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VoiceOver User Guide
- Welcome
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- Use VoiceOver in the login window
- Change function key behavior
- 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
- Customize verbosity
- Customize 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 Center on Mac
Use Notification Center to review—in one location—information from your favorite 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 Center
Press VO-O.
In Keyboard preferences, you can create a shortcut to open Notification Center. See Use macOS keyboard shortcuts.
Navigate Notification Center
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’re done, press VO-Shift-Up Arrow to stop interacting with the widget.
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