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VoiceOver User Guide
- Welcome
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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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Use VoiceOver to navigate Notification Centre on Mac
Use Notification Centre to review — in one location — information from your favourite widgets, such as weather and stocks, and notifications you may have missed.
Note: VO represents the VoiceOver modifier. See Use the VoiceOver modifier.
Open and close Notification Centre
Press VO-O.
In Keyboard preferences, you can create a shortcut to open Notification Centre. See Use macOS keyboard shortcuts.
Navigate Notification Centre
To move between widgets, press VO and an arrow key.
To read a widget, press VO-Shift-Down Arrow to start interacting with the widget, then press VO and an arrow key to navigate the widget. When you’ve finished, press VO-Shift-Up Arrow to stop interacting with the widget.
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