound. Mute sounds and enable positional audio.
- Visuals. Specify VoiceOver cursor, Caption and Braille panel, and menu options.
- Commanders. Enable NumPad Commander (New!) and Keyboard Commander (New!), and customize commands. You can enable, assign, and use Quick Nav to navigate web pages and applications using only the arrow keys and navigate web pages using single keys.
- Braille. Specify display and input options.
- Activities. Set up activities and customize VoiceOver settings for specific users. You can set up different voices, rates, and hot spots for different situations and applications. You can switch activities manually or have VoiceOver switch them for you based on the application in use.
Click the Close button for the VoiceOver Utility.
Click the Close button.
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